Pure Piano 4+
Professional Virtual Piano
e-instruments lab GmbH
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- $29.99
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Description
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
What’s New
Version 3.0
New Features:
• 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.
Bug Fixes:
• Added iPad Pro to the list of devices that supports up to 4 instances
• Pure Upright: We reduced the sustain resonance volume in the “Intimate” articulation.
Ratings and Reviews
Very nice sounding instrument and devs that listen to their users!
** 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
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!
One of the best sounding pianos for iOS
Pretty decent piano for a MIDI keyboard. Morph pad is cool and great for tonal shaping for beginners. I wish there were different reverb engines. The plate like reverb is pretty good, but I would love to have a high cut control and a modulated reverb option. The reviews say the devs listen to their customers (thank you!) so I’ll keep my fingers crossed!
There’s also an issue where it sounds like occasionally an octave is triggered by one note? It’s pretty rare and hard to recreate
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the review! Regarding the high-cut control of the reverb engine, you can use the “D” dragger on the right in the reverb panel to control the damping of the reverb, which may go some way to providing the control you want. Disable “CONTROL BY MORHPAD” to get access to the control.
Your request for an additional modulation parameter has been passed on to the product team for future consideration. If you find steps to reproduce the behaviour with the additional octave, please contact our support via e-instruments.com/support/.
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Information
- Seller
- e-instruments lab GmbH
- Size
- 1.1 GB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 e-instruments lab GmbH
- Price
- $29.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.