Featuresįrom top to bottom, Arturia Piano V2 packs a ton of awesome features into its expansive interface. Overall, an extremely attractive setup with one-touch access to all of the most common controls. There is also a CPU meter and a multi-core toggle button. Sitting at the bottom of the window are a full-sized piano roll, gain/output control, three pedal control buttons, polyphony, undo/redo and MIDI channel controls. The top bar contains one-click access to an enormous preset library, which expands to include filters and favorites to easily recall your favorite settings, as well as a nifty MIDI mapping feature.Īll the standard controls are available at a glance, with tons more functionality hidden in the slide-out controls. Floating above the picture of the piano are four microphone icons representing the currently selected mic setup. LooksĪrturia Piano V2 opens to a side view picture of a black grand piano above an impressive complement of expandable controls, which I’ll detail more in the next section. I have no doubts that Arturia’s piano plugin will be an impressive product, but the question remains whether it will retain its value at two to five times the retail price of the other options? Let’s find out. Next up in the third installment of my piano virtual instrument review series is the most expensive offering of the bunch, Arturia Piano V2.

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