The standalone player

What it does

The standalone player provides a way for you to use the Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand without the need to use a host program. Once you set up MIDI and audio, use the standalone player to load and play back MIDI files, or record an audio file of the performance.

To set up MIDI and audio

When using the standalone player, set up MIDI and audio preferences so you can hear the instrument and use your MIDI controller. Setting up your preferences includes selections for MIDI input devices, audio device and driver, audio output, sample rate, and buffer size.

If you're using the CFX Concert Grand as a plug-in, audio and MIDI are instead set up within your host program.

To load MIDI files and record into audio files

Once you're set up in the standalone player, load and play back MIDI files, record into a WAV audio file, or render an existing MIDI file to a WAV audio file.

To save presets from the standalone player

Although the File menu in the standalone player contains Save and Open options, it will be much easier and more convenient for you to save presets using the Preset menu within the Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand. Presets saved using the Preset menu can be more easily opened later, whether you're using the standalone player or the plug-in.

From the File menu on either Windows or Macintosh, you can save your current Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand settings into a .ARIA preset file that you can recall later, or, you can save a preset that determines the default settings that load when you open the standalone player.

Standalone player keyboard shortcuts for Macintosh

Action Keyboard shortcut
Render offline COMMAND+R
Preferences COMMAND+, (comma)
Hide CFX Concert Grand COMMAND+H
Hide Others COMMAND+OPTION+H
Quit CFX Concert Grand COMMAND+Q
Open COMMAND+O
Save as COMMAND+S
Save as default COMMAND+D

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