Hello, I recently got Absolute 6 and Dorico Pro 5. Now, I can access all the Halion presets in Dorico, including Eagle and Raven. I can also access other plugins in Dorico such as Pianoteq and Opus. But I don’t see The Grand, which is included in Absolute. I can access The Grand in Cubase. I installed everything using the Download Assistant on my Windows 11 laptop.
How can I use The Grand within Dorico? I also don’t see it in the allowed or blocked VST2 plugins list in Preferences.
I don’t have The Grand installed myself, but maybe it appears in the pop-up menu for virtual instruments at an unexpected place. Have a close look through all sub categories under the Steinberg menu item.
If you still can’t find it, please do Help > Create Diagnostics Report and post the corresponding zip file here.
I have The Grand and it is a fine instrument. Not as part of Absolute. But it is completely ancient in computer terms, and has not been upgraded or attended to for many years. Is it possible it is considered obsolete and has been dropped from Absolute without doco being updated? Just an idea.
My version shows up under Steinberg → Piano → The Grand 3.
No, it’s sill included in Absolute 6. I believe that the most recent binary (version 3.3.0) was released in 2022.
And, by the way, even though it is indeed very old as a software, I don’t think there is anything wrong with the pianos themselves. C7 is lovely to my ears and the others are not bad either. Playability is decent. The only major thing missing is string resonance modeling.
OK, I finally found it. My mistake I was probably looking in the wrong places in Dorico. Maybe it’s old but it doesn’t sound bad
As o said, i think its a very fine instrument, still.