It is very easy to register and activate your product through our website and the Arturia Software Center.
For a step-by-step registration and activation process, please read the following FAQ article:
If you have purchased Augmented GRAND PIANO, please follow these simple steps to activate your virtual instrument:
- Open your Arturia Software Center
- Click on the "Activate" button in front of your Augmented GRAND PIANO instrument:
- Open your Augmented GRAND PIANO instrument (restart if already open)
- Augmented GRAND PIANO is now activated!
When assigning modulations, you'll first have to choose one of the modulator from the modulation strip at the bottom of your screen.
Once this is done, you'll be able to see how many modulations are assigned, what are the modulations assigned, and how many you can still assign.
If you still have a slot available, you can create/edit a new modulation routing by dragging a knob's contour. Once this is done, you'll see a thick colored line around the knob.
On the main page of Augmented GRAND PIANO, you'll find an oversized control called Morph.
It allows you to morph between Layer A and Layer B.
Select up to 8 parameters freely assignable between both layers to transform your sound.
To create/edit modulation routings for the Morph, simply choose Morph in the modulation strip, and drag the parameter of your choice:
For more information on 'How to assign modulations', please refer to the section above.
Click on any modulator to know what you can assign to it, and how many slots are available:
In the screenshot above, you can see that 3 slots are still available, and that only Filter and Parts parameters can be assigned to Color.
Augmented GRAND PIANO offers a smart display of modulations options.
Modulators are automatically greyed out if there is no available destination on the current page:
Augmented GRAND PIANO lets you set up to 2 sample engines + 2 synth engines working in parallel.
Click on the engine slot of your choice, and select from the menu the preset of your choice:
By clicking on the 6-dot icon, you can drag and drop the engines to the slot of your choice:
You can bend the modulation curves by clicking on them, holding, and moving your mouse around.
It is also true for attack curves and decay curves.
Augmented GRAND PIANO offers 2 pages of FXs:
- FX Layers: assigns FXs dedicated to specific layer (A or B)
- FX Main: assigns FXs to the master of Augmented GRAND PIANO
To free up some hard drive space, you can change your resources folder location from the Arturia Software Center (ASC)!
To do this, refer to the following instructions :
- In the Arturia Software Center, go to "Preferences".
- Open the "Folders" section and click on "Browse".
- Read and acknowledge the warning message.
- In your browser, select a new location for your "Resources" folder and click “Open” to initiate the transfer.
- Wait while the files are copied, this process can take up to one hour.
/!\ During the transfer process, do not disconnect your internet connection /!\
- The transfer process ends after 90%. For the final 10% of the process, Arturia Software Center will remove all files from the previous location. When doing so, the “Cancel” button will temporarily disappear to ensure that the process is completed without interruption.