Grand Piano XXL
FREE
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.
FEATURES
- 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
VIDEO DEMO
PC REQUIREMENTS
- Windows 8.1 64-bit or later
- 2 GB of RAM
- 1.19 GB hard disk space
- VST2 or VST3 64-bit host
MAC REQUIREMENTS
- El Capitan or later
- 2 GB of RAM
- 1.19 GB hard disk space
- VST2, VST3 or AU 64-bit host
INSTALLATION
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/
thank you so much
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Dear Audiolatry,
I think that your XXL Grand Piano is one of the most exceptional and impeccable free grand pianos out there on the internet. The XXL Grand Piano has terrific exquisite sound than those of other freeware.
Sincerely,
Kevin
Yeah, these are quality VST, great job!
Thank you for your kind words and encouragement!
really? no macOS? you disgust me…
🙁 we hope to afford soon a mac and start testing on it too
wtf you must be a poor bastard..
I mean you philly, you you must be a poor bastard..
@trump you a looser and a fat ol lame for hating on something you cant get for free if hes a poor bastard than so are you because you mad that you cant get a free plugin. come on man
You’re asking so much for a plugin that developers are giving away for free? Roll to hell, you don’t deserve it.
Thank u guys!! I’m from argentina and unfortunately i cannot leave some coin for this. But I really apreciate the effort. much love.
No problem Serge, your kind words are more than enough for us. Have a great week!
waiting for Mac version. When it will be uploaded?
Hey Christ, we have several problems and the biggest one would be we don’t have a mac. The export is not a problem, but before that, we have to make some tests to see if everything works properly. We hope to resolve this problem very soon (or find an alternative way). Thank you for your interest, when we release the mac plugins be sure you will be one of the first to receive them.
Sincerely, never knew i could get a vst of this quality for free, thanks to you guys for the hard work and your gift to the industry, we don’t take it for granted.
thanks
Thanks audiolatry, great work..
Cheers!
yes of course
Excelente instrumento.
where is the dl something
nice work buddy！i appreciate your nice development intention!
Adding microtonal capability so your instrments can read Scala .scl files and thus allow for non-standard tunings would be more than nice. There are far more notes out there than just common 12 notes used in the West, to explain it plainly. One can create an interesting scale using program named Scala, load it into his VST that supports it and do musically new, interesting things not possible with common VST instruments locked into same and boring 12-tone-per-octave system. There’s midi capability for this already, many major developers added support for this, devs created a MIDi retuner to allow for any pitc posible. Just standard 123 notes is like having only 12 bolours in your pallette to paint with, but there are so many more nuances of same colour as there are variations of same pitch.
To be honest, a freware midi retuner would be very nice to have, but so far only paware exists still in development, or so they promised but not much has been done since 2021 when they were first released. There’s a huge community of artists into microtonality, people ake music with it, Pianoteq added support for its great piano long ago and many others. But older, 32bit or 64bit but 12-tone-only VSTs that are great-sounding but don’t support microtonality natively, they need some brave developers to break the final barrier and open the pitch up completely. After MIDI first appeared years ago it’s about time for it to be unlocked again, because back in the days MIDI was fully capable for more than 12 notes and still is but DAWs and VSts are LOCKED on purpose by someone, MIDI has microtonal capability hidden away from users because some smartass exec thought artists won’t need it or be interested in it. They were wrong, so if you guys can at least get informed aboutz this or see if you can give microtonal support, we’d all be very grateful and I’ve been told by some devs in the know of it it’s not that hard to do. Let’s hope it is as they said.
Cheers and thank you very much, your instruments are gorgeous.
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