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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ptaccess+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
