The Control page

Unlike an acoustic grand piano, The Grand is played using a MIDI-enabled keyboard or digital piano. We recommend the use of an instrument with weighted keys to benefit from its sensitive and complex dynamic response. However, not everyone has this type of instrument at hand and response and handling vary from keyboard to keyboard.

Therefore, you can adapt The Grand to suit your MIDI keyboard and style of playing by means of ready-to-use velocity curve presets. In addition, you can create your own velocity curves and save and load them as presets.

On the left of the Control page you will find the velocity curve editor. The editor plots the incoming velocity (the horizontal axis) against the outgoing velocity (the vertical axis). By default, the curve is a straight line from the lower left to the upper right corner. This means, the incoming velocity is mapped one-to-one to the outgoing velocity. You will hear the piano with its original dynamic range. By changing this curve, you change the dynamic response of the piano. For example, if you prefer a harder sound of the piano, select an inward bent curve. If you prefer a softer sound, select an outward bent curve. You can even create your own curve by editing the user-definable curve with the mouse.

To the right of the velocity curve editor you will find buttons for selecting the shape of the velocity curve. The top- most button selects the user-definable curve. The other buttons select the nine factory preset curves.