WOW….I CANT BELIEVE THIS IS FREE
Every instrument in this app sound’s authentic, this is definitely going to be one of my favourite apps and it will be used extensively in virtually every project I work on in future.
Thanks for this 🏆
Thanks for this 🏆
Er - Gee Whizz?! No idea why it’s free, grab it.
This is StudioLogic, that meant nothing to me though. A quick browse links them with Italy and ‘Fatar’ keyboard beds. You know that in some languages, ‘Fatar’ means ‘breakfast’? Well, it’s corny, but this is a feast. Recently acquiring an exceptional iPad Pro device, I ran it no problem as expected, and in GarageBand iOS/iPadOS it’s like a whole range of instruments in one single track. It is also a ‘stand-alone’, plainly intended as a performance instrument/player.
StudioLogic make keyboards, and this seems looking at the StudioLogic website, to be heavily influenced or inspired by the sounds some of those have compiled for them.
In essence it has four main instrument banks - the core of them is: Acoustic Piano; Electric Piano; Clavier; Strings. I tried the standalone and the Audio Unit v3 in GarageBand, they look to be identical. Not gone on Cubasis yet, but the quality of this Instrument is pretty exceptional - this is no ‘rough-cut’ beta thing.
There are independent controls over the volume/gain, and this allows you to ‘mix’ the overall output of sound, to use the vernacular I’ve heard ‘mash-up’ the four main strands or sound banks (if you want all four output at the same time), to give an overall audio effect. The classic to mix I’ve heard, is the percussive sound of say the ‘Rock Piano’ patch from the Acoustic Piano bank, alongside the Strings. It’s like making your own backing without playing any extra notes, or needing a DAW or recording of a backing track.
This is also interesting because it is identical across the big three platforms of Mac OS, Windows/PC, and of course iOS. The great thing is, a song could be created in say GarageBand on an iPad, then the song taken to a Mac Mini with the full free GarageBand there, and you don’t ‘lose’ instruments, or have error messages about tracks not having the instrument or Audio Unit/plug-in available on your Mac Mini.
StudioLogic have obviously seen the writing on the Musical Staff, and punched hard into the world of ‘soft’ instruments. I probably have rather a lot of synths and some very, very good instruments on iOS (shamed cough to side), but this has a niche. It’s kind of leaning towards ‘real-world’ instruments. Piano, Electric Piano, Clavier, Strings, it’s all quite feet-on-the-ground stuff. In a great way.
I changed the sampling on the standalone one to 48kHz, but the improvement from 44.1kHz was not terribly noticeable for me on a single big 15” busker amp combo I use at home. It’s 16-bit, not 24-bit, but that’s not obvious either - remember, GarageBand for example, does horrible things to degrade the sample quality of GB’s own instruments on iOS if it determines ‘optimising’ has to be applied. So in practice, for a lot of GB users on iOS/iPadOS this may not be anything to be fretting over!
Maybe here, would be room for StudioLogic to make an ask eventually, for some cash transaction to occur. That’s got precedents on iOS, with some very good instrument app developers, asking for say ‘HQ’ synth engine money if the user wants the absolute best experience in musical quality. There really is nothing that Numa Player is short of though. I’m hunting for a catch is all.
This is extremely good, top-quality instrument sampling, and the only unrealistic aspect I found, is because they actually let you pitch-bend anything you want, whether it would ‘really’ be done in the real-world version of an instrument or not. And, that’s not a criticism. So that’s all I can usefully say, it’s a brilliant instrument/instruments, and I couldn’t find a shortcoming, so get it before somebody changes the pricing policy! Well done StudioLogic, this is something else.
StudioLogic make keyboards, and this seems looking at the StudioLogic website, to be heavily influenced or inspired by the sounds some of those have compiled for them.
In essence it has four main instrument banks - the core of them is: Acoustic Piano; Electric Piano; Clavier; Strings. I tried the standalone and the Audio Unit v3 in GarageBand, they look to be identical. Not gone on Cubasis yet, but the quality of this Instrument is pretty exceptional - this is no ‘rough-cut’ beta thing.
There are independent controls over the volume/gain, and this allows you to ‘mix’ the overall output of sound, to use the vernacular I’ve heard ‘mash-up’ the four main strands or sound banks (if you want all four output at the same time), to give an overall audio effect. The classic to mix I’ve heard, is the percussive sound of say the ‘Rock Piano’ patch from the Acoustic Piano bank, alongside the Strings. It’s like making your own backing without playing any extra notes, or needing a DAW or recording of a backing track.
This is also interesting because it is identical across the big three platforms of Mac OS, Windows/PC, and of course iOS. The great thing is, a song could be created in say GarageBand on an iPad, then the song taken to a Mac Mini with the full free GarageBand there, and you don’t ‘lose’ instruments, or have error messages about tracks not having the instrument or Audio Unit/plug-in available on your Mac Mini.
StudioLogic have obviously seen the writing on the Musical Staff, and punched hard into the world of ‘soft’ instruments. I probably have rather a lot of synths and some very, very good instruments on iOS (shamed cough to side), but this has a niche. It’s kind of leaning towards ‘real-world’ instruments. Piano, Electric Piano, Clavier, Strings, it’s all quite feet-on-the-ground stuff. In a great way.
I changed the sampling on the standalone one to 48kHz, but the improvement from 44.1kHz was not terribly noticeable for me on a single big 15” busker amp combo I use at home. It’s 16-bit, not 24-bit, but that’s not obvious either - remember, GarageBand for example, does horrible things to degrade the sample quality of GB’s own instruments on iOS if it determines ‘optimising’ has to be applied. So in practice, for a lot of GB users on iOS/iPadOS this may not be anything to be fretting over!
Maybe here, would be room for StudioLogic to make an ask eventually, for some cash transaction to occur. That’s got precedents on iOS, with some very good instrument app developers, asking for say ‘HQ’ synth engine money if the user wants the absolute best experience in musical quality. There really is nothing that Numa Player is short of though. I’m hunting for a catch is all.
This is extremely good, top-quality instrument sampling, and the only unrealistic aspect I found, is because they actually let you pitch-bend anything you want, whether it would ‘really’ be done in the real-world version of an instrument or not. And, that’s not a criticism. So that’s all I can usefully say, it’s a brilliant instrument/instruments, and I couldn’t find a shortcoming, so get it before somebody changes the pricing policy! Well done StudioLogic, this is something else.
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Brilliant sounds for keyboard players
This is phenomenal! I can’t believe it’s free!
Thank you so much!
I was shocked when the Sound test Room did a show dedicated to a completely free app of this caliber! Wow,Wow,Wow, people download this app it only takes I believe 370 mb and sounds like my Kronos! I will gladly pay for future additions, It’s got it all!
Was not expecting this from Studiologic! Great Job!
Very nice sounds and interface. Definitely would have paid for this. Only wish that the Rhodes, Clavinets, and even Harpsichord sounds had release samples. Maybe in an update?
Awesome
Great meat and potatoes keyboard sounds, also I like the interface. Awesome free app, that I would gladly pay for.
