A Timeless Classic
The Ivory 3 American Concert D is a legendary 1951 Steinway D (CD 121), selected by the Steinway & Sons Concert & Artist department for its extraordinary quality. Praised by renowned pianists like Glenn Gould and Rudolf Serkin, this piano holds a unique place in music history, with their signatures etched into its plate as a mark of its distinction.
Powered by the award-winning Ivory 3 RGB engine, the instrument offers groundbreaking Continuous Velocity technology for seamless velocity-to-timbre transitions. It features 4 stereo microphone positions that provide exceptional depth and presence, along with a built-in mixer that allows precise control over the sound. The engine is also MIDI 2.0 ready, offering real-time 65,536 velocity levels for finely detailed tonal expression.
The result is a truly remarkable musical experience. Combining Synthogy's powerful Ivory 3 platform with this iconic Concert Grand, the American Concert D captures the piano's beauty and detail, making it a timeless instrument for any serious musician.
Features
Ivory 3 American Concert D is powered by Synthogy's critically acclaimed, award-winning technology in the Ivory 3 platform. All of the features from Ivory 3 are present here, along with complete support and backward compatibility for Ivory II pianos and presets.
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Continuous Velocity - 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.
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MIDI 2.0 Ready - Whether your controller is sending 127 values of MIDI 1.0 velocity, 16,384 values with MIDI (CC88) Velocity Extension, or 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.
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Multiple Microphone Positions - Ivory 3's platform architecture includes Multiple Microphone Perspectives, with multiple close, mid/ambient, 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 powerful mixing desk.
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On-Board Mixing Desk – Ivory 3’s Powerful On-Board Mix Desk equips each Stereo Channel in Ivory 3 with 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!
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Additional Synth Layers - Ivory 3 includes added 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.
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Updated GUI - All features are accessible through Ivory 3’s 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.
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Simplified Preset Structure - Ivory 3 also provides a 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 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!
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Backwards Compatibility - Ivory 3 American Concert 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.
Sound On Sound 06/2013 
Conclusion (excerpt):
The great thing about American Concert D is that you can use it for virtually any style of music; its classic, expensive-sounding timbre is almost universally adaptable, and will add production value to arangements with very little user effort. Basically, you just load it (which takes about 10 seconds) and play!
MusicTech Magazine 11/2012 
MTM Verdict: Synthogy's American Concert D faithfully captures the tone and clearity of a classic Steinway piano, and has a pleasingly flexible playback engine
Mac:
- macOS 10.15 or higher
- Apple Silicon compatible
- 16 GB RAM
- 64 bit
Windows:
- Windows 10 or higher
- 16 GB RAM
Required Registration:
Synthogy products require you to register with the manufacturer at www.synthogy.com and with www.ilok.com to activate your license.
This product requires an activation!
You can either "soft" activate on your computer without addditional hardware or transfer the license to an iLok USB dongle which has to be purchased separately. The iLok dongle can be used to run the protected software on different computers. Your licenses can be easily manged using the iLok Licence Manager. To protect your investment against theft or loss we recommend the iLok Zero Downtime protection with TLC.
An internet connection on any computer and a free user-accout at www.ilok.com is required to authorize the product.
Please check with the software manufacturer which iLok version is required at least if you want to use a hardware iLok!
