An exceptional German Steinway© D Concert Grand brought to life. The debut product for the Ivory 3 platform features the custom RGB Engine, a powerful, expressive new technology that behaves like modeling, yet with the realism of digital sampling.
Ivory 3 represents a major leap in virtual piano recreation, with the platform offering truly ground-breaking tech and features.
The debut product for the Ivory 3 platform features the custom RGB Engine, a powerful and expressive new technology that behaves like modeling, yet exhibits the realism of digital sampling.
All new recordings of an exceptional German Steinway® D Concert Grand, beautifully captured in multiple microphone perspectives, are brought to life through the Ivory 3 engine.
Synthogy has always focused on integrating cutting-edge technology with legendary sound quality. Ivory 3 takes this to new heights producing a Musical Instrument of unparalleled expressivity, beauty, and power. It is our utmost pleasure to put this power into your hands.
German Steinway D Concert Grand
The Ivory 3 German D features all-new recordings of an exceptional Hamburg Steinway® D Concert Grand Piano. This majestic D-274 is characterized by its powerful, deep, resonant bass, and the round, singing tone of its treble.
Classic Steinway® Tone
Meticulously cared for by a master concert technician, the instrument is distinguished by its unmistakable clarity and a highly refined balance of tone throughout all registers, a classic example of the beautiful and indelible Steinway® sound.
Expertly Captured Sound
The recording sessions took place in the magnificent, acoustically perfect, Le Domaine Forget de Charlevoix Concert Hall, with the same team that produced the legendary Ivory II American Concert D. Synthogy has poured their years of expertise and experience into capturing every detail of this remarkable instrument, now brought to life here in the Ivory 3 engine.
Continuous Velocity
Provides continuous velocity-to-timbre at every piano strike, a first for sample-based virtual instruments.
MIDI 2.0 Ready
Ready NOW for MIDI 2.0 high resolution velocity, delivering all 65,536 timbre levels for each key.
Dynamic Shift
Enjoy finer adjustment of velocity response with Dynamic Shift and Equal Energy controls.
Maximize Hardware Capabilities
Take advantage of performance enhancements designed into the latest generations of computer hardware.
Expanded Multi-Microphone Control
Experience an expanded depth-of-field with high-resolution velocity controlling up to four microphone positions.
Hammer Strength
Hammer Strength changes the character of piano strikes from soft hammer to hard.
Ivory 3 builds upon our critically acclaimed, award-winning technology of Ivory II. All of the features from Ivory II have been carried forward into our new platform, along with complete support and compatibility for Ivory II pianos and presets.
Principle among these features is Ivory 3’s Continuous Velocity to Timbre. Gone are the limitations of velocity layers or levels. Continuous Velocity provides real-time velocity to timbre change at every attack velocity.
Whether your controller is sending 127 values of MIDI 1.0 velocity, 16,384 values with MIDI (CC88) Velocity Extension, or (eventually) 65,536 values of velocity with MIDI 2.0 16-bit High-Resolution velocity, Ivory 3’s Continuous Velocity feature provides endlessly smooth velocity to timbre change for each value sent.
In musical terms, this translates to limitless degrees of tone color.
Ivory 3's new platform architecture also includes Multiple Microphone Perspectives, with multiple close, mid/side, and ambient perspectives available.
Each Stereo Microphone set is loaded and ready at the touch of a button. Each Mic may be routed, mixed, and processed in real time through Ivory 3's new mixing desk.
Powerful, Custom On-Board Mixing Desk: Each Stereo Channel in Ivory 3's Mix Desk has its own Trim, Gain, Polarity invert, 3 band EQ, Compression, Ambience, Chorus/Delay, Balance, M/S processing, Bus sends, plus multiple signal paths for parallel processing and more!
Ivory 3 also includes New Synth Layers including a beautiful Ensemble Strings sample by Audiobro.
Additional Synth Layer features such as Envelope Attack control have been added to the Synth Layer section in addition to a dedicated channel of the mixer for processing the Synth Layer with the full complement of channel mixing and effects.
All features are accessible through Ivory 3’s All New Graphical User Interface. The Ivory 3 GUI has been elegantly redesigned from the ground up.
The focus has been to create an interface that is fun and easy to use while providing logical and ergonomic access to the tremendous power in the Ivory 3 engine.
Ivory 3 also provides a new, simplified Preset structure that makes it easier to save and recall your custom presets.
What were once separate presets for Programs, Effects, and Sessions in Ivory 2 have now been incorporated into the single Design Preset. At the same time, the Ivory 3 engine will support all your old Ivory II presets and libraries for full backward compatibility!
Ivory 3 German D is a free-standing virtual instrument, so no previous version of Ivory is required. Existing Ivory II owners will find that it installs quite readily into their current library. All of their previous Ivory II libraries, presets and projects will open within the Ivory 3 engine and environment.
PC / Windows
Hardware Requirements
- 8-Core 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 (or AMD equivalent) recommended minimum. Some features can be adjusted or turned off to accommodate slower hardware or demanding projects
- 16 GB RAM minimum, 32 GB RAM recommended
- At least 42 GB of free hard drive space
- Solid State Drive (SSD)
- Internet connection for installation
- Graphics screen size of at least 1354 x 990 for full view of the editor in some hosts
- iLok key is optional
Software Requirements
- Windows 10 release 1609 or newer, 64-bit only
- Any VST v3 host, or
- Pro Tools 11 or newer for AAX, or
- The included Ivory 3 Cantabile application
Macintosh / OS X
Hardware Requirements
- 8-Core Intel CPU minimum, Apple Silicon CPU recommended
- 16 GB RAM minimum, 32 GB RAM recommended
- At least 42 GB of free hard drive space
- Solid State Hard Drive (SSD)
- iLok key optional
Software Requirements
- macOS 10.15 (Catalina) or newer
- Any AU v2 host, or
- Any VST v3 host, or
- Pro Tools 2020.3 or newer for AAX, or
- The included Ivory Standalone application
UI & DSP Engine
- NEW: DSP Technology: Ivory + RGB Engine
- NEW: All new GUI
- NEW: Streamlined Intelligent Preset Browsing
- NEW: Native Apple Silicon Support
- Unified Interface
- 42 GB Core Library
- Near Unlimited Velocity Levels
- Assignable MIDI Controls in the Ivory Standalone App
- Backwards Compatibility with Ivory II Products
- Dozens of User-Adjustable Presets
Response Control
- NEW: Continuous Velocity
- NEW: Real-time Gradient Blending (RGB) Engine
- NEW: MIDI 2.0 Ready High-Resolution MIDI Velocity Response
- NEW: Design & Global Velocity Curves
- NEW: Fine User Control of High-Resolution Dynamic Color
- Timbre Interpolation
- Sample Interpolation Technology
- Dynamic Shift
- Dynamics Processing
Resonance Modeling
- NEW: Enhanced Sympathetic String Resonance (Harmonic Resonance Modeling)
- Soundboard Sustain Resonance
Microphone Control
- NEW: 4 Microphone Positions
- NEW: Microphone Polarity & Phase Delay
Layers
- NEW: Enhanced Synth Layer Controls
- NEW: 10 Total Synth Layers
- NEW: FM E Piano Layer
- NEW: String Section by AudioBro
Sound Sculpting Controls
- NEW: Hammer Strength Adjust
- Shimmer (unique control over sustain and decay)
- Half-pedal Control / Half Pedaling
- Lid Position Control
- Stereo Width and Perspective Control
- Timbre Shifting
- User-editable Tuning Tables
Pedal Effects
- Pedal Noise Enhancements
- Realistic Damper Pedal Response
- Real Release Samples
- Real Soft Pedal Samples "Una Corda"
On-Board Effects
- NEW: On-Board Mixing Desk
- NEW: Insert FX
- NEW: Channel/Bus Effects (Aux Send to Aux FX Bus)
- NEW: FX - Middle-Side Processing
- NEW: Fx - Compression
- NEW: FX - Delay
- FX - Chorus
- FX - EQ
- FX - Ambience
- Parametric EQ