The Grandeur Piano by Native Instruments

Add a flagship piano to your Sibelius scores 

Experience the richness of Native Instruments' flagship The Grandeur piano in your Sibelius compositions. Our sound set gives you instant access to all 35 instrument presets directly from your notation.

Immerse yourself in the detail of one of NI's most deeply-sampled pianos. Tailor the tone with adjustable lid positions, studio/live patches, and creative FX. An expressive piano presence to complement any score.

Deeply-sampled piano richness

• 35 presets covering all The Grandeur articulations
• Adjustable lid positions: open, half, closed
• Live performance and studio session presets

Creative options and control

• Expressive pedaling, velocity layers, and more
• Dial in piano presence with EQ and FX presets
• User presets let you customize sounds

Lightweight, flexible integration

• Efficient setup keeps resource usage low
• Works perfectly alongside NotePerformer
• Also ideal for exposed piano parts

Requirements - do you already own this library?

Requires: licenced and installed copy of  Native Instruments "The Grandeur", licensed copy of Avid Sibelius (7.5+), Mac (Catalina or greater) or Windows (7+).

Check your account at Native Instruments or "Native Access" for this library - you might own it already since it's been in the "Komplete" library for ages!

Details and demos

I've created 35 new piano presets based on all the facilities of this excellent VST. Each preset also has Open/Half-open and Closed versions, so your piano lid can be anywhere! Patches are split into "Live" (built for being exposed in a mix, with subtle piano noises), "Studio" (more friendly to running with other instruments, and a different set of ambiences), "FX" (more creative patches using some of the ambience and compression), and "User" (you've got 10 patches you can save to in Kontakt which the Sound Set will pick up - a first for sound sets!).

Here's some demos of various patches running in it smoothly. They're all straight playback of MusicXML downloaded from MuseScore - though with extra hairpins for "cresc" and "dim" instructions (sometimes - I might have missed one or two!). Dynamic range is pretty large on the solo patches.

Bacchanale (Samsom et Delila), Op. 47, Camille Saint-Saëns

Patch: Concert Solo Grand 1 (Fully Open Lid)

‘Moonlight’ Piano Sonata, Op.27 No.2, 3rd Movement, Ludwig van Beethoven 

Patch: Concert Solo Grand 2

Deux Arabesques L. 66, Claude Debussy

Patch: Church Solo Grand (Fully Open Lid)

Hungarian Dance No. 1, Johannes Brahms

Patch: Jazz Club Solo Grand

Flight of the Bumblebee, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Patch: Bright Studio Ensemble Grand ("Ensemble" here means "suitable for playing in an ensemble", not "lots of pianos"!).

PIneapple Rag, Scott Joplin

Patch: Music Club Grand

Venus the Bringer of Peace, Gustav Holst (arr. Shundong Li)

Patch: Resonant Pad (showing off one of the FX pads for extra space)

Yup, dissonant in places! I guess love doesn't always run smooth... there's a lot of pedal work on an already sustained patch, too, which adds mystery.

Sonata No 16 in C major k545 First Movement

Patch: Chamber Solo Grand 1 (what else??)

This does show off the bad and good about Sibelius's "inbuilt" trills. Mostly good, a couple of "huhs".

2nd Symphony 3rd Movement, Gustav Mahler

Patch: Church Piano Grand

Why a Church ambience? Some people say Mahler is a religious experience!

Patches ("Live") - each with Lid open/half-open (default) or closed.

Bright Stage Solo Grand, Cathedral Solo Grand, Chamber Solo Grand (1-3), Chapel Solo Grand, Church Solo Grand, Concert Solo Grand (1-3), Dry Solo Grand, Jazz Club Solo Grand, Jazz Hall Solo Grand, Large Hall Solo Grand, Music Club Solo Grand, Stadium Solo Grand, Taj Mahal Solo Grand.

Patches ("Studio") - each with Lid open/half-open (default) or closed.

Big Studio Ensemble Grand, Bright Studio Ensemble Grand, Concert Ensemble Grand, Dry Ensemble Grand, Small Studio Ensemble Grand, Soft Ensemble Grand, Studio Ensemble Grand.

Patches ("FX") - each with Lid open/half-open (default) or closed.

Dry Resonant Air Grand, Hard Grand, Hard Soft Dry Grand, Modwheel Distance Grand, Plate Grand, Pop Grand, Pumping Stereo Grand, Resonant Pad Grand, Saturated Studio Grand, Spring Grand, Tape limited Grand.

Patches ("User") - 10 user-definable patches Sibelius can see.

Hardware spec:

Minimum RAM for library normal use: 8Gb

Package:  

Installer: does all the hard work for you. It takes longer to install the library! 

Sound Set: Hand-engineered XML Sound Set

Patches: 132 hand-configured custom patches that are autoloaded when you press play, so you don't need to configure a thing.  

Playback Configurations: Numerous playback configurations, standalone and ones which allow use with NotePerformer and Sibelius 7 Sounds.  

Playback Configuration Merge Tool: add this library painlessly to any existing playback configurations you have, and even add effects! (in fact, this tool is independent of the sound set - anything can be merged). 

Comprehensive template: so you can see all patches and in use, rather than just reading about it (note: this requires more than 8Gb!)

House style: with instruments already set up for choosing in Sibelius

Friendly manual: because sometimes you do want to read all about it!