as for reverb its just positioned more forward and does have reverb... as i use parallel reverb to have finer control over every instruments reverb while only using 1 reverb chain for max performance and max fine tuning, and it has alot of manual variation in velocity and expression, i think i see i may need to change to a brighter piano vst to make those variations cut through more and maybe add some not off-set randomization, i did automate the tempo to try make it more expressive too but i think its overwhelmed in the mix. and that reverse piano thing, I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THAT... THATS SUCH A GOOD IDEA!!! ill definitely do it on another project