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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 currently 8 acoustic piano models available as 8 individual in-app purchases with this app, plus 5 E-Piano legends bundled as 1 optional sound set. Together those 13 piano models make up 30 Gigabyte of sound material. All keys of all piano models were recorded in full length and with a recording quality of 24 bit and 96 kHz stereo.

Like all our audio apps, Colossus Piano is designed as professional, yet easy to use, virtual sound module. Simply connect an external MIDI keyboard to your iPad by using the Apple USB camera adapter or another adapter supported by Apple¹, and enjoy a piano realism like you are only used to from a real piano!

This app supports Apple's Audio Unit v3 plugin standard (iOS 9 or higher), Audiobus (iOS 7 or higher) and Apple's Inter-App Audio system (iOS 7 or higher) for audio & MIDI connections from/to other audio apps, as well as Bluetooth LE MIDI !


Demo Videos

"Colossus Concert Grand" piano model.

"Baby Grand" piano model.

"Upright Piano" model.

"Colossus E-Piano" sound set.

The other 5 available acoustic piano models.



Piano Models

The Colossus Piano app currently offers 8 acoustic piano models, which are available as 8 individual in-app purchases. Additionally there are 5 electric pianos available as 1 sound set offered as 1 in-app purchase.


The dark brown „Colossus Concert Grand” model

iPad Screenshot

The dark brown „Colossus Concert Grand” model is the most detailed piano model of the Colossus Piano app, unveiling a huge dynamic range and subtle details in all articulations. This piano model is available as optional in-app purchase download directly within the app.

  • 24 bit 96 kHz Stereo
  • 24 velocity layers per key
  • Sympathetic Resonance (Sustain Sounds)
  • Hammer Sounds (configurable)
  • Available as optional IAP downlad within the app, requires 14 GB free SSD space.

The white „Baby Grand” model

iPad Screenshot

The white „Baby Grand” model delivers an extraordinary warm grand piano sound and a high dynamic range. This piano model is available as optional in-app purchase download directly within the app.

  • 24 bit 96 kHz Stereo
  • 12 velocity layers per key
  • Sympathetic Resonance (Sustain Sounds)
  • Hammer Sounds (configurable)
  • Available as optional IAP downlad within the app, requires 6 GB free SSD space.

The „Upright Piano” model

iPad Screenshot

The „Upright Piano” model resembles the charm of a smoky jazz bar piano, with all its edges, pleasure and versatiliy. This piano model is available as optional in-app purchase download directly within the app.

  • 24 bit 96 kHz Stereo
  • 8 velocity layers per key
  • Sympathetic Resonance (Sustain Sounds)
  • Hammer Sounds (configurable)
  • Available as optional IAP downlad within the app, requires 3.4 GB free SSD space.

The „E-Piano” sound set

iPad Screenshot

The „Colossus E-Piano” sound set contains 5 electric piano legends, semi-acoustic as well as pure analogue ones. Various model versions/variations or presets are provided for each.

  • 17 E-Piano sounds in total.
  • 24 bit 96 kHz Stereo
  • Optional warm Pad Sound (configurable)
  • Available as 1 optional IAP downlad within the app, requires 1.6 GB free SSD space.

The „Japanese Grand” model

iPad Screenshot

The „Japanese Grand” model provides a brilliant overall grand piano sound.

  • 12 velocity layers per key
  • Available as optional IAP downlad within the app, requires 950 MB free SSD space.

The „Classic B Grand” model

iPad Screenshot

The „Classic B Grand” model is based on a well known American/German grand piano and features a very clean overall tone over the entire keyboard and velocity range.

  • 6 velocity layers per key
  • Available as optional IAP downlad within the app, requires 1.6 GB free SSD space.

The „Historic S Grand” model

iPad Screenshot

The „Historic S Grand ” model is based on a historic German grand piano, and provides a very good trade-off between model size and tonal quality.

  • 4 velocity layers per key
  • Available as optional IAP downlad within the app, requires 820 MB free SSD space.

The „Pianino” model

iPad Screenshot

The „Pianino” model provides a modern upright piano sound with state of the art features.

  • 8 velocity layers per key
  • Sympathetic Resonance (Sustain Sounds)
  • Hammer Sounds (configurable)
  • Available as optional IAP downlad within the app, requires 1 GB free SSD space.

The „Vintage Upright” model

iPad Screenshot

The „Vintage Upright” model features a more edgy tone, with a certain intentional variance in its frequency spectrum. So it is a piano with character.

  • 5 velocity layers per key
  • Hammer Sounds (configurable)
  • Available as optional IAP downlad within the app, requires 1 GB free SSD space.


App Features

Colossus Piano is very easy to use. Just connect your external MIDI keyboard to your iPad and you are ready to play! The following is an overview of the app's main features which apply to all piano models:

  • Universal Binary: only purchase once and use your purchased piano models on all your iPads, iPhones and iPod touch devices.
  • A warm pad sound of a well known analogue synthesizer can be turned on/off as support for the piano sound, and its volume can be controlled both by modulation wheel and expression controller (not available for all piano models).
  • Modulation wheel support for controlling the most relevant sound parameter of the currently selected sound.
  • Hold/Sustain pedal support for holding all notes.
  • Sostenuto pedal support for holding specific individual notes.
  • Soft pedal support for playing notes with a more gentle sound.
  • Expression pedal support for controlling the optional pad layer volume.
  • Hammer sound when releasing keys, uses round robin and can be turned on/off and volume controlled (some acoustic piano models only).
  • Polyphony of up to several hundred stereo voices.³
  • Low latency disk streaming.
  • Configurable audio latency down to 5 ms.
  • Integrated effects with 18 presets.
  • Dynamic Hermode Tuning algorithm (configurable).
  • MIDI velocity response curve editor.
  • App can keep running in the background, so you can play on your keyboard while e.g. using Safari or another app to display scores or surfing the Internet.
  • Supports "Audio Unit v3" for being used as convenient instrument plug-in with third party mult-track DAW apps (iOS 9 or higher).
  • Supports "Bluetooth LE MIDI" for wireless connecting your external keyboard with your iPad/iPhone.
  • Supports "Audiobus" for audio routing between apps (iOS 7 or higher).
  • Supports Apple's "IAA" system for audio & MIDI streaming between other apps (iOS 7 or higher).
  • Virtual on-screen piano keyboard with velocity support, scalable & scrollable.


MIDI Player / Recorder

iPad Screenshot

As with all our audio apps, Colossus Piano comes with a built-in multi-track MIDI player and recorder, which you can use for easy and quick recording your musical ideas without launching and configuring a separate app or external devices. Here is a summary of its features:

  • Record, save and load your songs in standard MIDI file format.
  • Load your favorite songs as MIDI files from the Internet, and watch at the virtual keyboard how to play them.
  • 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 and learn your favorite songs more easily.
  • Use the "BPM" dial to record new or to overwrite existing tempo changes on the master track.

You are however not limited to the built-in MIDI player / recorder of course. If you prefer, you can also use any other third party Inter-App Audio capable sequencer or DAW app like i.e. Apple's Garage Band for recording your piano tunes with the sounds of Colossus Piano.


Supported Devices

Due to the high quality of the piano models provided by this app, please notice the following hardware requirements for Colossus Piano.

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.


¹ The adapter and / or the MIDI device you connect must be supported by the iPad / iPhone operating system in order to be able to use it with this app. To our knowledge there is currently no official list of supported devices by Apple. We recommend you to check whether your MIDI keyboard is supported by your iOS version, by using our MIDI monitor app MIDI Wrench, which is free! Learn more about external devices & accessories ...


Polyphony

Some sounds in this app are using several voices per note. The maximum polyphony depends on the exact device model being used.

DeviceStereo Voices  Mono Voices
iPad Pro140²280²
iPad Air 2140²280²
iPad Air 1140²280²
iPad Mini 4140²280²
iPad Mini 3140²280²
iPad Mini 2140²280²
iPad 4140280
iPad 3100200
iPhone 7140²280²
iPhone 6S140²280²
iPhone 6140²280²
iPhone SE140²280²
iPhone 5S140280
iPhone 5C100200
iPhone 5100200
iPod touch 6th gen. 140²280²

Appropriate polyphony is automatically detected and selected for your specific device model by the app for you. If desired however, you can override the polyphony setting manually in the app's settings screen. For example to save CPU head room for other apps running in the background.

Please Note: This app requires quite some hardware resources from the device. In case there are problems with this app, please close other apps running in the background.


² The marked younger device models actually support a much higher polyphony than listed above, due to performance reasons however the polyphony is throttled to 140 stereo voices by default. You may override this and increase the polyphony on such device models by accessing the app's settings screen.


User Manual

For more detailed information about Colossus Piano, please refer to the Colossus Piano User Manual ...


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Colossus Piano is currently available for the following mobile devices. In case you encounter any problems while using this app, please report it to us by using the feedback link above.

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