PianoStudio
By Frontier Design Group
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Description
This is by far the best app to record full length songs! Now I can change any part of it without any hassle. I love this app so so much! - Doctor Songwriter Who ★★★★★
Piano Studio is an amazing tool for any striving musician and the possibilities for music composition are endless. - TouchMyApps, Grab It!
Awesome app. Let's you totally customize your chord voicings. Layout is absolutely brilliant. I've never been this excited about an iPhone music app. Or probably any app for that matter. - Benyamin5 ★★★★★
Featuring a unique and truly playable interface designed specifically for the iPhone, PianoStudio lets you compose and perform complex songs that are impossible to play with other apps that limit you to tiny keyboards with limited ranges.
PianoStudio is the first piano app for the iPhone and iPod touch that helps you explore musical ideas, learn songs, write your own tunes, and even play along with your iTunes music.
By placing individual notes, entire chords, and even complete musical phrases onto a set of buttons that you can arrange and play, you can write and perform real piano music with chord progressions, "two-handed" patterns, and melodies in Allegro, all right on your iPhone or iPod touch.
See the demo video: fdgm.us/PianoDemo
SOUNDS
✓ Four high-quality piano instruments: Grand 1, Grand 2, Upright, Wurlitzer electric
✓ 9 built-in demo songs
PERFORMANCE
✓ Built-in Recorder with overdubbing, variable tempo, metronome, and undo/redo
✓ Share your recordings via Email
✓ Tilt-controlled volume and sustain pedal
EDITING
✓ Phrase editor lets you create repeating patterns or passages that would otherwise be impossible to play
✓ Built-in chord library with over 10,000 chords
✓ Lots of visual customizations to help you organize and play your tunes
✓ 5 banks of buttons per song
✓ 9 available button layout styles with between 8 and 40 buttons, plus keyboard-and-buttons style
✓ Change Key lets you transpose a song up or down 12 semitones
SONGS & PLAYLISTS
✓ Songs can be edited, renamed, deleted
✓ Songs can be reordered in the Playlist
✓ Backup/restore songs to the web
WORLDPLAY
✓ A jukebox of shared songs from around the world
✓ Share your performances and be rated by other pianists
✓ Download songs and performances from other users
✓ Check out the AirPlay charts: http://fdgm.us/WorldPlayP
From Frontier Design Group, creators of the acclaimed "iShred" electric guitar and "GuitarStudio" acoustic guitar apps.
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What's New in Version 1.5.0
- Added iOS 5 compatibility
- Added 1 bar of count in when recording
- Added "Follow Sustain" to phrase settings
- Added New Version notification
- Various bug fixes
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Good, but there is room for improvement.
I like the chord button concept, and the way they're implemented is quite good too. That's what caught my attention, actually; I'd been looking for something like this for a bit. Now, onto what I would like to see changed, what needs fixing, and so on.
Many of the graphics are not Retina Display-resolution. Not really a problem as far as functionality goes, but still. The two real problems I have with this app are the samples and the available chords. The samples are pretty obviously more like something off a beginner pianist's keyboard. As someone who has been playing for a long time, this is not really satisfactory.
Second, I enjoy my 13th and 11th chords very much, thank you, and this app has neither. It also lacks slash chords, making it very inconvenient to voice these things (I need two fingers where I should only need one).
As an aside, it would be nice to provide different ways of playing chords, e.g. arpeggiated / "harp" chords. Playing them so plainly gets boring and is not very expressive.
So—good work thus far; now make it better.
LOVE the app, not the samples
UPDATE 01/12/25:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE improve the samples... just ONE good piano would be better than 3 bad ones. If not this, why not give the option of using the guitar samples (which are quite good) from your guitar apps. Yeah, I know... they're not pianos, but this would be huge in terms of usability, especially for those of us who play both instruments. PLeeeeeerrrrrASE????
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Original review:
Truly wonderful app for composition, ear training, fiddling around trying new things.
But the piano samples are just BAD. Tinny digital ringing and hollow sound. I honestly can't figure why this hasn't been mentioned more often.
- $4.99
- Category: Music
- Updated: Oct 17, 2011
- Version: 1.5.0
- Size: 22.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Frontier Design Group, LLC
- © 2009-2010
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.1 or later
