I really wanna love this piano app:( – Colossus Piano Review

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!
Review by Mitch PL on Colossus Piano.