New Features in The Grand 2
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.
New Playing Sounds
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.
Surround Hall
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.
Enhanced Performance
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.
Compatibility
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.
