The Grand 3 covers everything an artist is looking for in a virtual piano suite. Of course, it features five premium piano models with an overwhelming sound quality, but it also focuses on the intricacies: flexibility through different microphone positions, compatibility through multiple format support, and usability due to the range of included tools.Using latest recording technology, the three concert grand piano models and the vintage upright available in The Grand 3 have been sampled and edited with painstaking effort by a top sound-engineering team. The only exception being the sound of the Yamaha CP80 Electric Grand, the samples of which were recorded by Yamaha in Japan.
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stainberg the grand3 is a software not a piano.
People please think! This is not the piano pictured above! They sell software.Software!
Real grand piano goes for thousands of dollars.
For 250 dollars you can get software. Not real piano.The picture is misleading some of you.
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Solid, playable virtual piano
Although to meet my own needs these pianos required equalization to mask the brassiness, the pianos are nicely playable. The most important requirements for "playability" are that the velocity response and timbre across velocity layers are uniform, so that the player can control the sound. There are virtual and real pianos out there that do not have playability. If for example you want to play Mozart well, then you want to be able to create even, consistent sound textures to preserve the natural beauty and flow of his musical thoughts. There are virtual pianos out there - Pianoteq is one - that may not always sound just like a real piano, but are very playable and can be used successfully even for playing Mozart and Bach. The Grand 3 pianos, are in a similar category. On the other hand, there are pianos like EWQL that have some rich and beguiling sounds, but cannot be used for Mozart.
Good but no half pedaling kills it.
I love the bosendorfer sound on this. The yamaha is ok. The steinway doesn't sound so good. Bosendorfer sound has a clicking sound that occurs occasionally. Upgrade is available to fix it. I had trouble upgrading though. It didn't tell me if upgrade was done or not after it was done and it would let me repeatedly apply the upgrade and the click noise is still there. Worst thing about this is no support for half pedaling. It accepts midi on/off for pedal value as opposed to a continuous pedal with value 0-127. Which means you have to press the pedal all the way down to get the notes to sustain. I don't play the piano like that and usually I use the pedal half way. I don't see myself using this although i will keep it for the grand 4 upgrade. Let's see what they can do. Meanwhile I'll use the ivory II.
Product Features :
- Three grand masters: The Yamaha C7 grand piano, the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial, and the Steinway D
- The Grand 3 comes with a convolution reverb based on the same technology used by REVerence, the world's first VST3-based convolution reverb processor already featured in Cubase 5 which benefits from every single aspect the VST3 standard has to offer.
- RAMSave technology: discards superfluous samples from the main memory in order to provide space for other tasks, automatically scanning the MIDI notes allocated to The Grand and dumping all unassigned samples from the RAM.
- Flexible equalization: This powerful and versatile equalizer offers full four-band parametric control that works as a sum over all output channels with variable response curves and shelving modes, as well as analog-style peak filters.
- The Grand 3 supports all major formats, such as VST and AU. And by supporting ReWire, The Grand 3 runs with any audio workstation, while the standalone version can even be used without any host application at all.
Rating : 3.0
List Price : $329.99
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