Nope – Colossus Piano Review

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.
Review by Jaime Vendera on Colossus Piano.