AudioKit Retro Piano

To me, it sounds like one shot piano sample played on a keyboard (as you would in a sampler plugin, take GarageBand for example) with the FX on top. The expressiveness that you get with the velocity sensitivity of a sound is not there, or not good enough. But for the price, it’s good! It's got some cool presets.

The sounds themselves are wonderful , I am using a midi keyboard and the app isn’t responding to the inputs , every other app from your team works well with my keyboard but not this

The sounds are super smooth and warm!

I’ve purchased everything they’ve ever made because I liked the idea behind AudioKit and wanted to support it. However, bot this as their FM AU no longer save states when I save the song. Just opened up an old tune and noticed instruments seemed to be missing. Tracked it down to this AU and the only way I could get it to make ANY noise was to change the preset. Which, of course, loses whatever changes you’d made the last time you opened it. As a result, I have to give it one star as a warning. As I said on their other app, it really doesn’t matter that it’s cheap if it doesn’t work (or, at some point in the future, won’t work because their efforts are focused on their new apps while these old ones go stale. Note that the positive reviews are from YEARS ago. Be warned.

It doesn’t appear to be compatible with either the Keystep or Keylab 61. Update 6/7/23. All’s well on the Arturia front.

All other AudioKit apps work fine with my AKAI Mini MPK3 except this one.

I love the app a lot. The only issue is that it doesn’t work with iOS 16 anymore. Whenever I use it, or whenever I put it with AUV3 it doesn’t work. Please fix this.

Pretending this is a $99 app on sale for $2.99 after it was supposedly limited edition and “sold out” - it’s too much. Laughable amateur hour marketing.

Opens normally when it’s standalone but crashes as AU within other apps.

When these guys make an app they do it very well . I remember downloading the first AudioKit app before they updated it and I already liked it mainly because the beautiful reverb effect they have is unlike any I’ve heard anywhere else. That was the key to making even the blandest sound , full and vibrant, they only got better and more creative from there....so I know that this retro piano sounds awesome now ,....just wait till they work on it and spruce it up , I play around with all the big name items in the synth realm and AudioKit came in short time and surpassed all of them. Thanks for creating great toys for us grown azzz adults.