We all like to use a little bit, or even a lot, of quantizing when we work, however, certain instruments take to it far better than others. The piano will often find itself dealing with chordal content.
The net result of the quantization of a piano track, is that all of your notes will strike a heavy blow at the same time, which can be useful for certain styles of commercial music, but not if you’re trying to strike a note of expressiveness and/or subtlety. So if you need to use quantize but yearn to soften the potentially robotic-sounding-blow, dive into the Humanisation page of your DAW and add a little randomness to proceedings.
Read more about this here: https://www.musictech.net/2018/07/technique-week-humanising-pianos/
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