Colossus Piano 4+

Name: Colossus Piano
Rating: 2.3 (3 reviews)
Author: Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte

Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte

- 2.3 • 3 Bewertungen

- Gratis
- In-App-Käufe möglich

Beschreibung

Colossus Piano sets a new standard in terms of realism, detail and overall quality of piano sounds on your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. There are 8 acoustic piano models available as 8 individual in-app purchases, plus 5 E-Piano legends bundled as 1 sound set with this app, together those 13 piano models make up 30 Gigabyte of sound material. All keys of all piano models were recorded in full length with a recording quality of 24 bit and 96 kHz stereo.

Note: this app requires in-app purchases to provide its functionalities!
Minimum Requirement: at least iPad 3 / iPad Air 1 / iPad mini 2 / iPhone 5 / iPod touch 6th gen.
Recommended: iPad Air 2 / iPad mini 4 / iPad Pro / iPhone SE / iPhone 6s or higher.

The dark brown „Colossus Concert Grand” model:³
• 24 velocity layers per key.
• Dedicated sustain samples.
• Release hammer sound.
• Optional pad sound.
• 14 GB in size (SSD space).

The white „Baby Grand” model:
• 12 velocity layers per key.
• Dedicated sustain samples.
• Release hammer sound.
• Optional pad sound.
• 6 GB in size (SSD space).

The „Upright Piano” model:
• 8 velocity layers per key.
• Dedicated sustain samples.
• Release hammer sound.
• Optional pad sound.
• 3.4 GB in size (SSD space).

The „E-Piano” sound set:
• 5 legendary E-Piano models (plus different model generations or configurations).
• 17 E-Piano sounds in total.
• Optional pad sound.
• Optional tremolo effect.
• 1.6 GB in size (SSD space).

For information about the other piano models, please visit our product website!

This app supports Audio Unit v3, Inter-App Audio, Audiobus and Bluetooth LE MIDI !

Software features:
• Modulation wheel support for controlling the most relevant sound parameter of the currently selected sound.
• Warm pad sound of a well known analogue synthesizer (not available for all models) can be turned on/off as support for the piano sound; volume can be controlled by mod. wheel and expr. controller.
• Sustain pedal support for holding notes.
• Sostenuto pedal support for holding individual notes.
• Soft pedal support for a more gentle sound.
• Expression pedal support for controlling optional pad layer's volume.
• Hammer sound when releasing keys, uses round robin, can be turned on/off and volume controlled (some acoustic pianos only).
• Polyphony of up to several hundred stereo voices.²
• Low latency disk streaming.
• Configurable audio latency down to 1 ms.
• Integrated effects (18 presets).
• App States: Save app's entire state as user presets.
• MIDI velocity response curve editor.
• App can keep running in the background.
• Master Tune, Scale Tuning & Hermode Tuning.
• Provides Audio Unit v3 plugin version of this app, which allows it to be used as virtual instrument directly within 3rd party multi-track DAW apps.
• Supports Apple's "Inter-App Audio" system.
• Audiobus support.
• Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable.

MIDI Player / Recorder:
• Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format.
• Share your songs easily as audio file.
• Unlimited amount of tracks.
• Unlimited recording and playback length.
• Open MIDI (.mid) files directly from other apps (i.e. from Safari, Mail).
• Download or upload MIDI files with iTunes.
• Metronome.
• Use the "Tempo Zoom" dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time, learn your favorite songs more easily.

¹ For more information about supported adapters and MIDI keyboards, please visit our product website.

² Some sounds might use several voices per note. Polyphony depends on the exact device model being used. You find a polyphony table on our product website.

³ Important: the dark brown „Colossus Grand” piano model requires a large amount of main memory, so we only recommend this piano model for device models mentioned as „recommended” above.

5. Apr. 2024

Version 2.3.3

This update fixes an UI issue with recent iPhone models.

Note: This version raises the minimum requirement to iOS 12 and 64-bit CPU. For older devices there are still older versions of this app with lower requirements available for download on the App Store.

2.3 von 5

3 Bewertungen

It hurts

I wanted a little change in sound for my e-piano, well to my ears this sounds just horrible, somehow even out of tune.
The good part, I like my Avant Grand even better now.

Best Piano Eber

This is by far the best Piano Sound you can get for an iOS device. The sound this App can produce is incredible and almost unbeliavable. I‘m totaly in love with it.

Unusable - E-Piano Set too heavy, clumsy user interface, 10 seconds to load other sound

I wanted a simple, portable E-Piano library. Sounds seen in Demos seemed OK. Bought this for my iPad Air 1 (fits hardware requirements specified by the app maker).

Colossus app is free but useless as it comes empty. You first need to buy expensive instruments by In-App purchase before you can test anything.

Bought the E-Piano set and got shocked. Contrary to all other similar piano and sampler apps I have been using, this one was so hardware-heavy that it got stuck, crashed, or caused crackling noises when playing (even after "killing" all other open apps).

The interface is terrible. There is a fancy background, to select a sound, you need to check a tickbox on an unreadable "handwritten" text floating on the screen. To select another piano (e.g. from FM piano to Wurli), you need to flip pages. Everytime you flip one page, it takes about 10 seconds for loading. If you flip 2 pages, it takes 20 seconds. Then, you end up on a page where the sound variation is still not the one you would like; so when you check the correct one, it loads again 5 to 10 seconds... Instead of 5 pages with fancy background graphics I'd rather have one plain screen with buttons to directly select each of the sounds (FM, Wurly, Rhodes, ...)

By the way, when using as "Audio Unit" from Garageband, the direct access to the sounds is easier. However, the loading time is still 5 to 10 seconds, and often I got crashes.

Although the sounds might be good in theory, the usability is terrible.
I cannot understand why E-Piano samples need to be so heavy? I mean, for an acoustic grand piano that's understandable, but E-Pianos? There are many other apps which manage that far better with much less memory size. By the way, apart from some basic Tremolo and Reverb effects you cannot customize much (which other apps offer).

Very disappointed, wasted my money.

We are aware that the loading scheme in Colossus Piano is currently suboptimal in some scenarios. This is expected to be fixed with the next update of this App.

Der Entwickler, Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte, hat darauf hingewiesen, dass die Datenschutzrichtlinien der App den unten stehenden Umgang mit Daten einschließen können. Weitere Informationen findest du in den Datenschutzrichtlinien des Entwicklers.