Steinberg The Grand V2 description:
The Grand affords you an experience you’ll not soon forget - the jaw-dropping sound and inimitable feel of a high-quality concert grand piano. This VST instrument’s breathtaking authenticity and extraordinary dynamic response make it a must-have for every pianist. Make no mistake - it is the only alternative to a bona fide concert grand.
- Two top-flight concert grand pianos in one virtual instrument
- Utterly authentic piano sound that comes courtesy of two of the world’s finest, most expensive and rarest concert grands
- Full-length sustain samples, no loops, with every key sampled individually at varying velocities
- Unrivalled dynamic response
- Amazingly authentic sustain pedal resonance, damper and hammer emulations
- Velocity adapts individually to suit your touch, style of play and keyboard’s response
- Powerful options for tweaking tone and variable room simulations
Based on The Grand, the venerable virtual repilication of real grand hailed far and wide, The Grand 2 is a step up the evolutionary ladder. For the new version of the virtual concert grand, Steinberg revamped the Playback Engine and optimized a score of the grand piano emulation’s decisive details to achieve an even more authentic sonic image and satisfyingly realistic feel. The Grand 2 now offers a second top-drawer concert grand, Surround support, and a host of functions for optimizing the processor load.A Second Concert Grand
The Grand 2 features a second grand piano that adds a sonically rich option. The perfect complement to the original model, it was sampled, edited and processed with even greater painstaking effort. And this awesome quality makes is so much more than merely an encore. Though The Grand was everything players had been hoping for, the new model offers precisely the lush tonal alternative many had been dreaming of. You’re sure to find the perfect piano sound for your song in these two models.
To put an even more faithful replication of a grand piano at your fingertips, The Grand now also offers incidental playing sounds such as key clicks and pedal noise – which you can add and subtract as desired.
The integrated Ambience Hall now also offers four-channel support and lets you place the grand piano at any position in the virtual room.
RAMSave™
With the benefit of RAMSaveTM, a process Steinberg had premiered in the software sampler HALion 3, you can make very efficient use of the host computer’s RAM. When RAMSaveTM is enabled, superfluous samples are automatically dumped from the main memory. That way, more RAM is available for other tasks and projects are loaded and saved so much faster. RAMSaveTM automatically scans the MIDI notes allocated to The Grand, dumping all unassigned samples from the RAM.
The Grand 2 sports a fresh, new Audio Engine. Overhauled from the bottom up, it considerably enhances performance, particularly for disk streaming. The new Eco mode also helps lighten the computer’s load, which comes in especially handy when you’re composing.
The Grand 2 supports the prevailing plug-in formats VST, DXi and AU. It also integrates into Pro Tools®, courtesy of ReWire support. And with the standalone version, you can even use The Grand 2 without a host application.
Steinberg The Grand V2 (code 32726)
Education Software
£72.00 (ex vat)