In this music recording app, you can record, edit, and mix audio and MIDI tracks using various built-in effects and instruments. Includes high-quality audio effects, MIDI editing tools, and support for third-party plugins.
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About MultitrackStudio for iPad
Both audio and MIDI tracks can be edited. MIDI editing features include pianoroll, drum, score and pattern editors. Tempo and time signature can change throughout the song.
MultitrackStudio for iPad comes with many high quality audio effects including a guitar amp simulator. MIDI instruments include GM-compatible MultitrackStudio Instruments, SoundFont Player and Matrix Sampler. External (hardware) synths can be used as well.
AUv3 audio effects, instruments and MIDI effects are supported, so 3rd party apps can integrate into MultitrackStudio.
The straightforward user-interface has been designed with tape-based recording in mind. It's easy to use yet powerful.
Key features:
• Up to 16 audio/MIDI tracks, audio tracks can be mono or stereo.
• Editors: audio, pianoroll, drum, score, MIDI patterns, MIDI controllers, tempo/time signature and song.
• One effect return section.
• One master section.
• Three effect slots per mixer section (two for MIDI tracks).
• Audio Effects: Automated Fader, Chorus, Compressor, DeEsser, Echo, EQ, Flanger, Guitar Amp, Master Limiter, Noise Gate, Phaser, Reverb, Rotor, Saturator, Stereo Imager, Tremolo, Tuner and Vibrato.
• MIDI instruments: MultitrackStudio Instruments (General MIDI compatible), SoundFont Player, Matrix Sampler, up to four Virtual MIDI Apps and one CoreMIDI output device.
• MIDI Effects: Arpeggiator, Poly Modulator and Velocity Curve.
• Supports Audio Unit effects and instruments and MIDI effects (the latter require iOS 12).
• Supports Inter-App Audio effects and instruments.
• Supports Audiobus (acts as output in Audiobus app).
• Supports MPE, MIDI 2.0 and MIDI-CI (MIDI 2.0 requires iPadOS 14). The MultitrackStudio Instruments acoustic pianos support the MIDI 2.0 Piano profile.
• MIDI sources: onscreen keyboard (keyboard, fourths, guitar, bass, violin, matrix, chords and drum layouts) and one CoreMIDI input device. Supports Bluetooth LE MIDI.
• Supports Bluetooth audio output.
• Audio sample rate: 44.1 or 48 kHz.
• Imports .wav, .aif, .flac, .m4a, .mp3, .mid, .midi2 and various other audio file types (Flac requires iPadOS 16).
• Exports .wav, .flac, .m4a, .mid and .midi2 files (Flac requires iPadOS 16).
• Import/export audio/MIDI via Document Picker, Copy/paste, iTunes File Sharing, AudioShare or email.
• Imports/exports .zip file containing all files needed to open song, compatible with MultitrackStudio for Windows/macOS.
• Lyrics/chords prompter and editor.
• Also works with mouse/trackpad/keyboard (requires iPadOS 13.4).
The Pro Extension (available as in-app purchase) adds these features:
• Up to 64 tracks.
• Up to 3 extra Effect Slots. (*)
• Up to 3 extra Effect Returns. (*)
• Up to 8 Groups. (*)
• Multichannel audio playback. (*)
• Mixer and effect automation.
• Audio pitch shifting in track editors.
• Time stretching in track editors.
• Tempo editor can process audio tracks.
• Stretch and Stretch Accelerando in tempo editor.
• Multi MIDI Editor (edit multiple tracks in a single editor)..
• Convolutor effect with Vintage Reverbs.
• Load custom speaker IR in Guitar Amp.
• Sidechain input on Compressor and AU effects that support it.
• Dynamics effect, supports sidechaining.
• Multiband Compressor effect.
• Auto Wah effect.
• Phase Inverter effect.
• Transposer effect.
• Vocal Tuner effect.
• Sample rate conversion in Export Mix dialog.
• Create new song using current as template.
• Remote Control for transport ("MIDI Learn")
(*) Limited by iPad screen size. There's just one additional space on iPad smaller iPads. 10.5" iPads have two spaces, 12.9" iPads have three spaces.
An Effect Slot, an Effect Return and the Output Selector (for groups and multichannel playback) take one space each.
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Reviews for MultitrackStudio for iPad
uncle808us
Fantastic app
I can’t believe more people aren’t using. This seems to me like it should be number one. It has everything a composer could want everything a songwriter could want.
BDC1989
Better than most
I own about 6 iOS DAWS. This app has several advantages but some shortcomings. The UI is somewhat quirky in that it is not all that intuitive. Takes a while to get the hang of it. The biggest advantage, for me , over similar apps is the piano roll editor. Moving and editing midi notes is extremely easy and well designed. However, there are two features I’d like to see added. It would be helpful if, when adjusting note velocity, one could hear the sound change similar to what GarageBand offers. Also, I’d like to be able to import a midi file and be able to change the key of the song. UPDATE 5/5/2025 Previously I used a standalone piano app via inter app audio for recording. However, I will now standardize with the MTS Studio provided grand piano. With some tweaking of the app provided EQ, I was able to achieve a sound that rivaled the standalone app. I just saved about 800MB of space. Wish I would have pursued this earlier.