# Pianist Pro — user reviews

> 114 indexed App Store user reviews of Pianist Pro by MooCowMusic Ltd., rated 3.70/5 from 3 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pianist-pro/id358857758/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pianist-pro/id358857758.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1

## Newest reviews (11 of 114)

### 3/5 — Great but no iPad Pro 11 inch fullscreen support

*2020-01-06, version 1.9.6*

It’s a really decent app but 
1. there’s no support for iPad 11 inch. Please provide fullscreen support for iPad Pro 11 inch.
2. there’s no email support to give feedback.

### 3/5 — 🙏🏼

*2016-02-18, version 1.9.5*

Update! please

### 3/5 — Network MIDI 利用はお勧めできない

*2015-08-13, version 1.9.5*

Network MIDI 目的で買ってみたが、レイテンシが大きくて使えない。YAMAHA の Arp & Dr Padのほうがフリーなのに優秀だった。

### 3/5 — Nice sound

*2015-06-18, version 1.9.5*

This piano has a nice sound. I was able to join to my keyboard via midi and it worked straight away. 
Unfortunately (unless I missed it) there is no background audio, making it useless for my purposes. - to play whilst looking at the music on my songbook app, and playing the song.                    
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### 3/5 — cannot open japanese titled songs

*2015-05-17, version 1.9.5*

Great app but it terminates abnormally when I open the song titled in Japanese...I hope you fix it as soon as possible. :(

### 3/5 — Ultimately does the one thing I need it to

*2015-02-14, version 1.9.5*

Frankly, this review would be a lot harsher if I'd wanted this virtual piano to sound decent and be vaguely like playing an actual piano. Unintuitive to the point of being poorly designed UX aside, the sample playback engine is remarkably poor. Even using an 88 key digital piano as a controller keyboard, it is almost impossible to get a decent performance out of this. The samples don't respond to sustain and key velocity in any sensible way, forget about aftertouch or ghost notes. It plays like a handful of single-velocity samples with poorly executed ASDR envelops, and no round-robin switching between sustain and held notes. It's like banging on a mediocre sounding upright with a hammer for all of the nuance you can get from it. In the end however, what I needed was an app that would record MIDI while I sketched out songs, and then send MIDI out back into my DAW later in. And alas, GarageBand doesn't do MIDI out. This is actually a decent MIDI recorder. So I use an external metronome and the audio of my Casio digi piano, and it works well enough in that regard. But unless you are using this app in this one specific way, just buy GarageBand, whose sampled pianos shine a harsh light on this app by some measure.

### 2/5 — Bad sound of the Piano

*2014-06-03, version 1.9.5*

El sonido de piano es muy malo, no lo recomiendo, muy caro para lo que es :(

### 3/5 — Хорошо да не очень

*2013-08-14, version 1.9.4*

Ужасная задержка при передаче midi по wifi в Logic Pro x. Быть может это только мои проблемы (роутер zyxel keenetic или еще чего. Тот же logic control работает намного шустрее.

### 4/5 — App is kind of good

*2012-06-01, version 1.9.4*

My five year old likes playing it.

### 2/5 — Poor sound

*2012-05-22, version 1.9.4*

Sound is crap. Not piano. Garageband's piano is way better. Keep your money. Tried myself and feel sorry for that 5 bucks. Dear programmers, go and put a finger on a piano's keyboard in your grandma's house. Does it sound like your app? Nope. Shame on you.

### 3/5 — Pretty good

*2012-04-12, version 1.9.4*

This is an alright app. The sampling for the instruments is pretty good. There were a couple things that would have raised the score for me. I bought this because it had the option of exporting audio as a wave. Yes it does this but in order to use that audio you then have to hook it back up to your computer and move it to a different area of your iPad. There are several music apps that have found ways around this limitation and since this product is not a DAW it should have an easier way to move the audio around. Seems to be a problem with a lot of the iPad music apps. Great functionality but terrible options for audio transfer. Fix this and I think it will be a great way to record piano and other sounds on the fly to be used with other daw software.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — I HATE THIS APP

*2019-05-05, version 1.9.6*

THIS APP DOSENT LET YOU IMPORT UR OWN MUSIC AND IS A WASTE OF UR MONEY I HATE IT I WANT TO DO TAYLOR SWIFT AND ALL THEY HAVE IS FIR ELISE I HATE THIS APP THE KEYS DONT TUNE AND I HATE IT DONT BUY IT!

### 1/5 — Dinero mal gastado!

*2017-08-07, version 1.9.6*

Me parece que no pasa de ser una aplicación como para jugar, pero de "Pro" no tiene nada! Hablando de la sensibilidad del teclado deja mucho que desear, no funciona de acuerdo a la fuerza con que presione las teclas como en Garage band, sino que depende de el área donde presione la tecla, muy malo, dinero mal gastado.

### 1/5 — Хрень

*2015-11-15, version 1.9.5*

Плохие и нереалистичные регистры, жалко потраченных денег. С гараж бэнд даже не сравнится.

### 1/5 — almost good

*2015-01-17, version 1.9.5*

I loved this app because of its sound quality until I realized that it does understand that a key that is pressed down doesn't play again till you take your finger off it. It just double plays when you change fingering. Their support tells me this is not a bug and I should use a midi keyboard instead. Fortunately some of the other piano apps do it right - even the free ones.

### 1/5 — Beware - NO SUPPORT!!!

*2014-12-26, version 1.9.5*

Good luck figuring out how to connect the MIDI wireless, the settings don’t appear as described!  And you keep having to reconnect when you do get it to work.  But you won’t get that far - because the keys freeze and the pitch just starts squealing!  And there is NO support!  “Report a problem” goes to a deadend at their website, with no contact info besides an unused Forum.  Looks like a wonderfully designed app - if it worked!!  But they aren’t there to stand behind their app, don’t waste your $$!

### 1/5 — 購入してるはずなのに…

*2014-11-30, version 1.9.5*

ipad airにして再ダウンロードしようとしたら500円と出る。ipadにはちゃんとあって同じIDなのに名瀬がダウンできない。

### 1/5 — Want wireless PC MIDI control with this? Dream on..

*2012-12-23, version 1.9.4*

Shame on these guys for failing to mention that Wifi midi control is only avail natively on a Mac... I've wasted 3 hours downloading and configuring my iPad w new PC, grabbing these idiotic obscure freeware apps that Piano Pro says you can use to enable it as a controller on PC's.. You'd need a team of IT pros and musicians to make it happen. I will contact support and change my rating if they make this right.

### 1/5 — Crashes a lot

*2012-12-15, version 1.9.4*

Crashes when I try to open a saved file, crashes when I tried to use it along with Thumbjam.  No way to export it to Dropbox or even to do an Sonoma Audiocopy.  Cannot directly export to Soundcloud.  Please fix these issues and I will give you more stars.

### 1/5 — 最低。価値がない。

*2012-05-23, version 1.9.4*

結局、remoteKB for iPad は音楽を愛しているデザインとは言えず、AK-7 MIDI Keyboard にしました。残念なことに iPhone アプリですが、DSMI サーバーを自動認識してくれ初心者にも便利です。一応、ポリフォニックな様ですが鍵盤が小さくその点やや残念です。シンセサイザー的なビジュアルデザインですがピッチベンドが付いてくるのでなかなか面白いです。私の希望は AK-7 MIDI Keyboard が iPad 版を出してくれるかユニバーサルアプリになるのを待つつもりです。

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ブログで圧力をかけガイドラインをクリアできない良心的なレビューが載りましたが、このアプリ、唯一の希望だった DSMI がすぐに使えなくなります。返金を要求します。

DSMI 対応キーボードならデザインに難がありますが iPhone アプリで remoteKBLE がモノフォニックですが安定しています。有償板の remoteKB や remoteKB for iPad ではポリフォニックまで行けそうですが iTunes カードの残高不足で確認していません。iPhone なら AK-7 Midi Keyboard も行けそうです。remoteKBLE は自動的に DSMI サーバーに接続できるのでコンピューターの技術的な知識が無くても比較的導入し易いのが特徴です。

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良心的なレビューを書こうとすると Apple のガイドラインによって却下されてしまうので、ガイドラインをクリア出来るであろうレベルのレビューを書きます。

純粋に iPad で動作するピアノアプリを探しているのなら Real Piano HD Pro の方が値段も手頃で良心的な作りです。

このアプリの購入理由ですが MacBook Air の Logic と同期が取れ、iPad のボリュームをゼロにするとお金はひどく掛かりますが高級 AU 音源のピアノの音で使えます。私は Pianoteq 4 をお勧めします。なお、連携には「MacBook Air の IP アドレス（グローバル IP ではありません。自宅内に Wi-Fi 環境を作っていれば DHPS サーバーが割り当ててくる自宅内の（小型のイントラネット」）IP アドレスになります。）と「DSMI サーバー」を MacBook Air で立ち上げて置く必要があります。コンピューターの専門知識がいりますが、初心者にも解りやすく解説したホームページもある見たいです。このアプリはその目的専用と言い切っていいでしょう。

### 1/5 — Bad sounding piano...

*2012-03-11, version 1.9.2*

The interface is nice. Midi support is good. None of this matters if the sounds are bad. Useless piano. Wish I could get my money back

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — I Love This App!

*2021-10-22, version 1.9.6*

I have used this app for many years. I am a vocalist and although the app has had more capabilities than I need I enjoy using it. I can play scales, play in more than one octave, and play in different patches. I have always appreciated being able to use this app!

### 5/5 — Still the best

*2018-09-03, version 1.9.6*

I'm a huge fan of this app. However it became a bit outdated. It resets on every startup and you need to tweak it every time. The update or fix would be appreciated! Thanks for your work!

### 5/5 — Really good...

*2018-02-04, version 1.9.6*

...except it has a glitch where the volume control, sustain and soft buttons turn themselves reset when swapping between apps - should fix that. I like to swap between GarageBand and this app to quickly change to the piano while playing guitar on GarageBand, but can’t do it properly because of the effects buttons turning themselves off and the volume resetting when I jump from GB to Pianist Pro. I have still rated it five stars because it is excellent otherwise, and goes beyond just piano playing with other included features.

### 5/5 — Top notch

*2014-12-07, version 1.9.5*

Fantastic app- you can play a wonderful piano, organ .....  But the big thing for me is that I am using the keyboard as a midi controller for GarageBand. From the rather small number of reviews, I'd say this app is flying below the radar - just buy it!

### 5/5 — Excellent

*2014-10-30, version 1.9.5*

The best piano app ever!

### 5/5 — I just wanted to say I love this app!

*2014-10-11, version 1.9.5*

I love this app!

### 5/5 — It's Piano Time!!!!😍😍

*2014-05-27, version 1.9.5*

It really does put the other piano apps to shame! DEEPLY RECOMMENDED!! BUY IT if you're in to piano playing while on the road or voicing out ideas for composing!!! Or if you want to goof off!! You will not regret it!! ☺️☺️

### 5/5 — Great MIDI controller

*2013-09-08, version 1.9.4*

In addition to being playable as a keyboard (keys are the right size) this is a great keyboard for notation and sequencing.  I used it with a Mac Air, and the response is immediate.

### 5/5 — My Favorite Piano App

*2012-08-21, version 1.9.4*

Even if just for the scales mode, this piano app is worth its weight in gold. Great recording capabilities and options, realistic sound, and fun to use, it's been my favorite piano app for quite some time. Others come and go, but I always come back to Pianist Pro! :)

### 5/5 — 感動する優れたキーボードアプリ

*2012-04-04, version 1.9.4*

様々なメジャー キーボードアプリを購入しましたが、これは格別に使いやすく、気持ちがいい打鍵感を味わえるものです。
最高、その言葉だけです。
まず「音」。ヘッドホンをして聴くことをお勧めします。アコースティックピアノの、ダンパーが動く音まで再現されてる！ 驚きの細かさで、そこそこの電子ピアノよりリアル。
Padもいいです。キャプチャにあるBlues モードで、いとも簡単にブルースコードを連打出来ちゃう！
iPadは買ったばかりですが、このアプリに出会っただけでもイイ買い物でした。
開発者さんへ。ありがとうございました！
（追記）
NLog Synth Proを買って気づきました！
バックグラウンドで同アプリが起動していると、外部MIDIとして認識できちゃいます！
改めて感動しました！

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