Piano EffectChorus
It doubles the sound with a slightly detuned, moving copy. It is the "wide" shimmer of ballad electric pianos and of the JUNO.
How to recognise it by ear
- The sound feels wider and "watery", as if two almost identical keyboards were playing at once.
- The motion is slow and gentle; if you hear a metallic, jet-plane sweep, it is a flanger.
- Without chorus, the same FM piano sounds flat and narrow: the difference is huge in ballads.
Typical settings
Rate from 0.3 to 1 Hz, depth from 2 to 6 ms over a 10–20 ms base delay, mix from 30 to 55 %.
What Piano Effect measures
The LFO rate in Hz and the depth in ms. A long-delay chorus over low notes cannot be measured with a microphone over a full mix, and the app says so instead of making it up.
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Library sounds that use it
- Cumbia soniderarate 0.6 Hz · depth 4 ms · mix 45 %
- Bachata pianorate 0.4 Hz · depth 2 ms · mix 20 %
- Bachata stringsrate 0.5 Hz · depth 5 ms · mix 50 %
- Banda brass (synth)rate 0.5 Hz · depth 3 ms · mix 30 %
- 90s grupero keyboardrate 0.5 Hz · depth 5 ms · mix 50 %
- Grupero electric pianorate 0.7 Hz · depth 6 ms · mix 55 %
- Duranguense keyboardrate 0.5 Hz · depth 3 ms · mix 30 %
- Tejano organrate 0.6 Hz · depth 4 ms · mix 40 %
- Romantic balladrate 0.6 Hz · depth 4 ms · mix 45 %
- Jazz Rhodesrate 0.4 Hz · depth 3 ms · mix 35 %
- Bossa nova Rhodesrate 0.5 Hz · depth 4 ms · mix 40 %
- Neo soul Rhodesrate 0.35 Hz · depth 3 ms · mix 30 %
- Worship padrate 0.3 Hz · depth 6 ms · mix 50 %
- Eighties electric pianorate 0.7 Hz · depth 5 ms · mix 50 %
- Eighties padrate 0.4 Hz · depth 6 ms · mix 60 %
- Lo-fi pianorate 0.25 Hz · depth 6 ms · mix 35 %
- Lo-fi Rhodesrate 0.3 Hz · depth 5 ms · mix 40 %
- Synthwave padrate 0.5 Hz · depth 6 ms · mix 60 %
- Synthwave leadrate 0.6 Hz · depth 4 ms · mix 40 %
Frequently asked questions
What is a chorus effect?
It doubles the sound with a slightly detuned, moving copy. It is the "wide" shimmer of ballad electric pianos and of the JUNO. The motion is slow and gentle; if you hear a metallic, jet-plane sweep, it is a flanger.
How can I tell if a song uses chorus?
The sound feels wider and "watery", as if two almost identical keyboards were playing at once. The motion is slow and gentle; if you hear a metallic, jet-plane sweep, it is a flanger. To be sure, scan it with Piano Effect: it tells you whether it is there and with which values.
What chorus settings are typical?
Rate from 0.3 to 1 Hz, depth from 2 to 6 ms over a 10–20 ms base delay, mix from 30 to 55 %.