🎹Synthogy Ivory II Grand Pianos VST Plugin Review - Steinway D Concert Grand Virtual Instrument🎹

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Welcome to Merriam Pianos on YouTube! Continuing our series on VST plugins, this video will be a deep dive into Synthogy’s Ivory II VST.

We’ll be checking out their Hamburg D, Bosendorfer Imperial and Yamaha C7 samples - all three are incredibly detailed and enjoyable.

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Background:

Perhaps no other plugin in the piano VST universe has had such a sustained level of mystique surrounding it than Synthogy’s Ivory. Active since 2004, Synthogy is still a major player in the VST space.

While the interface hasn’t really been updated in 15 years, the current incarnation, Ivory II, is easily one of the best-sounding VST’s out there.

Some of the current samples get all the way to 18 velocity layers, which is a crazy amount of detail, resulting in a hyper-realistic tone. Now, will a hyper-realistic piano tone be ideal for your project? Not necessarily, but there’s no doubt that the demand for this type of plugin exists.

The sample pack we’ll be reviewing today is the Hamburg D, Bosendorfer Imperial, and Yamaha C7 samples.

User Interface:

When you first open the program, the program preset calls up everything - sample set, eq settings, ambient settings, and in some cases, the synth layer. This approach is a little bit obsolete compared to what other plugins are offering today, but still perfectly useable.

The Bosendorfer patch offers three sample sets with a bunch of different preset configurations, while the Steinway and Yamaha offers 4 sample sets each.

Sound:

The Bosendorfer sample sounds very authentic, with the super authentic bass the Imperial is known for. The resonance engine is not as prominent as on other engines, and one area where the acoustic instrument isn’t perfectly captured.

There’s an effects window off to the side, with a 3-band sweepable EQ, chorus effect, ambience, and preferences in terms of MIDI assignments, as well as session commands when it comes to velocity mapping and touch curve.

The Hamburg Steinway D is our favourite of the three sampled pianos in Ivory II, with a very different character from the Bosendorfer. It’s delicate but grows tonally and dynamically very easily.

Just like a lot of other plugins, you can flip the stereo perspective, meaning you can change the direction of how the sound is presented.

The C7 sounds really bright, biting, and brassy as one would expect from a Yamaha. Again, the instrument is very faithfully recreated.

Summary:

Ivory has other sampled instruments available, but we thought these three would make sense to look at. This plugin has deadly levels of realism, with super authentic recreations of the instruments they are sampled on. There’s not a ton of room character, with the ambience coming out of the reverb engine, as opposed to other plugins that incorporated room ambience into the samples themselves.

We could see Ivory II working really well in conjunction with some other reverb engines and EQ’s, but it really does nail the source material.

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