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(More customer reviews)I loaded up Grand 3 and was surprised that I was not given the option of storing the samples on my external media drive. The good news is that the samples seem take up a relatively small amount of space but I'm not sure the performance is adequate when the OS, application and samples are all on the same drive. There's probably a way to remedy this however and it did not seem to affect the sound. I use a Macbook Pro with an extra LCD screen for displaying the DAW timeline so performance optimization is important. I have an external firewire 800 drive for storing samples and I'm thinking my next purchase will be a solid state drive to replace my CDROM which would give me more options for optimizing features/performance.
So what about the sound? It was clean and bright (Yamaha grand) but not outstanding to my ear. I would not buy it for $400 but for $100 I would consider adding it to my collection if I didn't already own Synthogy's Ivory collection (Ivory II Grand Pianos and The Italian Grand). The Ivory pianos are so much better to my ear. The test for me is if you sit down and when you play the first note it brings a big smile to your face and then you blow away 2-3 hours before you look up.
Also, when I compared the Ivory Yamaha grand with the Steinberg Yamaha grand I definitely liked the Ivory sound better. Of course Ivory is now more expensive than the Steinberg pianos but as they say, you get what you pay for. The Yamaha P155 digital piano that I have seems every bit as good as Steinbergs Grand 3 samples so there would be no point wasting computer processing power and memory on the samples, save it for the DAW (I use Cubase 6). Ivory on the other hand has perfected Ivory II to the extent that I no longer use the built-in P155 sound unless I'm on the road. Ivory piano recordings sound incredible to my ears. I'm glad I sent the Steinberg product back and purchased Ivory although Cubase 6 contains a trial version of Grand 3 which is a full version that is licensed for two months. A good idea by Steinberg.
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Steinberg. With DVD-ROM. 8.25x9.5 inches. Published by Steinberg.
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