Colossus Piano
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music | Free | Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
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.
• Sympathetic resonance (sustain sound).
• Release hammer sound.
• Optional pad sound.
• 14 GB in size (SSD space).
The white „Baby Grand” model:
• 12 velocity layers per key.
• Sympathetic resonance (sustain sound).
• Release hammer sound.
• Optional pad sound.
• 6 GB in size (SSD space).
The „Upright Piano” model:
• 8 velocity layers per key.
• Sympathetic resonance (sustain sound).
• 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 5 ms.
• Integrated effects (18 presets).
• MIDI velocity response curve editor.
• App can keep running in the background.
• 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. Imitates the tuning behavior of well educated musicians (i.e. orchestras and choirs).
• Provides Audio Unit 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.
• 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.
Reviews
I really wanna love this piano app:(
Mitch PL
Please read that before you buy! The sound of pianos and electric panels are really good, however that’s not all. This app is crushing or freezing meaning, stop responding to midi and audio. Is very hard to know when will stop working. You can play for half an hour and sometimes it’s working fine, sometimes crushing or freezing like crazy! I’m not new to music apps using to play and make music on IOS devices. My friend also download this app and he has the same issues on his iPad, so the problem is not just on my devices. I did follow developer advice and all the steps to eliminate issues with troubleshooting. I don’t have memory is lo, a message on my iPhone X or iPad Pro. The crashing or freezing are not related to that or my memory size or space that requires to running those apps. My both devices are half full and that’s not the issue. I reinstall the apps on my devices reboot my iPad many times and I don’t see any changes. Before I even start launching this app the other apps are always closed, airplane mode on, wi-Fi off, automatic apps updates in settings off, so nothing would running a background or use my extra processor power and the ram memory when I am using the piano app. My iPad or iPhone is usually connected to Korg plug- key (midi/audio Interface with usb power connected. I’ve never had issues with this with the other apps, besides a toasted with plain with out, it was the same problem. Unfortunately, nothing seems to help:( The problem is that app is sometimes plays just fine and sometimes is crashing or freezing and is unknown when that will occur. I know this that the longer you play, then more likely often is happening. This is just not acceptable! That’s mean this piano app is not reliable and you can’t play keys without fear that app will crash. When I’m using the other music apps like, Korg module, gadget and many other apps i’m pretty confident that they won’t crash. I never have that kind of issues in different apps like with this one. Colossus app is still acts like beta i’m not fully baked product. I don’t know if they are planning to fix that? I reached to developer and they said to follow their troubleshooting guideline, of course I did that. Developer seems ignoring my responses and not really understand problem. My hope is that developer will eventually fix that this, but for now it’s been disappointment:( The app is free, however in order to play anything you have to purchase stuff $$$. I pay a lot of the piano you should expect excellence for investment that I made! I Purchased most pianos within app and spent probably around $120! My hope was to use that piano app to perform in church or stage, unfortunately there is too much issues! I cannot predict when app will freeze, crash (stop working)! Another issue, velocity: I mentioned before piano sound quality by itself is very good, especially with a big brown piano or the white upright. The problem is with velocity of the sound feel one playing soft to hard, there is no noticeable stepping from one layer samples to the other. You can’t really hear that better on electric pianos. I know some piano sounds using 6 up to 12 layers of different velocities sampling structure, but you can’t really notice steps in sound velocity playing. So what I’m trying to say it’s not perfect. I don’t want to be too negative but the last thing is piano sounds kind a mono-ish. Piano sounds more like home piano, not like a (stereo) grand piano. Be aware of those issues because of that I cannot do recommend this app:( It’s fine for practicing at home but I would not rely that app to play live on stage. I’m really hoping that this app will be updated soon to resolve all the stability issues very soon. Peace!
Purchase
Musacman2
Nowhere does it make available to buy individual pianos, it offers 49.99 for all only in app purchases
Incredible pianos especially for the money
John Hurt's Ghost
I have pianos on my computer that cost a lot more and don’t sound any better and in often cases worse. The colossal piano is the “best”, but the white upright is just as inspiring in my opinion and much cheaper. In fact I’d say it’s the best deal bar none in Virtual Instruments. I’d give more stars if I could and I would definitely buy again w/o regrets. You do NEED an iPod/Pad/Phone with a headphone output. Bluetooth will have and unacceptable amount of latency as is the case on my computers as well. Maybe there are other Lightening adaptors that will work, but if all you have is the camera one, you need a headphone output in my opinion. Hopefully in the future they will add more incredible quality pianos! I like to try different sounds oftentimes and have a real affinity for vintage German uprights not to mention modern Seiler, Bechstein, Hoffman, Schimmel, Bösendorfer, etc... but some of those Grotrian, Steinway, Lipp, etc... blow my mind. Sorry for the little hint for the developers. I like collecting piano sounds like baseball cards.
Not functional without at least one in-app purchase.
GrooveMatrix
There are no default sounds, so it seems a little misleading that the app isn’t functional on download
Yes, you have to buy something... but
theOtherWB
This ain’t you mama’s piano. The pianos in here are for real world professional application, cutting through a mix, being sparkly and real. With proper care in amplification, you could have a scary piano live. In the studio, these pianos are my go to’s. They’re unique. They also play differently than any other sampled piano I’ve used. For lack of a better word, they play “real”. Sampled pianos of this pro quality on a computer are hundreds of dollars, up to a thousand. So, if you can’t part with 20 to 50 bucks. Then don’t. Go surf the net for free glitchy stuff. Its a bargain for you get. “Apps” are cute. This is not cute. It’s gorgeous.
No free app just blank until you buy
nonamesavailable?!
Totally misleading and Overpriced pianos with no free sound to demo. Shouldn’t be in the App Store.
Nope
Jaime Vendera
Let me start by saying that I absolutely adore iSymphonic Orchestra and even love the sounds in the Colossus Piano app. With that said, the size of the samples and the CPU consumption resulting with the inability to seamlessly record using this app as an audio unit left me no choice but to delete this app, because every time I record a MIDI track and try to play back or render to a WAV file, it either locked up or crashed. I tried to give this app the benefit of the doubt and bought three different pianos, but going from 13 gig to 6 gig even to a 1 gig piano sample made no difference. None of the piano samples I chose would render. It’s such a shame. I didn’t mind spending nearly $100.00 for piano samples; but I am highly disappointed that I cannot use any of them:( So, I turned to Ravenscroft 275 and I’ve had seamless MIDI recording, playback, and rendering to WAV files without one glitch. Still, I won’t ask for a refund because I am holding out hopes that the designer will remedy this CPU usage fiasco.
Best
1Roger That
Top Sounds Of All The Keyboard Apps. No issues. I give money to those who put everything into their work.
