Mini Grand vs Concert Grand Compact
AIR Music Technology's Mini Grand differs fundamentally from Production Voices' Concert Grand Compact in its approach to providing grand piano sounds. While Mini Grand offers seven different acoustic piano types within a single product, Concert Grand Compact focuses on delivering a single, highly detailed Steinway Model D with specialized sampling.
Sonically, Mini Grand is described as having a clean, modern, and balanced character suitable for various genres, but with a relatively small library size of 172 MB. In contrast, Concert Grand Compact boasts a significantly larger library at 10 GB, featuring 15 velocity layers, round-robin pedal noise, and sampled key-up mechanical actions for enhanced realism, all captured with a Neumann M149 tube microphone.
Choose Mini Grand if a broad selection of general-purpose grand piano sounds is desired within a compact footprint. Choose Concert Grand Compact for a single, deeply sampled, characterful Steinway Model D with extensive mechanical noise detail for a highly realistic and expressive performance.
Products Compared
Insights from Real-World Use
Mini Grand
- Mini Grand is praised for its simplicity as a standalone VST, offering a fantastic and realistic sound.
- Mini Grand's straightforwardness makes it ideal for easily sitting pianos in a mix.
- Idk the pianos kind of sound like sh** , the only good piano I’ve heard yet has been keyscape xpand has a couple alright pianos but they're still sh**...
- Describes the piano's sound as most favorable and perfect for his playing style.
- Users can correct dynamic response after playing MIDI, which is a liked feature.
Concert Grand Compact
- Velocity layers, sampling consistency, editing workflow
- Sound character, low end, high end bite, CFX tonal identity
- Room/ambience, comparison to Synchron Stage, use-case flexibility
- Plugin format/player, mic selection, interface controls
- LOVE this piano, this is great and I DO like the Aria player - the Sforzando player since I've used Garritan for many years now. And I love that. This is a great piano library for a VERY fair price. I