MeTeoR arrives! Here are the details, and the price is $19.99:
Meteor is a digital multi-track recorder designed specifically for the iPad. The program features up to 12 tracks of high quality audio, a built in mixer and multi-effects processor. Meteor is ideally suited for creating musical compositions, and also a great tool for journalists and business people who need to splice and piece together voice notes, narration or dictation. Compositions once mixed can be exported to standard file formats for use on your desktop PC or MAC.
Meteor includes a fully featured sound editor allowing recordings to be trimmed or spliced together. You can apply various effects to your recordings either directly, as part of the recording process or in real time during playback. Editor features include cut, copy, paste, fade in/out. clear, reverse, gain, normalize, remove DC offset, time stretch and pitch shift. Effects include digital delay, chorus / flanger, reverb, graphic equalizer, tone boost, compressor (with side chaining) and distortion.
The Mixer and effect levels can be fully automated using definable controller tracks. An integrated metronome with count-in helps you record your masterpiece, and If 12 tracks isn't enough there is a full stereo mixdown facility.
Key Features:
• Record up to12 tracks of CD quality audio
• Multi-Effects Processor
• Integrated 12 channel Mixer
• Integrated Sample Editor
• 3 Global Send Effect Busses
• Insert Effects with freeze facility to reduce CPU load.
• Record Effects & Record Monitor
• Mixer and Effect Automation
• Metronome
• Mixdown / Bounce Facility
• Import samples and iPod songs.
• Export to compressed CAF and WAV formats
• Automatic Delay Compensation
• In-App Purchases
16 comments:
Really anxious to hear about this one.
Excellent price too! :)
About the same as a CD- just to put things into perspective. :)
I wonder if they'll have thought to add MIDI clock output to this one? So many iPad multitrackers but none of them do that (unless you know different?). When one does, I'll buy.
Meteor offers In App purchasing, so if it doesn't yet incorporate MIDI clock, I'm sure sync is a feature that could be added at a later date, as a further purchase. And looking at them now, at $2.99 they're not exactly expensive (unlike Amplitude! ;) ).
SmokyFrog? Paul Nagle eh? 8)
I think I've still got that copy of "Electronics and Music Maker" with you as a young 17-something standing next to a bank of Korg MS things! Nice! 8) Still churning out those TD-esque sequences I see? :)
You should get Ashley to post some pix of your studio. I bet it would blow some folks heads right off! :D
Audiocopy?
So far I'm REALLY happy with Meteor. I had been waiting very impatiently for it's release. To date I have refrained from buying any of the multitrack editors because they all seemed a little more loop based or REALLY lacked features I needed. This one really gives me the feel and function of a desktop DAW but on he iPad. I think the price is a good price and while I was bummed that it didn't come with many FX by default I think that doing the in App purchase helps keep the initial cost down while giving you the option to add the effects you need and want. Basically I have been looking and waiting for a DAW that will let me bring the sounds and sequences from OTHER iPad and iPhone apps and build them into finished pieces in one place. I think Meteor will do that for me at least.
Timothy: yes audiocopy is implemented. And so far as I can tell very well, with different ways and areas to copy or paste.
Thx for the feedback mlumb
Does anyone have anything critical to say about it?
I am lloking for both sides of the story before purchasing.
Why would I want this as opposed to MD?
I own (and love) the WinMo version of this so hope this stacks up feature-wise.
First impressions.
It feels smooth, but it takes a while to understand how they implemented some of the functionality.
It crashed on me once in an hour or so.
Another time the audio got all garbled (using the USB Camera connection kit + USB mic) and I could only fix it by closing the App from the multi task bar.
I had low-memory alerts a few times (iPad 2), but you can set it up to auto close other opened apps.
No recording from the editor screen?
No AAC export (really?), only WAV/CAF.
No mixdown email of FTP uploading.
Audio Paste works fine.
All in all, it is a really good piece of software, though it needs some polishing, like any 1.0
I think I’m definitely going to use TwistedWave for recording and audio paste from there into Meteor.
On the Audiocopy thing, big glaring issue, audio pasting in audio is only mono, so if you make some stereo stuff in another app, and paste it in, it converts it to mono.
Contacted the Dev, and they say it is an oversight, and will fix it in an update, which is good.
But for me, this was meant as an iOS only solution, and having audio paste was essential to this workflow. If I have to put it into something else into Left and Right channels before pasting (not sure which app would do this, Multitrack DAW maybe?) this sort of defeats the purpose.
@distraub
Four track (and probably its iPad counterpart) would do that.
How's the time stretch/ pitch shift sound? Sucks about the pasting as mono but at least I can wait a while for this to be updated and ironed out a bit. So many of these apps are great but there's always something or things missing. MTdaw and twistedwave would be awesome as one app and it looks like that might be meteor eventually. I'm surprised it's crashing on an ipad2.
Is this worth getting if you already have Studio.HD or MultiTrack DAW? I've looked at the videos for this but it doesn't really look like it provides anything that I don't already have on the iPad, or have I missed something? Thanks
Does Meteor run in the background when you have another Audio App playing in the foreground?
Brad Spitt…
It doesn’t crash for lack of memory or cpu power: it runs fast and smooth in the iPad 2. But there are some glitches in the program. I’ve got garbled sound a couple more times, only a reset gets you out of it…
EZB…
It is worth it. It definitely gives you all the options you’d expect on a desktop DAW. I would say wave editing and track handling is what sets Meteor apart from any previous app…
Skipp…
It runs in the background but any audio app takes immediate control of the audio engine. Meteor can’t record in the background either (TwistedWave can). If you multi-task, recording stops.
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