The Grand - extremely low volume

Virtual instruments The Grand
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To hear a piano sound, I have to put

  • System volume UR22mkII to the max,
  • Main volume in Grand app to the max
  • Volume knob in Grand app to the max
  • put very high volume on amplifier or phones
  • use strongly keyboard dynamics.
    But with these settings - the piano makes sometimes very strange noises and any System sound is incredibly loud.
    Does anybody understand, why the Grand is so incredibly quiet? I am afraid in Cubase this is the same case.
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Are you using The Grand in a DAW or some kind of standalone VST player?

3

As a standalone player

4

Goes the sound somehow though the windows mixer?
What sound card?

5

Sound card is Steinberg UR22mkII, all Steinberg products play through Yamaha ASIO driver and system mixer is at maximum level.
All sounds play at a standard level, just to play anything from Cubase or standalone Grand, I need to volume knob to the maximum level.

6

Do you have the monitor knob on your interface set fully to daw?

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Thank you for the hint - my standard setting of mix knob is in the middle between input and DAW, this is my standard setting which I use for both music listening and voice/guitar recording in Cubase.
I tried to turn fully to DAW, the volume goes little bit up, however this effects all Windows sounds (e.g. YouTube in Chrome).
What I still don’t understand, why any standard sound source is so much louder compared to any Cubase VSTs or The Grand.