PianoRemote

First thing first: the app remains VERY active in the background when not used, draining the battery rapidly. Secondly sometimes when I do something in the recorder after I record the app starts doing some sort of fan noise. I’m very disappointed especially when I paid thousands of pounds for a good hybrid piano with a very good electric piano sound, but the sound settings are controlled separately via Bluetooth using an app that I don’t think the developers are improving any better. Other small annoying bits are the classic demo pieces. Why are they not played entirely? They start in the middle and run for a minute or something. What’s the reason of having many random pieces and not able to listen to them from the beginning to the end?

the app is very glitchy and crashes a lot as well as corrupting audio files that have been recorded using the app. although i really like the virtual tech feature it resets automatically in mid of playing sometimes. this could really be a great app if some more time was put into fixing all the small bugs.

I didn’t have any of the problems mentioned in other reviews. I have an iPhone 12 Pro Max and a CA99. The app looks good and works much faster and more smoothly than the screen on the piano itself. I found the performance switching between different sounds instantaneous and it was nice being able to flick between all the sound options on the phone screen on the music stand rather than with the touchscreen on the piano. However, a couple days after installing I noticed unusually low battery for the time of day and had a look in the battery history. Since it had been installed, the “activity” bars (the lower plot) were maxed out and piano remote was using 98% of the battery for any given hour, on “audio/background activity”. Before installing the app I had about 6h of total activity per day - the two days after installing were both at 24hrs of activity. It looks like it’s using about 5% of my battery every 3 hours, entirely in the background. I don’t want to have to remember to force quit the app when I’m done using it, and it is clearly doing something which stops it from being put to sleep in the background like every other app on my phone. I’ll be uninstalling the app until it’s fixed to not use power in the background, which is a shame, because I quite liked it.

As per a previous reviewer, the app doesn’t fit on an iPhone screen. I’m using an iPhone 12.

Thinking of buying a Kawai KDP120 and checking this app out. Confused as to whether it’s compatible. App description says not, but Kawai’s website says yes, and manual within app agrees. Confused!

I have just connected my new CA79 to the app via Bluetooth. However the app doesn’t fit into the screen of an iPhone SE. The size is wrong, and therefore cuts off some of the buttons, making them less accessible, and far less user friendly. Please could you fix this issue so that the interface fits into any size screen?

Download app. Walk into music shop. Stand near a CA99 that someone else is playing Connect to it. Muck about with app on your phone and watch the piano respond. Try same thing during a gig ... Fender leaned the hard way ... news travels slow

It doesn’t work for my Kawai CN29 and iphone. Tried everything. Rubbish

This app is marred by a lack of detail and horrendous UX. This app absolutely decimates the battery of my iPhone 14 Pro. Users are forced to manually connect to their piano each time the app is open (as if the average user has multiple pianos lying around to connect with!) - this connection should happen automatically just like with other Bluetooth devices. The metronome function is completely unflexible; the default metronome tick can only be adjusted in volume...but not in tone, nor can unaccented ticks be used for smaller rhythmic intervals, BPMs can also not be entered by hand. Kawai should take a look at other metronome apps for well-thought-out examples. It is a shame that Kawai piano/keyboard owners have to deal with this app.

Ich hatte ehrlich gesagt gehofft, dass man mit der App irgendwelche Zusatzfunktionen bekommt, aber im Gegenteil. Man bekommt lediglich die leicht abgespeckte Version der Bedienung über das Klaviereigene Bedienfeld. Wer wie ich dachte, dass man z.B. Zugriff auf neue Samples bekommt (denn die, die original mit dem Instrument kommen sind wirklich nicht der Renner), der wird enttäuscht sein.