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Electronic Piano Synthesizer (EPS) (iPad)
Date Added: Jul 7, 2011
The Electronic Piano Synthesizer (EPS) is the world first piano synthesizer for the iPad. Based on a 32bit realtime sound engine, the sounds were computed on the fly, no samples were used.
The EPS gives you possibilities you don´t have with any other Piano or EPiano on the iPad. You can change the sound while you play on the keyboard and hear the changes immediately. That is what you need to tweak your own sounds. The main use for EPS is EPiano sounds, but you can also make sounds like bass, brass , bells, chimes, toms, vibraphone…
FEATURES:
- 32bit float point polyphonic realtime sound engine
- Audio Support
- CoreMIDI support
- MIDI Learn
- Virtual MIDI compatible
- Background audio support
- Other audio apps can play audio in background
- 32 library patches to load and save
- 21 factory preset sounds
- Multiple FX (vibrato, tremolo, delay, tube overdrive)
- Recorder (up to 6 minutes in 16bit 44.1 kHz)
- iTunes file sharing
- Copy audio to Pasteboard
- More than 7 octaves
- Keyboard scrollable
- Two different keyboard sizes
- Second keyboard available via options
- Simulated touch velocity
- Single screen edit
- Last session save on closing app
- Fast download and small app file size about 2.0mb
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UUUPDATED!
ACP & Play along, also recording up to 6′… going to download this new update 2morrow. Meanwhile
What’s new:
- Recorder (up to 6 minutes in 16-bit 44.1 kHz recording quality)
- iTunes file sharing
- copy audio to pasteboard
- 25% reduced sound engine latency on iPad 1
- 75% reduced sound engine latency on iPad 2
- MIDI Sustain pedal support
- iPod or other music can run in background
- better oscilloscope performance
- set to sleep bugfix
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I was planning on doing a review of this app although I have limited insight into how a synthesizer is suppose to function. Instead of a review I decided to add a link to an in depth review and give my opinion of the app quality.
Review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sW3rfXf4j5c
In my opinion Electronic Piano Synthesizer is a wonderful app. I like that everything is on one page with only two pop up windows, one for options and one for the sound library. This minimal approach really suites the app well and it makes for a pleasant experience. In the above review there was one error. It was mentioned that you could not move up or down on the piano keys. If you swipe the black border beneath the keys you can move up or down on the keys with ease.
Once I figure out how to tweak my own customs sounds I feel that this will be one of my to go to apps. The above review really showed the versatility of this app. Not only can you get some cool piano sounds out of this thing, but you can also get some nice analog sounds as well as percussion and ambient sounds. After seeing the review I am a true believer!
The EPS has some interesting sounds, and a lot of flexibility, but, amazingly enough, it doesn’t seem to support the sustain pedal controller when played from an external midi keyboard! Hopefully this will be fixed soon, because it’s fairly useless without a sustain pedal.
I played with EPS and I agree with @ntignorant about sound quality and engine’s versatility. The preset load system is not very user friendly but works. Creating and editing sounds is straightforward and the relatively small number of parameters makes it easy to start tweaking presets
However there are a few things that I dislike :
- EPS Kills background Audio on start : you can’t play along a song from your itunes library or with another audio app
- Keyboard responsiveness seems weird when playing legato. I did not try EPS with an external MIDI keyboard (tented by I/O dock but still waiting because of MIDI issues regarding stuck notes)
- It seems that User Preferences are not stored : il you don’t want the regular sized keyboard, you have to select the bigger one everytime you start EPS.
These issues are no show stopper. That’s why I recommend EPS for musician needing a dedicated and higly tweakable epiano synth on the ipad.
Any one care to make a quick YT video to show what this thing sounds like.
I have so many synth options to work from and the person above says it sounds completely different but I would like to see if that difference is worth checking out. It’s a great price but I would still like to hear a couple of the sounds this thing can produce.
This one and the ex-horizon synth are the be(a)st sounding synths for the ios ;)
I picked this up. It’s really very good. Forget the word piano in the name. This synth is capable of so much more and is a pleasure to use. Great for basses and melodic sounds and much more. This is a completely different synth to anything else on the iPad. not just another subtractive synth like what seems to be all that is coming out this lately. Don’t get me wrong I love Horizon, NLog, Nano, iSyn Poly, etc. but with this synth you will be getting something different. Highly recommended!
The developer has already said he will be implementing CoreMIDI. I hope he adds a record function (preferably with piano roll / midi edit) and audiocopy support so we can easily get all of those lush sounds into our sequencing apps ;-)
The price went up from $1.99 to $2.99 and now $3.99. I think I will wait or a video review before I bite the bullet. Three synths coming out so close together Horizon (Sunrizer), iSyn Poly, and this one. I’m not sure which one to buy.
It shows as $2.99 here
For some reason electric pianos are one of the few real-world instruments that sound better to me synthesized rather than sampled. Lounge Lizard, for example is probably my overall favourite epiano sound on the PC, and the GSI ones are good too. So there is great potential for an epiano synthesizer on the iPad. Hopefully this app will fulfil it.
Nice to see, I think I actually look forward to the potential brass sounds out of it!
very good, i need a vibraphone & chimes sound.
Hey great… I see they have updated the iTunes page to say that he will now be adding MIDI in a future update. I hope more app developers follow suit. So many so-called ‘professional quality’ audio apps leave this important feature out. Maybe it’s difficult to implement or not very well documented?
Chad