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Video Demo of 8 Apps and their Acoustic and Electric Pianos including Sampletank, iLectric, Cubasis
Following a discussion about Sampletank and various other apps and piano samples..I have made a video with high quality audio of 8 of the most popular apps for sounds..Garageband, Thumbjam, iGrand, Sampletank, iLectric, Neo Soul Keys, Music Studio and Cubasis..four are already on the Bus and The IK stuff is getting on soon I think..not sure about Neo Soul Keys..I thought it might be good to hear the various pianos these have to offer if you were choosing an app and wanted good piano samples..The Audio is direct feed and I don't talk just play..so you can make up your own minds as to which may be best for you..Please excuse the slightly out sync playing that was my fault when matching the audio to video and not latency on the part of the apps..iGrand and Neo Soul Keys are the free versions..It would be cool to hear which ones you guys like..
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Thanks for the video. One other similar app i'd be interested in hearing compared is CMP Grand Piano, if for no other reason than its sheer size.
Dooh
App Store next stop..
I'll need to check this out again on some headphones or a better system, since I can't really hear the nuances well enough to say which I like the best. Great job on the playing @thesoundtestroom, and I appreciate you putting this together!
Thanks..yeah headphones is best because you get all the nice stereo on the electric pianos..
Oh yeah...very cool Shirt man..nice.
Thanks! Gotta show it off, ya know.
Interesting! I remember the days when it was next to impossible to get a decent piano sound out of any "keyboard" and most of these would pass the test. Some are more suited to different types of music than others, but there weren't any real stinkers. I think maybe the Music Studio ones sounded least convincing, and one of the Cubasis ones (the second you played). But they were pretty well all usable, especially in a mix.
Yeah I think thats fair..most of these would be ok in a mix..some very nice electrics like rhodes and wurlitzers in iLectric pack..iGrand could stand on its own with correct ffx and eq..I think the GB ones are good too..
I have to say Sampletank sounded nice and full of character along with the other IK ones and neo soul keys.....so subjective though.
I may have also been influenced by the way you played.
Very nice playing by the way.
I've uploaded a demo of CMP Piano's grand piano sound to soundcloud. The thing to bear in mind with CMP Piano is that it can only record MIDI tracks, not audio, so until it gets Audiobus support, or Jack Audio Connector gets a recorder app, the only way to record it is via the output socket of your iDevice. With that in mind, I was banging my head against a brick wall trying to record it using iRig and my iPod, with really horribly distorted and otherwise noisy results, when I had a brainwave. There is a known issue with iPads where the audio output leaks back into the audio input when using an iRig or similar headphone socket based connector, so I reversed the iRig so that it had no input, but was plugged into the iPad that was running CMP Piano, fired up Audioshare in record mode on the same iPad and whacked up the headphone level. Bingo! Just a tiny amount of hiss, but otherwise a good recording. I wonder if that's a first?
Anyway, here's CMP Piano in action. I should point out that a) it's not me playing, it's a demo MIDI file, and b) the polyphony count was up in the 80s in some of the faster passages. Something to bear in mind with piano samples and sustain pedals. I believe CMP Piano allows up to 164 simultaneous notes on faster iDevices.
Thanks for sharing this. 164 notes is surely overkill when there are only 88 notes on a standard piano keyboard!
Not if you play them all twice in quick succession. Lol
Even then, playing a new note on a real piano key would kill any residual sound from the first key press, so realistically you would never need more polyphony than keys. And it wouldn't sound good either...
I was joking, but since CMP piano can take multiple MIDI channels of input at once, it's conceivable that It could be called upon to act as multiple pianos, for duets, etc.
164 different notes at once still wouln't sound good! (Yeah, my tongue is in my cheek too!)
Yeah, I played some Lutoslawski at college...
First of all, props for the Lutoslawski reference!
Second, don't know how modeled those simulations are but hitting an A on a piano and then hitting it again will not sound the same as hitting it the first time. The piano itself will already be resonating with the frequency of the first one.
Still, "164 note polyphony!" sounds like marketing nonsense.
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Perhaps a more practical way to look at that claim is that when playing 16 notes simultaneously it is leaving 90% of its sample playing resources available for other processes to use.
IGrand and Sample Tank pianos are my favs. followed by Garageband. It's all subjective in the end. Thanks a bunch for this awesome comparison video.