Slau:
Thanks for your comments: The stand-alone version can be accessed with the
JAWS cursor including all of the presets.
Cheers.
-----Original Message-----
From: Slau Halatyn
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 10:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Synthogy Ivory II Grand Pianos and AAX
I know there was some mention of Ivory Grand Pianos on the list but I
suspect it might have been before the AAX version came out. I attended the
NAMM show at the time when Ivory was first introduced. The stand-alone
version seemed quite accessible. Of course, at the time, Pro Tools wasn't
accessible so the whole virtual piano thing wasn't something that concerned
me a great deal. Now that Synthogy put out an AAX version of the plug-in, I
thought I'd take a chance and check it out.
The plug-in is fully accessible in Pro Tools. Ironically, now the
stand-alone version seems not to be accessible although I can't confirm that
categorically. There might be an initial screen that's preventing me from
diving in deeper. I'll give an update on that if I have any success.
Concerning the AAX plug-in, as expected, the library preset browser is not
visible but, of course, those presets can be called up with sighted
assistance and saved as plug-in presets. Someone posted the original Ivory
presets a while ago and those are backwards compatible but there are a bunch
of new presets for Ivory II. I'll share those when I have them ready.
For those unfamiliar with Ivory II, it consists of three main piano models:
a Bosendorfer Imperial, a German Steinway and a Yamaha C7. Each of the
pianos has several versions differing in dynamics resolution. The highest
values have the highest levels of dynamics. Parameters such as sympathetic
resonance, pedal noise, stick height, stereo perspective, among other
parameters can be saved into presets. Regardless of preset, any of the
parameters can be easily changed. Switching between pianos causes the
parameters to reset so that's where presets come in handy for recalling
favorite settings.
There's a new American Steinway D that is spectacular and can either be
added to the Ivory II Grand Pianos library or used stand-alone or as its own
AAX plug-in. I've gone through a bunch of virtual pianos and many are really
quite good but ivory is the one by which all others are judged and it is
truly spectacular. Since it's a streaming instrument, an external drive is
pretty much a requirement and an SSD would be even more desirable. SSD
drives costing what they do, the advantage, apart from performance, is that
you don't need a backup drive since the samples come on DVD disks. In the
highly unlikely event of an SSD failure, you always have a backup.
Anyway, just sharing the experience. As I said, one or two people on the
list did mention it but there was never much of a discussion.
Slau
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