Starting with Ivory II Grand Pianos, you get three recreations of some classic nine-footers designed for concert halls: a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial Grand, a German Steinway D (near-nine-foot) Concert Grand and a Yamaha C7 Grand. Leaving aside the fact that a company called Synthogy is fast building a reputation for recreating great pianos, let’s take a quick look at the company’s Ivory II range in order to get a feel for where these two fit in. And at just over 100 quid a piece, they might take up your hard-drive space, but at least they’ll leave you a few quid to buy that drive. But what pianos… as we’ll come on to see and hear, and what meticulous recordings. The package weighs in at over 110GB, and that is for just two pianos. You’ll certainly require one with Studio Grands, the latest instrument offering in the Ivory II collection from Synthogy. Or, since they’re tumbling in price, why not get a couple?
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Years in the making, every effort has been taken to assure that Ivory II is a true and worthy successor to the legacy established by our original Ivory products.Sadly, Mac and PC developers don’t seem to be upping the base hard-drive specs of their machines as much as they once did, so as a music producer in the 21st century, a speedy external drive of some capacity is your new best friend.
Ivory II represents the most significant design enhancement to Ivory's custom piano technology since its introduction. Synthogy's decades of expertise in piano development, along with proprietary "timbre interpolation" technology combine to deliver greater fidelity, unrivaled playability, and a musical experience that is unsurpassed. Each Ivory piano has been further refined and developed, including expanded velocity levels (up to 18 per piano), additional soft pedal samples, and more release samples. Additionally, features like Timbre Shifting, Parametric EQ, and new Synth Layer controls offer powerful new sound sculpting capabilities for custom piano programming and sound design.Īt the heart of Ivory II are Ivory's legendary pianos.
Ivory II also delivers some of Synthogy’s most frequent customer requests, with features such as Half Pedaling, Lid Position, Pedal Noise, and Tuning Tables to provide even greater detail and control. The result is an unprecedented new level of realism. Rather, notes struck that are harmonically related excite the actual complex overtones of the notes that are being held, in the same manner that undamped strings ring in a real acoustic piano. Harmonic Resonance Modeling is a brand new technology that does not rely upon triggering additional samples, ordinary sine waves, or recordings in any way. Principal among them is Sympathetic String Resonance, a long sought after but elusive characteristic of real pianos that Synthogy approaches in a completely new and unique way, realizing the true complexities and subtleties of sympathetic string excitation. Ivory II Grand Pianos will breathe under your fingers, inspiring your best performance from a truly organic instrument.Ī host of new piano-centric features have been added to the Ivory II engine. The playing experience is simply extraordinary with an emotional range extending from the heartiest fortissimo to the most delicate and nuanced pianissimo. Featuring a greatly expanded sound set with nearly double the velocity layers, and the powerful, new Ivory II piano DSP engine with Harmonic Resonance Modeling for true Sympathetic String Vibration, Ivory II Grand Pianos soars at the highest possible levels of sampling and synthesis technology. Now the world’s most popular virtual grand piano collection just got better with the creation of Ivory II Grand Pianos.
Ivory’s worldwide critical acclaim and popularity has made it the industry standard, and the virtual piano of choice for the world’s most elite musicians.
The Virtual Piano that started it all, Ivory Grand Pianos redefined what virtual instruments could do, combining stunning, world-class piano samples with a powerful, software/DSP engine and custom user interface.