Colossus Piano 4+

Extremely Realistic Piano App

Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte

    • 3.3 • 3 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

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.

What’s New

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.

Ratings and Reviews

3.3 out of 5
3 Ratings

3 Ratings

Nelson Raio ,

Works bus not totaly as Audio unit on GarageBand

When using merge (combine) on track with colossus piano dont create Audio track with content. Create empty track. Also when mixing creates a track with piano with falis. That not happens with other Audio units extensions on GarageBand.

Tynytyny ,

Could be amazing…

…if the release wasn’t so bad and unrealistic. A simple envelope adjustment could make it better, or even better, real release samples. Several samples from the same note are out of tune, getting very bad when repeating the same note with the pedal down.
Sample allocation is badly done, resulting in excessive dynamic range from pp to ff, uncontrollable and unrealistic for a real piano player. A simple DCA adjustment over velocity ( not just the velocity curves themselves )could solve this, but again, no control absolutely over synth engine parameters.
Overall, a waste of storage space that could be great, with good samples but very badly implemented and poor control capabilities.

App Privacy

The developer, Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Purchases
  • Identifiers
  • Other Data

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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