Colossus Piano 4+
Extremely Realistic Piano App
Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
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 8 acoustic piano models available as 8 individual in-app purchases, plus 5 E-Piano legends bundled as 1 sound set with this app, together those 13 piano models make up 30 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 Concert Grand” model:³
• 24 velocity layers per key.
• Dedicated sustain samples.
• Release hammer sound.
• Optional pad sound.
• 14 GB in size (SSD space).
The white „Baby Grand” model:
• 12 velocity layers per key.
• Dedicated sustain samples.
• Release hammer sound.
• Optional pad sound.
• 6 GB in size (SSD space).
The „Upright Piano” model:
• 8 velocity layers per key.
• Dedicated sustain samples.
• 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 1 ms.
• Integrated effects (18 presets).
• App States: Save app's entire state as user presets.
• MIDI velocity response curve editor.
• App can keep running in the background.
• Master Tune, Scale Tuning & Hermode Tuning.
• Provides Audio Unit v3 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.
• Share your songs easily as audio file.
• 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.
What’s New
Version 2.3.3
This update fixes an UI issue with recent iPhone models.
Note: This version raises the minimum requirement to iOS 12 and 64-bit CPU. For older devices there are still older versions of this app with lower requirements available for download on the App Store.
Ratings and Reviews
Good Piano
Edit: Dropped a start because after two plus years beyond maintenance update to work with newer devices, this good piano never really improves or gets new updates that improve the functionality of the app. All of the things that could greatly improve this app haven’t been done. Still the hammer think is too loud at lowest settings. Still no global eq.
Dev how do you feel about the issues mentioned below?
Older review:
A lot of people moan that you don’t get to try first. If anything buy the piano’s with the higher velocity layers, they sound good. If you don’t like it from off the bat get a refund. The 24 layer piano is a bit overpriced, I’m yet to try it because of the price. Each piano has its own character.
I’d hoped for more from the bright Japanese as it is meant to have 12 velocity layers although it is only about a gig in size so I’m guessing the quality of the samples is not that great. By far my favourite is the vintage upright which has 8 velocity layers at 3.4 gig. I feel the sampled have been normalised and denoised and sound a bit pristine. The low C1 is a good bit out of tune.
The thunk of the hammers is way too loud even if set at zero and is basically the same sample for each note and sounds unnatural when on. This needs sorting. The reverbs are okay.
The halls, rooms are decent. The cathedral sound a bit mad and unnatural in my honest opinion. A global eq and some presets would be handy.
Lots of bugs!
This is not a bad reproduction of a grand piano. It has a very detuned/chorused sound which is almost reminiscent of the Yamaha CP70 electric grand piano. In certain registers the Colossus Piano sounds more like an upright piano than a grand piano. I have also purchased the upright piano which isn't bad. I've also purchased the electric piano pack, which is okay for an app on your iPhone. I have also purchased the Japanese grand which sounded pretty impressive in the video on the website, but was quite disappointing with regards the quality of it's dynamics and sounded quite muddy. I have also experienced the app crashing when trying to load MIDI files and the colossus grand just keeps reloading when trying to play a midi file. If you want to change between sounds/piano types, you have to scroll through each piano type which takes ages as each one loads before you get to the one you want. Hopefully all these issues will be sorted out in an update. It is still a very impressive app to have on an iPhone, but for the price that I have paid for all the different in app purchases it's a bit disappointing.
Update: I think this app has greatly improved with the updates and I would recommend buying it.
Very good, and I believe would benefit from release samples
The 24 velocity layered main piano sound is excellent, the best sounding I have come across on iOS. Love the tinkly top end and the dynamics.
Main area for improvement for me is the deadness of the release phase. Not the hammer sound, which is fine, but the decay of the sound when you let go is way to quick and not adjustable as far as I can tell. It doesn’t sound like there are any release samples.
I can mask this somewhat with a short room reverb / early reflections, but real release samples would be ace at this price point.
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Information
- Provider
- Christian Schoenebeck d/b/a Crudebyte
- Size
- 402.5 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2016-2024 Crudebyte
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Colossus Concert Grand £49.99
- Japanese Grand £12.99
- Colossus E-Piano Set £19.99
- Upright Piano £19.99
- Baby Grand Piano £24.99
- Vintage Upright £9.99
- Pianino £12.99
- Classic B Grand £14.99
- Historic S Grand £9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.