Pure Piano is a professional, multi-sampled concert grand piano with a unique Morph Pad that allows you to explore a multitude of sounds ranging from mellow and intimate tones to surreal, cinematic textures.
Similar to an XY pad in its flat, tactile nature, the Morph Pad offers up nine different core timbres of the piano including percussive, cinematic, bright, and intimate, to name a few. The “pure” piano sits untouched at the heart and center of the space, surrounded by eight more presets for you to explore as you guide your finger seamlessly through the wide-ranging tonal palette of the piano. As you do so, the various timbres blend together allowing you to create your own sounds comprising combinations of neighboring presets for you to save and recall. It doesn’t stop there either. The Morph Pad is linked to the app’s inbuilt EQ, reverb, and delay and so operates as a macro control adding even more to the experience by way of ever-changing texture and atmosphere, all from just one single piano.
Pure Piano works as a standalone app or as an AUv3 plug-in within your DAW of choice, and extensive connectivity options allow you to connect to your keyboard controller with ease via USB, direct, or Bluetooth MIDI to experience the sound of a professional grand piano through your headphones or speakers. The app also supports direct connection to your Mac using Inter Device Audio (IDAM). This enables you to easily integrate Pure Piano into your desktop projects by sending MIDI and receiving audio with one single cable, as well as network MIDI and Inter-App Audio for triggering the piano from other apps that you might have installed.
Equipped with customizable reverb, EQ, and delay, sound creation becomes even more creative. Simply unlink any of the audio effects from the Morph Pad to dial in your own settings. Maybe you want to add a long reverb tail to add some extra atmosphere, tweak the EQ a little or add some delay to a particular sound. It’s up to you.
If all that isn’t enough, the app includes sympathetic resonance which you can adjust along with the pedal and key noise to taste, and there’s a host of flexible tuning options for when you need them. The stretched piano tuning is how a piano technician would tune the piano. The equal temperament tuning, on the other hand, is best for when layering Pure Piano with sounds like electric pianos, pads, or strings. Also provided is the ability to transpose the piano which comes in very useful if you are working with a vocalist who wants to sing in a different key!
Pure Piano is designed and developed by Hamburg-based e-instruments, renowned for their high-end digital recreations of acoustic instruments.
Feature Overview:
• Interactive Morph Pad - Explore the many timbres of a concert grand
• Nine different sounds - Navigate and blend between nine core sounds
• Studio Quality Audio at Ultra-low Latency
• Extensive Connectivity - Connect via USB, direct, or Bluetooth MIDI. Inter Device Audio (IDAM), Network MIDI, and Inter-App Audio also fully supported
• Standalone and AUv3 plug-in compatible - Plug and play or use within your favourite music production software
• Zynaptiq QREV Reverb - Have fun adding extra atmosphere and depth to your sound
• 3-Band EQ and Delay - Get creative with customizable EQ and Delay, or use the Morph Pad as a macro control
• Save and Load Your Own Presets - Wherever you land on the Morph Pad, if you like the sound you hear – save it and recall it again later
• Sympathetic Resonance - Delivers a fuller sound and more natural, realistic piano-playing experience by adding resonances between harmonically-related notes.
• Silent Key Press - Just like on a real-life piano pressing a key very softly will not produce a sound.
• Flexible Tuning Options - Choose between equal or stretched tuning, and transpose the piano by semitones or Hz
• Customizable velocity curve
• 24-bit, 44.1 kHz
• 1.1GB installation
Very nice sounding instrument and devs that listen to their users!
Reezekeys
** Updated & edited review, and revised star rating after e-instrument’s update adding CC7 reception and multichannel midi reception**This is my first “real” iOS piano so I can’t compare it to the other heavyweights. I’m a long-time laptop musician used to multi-gig piano sample libraries like Native Instruments, now looking to lighten my load for some gigs that only need a piano. Overall I like this piano a lot and was very pleasantly surprised that I can play it at maximum polyphony with the smallest buffer on an iPad Air 2, an older iPad. I don’t expect it to be equal to what’s available for the Mac/Windows world. It has a nice tone and decent dynamic response although it lacks the extreme fff samples that one might want in certain situations when really digging in. Also, the sustain of the samples is a little short, imo - something more obvious if you’re playing a ballad solo; the notes don’t “ring & sing” like the piano library I’m used to on my Mac. Still, I’m very impressed with what I can do on an iOS device! I think I can be happy doing a gig with this piano.
Developer Response
Hi There, Pure Piano has now been updated to include the following features in the latest version: - Control Change (CC) 7 now adjusts the volume relative to the master volume setting, and receive MIDI channels can now be specified in settings. e-instruments Support Team
Pure and creatively impure
SlottedCalf
I have and enjoy both the Korg (with Ivory IAP) and Ravenscroft 275 which are both very, VERY good pianos for iOS. I just added Pure Piano to my iPhone and the basic (Pure) piano is itself superior in my ears to these other powerhouses. Alone it’s worth getting the app. Then the morphing capabilities on top of that are just stellar! I was able to create a specific version for one unique application and save it as a user version and can see doing this in 3 scenarios which I will do to serve 3 specific situations (stereo via Demer box, mono in Bose L1 situation and stereo in a pair of Bose L1s). I’ve had my eye on this app for a while and noticed in March (2022) it is on sale for 50% off! GET THIS NOW!!! You won’t be sorry!!! Wish I could give this 10 stars!
Good sound,but does not work. Developers no help
wtfstopaskingforanickname
I originally gave this app 3 stars, would’ve been a 5. Now it’s a 2. the app sounds great, and I’m really into expressive/experimental piano sounds. It doesn’t work as described. It crashes/glitches playback when using multiple tracks in any daw. I reached out to the developers and they said this is normal and they’re sorry. “I’m using too many instances” . Well isn’t that the whole point of the product? To be able to use and record as many tracks as I’d like? If using this like an outboard keyboard for a live situation it will probably be ok. For producing it’s a waste of money. I was super excited about the app too. Don’t spend your money on this. $14 for nothing
Developer Response
Hi there, version 1.2.2 of Pure Piano has now been released which improves stability for multi-instance playback. If you continue to experience issues, please contact us directly via support@e-instruments.com and we will be happy to assist further.
Desperately needs MIDI CC and Channel Assign capability
Tedh222
From a sound perspective I consider this the best acoustic piano emulation to date, for IOS. It offers a characteristic that many piano Apps do not. You can actually hear the hammer attack when striking the keys with greater velocity. That percussive aspect of the piano sound is truly lacking on many piano Apps. However, there are two very important aspects of this piano that are unacceptably missing. At the very least, this piano’s volume control must recognize MIDI CC #7, by default. And, you must be able to assign this piano to a specific MIDI channel of your choosing. Currently it sounds on all MIDI channels. Once those two issues are corrected, the piano can be further assessed. Without these two corrections this piano is completely unusable for live performance, while also using other Apps simultaneously.
Developer Response
Hi There, Pure Piano has now been updated to include the following features in the latest version: - Control Change (CC) 7 now adjusts the volume relative to the master volume setting- Receiving MIDI channels can now be specified in settingsThanks again for your feedback, e-instruments Support Team
- General stability and performance improvements
Version 3.7
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