Grand Piano XXL

Grand Piano XXL is a free virtual piano instrument plugin (ROMpler) featuring a sampled Yamaha C5 6’7″ Grand Piano.

The original samples (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license) were recorded by Alexander Holm [axeldenstore (at) gmail (dot) com] with two AKG c414 condenser microphones placed in an AB position at around 12 centimeters above the strings.

All the samples were captured in 48kHz 24bit audio quality with 16 velocity layers which are all present in this virtual plugin, hence the 1.19 GB size on disk.

The keys release samples are also added in Grand Piano XXL.

There’s also a smaller version with only 4 velocity layers, called Grand Piano.

The GUI is simple and intuitive with attack & release controls, reverb module, and gain. In the middle, there’s a “Tremolo” section with LFO rate & depth for pitch, expression, and pan, plus filter cutoff with selectable lowpass/highpass. You will also notice a “Key” knob – that’s the gain for piano keys release.

• sampled Yamaha C5 Grand Piano
• 16 velocity layers per sampled note
• keys release noises
• 48kHz 24bit audio quality
• 1.19 GB size on disk
• attack & release
• LFO modulation with rate & depth
• filter cutoff (lowpass & highpass)
• reverb module
• global volume

• Windows 8.1 64-bit or later
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1.19 GB hard disk space
• VST2 or VST3 64-bit host

• El Capitan or later
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1.19 GB hard disk space
• VST2, VST3 or AU 64-bit host

Windows

• VST – copy/paste the extracted folder to: C:\Program Files\VSTPlugins
• VST3 – copy/paste the extracted folder to: C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3

macOS

• VST – copy/paste the folder to: Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST/
• VST3 – copy/paste the folder to: Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST3/
• AU – copy/paste GrandPianoXXL.component and GrandPianoXXL.instruments to: Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components/