Experience the splendor of a Ravenscroft Grand with the most realistic sounding piano ever created for iOS. Launch the app and access the gorgeous tone of this one-of-a-kind concert grand from your iPhone or iPad.
THIS APP IS ALREADY GETTING GREAT REVIEWS
The origins of this virtual instrument lie in the masterfully crafted Ravenscroft 275 Titanium Grand Piano – made of 1,000 year old sitka spruce wood with solid titanium string termination points and precise, responsive CAD optimized action. The same quest for the highest fidelity sounds has spurred the deep sampling and meticulous capturing of this piano for the app. The final result delivers crystal clear hammer attacks, staccato release trails, and much more. Every detail has been painstakingly crafted to bring you the most authentic piano experience ever on iOS.
SOUND
– High-resolution audio recording via premium microphones and pristine converters
– 100% sample-based sounds with hybrid modeling
– Real sympathetic resonance
– Accurate sustain pedal modeling including re-pedaling support
– Over 1,000 release samples for true staccato
FEATURES
– UVI Sparkverb reverb integrated
– 3 Band EQ and timbre shift
– Customizable MIDI and Dynamics response
– Fully resizable and customizable 1 or 2-tier keyboard
– Save/Load presets
– Lossless FLAC format provides the highest quality with smallest disk footprint and fast loading times
– Very efficient use of RAM and CPU resources
CONNECTIVITY
– Inter-App Audio / Audiobus support
– Audio Unit v3 Plugin
– External keyboard and MIDI-over-LAN support via CoreMIDI
– Bluetooth MIDI Keyboard Compatible
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
– Supported Operating System: iOS 9.3+
– Works on:
iPad 4 or newer
iPhone 5 or newer (iPhone 6 or newer recommended)
iPod Touch 6 or newer
– 883MB of disk space
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 currently 3 piano models available as 3 individual in-app purchases with this app, together those 3 piano models make up 24 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 Grand” model:³
• 24 velocity layers per key.
• Sympathetic resonance (sustain sound).
• Release hammer sound.
• 14 GB in size (SSD space).
The white „Baby Grand” model:
• 12 velocity layers per key.
• Sympathetic resonance (sustain sound).
• Release hammer sound.
• 6 GB in size (SSD space).
The „Upright Piano” model:
• 8 velocity layers per key.
• Sympathetic resonance (sustain sound).
• Release hammer sound.
• 3.4 GB in size (SSD space).
This app supports Inter-App Audio and Audiobus for audio & MIDI connections from/to other audio apps, as well as Bluetooth LE MIDI !
All available piano models support the following features:
• A warm pad sound of a well known analogue synthesizer can be turned on/off as support for the piano sound, and its volume can be controlled both by modulation wheel and expression controller.
• Modulation wheel support for controlling the most relevant sound parameter of the currently selected sound.
• Sustain pedal support for holding notes.
• Sostenuto pedal support for holding specific individual notes.
• Soft pedal support for playing notes with a more gentle sound.
• Expression pedal support for controlling the optional pad layer volume.
• Hammer sound when releasing keys, uses round robin and can be turned on/off and volume controlled.
• Polyphony of up to several hundreds of stereo voices.²
• Low latency disk streaming.
• Configurable audio latency down to 5 ms.
• Integrated effects with 18 presets.
• MIDI velocity response curve editor.
• App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet.
• Hermode Tuning: Makes the sound more brilliant by controlling the pitch of the notes in multivoiced music to better frequency ratios than with fixed tuning. This dynamic tuning imitates the tuning behavior of well educated musicians of i.e. orchestras and choirs.
• 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.
• 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.
• Load your favorite songs as MIDI files from the Internet, and watch at the virtual keyboard how to play it.
• Metronome.
• Use the “Tempo Zoom” dial knob to i.e. slow down playback at any time and learn your favorite songs more easily.
¹ For more informations 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.
Tines emulates an electric piano. With internal effects like a stereo tremolo, a multiband distortion panel and a subtle roomy reverb Tines can sound like anything between a dreamy slick Rhodes to a nasty Wurlitzer. A finetuned velocity curve makes it a joy to play Tines on an external keyboard.
Features:
• AUv3, works with AUv3 compatible hosts like Garageband, Cubasis, AUM etc.
• Tremolo depth and speed (XY pad) with phase offset
• Variable decay time
• Variable Air (room) amount
• Multiband distortion
Note: Tines in stand-alone mode does not support IAA, Audiobus or MIDI. You can play it using the keys at the bottom, but that’s it. We recommend using Tines with AUv3 compatible hosts.
iPhone 6 or later is recommended. iPad 4 or later is recommended.
SampleTank 2 for iOS is a professional-quality fully-featured mobile sound and groove workstation that brings the sound, power and features of professional desktop virtual instruments to your iPad and iPhone — without compromise. SampleTank 2 for iOS is designed for live performance and song composition anywhere, any time. It puts over 1,900 available world-class instruments at your fingertips: piano, organ, drums, bass, guitar, strings, synths, percussion, vocals and more.
SampleTank 2 gives you 8 multitimbral instrument slots that you can layer, create splits and multis with ease, and choose from 16 instrument categories for an expandable sound collection that cover virtually every acoustic, electric and electronic sound you may need. Plus, each instrument category includes instrument riffs and grooves, so you can start composing and playing live immediately.
Its instruments and new sound engine derived from the flagship SampleTank for desktop computers give you unmatched realism, sound variety and audio performance: It is once again a true premier for the iOS world. For the first time on this platform, thousands of professional sample-based sounds and patterns can be easily accessed, layered and used for playing live. Now you can make music anytime and anywhere the inspiration hits you — desktop sound and performance in your pocket or on your iPad.
*SampleTank 2 is available only for 64-bit devices (iPhone 5s or newer, iPad Air or newer, iPod Touch 6 or newer, iPad Mini 2 or newer).
If you have an older device, please do not uninstall the latest SampleTank version 1.
** To avoid disabling some free instruments from your previous registration do not uninstall the app, rather update it directly from the previous version in the App Store/iTunes
We kindly suggest to update directly from the version 1
SampleTank 2 comes with 140 instruments and over 1,000 patterns — plenty of fresh sounds to get your creative juices going. But what makes SampleTank 2 the best choice for mobile musicians is the range of over 700 professional sounds you can expand it with:
– “Classic Keys” offers 73 keyboard instruments (piano, electric piano, and organ)
– “Synths” delivers 279 instruments (including synth leads, pads, hits, and FX)
– “Bass” offers 25 electric and 43 synth basses
– “Ethnic & Voices” presents 21 ethnic instruments and 10 vocal instruments
– “Drums and Loops” includes 61 instruments in 5 categories (drums, groove construction kits, acoustic drum loops, Latin percussion loops, and percussion)
– “All Pro-Sounds” bundle includes all of the above selection of 544 Instruments in 15 instrument categories
What’s more, three additional new signature sound packs are also available as in-app purchase:
– “Alan Parsons Grand Piano”, 13 piano sounds produced by legendary Pink Floyd engineer
– “Future Synths”, 150 synth sounds and patterns for a lifetime’s worth of sound design
– “Elektronika – Deep House” an essential mix of 4 loop construction kits and 32 jackin’ beats, big-room bass, shiny synths, classic pianos, huge FX instruments and more
All new sounds are in addition to the previously available sounds — the original factory sound set, the Orchestral Miroslav Philharmonik collection plus the Sonik Synth and SampleMoog synth collections. This brings the total universe of SampleTank 2 for iOS sounds to over 1,900 instruments and over 1,200 MIDI patterns — the largest collection of sounds available for any virtual instrument on the iOS platform.
Features:
• 8-part multitimbral professional-quality sound and groove module
• Expandable sound library with 600+ instruments in 16 categories
• Completely redesigned Sound Browser
• Layers feature lets you easily create zones on your controller for multi-part performances
• Live and Song modes optimized for composition and live performance
• Streamlined interface for faster workflow
• Integrated 8-track MIDI recorder with song export
• MIDI learn feature makes programming external controllers a breeze
• Play interface with piano keyboard, scale keyboard and enhanced drum pads
• Plug-and-play compatibility with iRig interfaces and controllers like iRig Pro Duo, iRig Pro, iRig MIDI, iRig Keys and iRig Pads
• Universal app compatible with iPad and iPhone with iOS 8 and later
Korg announces Triton sounds for Module. ・“TRITON Best Selection” is newly available in the Expansion Sound Library. (In-app purchase)
KORG Module is a high-quality sound module app for iPad that contains a professional sound library. With just your iPad and a MIDI keyboard such as the new microKEY, you can play studio-quality keyboard and grand piano sounds anywhere. You can also use the sounds of KORG Module for the KORG Gadget music production app. Maintaining its position at the forefront of mobile music apps, KORG now offers you a new style of performance and production with KORG Module for iPad.
*** 50% OFF until Feb 23! Sale Price US$19.99 (Reg. Price US$39.99). Expansion Sound Libraries for in-app purchase are also offered at 50% discounted prices. ***
What’s New in Version 2.0.0
● “TRITON Best Selection” is newly available in the Expansion Sound Library (In-app purchase)
● Master tune – professional tuning range from 420 Hz to 460 Hz
● Now supports Pitch Bend and Modulation control
● Other minor bug fixes and improvements
NOTE: to get these Triton sounds in Gadget you must purchase the Triton expansion pack through Module.
The new Triton sounds will show up as presets in Glasgow.
FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS
● Stunningly high-quality piano and a full range of keyboard sound engines
● Five dedicated sound engines : Acoustic Piano/Electric Piano/Clav/Organ/Multi
● Ultra-low latency sound engine
● With just an iPad and the new microKEY, you can enjoy great sound anywhere
● Mobile music production in tandem with KORG Gadget
● Convenient set list function with a PDF/image score viewer and music player
● Power-up even more with expansion sound libraries: TRITON Best Selection / Ivory Mobile Grand / PREMIER Vintage Organ
● Easily record your performances, and share song sketches on SoundCloud
● Integrating iOS technology that’s indispensable for the mobile environment
*** Stunningly high-quality piano and a full range of keyboard sound engines ***
KORG Module has five dedicated sound engines, providing a number of high-quality sounds that can be played back on your iPad using the “NATIVE ENGINE”. These engines feature technology that was developed for KORG’s historic line of workstations and synthesizers including: Acoustic Piano, Electric Piano, Clav, Organ, and Multi. Each display has carefully selected parameters, making it convenient and easy to adjust the sounds. We’ve also carefully ensured ideal playability and designed the system for ultra-low latency. Once you experience the quality of the sounds being produced from the slim body of your iPad, you’ll agree that Module is radically different than anything else currently on the market.
*** With just an iPad and the new microKEY, you can enjoy great sound anywhere ***
KORG Module and the microKEY are the best possible combination for a mobile performance environment. With the new microKEY which supports a damper, or the microKEY Air which provides a wireless connection via Bluetooth MIDI, your iPad can transform into a high-quality sound module. In your room, in a practice studio, or performing on stage,, it’s easy to set up and immerse yourself in a superb playing experience wherever you are. Of course you can also use any MIDI keyboard that can connect to your iPad via Apple Lightning – USB camera adapter. The velocity curve function conforms the sound to your playing dynamics, so you’ll be able to perform comfortably using any MIDI keyboard. Even if you don’t have a MIDI keyboard, you can use the apps on-screen keyboard, phrase function, or MIDI player to play the sounds. The MIDI player can load and play standard MIDI files for your listening enjoyment.
*** Mobile music production in tandem with KORG Gadget ***
You can also use the high-quality KORG Module sounds inside KORG Gadget, the mobile music production app. If you have Module and Gadget, the five tools Salzburg, Montreal, Alexandria, Firenze, and Glasgow are added inside, allowing access the same way as Gadget. These five powerful gadgets will add even more variety to your music productions, raising your music to the next level. Whether for performance or for production, both of these apps deliver ultimate sound.
iPad Loops is an iOS music production blog dedicated to exposing the best iPad apps musicians, producers, and Djs. This is not a database of every app. It is, however, one of useful recommendations from someone with many years in music production. I try to update it on a daily basis (ok sometimes every two days) and I do my best to post useful apps only. My name is Jason Donnelly (Dj Puzzle).
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