The world's most popular virtual grand piano collection just got better with the creation of Ivory II-Grand Pianos. Featuring a greatly expanded sound set with nearly double the velocity layers, and the improved 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.
The Grand Pianos collection features three marvelous and versatile Grand Pianos: Bsendorfer 290 Imperial Grand, German Steinway D 9' Concert Grand and Yamaha C7 Grand. Synthogy's exclusive, powerful Sample Playback and DSP engine, engineered specifically for recreating the acoustic piano, is sure to inspire your best performance.
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In this video, Michael Babbitt explores some of the features that separate Ivory II from other virtual pianos, including half pedaling, timbre velocity interpolation, sympathetic string vibration and harmonic resonance modeling.
A host of new piano-centric features have been added to the Ivory II engine. 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. Harmonic Resonance Modeling is a brand new technology that does not rely upon triggering additional samples, ordinary sine waves, or recordings in any way. 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. The result is an unprecedented new level of realism.
At the heart of Ivory II are Ivory's legendary pianos. 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. 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.
Ivory II represents the most significant design enhancement to Ivory's custom piano technology since its introduction. 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.
Real ivory keytops are naturally beautiful. They are usually made from the tusks of elephants or similar animals and filed into perfect rectangles for keytops. The tusks themselves are made from keratin, the same material as hair and fingernails, so they are long-lasting and unique as a fingerprint. Ivory is also slightly textured and reduces slipping and sticking as you play.
This total ban works hard to drive down demand for ivory and help save endangered elephants, allowing their population to return. Even black market demand has been slashed after the ban took place, and since then, elephant populations have more than doubled.
Because the trade in ivory is completely outlawed around the world, the keytops are not valuable. But even if it was legal, remember that only a thin veneer on top of the key is made of ivory. The entire key isn't made of solid ivory. This thin veneer can chip, crack, and peel (remember, it's made of the same material as fingernails, so it's subject to the same kind of damage). This thin slice is such little material that even ivory artists probably wouldn't be able to work with it.
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Ivory 3 German D is the only virtual piano instrument that brings together the realism of digital sampling and the expressivity of modeling. Powered by the RGB engine, Ivory 3 brings to the forefront an unparalleled technology new to the world of Virtual Instruments.
Synthogy is best-known for its industry-leading Ivory II-Grand Pianos, the Award-Winning flagship product, critically acclaimed as the "Platinum Standard" for Virtual Pianos. Synthogy prioritizes their customers over all else, and their customer loyalty speaks for itself. With breathtaking sound and realism, Synthogy pianos have achieved a level of sonic accuracy where they are instantly recognized for their unmistakable signature sound.
I've been messing with Pure Piano and beginning to be a fan. For me it requires a diminishing of low frequencies. I have dissatisfactions with the bass in all the top iOS pianos. Not enough discrete-ness in bass chords.
Ok, I may try to download aĀ regularĀ virtuoso piece from piano-e-competition (maybe in MIDI HD if I can find it) to see if this supposedly MIDI throttle comes from my setup or occurs within the sound engine of Ravenscroft itself.
@Paulo164 said:
Ok, I may try to download aĀ regularĀ virtuoso piece from piano-e-competition (maybe in MIDI HD if I can find it) to see if this supposedly MIDI throttle comes from my setup or occurs within the sound engine of Ravenscroft itself.
I rendered the MIDI with Cubasis 3, internal reverb is disabled for all and instead I use the Roomworks reverb on "Bright Hall". The first one is as comparison the internal Cubasis 3 piano, just as reference what "bad" might sound like.
Yes, weird. The MIDI file is the same. Maybe Pure Piano has longer release samples, which is more forgiving with this kind of fast run.
After several weeks owning the 3 apps, I still think Ravenscroft is the more enjoyable to play and the closest to a real piano (waiting for PianoTeq...).
Whether you like the tone or not compared to a "conventional" Steinway D is another concern.
Still, there is the possibility for a legal ivory trade. Governments have legal stockpiles, and conservation efforts have helped the elephant population to such an extent a small ivory market could be sustained. The fear with allowing any legal ivory trade is thus: a trickle will turn into a torrent.
So here's my thought: piano ivories, in contrast to other ivory uses, are desirable for their physical properties. There is no mysticism or tradition surrounding their use. The demand is tied to very large and expensive instruments, the market will always be small.
Then here's the 2nd consideration: once processed into piano key tops, the ivory pretty much can't be repurposed. You can't turn it into a billiard ball, a knife, a statue, a figurine, a hanko, nothing. You might be able to make some jewelry, but even that would be very limited considering the flat shape of the piano keys.
Then there's the 3rd consideration: the global pianoforte market is limited in size. In 2016 it stood at 668,062 units. While this sounds like a lot, a single tusk yields 45 keyboards. While that's still a lot; by my calculation that's about 15,000 tusks annually. In 2016, Kenya set ablaze to 105 tons of ivory. With an average tusk weighing 50 lbs, that's enough for 200,000 keyboards. Even still, that's just 5% of all the ivory stock held around the world. This brings me to my 4th consideration:
Not every piano buyer will need or even want ivory: Even at the heyday of piano ivories, plastics quickly replaced them because plastic is sturdier, cheaper, and cleaner. I expect barely 10% of pianos built would include ivory keys.* While it's conceivable someone might build digital pianos or organs with ivory keys, I don't see that happening for the former, and the market for the latter is so small as to be totally insignificant.
Finally, piano ivories can be relatively easily recycled. Currently, piano technicians have large stocks of ivories because they cannot legally be sold, but they're too precious to throw away. I expect it could give some value to pianos, and I don't expect ivory keys would get wasted, especially if this entire market came with the caveat of a large tax to help the ailing African economies, or support conservation efforts.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. I think it'd be quite nice to have a piano with ivory keys. There's nothing wrong with plastic keys, but I have played on ivory keys before, and they are quite nice. I think it's rather unfortunate that something as precious and useful as ivory is wasted on stuff like jewelry or figurines or vudu medicine for which it is really poorly suited. It's also a sort of weird reality we live in right now where the governments have huge stockpiles of ivory and are literally just burning them. The current responsible ivory supply could fill the needs of the global piano market quite readily, and the ivory would be put to quite a noble use.
In 2017, the British Government announced their plans to ban the import, export and dealing of items containing elephant ivory in the UK. The ban is due to come into effect in early 2022 after being pushed back to fix technical details, but many musicians have been left wondering how this will affect pianos.
After tireless lobbying from musicians' unions, musical instruments made before 1975, such as pianos, will now be exempt from this ban. Many historical instruments, mainly pianos, use ivory as part of their pianos keys, but thankfully, it is estimated that less than twenty per cent of instruments crafted before 1975 contain ivory. As such, the UK government have made an exception as they believe the continued buying and selling of ivory keyed pianos will not contribute to further poaching.
The rarity of ivory key pianos would lead you to believe that they are inherently valuable, but this is not always the case. The illegality of the ivory itself can often cause issues when looking to sell a piano with ivory keys, and ultimately its value will be determined by the make, model and current condition. be457b7860
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