MultiTrackStudio *Best on iPad?* 🔥🤯 - Walkthrough Tutorial & Review!

ipadbeatmaking

@MisplacedDevelopment said:
Nice big update!

Incredible. I’m so happy with this. Easily the most powerful and most frequently updated daw on iPad in 2022. This is a big win for us

Telstar5

Holy ish……

ipadbeatmaking

One more time for the new page

@Telstar5 said:
Holy ish……

Yup! It’s one of those kind of updates

Telstar5

You really made a great video for it , but other than that , plus a series on YouTube that’s almost a decade old, there doesn’t seem to be much video support/tutorials.

Telstar5

@ipadbeatmaking said:

@Telstar5 said:
@ipadbeatmaking ;Thanks for this post. When you talk, I listen.

I appreciate the vote of confidence 🙏 😊 Hopefully this video gives you some useful info! Have you used MTS?

Yes, I just started learning MTS .. I wish I could quit bouncing app/DAW to app/DAW.. Right now I’m spending some time both in MTS and Audio Evolution Mobile as per the new update . MTS seems to have the upper hand in the midi routing department but AEM keeps calling me. Knowing Davey, the advanced midi routing is just a matter of time .

LeftyChris

@MisplacedDevelopment said:
Always been my favourite DAW on iOS. It is a near enough direct port of the desktop version and so has a lot of features that have been on the wishlist of other iOS DAWs for many years. There are so many great little features it has and so you will be discovering new things it can do months after you start using it.

Is there any major or important feature that other iOS DAWs have that MTS does not have? I am not a power user but it seems to always have whatever feature I need (though I only work with MIDI).

Of course it is missing one feature that all other conventional iOS DAWs have, namely, a traditional timeline view of the entire project.

I have sometimes thought that if MTS did have a timeline, it would probably skyrocket overnight to one of the most popular iOS DAWs since it has so much to offer and because it is constantly getting new features added.

LeftyChris

And speaking of the new features constantly being added to MTS, I always wonder how these single developer iOS projects are sustained. How in the world is Giel Bremmers (and for that matter, the developer of AEM too) able to spend so much time on a project that can’t possibly generate much revenue?

There’s currently a thread about whether or not Auria Pro is abandoned:

https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/50180/is-auria-pro-abandonware/p6

People are getting worked up about it, but to me, it seems that single developer iOS apps being abandoned is probably often inevitable given how little revenue most of them probably bring in.

So it seems to me that the situation with Auria Pro and Nano Studio must be more common than the situation with MTS and AEM, where their developers appear to be able to work on their apps night and day.

MisplacedDevelopment

@LeftyChris said:

@MisplacedDevelopment said:
Always been my favourite DAW on iOS. It is a near enough direct port of the desktop version and so has a lot of features that have been on the wishlist of other iOS DAWs for many years. There are so many great little features it has and so you will be discovering new things it can do months after you start using it.

Is there any major or important feature that other iOS DAWs have that MTS does not have? I am not a power user but it seems to always have whatever feature I need (though I only work with MIDI).

Of course it is missing one feature that all other conventional iOS DAWs have, namely, a traditional timeline view of the entire project.

I have sometimes thought that if MTS did have a timeline, it would probably skyrocket overnight to one of the most popular iOS DAWs since it has so much to offer and because it is constantly getting new features added.

An overall timeline view is one of the bigger things that is missing, I agree. It does have aliased patterns like Xequence 2 and NS2 but they are a little clunky to use (would be nice to have patterns that sync across tracks!) and once your project gets to a certain size then you do miss having NS2 levels of control over the arrangement. That being said, once you get used to it, the "Song Editor" is pretty powerful for moving around chunks of music as it works across all tracks so you can easily chop and change your song.

There are a few things missing from the desktop version that would be nice to have such as the multi-instrument feature and alternate takes but as a fellow 'mostly MIDI/Score' person myself, I can't ask for much more from it.

LeftyChris

@MisplacedDevelopment said:

@LeftyChris said:

@MisplacedDevelopment said:
Always been my favourite DAW on iOS. It is a near enough direct port of the desktop version and so has a lot of features that have been on the wishlist of other iOS DAWs for many years. There are so many great little features it has and so you will be discovering new things it can do months after you start using it.

Is there any major or important feature that other iOS DAWs have that MTS does not have? I am not a power user but it seems to always have whatever feature I need (though I only work with MIDI).

Of course it is missing one feature that all other conventional iOS DAWs have, namely, a traditional timeline view of the entire project.

I have sometimes thought that if MTS did have a timeline, it would probably skyrocket overnight to one of the most popular iOS DAWs since it has so much to offer and because it is constantly getting new features added.

An overall timeline view is one of the bigger things that is missing, I agree. It does have aliased patterns like Xequence 2 and NS2 but they are a little clunky to use (would be nice to have patterns that sync across tracks!) and once your project gets to a certain size then you do miss having NS2 levels of control over the arrangement. That being said, once you get used to it, the "Song Editor" is pretty powerful for moving around chunks of music as it works across all tracks so you can easily chop and change your song.

There are a few things missing from the desktop version that would be nice to have such as the multi-instrument feature and alternate takes but as a fellow 'mostly MIDI/Score' person myself, I can't ask for much more from it.

Do you use the desktop version of MTS much? I use it sometimes but on desktop I still mostly use Reaper (used to use Logic). MTS certainly makes life easy to go back and forth between iOS and desktop, though, that’s for sure.

I generally finish things in Reaper so I actually haven’t used the MTS Song Editor much. I seem to recall it’s just audio but maybe I’m wrong.

MisplacedDevelopment

@LeftyChris said:

@MisplacedDevelopment said:

@LeftyChris said:

@MisplacedDevelopment said:
Always been my favourite DAW on iOS. It is a near enough direct port of the desktop version and so has a lot of features that have been on the wishlist of other iOS DAWs for many years. There are so many great little features it has and so you will be discovering new things it can do months after you start using it.

Is there any major or important feature that other iOS DAWs have that MTS does not have? I am not a power user but it seems to always have whatever feature I need (though I only work with MIDI).

Of course it is missing one feature that all other conventional iOS DAWs have, namely, a traditional timeline view of the entire project.

I have sometimes thought that if MTS did have a timeline, it would probably skyrocket overnight to one of the most popular iOS DAWs since it has so much to offer and because it is constantly getting new features added.

An overall timeline view is one of the bigger things that is missing, I agree. It does have aliased patterns like Xequence 2 and NS2 but they are a little clunky to use (would be nice to have patterns that sync across tracks!) and once your project gets to a certain size then you do miss having NS2 levels of control over the arrangement. That being said, once you get used to it, the "Song Editor" is pretty powerful for moving around chunks of music as it works across all tracks so you can easily chop and change your song.

There are a few things missing from the desktop version that would be nice to have such as the multi-instrument feature and alternate takes but as a fellow 'mostly MIDI/Score' person myself, I can't ask for much more from it.

Do you use the desktop version of MTS much? I use it sometimes but on desktop I still mostly use Reaper (used to use Logic). MTS certainly makes life easy to go back and forth between iOS and desktop, though, that’s for sure.

I generally finish things in Reaper so I actually haven’t used the MTS Song Editor much. I seem to recall it’s just audio but maybe I’m wrong.

I mainly use desktop MTS for when I want to do something with the structure of an arrangement like moving lots of music around. Stuff that could be done on the iPad but where having the extra screen space makes using the desktop a better idea. Being able to then move the project directly back to iOS is a big advantage. In general I tend not to use my desktop as much nowadays for music as it is also my work area and it is hard for me to separate work and play in my head.

The song editor looks like it is just audio as it presents a waveform of sorts representing the active music, but it works across all tracks and lets you chop out and insert whole columns of bars of music. It is useful to have markers in place to map out the song structure as that makes it easier to find your way around in the song editor.

Littlewoodg

@MisplacedDevelopment said:

The song editor looks like it is just audio as it presents a waveform of sorts representing the active music, but it works across all tracks and lets you chop out and insert whole columns of bars of music. It is useful to have markers in place to map out the song structure as that makes it easier to find your way around in the song editor.

the “multi midi editor” displays all midi tracks at once, as midi rather than as waveforms as in the “song editor”. It works a bit like a ghost notes set up, except you can click between each track and edit it, with the same radial menu tools as on the main page, while showing you the other tracks, using the collors you assigned each track on the main page.

it also will allow you to edit the tracks, as musical score or drum track editor