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Ha, you have found a candidate ! 😃
Classical background here and I confess I am very picky regarding virtual pianos. I hope I will have constructive remarks of course.
I already have a public beta installed (the one available on your website). Is it the right one ?
First playing, I put volume too high, and feel (but it is not true, as I played with too heavy hand, without subtle) compressed sound at first…. But there is definitely a headroom, possibility to achieve soft sound. I just need to play more , get familiar with sonic palette. I was too excited to check levels, and it was hard to forget that recording is on. But some information about the app you can get from video. Maybe I should put limiter after, but it is as is.
I've done a little testing with my MIDI controller and the current beta. I wonder if the String Resonance knob (and AUv3 parameter) is actually connected connected to the ambience (room reverb) effect, not to String Resonance. It's hard to believe that the modelled strings would continue sounding for so long with the dampers on them. Also, it seems like the Ambience AUv3 parameter has no effect at all.
+1
I've been playing with it myself and agreed the
string resonance does last much longer than expected.
I really like the benefits of the “body resonance” control. It brings out this wonderful midrange that none of my favorite piano apps can match. Space wise is seem to put you closer to the instrument for solo playing which is useful for the illusion of sitting at a large concert instrument.
The hammer sound on the string has the sound of nice softened felt and not one that’s been hard packed by use… in other words a technician did some good prep work on the hammers.
I compared it to my current favorites: Pure Piano ($30), Ravenscroft 275 ($36) and Colossus Piano ($50 for the 14GB of samples and 24 velocity layers) and it holds up well. With that body resonance feature is warmer which is an attribute of the large, heavy German instruments that don’t skimp on the woods used for the soundboard and the shell.
Regarding playback, this reminds me of MuseScore's recent adventures at 21:25
To me it’s a good sound but lacks immediacy. Perhaps there are different settings to make it sound closer like Ravenscroft.
It would be good for some solo classical. Not very good for jazz, IMO. And I suspect it wouldn’t cut through in a mix. I wouldn’t get it myself. I also heard some weird distortion a little after 3:50. That was the nail in the coffin. Also there was a single two star review. Sorry to be so harsh. The dev is a good guy or so I’ve heard.
True. This piano is designed to recreate the experience for the person in the audience of an auditorium listening to someone playing on the stage.
❤️ last segment from night playing, this one is with compression + JAX chromatic Compander and some IR‚s.
Just trying to check different sounds during recording VIDEO. Perfect Grand piano for exercises, finally I found what I needed to be inspired and really focused on what I hear, what I play on keyboard, how I play.
Simple exercises are now pleasure because of the sound and touch responce. I hear my mistakes, no strenth and no precission in fingers, and finally its pleasure to training my self without hurry up, just for fun and relax. Sound matter.
Great vocal and overall hit, yes hammers goes into my ears!
jason I’m sorry, Jason. You’re entitled to dislike my music and I’m entitled to not like the sound of your piano. Here’s the two star review of your app (the only one, sadly), and an article about my music in AllAboutJszz. As to the distortion, maybe someone else will listen around 3:50-4:00 and see if they hear it,
Fortunatrly, I’m not very interested in selling my music, but you are selling a product that could be better if you heard criticism with an open ear. I did say I thought it is good for classical and I did say maybe there’s a setting without the concert hall feel that would bring it forward (pls demo that for me)I’d like to hear that, too. Show me a jazz demo, I’ll listen.
As for it not working in a mix, that is my opinion, but I think others who have produced music might agree., but again, show it to me in a mix. As for the lack of immediacy I think that’s obvious compared to an app like Ravenscroft.
One last thing, you might listen to another track of mine (there are 786 on SoundCloud) You might find a “setting” you would like better.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/michael-a-levy-getting-into-the-feeling-of-music
jason, I do like your JAX make louder and have used it often.
jason : in my opinion, instead of insulting @LinearLineman , you might consider seeing if you can help him see if your app can be tweaked to get the sorts of sounds that he is looking for…others will share a similar preference and having some presets set up might benefit your app.
I think it has a lot of possibility but would benefit from presets set up for different preferences.
iPad 4-th buffer 128 48kHz no crashes from midi keyboard, host Drambo.
jason you have so much respect for your own app but none for Ravenscroft which was voted as one of the best iOS pianos as rated by this very forum. You seem to think “my use” of Ravenscroft is awful. Can you separate the difference between my usage, which is usually unadorned, and the app itself? Are you saying Ravenscroft is great when used by anyone but me? Or do you think Ravenscroft is just an awful app?
You know, I did say your piano just wasn’t for me and that it was suited for classical music. @espiegel123 gave good advice. Maybe you can create presets that would satisfy users that want something other than your concert hall sound.
iPadOS 16.2
Thank you, I used the second one
This thread is nuts 😂
Having lived through the eternal conflict between Classical Musicians (my professors) and Jazz Musicians (my peers) in college I can see both points of view here and pray for a truce:
Classical Music has traditions of perfect execution and this piano was explicitly designed to serve the purpose of jason to enjoy his collection of MIDI recordings of piano music.
The piano in this context is typically played from a stage in absolute quiet and the listener at best is 25 feet away in an exceptionally reverberant hall. This app serves the purpose of recreating this environment as the demos illustrate. Listen for the re-creation of the instrument in 171.9MB of storage. Impressive engineering, right?
Jazz is a rejection of playing someone else's notes from 100 or more years ago. It is explicitly designed to free the musician from the rules of academia and Philharmonic Societies. Ravenscroft 275 helps a jazz musician sit on the bench and
of course we have tools to place the experience in any room including a dry recording booth at 894MB.
When interpreted through the lens of this conflict it's quite easy to see that both individuals are consistent with their world view and (chose the world carefully here) confused by their opposite and their scale of values.
They are both highly creative in two completely different domains: improvised music and audio computer science. As I learned when I went back to college for an engineering degree to hang next to my music degree... they are both pursuits worth building a life around.
Carry on gentlemen and agree to disagree.
Very educational
I'm loving it, I keep checking back for the latest drama 😜
Not had this much crazy dev fun since the All One Sun days...
The same pianos are used to play classical music and jazz. A jazz musician is no farther from the piano than a classical pianist when they play. A classical pianist and a jazz pianist or pop pianist are going to want an instrument that is satisfying for them to play.
This distinction between classical and jazz piano doesn’t strike me as terribly on the mark.
+1 Absolutely speaking as a composer.
But jazz is not a rejection of classical music or structure. It adds improvisation into a mix that often includes complex structured music..it isn’t a structureless free-for-all. An awful lot of jazz greats draw from the classical tradition as part of the creation of a new tradition.
I wonder if finding some good jazz MIDI files that could be compared to actual recordings of the piece might be a way to expand testing. Go ahead and bite my head off if that suggestion annoys you. I can take it - especially if you're creative about it. 😎
When sampled piano's arrived all of my musician friends and I
were astounded by the sound and the expression available at our finger tips
and things have seriously moved on since then.
Virtual modelling is simply up there.
Back in the day we were happy with a Kurzweil,
these days we shake a tree and hundreds of pianos fall out.
Who will delete it?
Unfortunately I have to report that DSP is too high for my iPad Air2 (iOS 15.7.3) to handle in AUM. At buffer size 256, 44.1kHz just loading the plugin takes DSP from 1% up to 17% at idle. Playing a single note causes CPU to go to 77% on average. A three note chord takes it to 88%.
That's just for feedback purposes. I realize it's not reasonable to expect an Air2 to handle most modern high-quality plugins. Though I will say that I don't have any other apps that hit the poor ol' thing as hard as that.
It's not the piano per se... it where the microphones are placed. Ravenscroft put them next to the strings, IMHO. And I suspect the source material for this app put them farther to capture the room. This is fairly typical of sapped pianos... the now lost free "Piano in 192" provided close mic'ed and room mic sample sets that could be mixed to add reverb... is was a 12GB sample set.
Ideally, a piano app for the player might pan the trebled to right of center and bass to the left. Pianists are always seeking pianos that simulate their practice environment as much as possible and of course the digital piano vendors feed this market with innovations to simulate the physics and acoustics of the hardware products. PianoTeq probably excels in this
tweak ability... I really hope jason sets his targets on modeling more and more details of the player's experience beyond just the velocity curves. I hope every discovers the added treble of the pregnant velocity curve... it's my favorite preset to enable along with the body resonance (which is an attribute that really adds more immediacy to the tone, IMHO). I feel closer when it's turned up.
Im sure you can hear the difference in the dry capabilities of Ravenscroft and the wet sound of this product. Several people have mentioned it and people think that presets can solve the problem but it will take another product, IMHO, to address this aspect of the product.
I'm anticipating a series of these products... the website indicates various piano models (Yamaha, etc) are to be shipped as new products. Being a piano lover I will buy them when they are on sale and end up with as many as jason has the patience and sales to provide.
I hope people are encouraged by this entry into the market... UVI hasn't given us a new product in years except for some
BeatHawk packs and the regular sales events to get more and more or our spend on that create sample/loop player app.
Try NOT to be so fucking negative... I remember the release of OB-xD which got pretty ugly:
Typical first ship complaints: UI issues, no presets, hanging notes.
Of course, the developer believes the products is robust. With this product there's an open beta so that process only helps if people expose the issues as they test.
In the worst case here, jason gets pissed off and bails on the forum since we're a bunch of whiny bitches but still the best music forum on the internet so failing to deal with us is a pretty low bar, IMHO. But if 3-5 negative exchanges create the impasse it's meant to be. Some people just don't play well with others and most of us know who they are and avoid engaging or use the "ignore" feature... still if they get under your skin we all loose.
THIS IS POTENTIALLY A GREAT FRANCHISE APP WITH SO MANY POSSIBLE USE CASES. It seems to sit between modeling and sample-based technology and that's a real sweet spot. BeatHawk and Korg Module Pro have mind this space to great benefit for vendor and users... Crudebyte not so much. Buy a Crudebyte IAP in iSymphonic and wait a couple hours for the download... WTF.