IVORY II GRAND PIANOS A FUTURE BUILT ON LEGACY What began over 30 years ago has brought us Synthogy’s Ivory family of instruments, featuring some of the most beautiful and accurate sampled piano libraries available today. Years later Ierardi was joined by George Taylor who together formed the company we know today as Synthogy. Joe Ierardi was behind the original piano sounds developed for the Kurzweil 250 (one weighing in at 1 megabyte which was huge at the time). As a young Christian musician, it was one of those moments that reinforced my desire to continue my journey into digital music. It was even more amazing to discover that all of the arrangements were produced and recorded using only one instrument (aside from Phil’s trumpet) – the Kurzweil 250. It was an incredible experience listening to these powerful orchestrations. Driscoll is a well renowned Christian trumpeter, musician, and vocalist who previously performed with Blood, Sweat and Tears, Joe Cocker, and others. It was around 1986 when I first heard “Instrument of Praise”, a project just released at the time by Phil Driscoll. My first experience with digital music composing was a Commodore 64 running Music Construction set but dramatic changes were coming. A digital music renaissance was on the horizon that heralded new discoveries in digital sampling that would change the music world as we knew it forever. I am a true child of the 80s’ when 64k of RAM in a personal computer was groundbreaking and the thoughts of listening to music on something other than a cassette tape was something only George Jetson could imagine. EXPERIENCING THE RENAISSANCE OF DIGITAL MUSIC
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