The latest addition to Synthogy's piano showroom, Ivory II American Concert D, sees the company's in-depth sampling techniques applied to a vintage, nine-foot 1951 New York Steinway Model D274 grand. Prior to releasing this collection, Synthogy added the 'Italian Grand' Fazioli piano and an Upright Pianos set (including honky-tonk and tack pianos) to their product line. This 77GB collection expanded the three pianos' eight velocity layers to 16 or 18 and introduced a number of new features, winning glowing praise from reviewers and players alike. At the time, the product was Mac-only, but that limitation was long gone by the time Ivory II Grand Pianos hit the streets in 2010. Released in 2004, Synthogy's first Ivory Grand Pianos package contained a German Steinway Model D, a Yamaha C7 and a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial, totalling around 40GB of unlooped samples. The enthusiasm proved contagious according to Ierardi, 'We basically decided to start a company and designed our first product all within that first 45-minute phone call!” Excited by the limitless memory of software samplers, Ierardi contacted former Kurzweil colleague and software designer George Taylor to explain his ideas for a new virtual piano. Ivory Pianos is the brainchild of Joe Ierardi, who cut his teeth designing hardware synths and digital pianos for Kurzweil in the 1980s, before setting up his own company, Synthogy, in 2002. Sadly, inspired though these guesses may be, they are completely wrong: the correct answer is that every one of these musicians enthusiastically endorses Ivory sampled pianos. Each appeared in an episode of TV's Storage Hunters. They are all avid supporters of Accrington Stanley Football Club. What do Imogen Heap, Chick Corea, Mark Isham, RZA of The Wu-Tang Clan, Patrick Moraz, Michael Garson, Pete Townshend, Jordan Rudess and David Newman have in common? Select an answer from the following: 1. Synthogy capture one of legendary pianist Glenn Gould's favourite instruments. The 'Program' window contains the piano's most important controls, including global release time, pedal and key noise settings, stereo width and left-right flip, timbre (a subtle low-pass filter), dynamic range and sustain-pedal parameters.

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