As featured in the Apple 'Your Verse' and 'iPad is Musical' TV Ads, recommended by The New York Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Rolling Stone Magazine, and played live by legendary band Squeeze on the Jimmy Fallon show (NBC).
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Pianist, the ORIGINAL iPhone piano, turns Professional for the iPad with photo-realistic graphics and an unbelievable sound. Pianist Pro was the number one music app for the iPad at release.
MAIN FEATURES
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- Full recording and overdub facility.
- Live MIDI control of external synths via CoreMidi, USB, Network MIDI, OSC or DSMI.
- Standard MIDI File import and export.
- Audio (WAV) file export.
- 16 professionally recorded instruments (pianos, organs, guitars, synths).
- Built-in effects, arpeggiator and drum machine.
- Soft and Sustain pedals, and velocity based on key strike position.
- A full 88 key Single or dual keyboard layout with configurable key size.
- Onscreen pitch bend, modulation and swell pedal controls.
- Vibrato and Low-Pass Filter.
Pianist Pro is a virtual piano designed specifically for the iPad, with the same great interface and style that has made Pianist the best known piano on the iPhone, and a whole host of new features too.
It features full MIDI import and export capability, allowing you to record song ideas while on the road and export them via MIDI to your Digital Audio Workstation back at the studio. You can also use Pianist Pro as a great master MIDI keyboard, either with USB, CoreMIDI, or via Wi-Fi. Drive your soft or hard synths wirelessly from the sofa, or from another room. Pianist Pro can even be used as a MIDI sound source, driven by an external hardware keyboard.
A built-in arpeggiator allows the user to create perfectly timed runs just by holding down a few keys, and complex patterns of notes and chords can be programmed into the arpeggiator and played back live. Pianist Pro makes it easy to play shuffle-beat blues piano, complete with walking bassline and overlayed jazz chords - all by simply holding down a single chord. Changing the chord changes the melody but maintains the tight rhythm provided by the arpeggiator. A drum machine offers an elegantly simple interface for adding rhythm, with a choice of drum kits to suit a range of musical styles. While a delay effect can be used to bring energy and interest to a synth bassline, or guitar or piano riff.
The 'Scale Piano' interface allows the user to select a musical scale from a large choice of presets (eg. Natural Minor or Pentatonic Blues) or define their own scales from scratch. Notes and runs on that scale can then be played back in any key, simply by sliding a finger up and down a virtual touch-pad on-screen.
Musicians at all levels have raved about Pianist Pro. Visit our website (moocowmusic.com) for demonstration videos, a full description of functionality including the user manual, and more screenshots.
If you require assistance, please click on the support link. We aim to answer all emails within 24 hours.
I've tried six or seven iPad MIDI apps, and this is one of the most useful.It lets you record sessions and export them as either audio or MIDI. So far, this is the only app I've found that will export MIDI files. This makes Pianist the app I use on the road to try out and save bits of music.The keyboards are OK. Pitch and mod can be done a wheel to the left of the screen. Amplitude is soft or loud depending on where you touch the key. This seems to work only part of the time ... probably due to how it maps to the synth I'm using.The "tuned" bars are very nice. You can choose from a wide variety of tunings ... from Blues to Arabian ... and use the bars to quickly generate background chords.When it loads, Pianist Pro sets up a MIDI session on your computer, but you still have to click "connect" in the MIDI setup dialog box. This means you need to open Audio/Setup and click the button every time you switch to Pianist Pro on your iPad.To make it better"1. Auto-connect MIDI to the computer when loading. Then I could use Pianist Pro when away from the computer.2. Change amplitude by sliding your finger up or down on the key.3. Create a "chorded" option for the tuned bars ... bars should be set to play single note, 2-note chord, 3-note chord, etc.4. On the two keyboard screen, include a button to set the top keyboard to "follow" the bottom one ... making it be contiguous to either the top or bottom end. This can be done by hand now, but it's a pain to set up. 5. I would give up "soft, sust, arp and drums" to have four, mappable MIDI control signals. But that might just be me. In any case, most of the other MIDI apps have some control capability.
I Love This App!
Houseofnoel
I have used this app for many years. I am a vocalist and although the app has had more capabilities than I need I enjoy using it. I can play scales, play in more than one octave, and play in different patches. I have always appreciated being able to use this app!
I HATE THIS APP
Mike✔️✔️
THIS APP DOSENT LET YOU IMPORT UR OWN MUSIC AND IS A WASTE OF UR MONEY I HATE IT I WANT TO DO TAYLOR SWIFT AND ALL THEY HAVE IS FIR ELISE I HATE THIS APP THE KEYS DONT TUNE AND I HATE IT DONT BUY IT!
Outstanding keyboard app
bluetoucan
I'm a working musician and this app is one of the primary reasons I bought an iPad. It's not 100% perfect yet, but it's the best keyboard app in the App Store without question, and I've started recommending it to my students and colleagues. Beautifully configurable keyboard, excellent samples, almost no latency (extremely responsive, in other words), close attention to sonic quality (for example, no clipping no matter how many samples are sounding at a time -- unlike many other App Store instrument apps). FYI, you can easily remove the colored note names from the keys. Only real issue is how much screen real estate is used for controls that can't be hidden. This is both visually distracting and wasteful of space, especially in the dual-keyboard mode. My favorite improvement would be an option to have only keys onscreen (you'd touch and hold a certain corner, or a tiny "i" somewhere, when you wanted to change info/options) -- or at the very least an option to grey out the controls so they're not so distracting visually.
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Added support for 64 bit processors.
Version 1.9.6
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Information
Seller
MooCowMusic Ltd.
Size
121.2 MB
Category
Music
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
