The lite version of Music Studio has arrived on the app store ahead of the 2.0 version of the full app. Here's what's new in lite:
- Audio tracks:
- Microphone recording
- AudioCopy & AudioPaste
- iPod library or wav/mp3/AAC/ogg file import
- Waveform and audio-region editing
- Transfer your song to the full version (it it's installed on the same device)
- 2 new synthesizer instruments
- Drum pads, chord pads and chord programming
- Pitch wheel, filter wheel
- New look & feel
- Many new small features
- Volume gradient
- Attack offset time configurable for every instrument
- Keyboard sustain button
- ...and many more!
- Performance improvements in all areas
6 comments:
Now, if you could only load your own instruments..... I love the concept of the audio tracks... But limited instrument modification. At least in FL Studio you can load your own instruments. Going to pass on this right now. The instrument import is more important to me.
I don't quite understand what you mean by "load your own instruments"? Isn't that what you can already do?
If there isn't much you can do with an instrument (after all a sax is a sax, a flute, a flute etc), on version 2, muted tracks can send MIDI out. So if you're suddenly caught with inspiration, jam it out with what's already there, then hook up with a sound module or even a computer when you get home?
This is where MS excels, because cpu cycles aren't spent on modelling synthesiser waveforms. Nanostudio used to work on my old 3G iPhone, but because of the increase in demand on the cpu, it's broken now. Shame. :(
This video will explain what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROnvLlfqtzY
Keep in mind that you don't need the FL studio windows version to get your own instruments. You can just zip up wav samples to use.
I like being able to strum a guitar and sample the INSTRUMENT to use in FL Studio some of the other apps (Nanostudio/ Beatmaker 2). In Music Studio you have to BUY any of their INSTRUMENTS that they don't provide as default.
Okay. I see what you mean now. I can understand that this would be a pain in the arse!
Interestingly, the jury's still out here when it comes to the iPad as a DAW. I've got all of the iPad DAW's and I still get really annoyed with them (being 'closed systems' too- not all apps having ACP yet either). I also find their piano roll editors so fiddly to use. I far preferred Akai's system of editing notes on an MPC (note type, position, duration etc as charaters) than a line on a grid. I doubt that I'll ever see a repeat of that on the iPad.
@Tom
"I can understand that this would be a pain in the arse!
Interestingly, the jury's still out here when it comes to the iPad as a DAW. I've got all of the iPad DAW's and I still get really annoyed with them (being 'closed systems' too- not all apps having ACP yet either)"
This is all because of the lack of access to the ipad's filesystem. Devs have to use workarounds to let us use their software like on a regular computer. All this ACP, unzipping .IPA, or Iphone File Explorers are all workarounds to bypass Apple's restrictions.
There wouldn't be a need for an app to have its own ftp server for us to drop new sounds in if the ipad would simply show us its filesystem when connected. Songs would be easily transferrable between different DAWs. It wouldn't matter if an app doesn't have ACP if IOS has a true clipboard.
It would be like a computer, right now its more like a Nintendo console (Nintendo doesn't allow access to its filesystem either).
And hey, if you are afraid of breaking stuff, instead of showing us the entire filesystem, we could have only access to a shared document folder and it would be much better.
@Jake...
I disagree. I don't think it has anything to do with the file system at all, I think it's more about cpu speed and the ability to handle MIDI out data- which the iPad/ iPhone isn't that good at.
So far, it seems MS has the best sequencer engine I've found. So I'm going to persevere, even if it does mean having to buy yet another iPad (I still want an OP-1!!)
Logical as it may seem, I don't think we're ever going to see a traditional 'file system' on the iPad. If it exists at all, it'll probably be reserved for the cloud (or dropbox?)
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