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I love my OP-1 Field, that's for sure. And I found the best way to record from the OP-1 Field direct into iPad is Logic Pro. I can then instantly master my recording and post to SoundCloud.
BTW, I am an AUM fan.
NS2 does indeed export MIDI. To me it sounds like you would benefit from connecting your iPhone to the OP-1 and using NS2 to sequence or sample the OP-1, or both. Just a thought.
Good idea!
I'll have to see if I can record from my Field into AUM. 🤔 That could be cool.
BUY 💯
This was already discussed on Nanostudio forum... The messages (and threads) have been promptly deleted by the admin...
I think we are all guilty at some point of wanting certain apps to be just like we imagined them to be. But straight-forwardly demanding the feature and forcing the developer to give up the code is just too much. 😳
Only deleting those messages and threads is the most polite thing that a developer can do in this situation.
It was only declined because the $ offer was too low
But seriously, it was just a discussion and I believe if a software company would offer a reasonable amount of money for the code in order to base Nanostudio 3 on it, the developer would sell it. How they say, everything has a price just the question how high
I mean if Korg Gadget is a viable app (and of course it is), then surely NS2 is as well. It’s not really a DAW since it doesn’t have audio tracks, but it’s an amazing MIDI groovebox.
I work in the UX world. Great devs and designers steal, or shall we say repurpose, the interaction design patterns that work well for the user. Overall, of course, is KISS. But what I’m sensing that the MIDI grid editing is preferred and seems less fiddly with its side handles. And the nav is kept relatively flat between one screen or mode to the next. I’ll know more now that I have just bought it.
In other words, maybe some app producers should pay attention and analyze what’s great about NS2 and incorporate it into their existing apps or create new apps.
This thread made me wish it was released as open source (as a result of a Kickstarter campaign to compensate for potential lost revenue). It would both allow to continue development as a community project (or at least make it possible) and enrich the music making world in general.
As for its current state, if you want a fast, efficient and powerful music creation tool and don't need audio tracks, what you need is Drambo.
I had considered this with Xequence, which when taking into account the unfinished internal audio engine / synth / mixer is approximately comparable to NS2, and the bottom line was that it was considered unrealistic.
https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/58935/xequence-as-open-source-project-kickstarter
Thanks. That was an interesting read.
In case of NS2 though, it's effectively abandoned already, so I was rather thinking in terms of releasing it "as is" without any community support that you were going to provide. Anyway, this is not something the developer is going to do.
I wouldn’t construe the few random people on this forum as representative of the market.
Finish your brochure and feature list, then try to market the idea on some popular audio news sites.
It being based in webaudio makes it much more accessible for plugin development.
Good points...
hm this soudns weird to me.. as i know not much admins are active therr anymore, maybe one but i don't think he is the kind of guy who deletes posts.. it was definitely not me :-))) so probably just original author deleted it ? As i remember there wasn't never any censorship there
Yeah…. This sounds to me like a partial misunderstanding or something. Maybe the reference is just to the discussion of developing audio tracks and the lack of financial support of the app? That sort of discussion is likely still up on the NS2 forum if one ventured back far enough. The only threads deleted in recent years were threads created by spambots.
Bottom line is that NS2 is what it is. It has audio clips in Slate but won’t likely ever get audio tracks. Matt committed to fix anything broken by iOS updates. And if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. … and I would never say never. He could decide to return to it one day. Speculation about him handing over code seems crass to me. That was his baby which he spent a major part of his life working on. Let him hang on to that. It is quite an accomplishment. For the ridiculously low asking price I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t buy the app and try it out.
Hav’nt used Nanostudio v2 since the release of Logic Pro for iPad, and yes, NS2 was groundbreaking when it was released 2018 after many many years of waiting from NS1 users.
But the lack of real audiofile support is why I can’t recommend NS2 any longer.
In the same time, NS2 in any aspect is a tremendous and wonderful “DAW” - stable as hell, streamlined efficient coded and very well laid out - just sorry that mr Matt couldn’t ended this project…. 😢😢😢
Definitely Buy. Obsidian is the one of the greatest synths and is only in NS2. Even not when recommended Obsidian, I would still say to buy it.
I still pray that the dev might resurrect the plan to add audio tracks someday - such a brilliant piece of software. Insanely talented guy , and yeah Obsidian is ridiculously good. Crazy how cpu efficient it is and the navigation just brilliantly laid out. Feels fluid even on iPhone.
It is stable at the end of 2024
I say buy it while it’s on sale
I found it to be the absolute best [mini] DAW so far, especially for $5!
( wish I got this 2.5 years ago with my iPad
And rs2000 made a great point; using the sampler you can have audio tracks ; or richarsyot made the suggestion to use multitrack audio recorder by 4 pockets)
While one shot, octachron and autofills were my purchase of the year (and overall for my iPad), ns2 is my surprise app of the year
It makes me wonder.
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Idk why the dev blip interactive didn’t sell the app to someone else!?? It’s like 90% finished , well it’s 100% but Audio tracks wouldn’t have been hard to integrate considering the sampler already captures audio…
Is it hard to sell a fully functional and developed product/app to another dev ??
Matt was a wizard Developer. There are Devs and devs. Not sure how many could have did what he did, or have the balls to take it on.
Before getting into iPad music, I never really got into the whole DAW audio and MIDI all rolled into one thing. I had a hardware MIDI sequencer: E-mu MP-7 (which has synths and drums built-in as a bonus), and an audio recorder on my computer: used to be ProTools LE, more recently Studio One.
I composed and sequenced on the MP-7, and i recorded on the computer.
So for me NS2 is just the ultimate multitrack MIDI sequencer (its pretty much replaced my MP-7 entirely), that also happens to do some bonus stuff (Slate, Obsidian, AUv3 synths and FX). It’s super quick and intuitive to throw some basic tracks together in NS2 on my lunch break. Use some iPad instruments, copy some parts to External MIDI tracks and audition them on my hardware synths when i get home.
I don’t miss the integrated audio tracks, because i never really worked that way in the first place. And I’ve got 4pockets Multitrack anyway, if i do want to venture into that realm.
Now, I wouldn’t say no to some AUv3 FX automation;) But it’s nowhere near a dealbreaker.
I’ve tried to get into Drambo and some others, but from the quick and easy sequencing/composing angle, none of them are in the same league with NS2.
Hey 2023/Nanostudio!
5$!!! NS2 workflow is great! Dendy and others do great stuff using just the built in synth/slate/fx. I recommend it for this alone.
I just wish I didn't have so many bugs back in the day when exporting multitracks using various AUV3. Completely blank tracks, synth patches that are suddenly broken, offset timing etc. But to be fair I was getting this sort of thing in BM3 and Cubasis at the time as well, (base model iPad and early stage AUV3 plugins probably didnt help) but alas it would be different plugins in different hosts giving different problems. At least with BM3 I could realtime record back in problematic tracks, so in this regard having no audio tracks (for workaround purposes) in NS2 was a bummer for me.
Anyway these days I am into recording straight to audio (usually to desktop, sometimes AUM) and pretty much avoid exporting from anything anymore aside from walled garden apps. Looking forward to (what I hope is) Jim Gadget which should at the very least incorporate his own synths with solid export and seems to have a ton of it's own sweet fx which I imagine will automate well... shall see.
But yah 5$!! Jeepers.
With so much mention of MultiTrack Recorder for audio tracks I wanted to mentioned that one road bump with this is you can't get external audio to an FX plugin. So, to record audio from external sources with MultiTrack you need to record the audio in the standalone first. Then it'll be available in MultiTrack's audio pool.
I just thought I'd put that out there to save people some trial and error time.
Mention of MultiTrack Recorder has made me want to experiment with Loopy Pro in NS2 for this. With the exception of the issue of external audio routing, it seems like it could be very good for this too. It has the timeline mode which (I hope) should follow NS2's timeline. If it doesn't, loops can be triggered by midi notes, so those could always be put in a track. I'll report back if it seems like it'll be useful.
yeah, not buying NS2 for 5 bucks is overthinking it. Everything it can do natively is amazing. You can always export and do whatever you want with it, but it holds up well to this day, imho.
Loopy Pro standalone and NS2 work well using Link. It is a little annoying because NS2 can’t rewind via a midi command and doesn’t have auto-rewind.
One could conceivably workaround NS2’s lack of external audio input by using KQ Voice Plugin to forward the audio from another host
Oh yeah! LP inside NS2!!!! Good call wim
Looks like NS2 is now complete
NS2 is in discount for $5????
Oh. This makes me just incredibly sad how this project ended. Like, i am glad for Matt he has proper job and probably much more time for family, of course.
But it makes me incredibly sad for NS, cause for me this had so big potential, for me this was the kind of project you see once per lifetime :-((