Ivory 1.5 vs Akoustic Piano vs.The Grand 2

[drde]

Much of my music is piano heavy so I plan to buy a good virtual piano for recording and writing. I am looking at Synthogy's Ivory 1.5, East West's Bosendorfer, NI's Akoustic Piano and Steinbergs The Grand 2. I would love some advice on the relative merits of the above pianos. Any feedback?
Thanks much, Dave

[bc05]

I was wondering this too.

The pianist in the Sound Devices store swears that Synthogy Ivory is the BEST BY FAR but he's paid to say ceratin things I guess.

Anyone else have experience?

[Jason Brian Merrill]

I have heard horror stories about NI akoustic, I would rule that out completely. stability, sound, etc....

The grand2 is quite smaller, ivory is like 35 gig right? I think the grand 2 is like 2 gig.

If size isnt an issue, I would get ivory, i think they have much more interesting and useful technology put into it... and anyway, grand 2 uses a dongle.

[drde]

3 gigs vs 40 gigs does some like an extreme difference. I listened to the samples on various websites and with mp3's it was difficult to tell the discern comparative quality. I'd love to save 37 gigs of my hard drive if they don't make much difference in sound but that does seem like wishful thinking perhaps? Thanks for the warning on NI akoustic Jason.

[AKJ]

an interesting question but maybe the wrong forum

[mao]

someone can explain me why a 64MB sampled piano (KSOUNDS vol.1) on my Kurzweil K2000 sounds far better than the 1Gb "The Grand" ( on a Terratec EWS88MT audio card ... just to avoid answers like: because you are using a 8 bit soundblaster... )

I mean... GB is not the key for a good sample...

or... ???

[drde]

AKJ is correct, I posted this in the wrong forum. I have reposted this question in the instrument forum. I apologize if this caused any problems for anyone. Thanks for your responses so far. Dave Deal