Expressive Piano Synthesizer

Joel K C

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About this app

Expressive Piano Synthesizer is a free to play microtonal piano instrument app capable of playing synth music with high level of Expressive control and with MPE MIDI Compatibility. This virtual MPE instrument app is best for playing musical genres like Arabic music, Indian Classical music, Jazz music, Rock Music etc. This analog synthesizer can emulate the playing style of Violins, Guitars, Cellos, Saxophones, Flutes, Basses, and other real instruments with the help of the Vintage Analog Sound Synth engine inspired from legendary Analog synthesizers from KORG, Yamaha DX and FM synthesizers, Moog synthesizers, and Roland synths. Expressive Piano allows you to play chords, musical ideas to create and compose your unique melodies with custom Sound designs with added advantage of GeoShred like continuous piano keyboard.

🔥 Features:
• Fluid multidimensional piano keyboard
• Simple Piano inspired Multidimensional Playing surface
• Microtonal playability
• Auto pitch rounding for every individual note
• Slide between notes
• High precision microtonal control
• Emulate playing styles of real instruments like violins, Guitars,
Woodwinds
• 40+ studio-quality sweet sounds
• Lush analog pads, Synth basses, Lead synth patches included.
• Unlimited sound design possibilities
• Highly customizable sounds with analog synthesis engine
• 2 Stereo Oscillators with Sub-Oscillator and Noise source inspired from
Eurorack modular synths.
• Oscillator Sync
• Wave-folder, Saturator and Bit-Crusher
• 2 LFOs with tempo sync and individual retrigger
• 3 Filters (Moog Ladder LPF, Band Pass, High Pass) with dedicated
envelops
• 2 Multi Mode General Envelops
• Chorus and Delay Effects for enhancing analog sound engine
• Customizable Lush Reverb with lots of presets
• MIDI 1.0 Compatibility with MPE
• Connect with MIDI controllers like novation, akai, etc.
• Connect with MIDI drivers like arrangers and sequencers from KORG,
Yamaha, Roland etc.
• Connect to DAWs like Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Bitwig Studio,
Logic Pro X or Pro Tools
• Connect with VST-Plugins like MPE compatible serum, Arturia synths,
Audio Modelling SWAM etc.
• Record microtonal melodies using MIDI Compatible DAWs or VST-
Plugins

Expressive-Piano's design is based on the familiar piano keyboard layout and from the concept of GeoShred app. This virtual piano keyboard synth helps the player to play expressively without learning a new playing style like GeoShred. The goal of this app is to introduce people to the world of expressive virtual music instruments without learning a new method of playing. Since piano keyboard is a familiar instrument to most people, the learning curve for this MIDI Synth is low. Expressive Piano Synth can send and receive MIDI messages to instruments via the USB OTG cable with MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression) or Standard MIDI messages. Through this we can connect with existing MIDI Controller, Keyboards, DAWs, and VST Plugins.

All Parameters are highly customizable and can be modified by LFO’s and envelops like Euro-rack modular synths. The y axis of the synth midi keyboard can control additional parameters. There are lots of pre-installed Analog synthesis emulation patches to start the playing journey of Expressive-Piano Synthesizer.

Upcoming features:
• Recording feature
• More presets
• Direct scrolling feature
• Preset Cloud backup

Feel free to share your thoughts. We will be very happy to learn from you and if you like the app do not forget to tell this app to your friends. Hope you enjoy Expressive-Piano Synthesizer!

Ratings and reviews

A very fun, and fully capable micro-synth. Several very useable sounds. It does require a bit of background knowledge about synthesis if you with to create your own sounds so perhaps some instructional help would be nice. I would love to see more presets and a way to minimize the left edit bar so you have full range of the keys on screen.

I have just downloaded the app today. I really like how you're able to apply filters to the sound the synth makes. There are some things that might need some work: For a synthesizer, the learning curve seems to be low, but it's still rather alien to someone like me, who is still learning how to use a synthesizer fully. The app could benefit from a glossary of terms and an explanation of each function. It's unclear how to use microtonal tunings. A tutorial would be extremely helpful.

This is an extremely useful, well laid out app. I use it mainly as a portable midi controller keyboard for my mini-synths (being able to pitchbend is an improvement over the keyboard of the hardware synth) but you could also play from a sequencer into this. Makes for a fun and versatile OTG songwriting/jam tool, and an easy way to add pitchbend to synth sounds. The price is accessible and great value for what you get!

What's new

Minor bug fixes