CMP Grand Piano Reviews

Best Piano

Dbd5757

Best and most realistic piano app for IOS hands down. Amazing sonic detail, buy all of Crudebytes apps you will not be disappointed.

Just took the plunge on CMP Grand Piano. Wwwwwwow. I really love iGrand, but A/Bing the two, there is no comparison. iGrand by itself is lovely, plays well, has a great variety of sounds and a pretty small footprint for such musical results. But it also has a slightly phased quality I never heard before comparing it to CMP. The high end presence of CMP is so bright I have to watch the listening volume! And those looooooooong decays in the bass notes? Man! I'm holding off for now in the IAPs, more for space reasons than $$ (a very reasonable $12 for both but close to another 3 gigs between them). Nice. Have to say that, on YouTube demos, the difference was in no way so pronounced; it was a total surprise to hear the quality through decent headphones. This is the most piano-like experience I’ve had on the iPad. Well worth the $18 price tag.

Best sampled pianos on iOS.

Cursd

Professional quality and excellent optimization. Streams 2 gb instrument multisamples from disk with insanely high polyphony. Runs on ipad mini 2 at 5 ms with 140 notes with no problems.

Simply the best sounding piano app for iPad

Musecrafter1

I have the five "best" piano apps for iPad. This was the last one I purchased because it only just implemented IAA and Audiobus with the latest update, which are essential to me. But now the latest version has come of age and I must say that the Grand Piano that comes with this app is my favorite. It is rich and very three dimensional sounding. I will keep Korg Module with the Ivory Grand IAP because it is a very good and versatile app (and because I spent $70 for both) with many usable sounds, but my go-to piano is CMP Grand Piano. I also purchased the additional Concert Grand, which is very nice as well. All of the other piano apps I have will be deleted. If you are picky about your piano tone, want another to add to you palate, or are looking for your first piano app then I highly recommend CMP Grand Piano. You cannot beat the tonal quality OR the price! One of the reasons I had originally overlooked this app, and the reason it was my last piano app purchase, was because the piano graphic looks so cartoon-like. All of the other serious music apps have professional looking graphics to go with their sound engines. But if anything is lacking in CMP Grand Piano, it's the graphic! It would behoove Crudebyte to update the graphic and dispel the lack of sound quality that it invokes.

Rich and expressive pianos

ChrisE1G

This might be a huge app in iOS terms, but the piano sounds easily justifies the size as they are quite rich and expressive. Probably my favorite piano sounds on iOS overall. If there's anything this app lacks, it's a proper on-screen keyboard. You need a midi keyboard for this one (at least as of this moment), or something via virtual midi I guess. Usually you would want a midi keyboard to do pianos, but when you are just doodling about with ideas, an on-screen keyboard (w/ velocity) would be nice. Other then that, I can only recommend this one if you are looking for a very playable, very expressive piano (well two actually in the base app, a grand and a stand up).

GREAT SOUND

Illlluomo

The sounds here are phenomenal. Would be nice to choose specific midi input device BUT it does allow midi channel selection, which is nice. Only complaint is that G above middle C in the Bechstein A190 addon has a tiny pop when playing loudly in an otherwise amazing instrument. Other CMP instruments in this app I've tried sound consistent but the one mentioned above is still probably my favorite.

It is okay. The jazz piano is better than the grand piano

Nick45689143

1) c3 sample sounds awful. The original grand piano has some issue and has been overused. 2) if you hold sustain pedal, the sustain of the note is totally inaccurate (in my opinion) and exists a resonance of the strings that is artificial and unpleasant. The behavior is determined by the long samples that create artificial dissonance. 3) the velocity response settings do not give you a fine tuning of the controller response. I have a good controller. 4)controls for volume and effects are not midi mappable

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