Music Studio Update Priority List

mgmg4871

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/music-studio/id328608539?mt=8

We are frequently bombarded with feature requests and created this thread to keep track of them. If you suggest a feature please follow these guidelines:

1. Read the list below, your suggestion is probably already on the list.
2. Keep it simple, feature suggestions should fit into one line.
3. The importance of a feature is defined by how many people request it, not by how important you think it is.
4. Don't ask for release dates. Follow us on http://www.facebook.com/xewton or http://www.twitter.com/xewton to be the first to know when we have something to show.

Composers who mostly use the piano-roll editor have other priorities than live performers or musicians who connect MIDI gear to their devices. We are aware of that and try to advance in every direction in order to make Music Studio the best mobile DAW in the known universe

Features we will add in Music Studio 2.4.1

• Bluetooth mode setup option

Features we plan to add in Music Studio 2.5

• Better effect routing (track and global effects)
• More grid lines in the piano-roll editor
• Wave editor ruler to optionally show bars instead of seconds
• Breath control (MIDI CC02)

High priority features for the upcoming updates

• Inter-App Audio recording & effects
• Auto backup to prevent accidentally overwriting projects
• Bar editor audio region trimming
• Tempo track
• Vibrato effect (and maybe modulation wheel tremolo)
• Arpeggiator
• Wave editor copy & paste, convert stereo to mono

Medium priority features

• Arbitrary signatures
• Volume automation
• File list utilities: new folder, move/rename files
• AudioShare
• Mixer view
• HiHat mute group: closed HiHat kills open HiHat sound
• Input monitoring to be always on
• More effects: compressor, LFO, bitcrusher, ring modulator, noise gate, pitch shifter, time stretch
• Wave editor DSP button for effects
• Wave editor: replace selection with silence
• Audio track transposition
• 96kHz 24bit input & output quality (currently 44.1kHz 16bit)
• Triplet note option when drawing in the piano-roll editor
• Swing quantization
• More chord types: minor7, add9, 5, 2
• More beats: Blues
• More electronic instruments: synths, pads, drum kits, dubstep kit, hard bass, electric guitars
• More acoustic instruments: mandolin, world instruments
• MIDI CC recording (Sustain CC64, soft pedal recording CC67, modulation CC01)

Low priority features

• Sampler crossfade on/off switch for looped samples
• Zero-crossing detection in the wave editor
• Multiple audio files per track
• Track freeze
• Step input mode in the piano-roll editor
• AIFF file support
• Tuning (changing the general tuning to e.g. 442.6Hz)
• Transposition to affect chord buttons & pads too
• Swipe gesture in the bar editor's change selection mode
• "No instrument" icon in the instrument list
• Custom track names

Features we may or may not add in the far future
Sound

• Multi channel audio output
• Guitar amp effects
• Noise reduction effect for the wave editor
• Synthesizer with oscillators, LFOs, ADSR curves, etc.

• Auto-accompaniment
  MIDI

• Full Akai SynthStation 49 compatibility

• Better support of external MIDI drum pad controllers
• Korg WIST (Wireless Sync-Start Technology)
• MIDI CC track type to send arbitrary MIDI events during playback via MIDI OUT
• Custom MIDI CC assignments (to control Music Studio's buttons via MIDI IN)
• Pitch bend editing in the piano-roll editor
• Chord button triggering via MIDI input

• Score notation
  Keyboard / Input

• Full 128 key range

• Keyboard portamento, gliding pitch and mono/legato modes
• Keyboard modulation/aftertouch control by sliding vertically
• Keyboard scales
• Keyboard scale tuner
• Keyboard setup option to disable the center threshold of the pitch wheel
• Keyboard latch button (Sustain lock)
• Fretboard guitar input mode
• Notepad for lyrics
• Velocity sensitive keyboard using the accelerometer
• Different transpose settings for the left and right split keyboard section

• More icons for user instruments/kits
  Files / Import / Export

• Download (all) button in the WiFi server

• Soundfont (sf2) support
• Share to Facebook
• AirDrop support
• iCloud support

fjcblanco

Thanks for the long post.
I was already following this in the MS Forum.
A very serious dev, Alex.

dj8

Didn't see the auto backup feature add! Accidental overwrites was a major reason that I stopped using the app... Might seem small, but it was a serious SNAFU for my workflow that kept occurring...

This alone calls for a reinstall of the app !

mgmg4871

@dj8 Auto backup is in high priority section.

dj8

Hmmm, installed and played w/ this and I don't see any major improvement re: the saving issue... If I change something in a song, the autosave doesn't save the file. I have to manually save the file, which generates an overwrite warning dialog... This is the same dialog loop that caused me problems in the past.

IMO, a save button should simply save, not bring up a dialog box... Less confusion and less chance for error accidental erasures, accidentally not saving, and overwrites... If I'm missing a setting for to activate the autosave or shorten the duration for it, please let me know.

In any case, Music Studio is a generous all in one DAW app. I'd rather use the zillion apps I've picked up w AudioBus and IAA to get, I think, better sounding, instrument parts.

So the life cycle of app update elation in a mere hour or so :-) Looking forward to my iPad Air update where all my apps can happily live together as one on a larger storage unit.

dj8

@mgmg4871 said:

@dj8 Auto backup is in high priority section.

Yes, @mgmg4871, I was so excited above that I think it sounded like I thought the left the feature out. :-)

I was glad that they included this in the update. But, it doesn't seem to work? (I discussed in my other post above.)

Ian

I think he means it'll be in a later update, but not too much later

mgmg4871

@dj8 This is a priority list. Not actually updated yet.

dj8

Ahhh, that would explain it LOL. Thanks for clearing that up @mgmg4871 &@Ian. Will check it out again when that part of the update gets released :-)