ILIO Shipping Synthogy Ivory Upright Pianos

August 14, 2008 – 9:16 pm by Jonathan Grand

ILIO announced today the release of Synthogy Ivory Upright Pianos. Featuring 4 different sampled instruments, capturing every key in up to 10 velocities.

The four pianos included are a new Yamaha U5 upright, a well-preserved 1914 Hume, an early 1900’s tack piano, with genuine tacks in the hammer felts, and a 1915 Packard Honky-Tonk piano, which spent many years in Boston’s famed Cheers bar. Upright Pianos was designed to be versatile, appealing to musicians interested in alternative rock, pop, country, folk, blues and period music.

Ivory-Upright Pianos Features:

• Ivory piano engine
• 4 different hand-selected pianos
• Separate, selectable “creaks and clunks” layer, for added realism
• Over 5,000 samples, and over 50 GB
• Up to 10 velocity layers
• Custom upright soundboard emulation DSP
• Velocity and time sensitive release samples
• Full EQ and Effects section

Ivory-Upright Pianos is a virtual instrument that works as a plug-in for Windows VST and RTAS hosts, and Macintosh Audio Units, VST, and RTAS hosts. It can also run stand-alone. The Ivory piano engine, designed and created by Synthogy’s George Taylor, is now included with all Synthogy products, i.e., Ivory-Upright Pianos, Ivory-Grand Pianos, and Ivory-Italian Grand. Upright Pianos will be shipping on August 25, 2008 and will retail for $299. All Synthogy products require iLok (sold separately).

For more information, visit their web site at www.ilio.com.