I just wanted to know what you guys think of the internet hype "Piano" It doesn't matter what you want to look up, you always come out on people who claim to learn you play your piano at a very short time at a charge of course. That goes from 3 hours to 30 days. And they claim (and now I exaggerate a bit) if you know where middle C sits and learn a few chords you can play anything in no time. I honestly am a bit sick of it, all lies and scams. And yet so many people believe that and pay them for that crap. It seems like half the world is a piano teacher and the other half wants to become a virtuoso concertpianist.....
Probably the biggest difficulty when it comes to learning how to play the piano is not having the instrument itself. Fortunately, there are multimedia software like Everyone Piano to help users learn to play the piano using a keyboard. Everyone Piano sounds exactly like a real piano, but its equipped with a lot more features that learners will appreciate. Not only does its interface have a virtual piano keyboard, but it also has a virtual computer keyboard that shows the keys you press. A music staff is also present that indicates the notes the users are playing. Everyone Piano offers a lot of features and is highly customizable. It is a great free music app for anyone who wants to play the piano.
Neosoul is a massive bite (like 800mb for 5 piano sounds) and also will crash an iPhone 4s nonstop. I have IGrand piano by IK multimedia and like it, no iPad yet so not sure about ielectric (also by IK)
From experience neo soul keys sounds great on its own. If you want a piano that sounds good in the mix with other instruments it may not be the best choice. Actual electric pianos were heavy and also quite rich in mechanical noise (especially when not serviced for a while) so often the sound you hear on the records is the sound that comes from the speaker which used to be miked up. Neo soul keys sounds well close to what it feels like playing the actual instrument (I only used to own Wurlitzer e200) with all the noise associated with keys hitting the bottom edge and when they're released they hit the top edge of the case. There's also added sound of the noise the pick up makes when hit. There's several other 'realistic' noises that have been multisampled across the keyboard AFAICT. Also the actual sound has been multisampled so your middle C will decay differently then the successive A (I think the most a sampled has been pitch shifted is max 4 notes but don't quote me on that). So basically if you strike a 4 note chord in neo soul keys you will actually get a lot of rich resonance coming from clashing of different notes decaying at different time and also pitch variations as the note decays.
I always felt like there were a million piano/organ "toy" apps in the early days of iOS, so I was kind of surprised how few serious AudioBus-compatible ones there are relative to the number of synths out there. This excludes the IK Multimedia ones, which are apparently cool, but big files and a little expensive.
I think that a SoundFont player, like Bismark bs-16i, is my preferred way to get straight piano sounds in AudioBus. You can pick from Steinways to dry/wet concert pianos, or whatever free files you can come across on the web. Also, the touch sensitivity to the keys in bs-16i is probably as good as in any keyboard app I own.
+1 on NeoSoul Keys. I am a piano/Rhodes player of many years... working professional; tons of session work. iLectric by IK would be a second choice, but NeoSoul allows me to add key "dirt" and mechanical noises to closely emulate the sounds of my actual Mark I stage and Mark II suitcase model Rhodes Pianos. The Wurli is also good, though it doesn't allow me to add in the maddening BUZZ that my 200a generates 24/7...
For pianos, IMO, if you want the closest thing to the real deal - CMP Grand Piano is the only choice. iGrand and GarageBand are decent, for scratch tracks or demos, but CMP is an actual 1GB samples app. I actually prefer the upright piano in CMP Grand to the Steinway D (it sounds warmer and more "woody"), but the concert grands are superior to all other apps to date. Just my hundred cents...
Second, not only is learning keyboard piano much easier than real piano, but also it is very useful for learning the real piano in the future, since you don't have to learn traditional piano methods.
Third, EOP Demon Training Camp uses a scientifically advanced method, which increases the difficulty of each lesson day by day. After 30 days of learning, you will master the keyboard piano unconsciously.
Finally, most importantly, we are all very familiar with the PC keyboard, and its fingering and coordination are very similar to a real piano. We just change from typing to piano playing, greatly decreasing the difficulty of starting out.
EOP Follow Me is short for Everyone Piano Follow Me to Play the Piano. It is the first assistant tool worldwide for playing the piano. You follow the steps to play each note one by one, In seconds you will play fair-sounding music even without any basic music theory.
EOP Stand is the world's first piano score roller software. It automatically rolls the score screen and turns the pages according to the speed set by users. It can load any format of stave and numbered musical notation and adjust the score size.
EOP NMN Follow Me is short for EOP Numbered Music Notation Follow Me. It's a teaching plug-in for numbered music notation learning. It totally breaks the rule that says you must learn the stave and greatly lowers the threshold to learning piano. As long as you know 1234567, you can use EOP NMN Follow Me to learn the piano easily.
EOP MIDI version is specially designed for those who want to play real piano directly or after PC keyboard piano learning. If you have a MIDI keyboard, an electronic organ with MIDI port, a hand rolling piano or an electric piano, they can all be connected to the EOP MIDI Version. Loading the world's best piano VSTi sound source, attaching abundant EOP teaching and assistant plug-ins, EOP MIDI Version enables you to breezily learn the piano at home.
Everyone Piano is a computer keyboard simulating piano software, it can use the general computer keyboard to play the world famous piano music. With powerful timbre database, Everyone Piano's tone is lifelike and real-time. Even on onboard sound card, Everyone Piano can reach real-time musical performance, meantime it also simulates the footplate of the piano.
Features of Everyone Piano
Everyone Piano is a computer keyboard simulating piano software; it can use the general computer keyboard to play the world famous piano music. With powerful timbre database, Everyone Piano's tone is lifelike and real-time. Even on onboard sound card, Everyone Piano can reach real-time musical performance, meantime it also simulates the pedal of the piano.
Everyone Piano can customize the keyboard, play the halftone, support record, playback, music score show, inflexion and octave. Besides all the features above, Everyone Piano also has the demo and teaching music. Everyone Piano saves everything for you, it is not only for free, but also supports a mass of music scores for studying.
Selecting everyone's favorite songs for this recording was a real pleasure. This project took me through 20 years of my music, and I must say, I was quite pleased how well it has stood the test of time. It was fascinating to remember where and who I was during all those years... the studios, the pianos and engineers, as well as all the places I was performing which, truth be told, was where I rehearsed!
Everyone Piano is a computer keyboard simulating piano software, it can use the general computer keyboard to play the world famous piano music. With powerful timbre database, Everyone Piano's tone is lifelike and real-time. Even on onboard sound card, Everyone Piano can reach real-time musical performance, meantime it also simulates the pedal of the piano.
The song is the fastest on the album. It is in 12/8 time and features more prominent acoustic guitar than other tracks on Moondance where the piano is the main instrument. A notable feature of the intro is a clavinet. A hard but sparse drumbeat is offset by a melody played on the flute throughout the song, including a solo after the second chorus.
Support keyboard apart, two hands playing.
Support automatic accompaniment, rhythm packing and synchronization.
Connect externally MIDI keyboard or electronic organ.
Switch the dynamic skins.
Support stave and numbered musical notation learning.
Adjust the playing speed.
Support loading the Vsti sound database.
Support onboard sound card, timely playing.
Simulate the pedal of piano.
Customize the keyboard and support playing semitone.
Support record, playback, music score show, inflexion and octave
Come with dozens of teaching and entertainment plug-in.