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A Grand Reimagining
Open the Lid on a Totally Modernized Piano VST Experience
From the authentic to the impossible, unlock premium piano sounds for cinematic score & library composition, immersive game soundscapes, and slick modern DAW production with an intuitive & inspiring piano experience that transcends virtual instruments.
Piano Timbres Unheard
Augmented GRAND PIANO alters the sound of a timeless instrument into something new. From galaxy-spanning granular sustain to felt tones twisted and transformed with racks of studio gear, take your piano as off-piste as you dare.
Production-Ready Sounds
Theatrical concert grand richness, platinum cinematic textures, evolving metallic atmospheres and barely-recognizable hybrid effects; whatever your style, Augmented GRAND PIANO can make the piano work for you.
Construct Your Sound
Customize every aspect of your piano timbre with 2 distinct layers, each including 2 sound sources, letting you weave your own compound textures with whatever combination of samples and synthesis you need.
Transformative Morphing
Animate your tracks with timbres that flow between familiar & far-out, acoustic & synthetic, pure & transformed. The powerful Morph control lets you move between your sound layers and make broad changes to multiple aspects of your sound with one control.
Instant Expression
Customize and interact with Augmented GRAND PIANO’s sound intuitively with its array of straightforward macro controls and responsive connections to velocity and aftertouch, ensuring that expressive dynamics, articulation, and timbral control is only ever a click away.
Deep Sound Design
Augmented GRAND PIANO is your shortcut to compelling piano sounds, but its advanced panel lets you go deeper when your project calls for it. Add complex modulation, keep it moving with smart arpeggiation, and fine-tune your sound layers in one place.
Morphing - A Full Piano Continuum
It starts with a grand piano; where it ends is up to you.
- A detailed library of authentic & abstract piano samples.
- A built-in synthesis engine with 4 powerful modes.
- Numerous forms of modulation, expression and FX.
Augmented GRAND PIANO’s central Morph control lets you seamlessly move between all of these aspects with a single sweep.
Sampling
The rich sound of a Steinway Model D, the most famous grand piano of all time, was expertly recorded in a host of weird & wonderful ways; with felt damping, ping pong balls, a vintage tape machine, and more. A practical piano sample library with an experimental edge.
Synthesis
Add sub-depth to your piano bass, intensify your piano chords with in-your-face noisy textures, or gnarl your soft melodies with dissonant harmonic reflections.
Augmented GRAND PIANO features 4 modes of synthesis:
- Virtual Analog
- Granular
- Wavetable
- Harmonic
Sound Sculpting - Simplicity
Discover inspiring, refreshing piano sounds in seconds.
_01. MORPH
Make sweeping changes to multiple elements in your sound with the Morph control. Move between your sample & synthesis sound layers, and simultaneously tweak up to 8 assignable parameters for dramatic timbral changes within one preset.
_02. FX, DELAY & REVERB
The final piece to Augmented GRAND PIANO’s sonic puzzle. The dedicated Delay and Reverb master FX add space and time-based ambience to your sound, plus you can assign 2 custom FX per sound layer for your own flavour of colouration.
_03. COLOUR, TIME & MOTION
If your sound needs a little more, a little less, or just something a little different, these 3 macro controls affect things like envelope time, filtering, modulations, and more, offering quick & instinctive control over the shape and character of your sound.
Deeper Sound Design
Detailed Control Over Your Piano Sounds - When You Need It
Underneath its simple layout and quick controls, Augmented GRAND PIANO offers all the flexibility and customization you need to truly make it your own. From sound layers to intricate modulation, it’s all right here.
LAYERS
It all starts with Augmented GRAND PIANO’s sound engines. Two layers, each containing two engines, for a total of 4 fully-customizable sound sources. Each of these 4 sound sources can use samples or synthesis, with additional details like filter cutoff, sample mic position, and envelope times.
MODULATION
Inject movement and variety into your sound with click-and-drag modulation routing in seconds. Assign multiple LFOs, functions generators, keyboard controls, and more, with almost every element of Augmented GRAND PIANO available as a modulation destination.
ARPEGGIATOR
If you’re not a piano player, or you simply want to experiment with precise metronomic motion in your sound, the built-in 16-step polymetric Arpeggiator has the answers. Turn soft open-lid chords into dancing melodies, processed hammers into percussive elements, or a single note into a pulsing synth-esque motif.
EFFECTS
Dial in your own flavours of crunch, sound-sculpting, or total transformation with 2 stereo FX slots per layer, and add the final spatial and time-based touches with Delay and Reverb on the master bus at the end of the chain.
MACROS
The brains behind Augmented GRAND PIANO’s central macro controls. See your assigned parameters and adjustments in real-time, and make detailed changes to ensure that your sound responds just how you want it to.
Like You’ve Never Heard It Before
These aren’t just high-quality samples. Augmented GRAND PIANO’s library features detailed recordings of a late ‘80s Steinway Model D, widely considered to be the greatest grand piano of all time.
And that’s only the beginning. The library features familiar & authentic articulations suited to both classical & contemporary music, but it also contains a variety of unique outside-the-box recordings. Piano played with ping pong balls, with a bow, with paper in between the strings. Arturia also went one step further by processing these sounds through tape machines, pedals, studio gear, and more.
Even before morphing, modulation, or FX, Augmented GRAND PIANO ranges from authentic piano to sounds that simply aren’t possible with the traditional instrument.
A Perfect Production Piano Library - Evocative & professional piano sound in seconds.
Augmented GRAND PIANO comes loaded with over 300 mix-ready sounds, sorted by style, timbre, and sound designer. Unlock the inspiring piano sounds you’ve always wanted, from emotive film score tones to otherworldly video game ambience, razor-sharp synth-infused sounds to delicate modern ballad textures.
The Features You Need
In-App Tutorials
Integrated in-app tutorials guide you through every aspect of the instrument, from individual parameters to tips from Arturia's sound designers, so you can focus on the creative stuff. It shouldn't be this easy, but it is!
ASC
Arturia Software Center lets you download, organize, and update all of your Arturia software titles in one place, as well as manage all of your licenses across multiple devices. Keep it simple.
DAW Ready
Arturia's virtual instruments and plugins are designed to fit right into your setup without hassle. Whatever your style, you can explore sound while enjoying full compatibility with major DAWS, on both Windows and macOS.
Preset Browser
Instantly find the sound that’s in your head with intelligent & streamlined preset browsing. Search keywords, explore by instrument type, musical style, and more - you can even save your favourites to quickly recall later.
Resizable GUI
Whether you want the full visual immersion of Arturia's classic instrument emulations, or to save precious screen real estate, the interfaces for all of your Arturia virtual instruments can be resized to a scale that suits you.
Perfect Integration
Instruments come seamlessly mapped for the Arturia KeyLab range - but they’ll place nice with other MIDI controllers too. Instant sound tweaking macros, easy DAW integration, and standalone operation.
Main Features
- Virtual Instrument playable in a DAW (Live, FL Studio, Logic,...) or standalone with a MIDI keyboard
- Dynamic hybrid piano instrument
- 2 Layers within each preset; each layer contains 2 customizable sound sources
- Detailed piano sample library with expressive and contemporary articulations
- Real piano samples
- Processed piano samples
- Additional abstract samples
- Flexible Synth Engines
- Virtual Analog
- Granular
- Harmonic
- Wavetable
- Morph Control moves between Layers A and B, and/or affects up to 8 custom destinations
- 7 Additional Macros - Time, Color, Motion, FX A, FX B, Reverb, Delay
- 2 LFOs, 2 Function Generators, 2 Random Generators, 4 Keyboard modulation sources, dedicated Vibrato & Tremolo
- 2 FX slots per layer with 14 FX including ParamEQ, Bitcrusher, BL-20 Flanger, and more
- Dedicated Delay and Reverb sends with 5 spatial/time-based algorithms
- Built-in 16-step arpeggiator
- 300 factory presets included
System Requirements
- Works in Standalone, VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).
Mac
- Mac OS 10.13+
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or Apple Silicon CPU
- 3GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
Windows
- Win 10+ (64bit)
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
- 3GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
- ARM processors not supported on Windows
Protection
- All Arturia software is protected by the Arturia Software Center.
