MultitrackStudio for iPad: Tutorial Videos!

Coloobar

Due to a lack of good videos on Youtube on this great DAW, I put together 4 video tutorials myself. For now they are quite simple instructional/how-to/features and capability-type videos:

Tutorial 1 covers importing midi files into MultitrackStudio for iPad, the song editor, the time & tempo editor, using soundfonts within the app. I explore these features by creating a quick drum track from midi drum loops from Dropbox into MTS. I used purchased midi loops from Groove Monkee (highly recommended), but there are lots of other purchased and free ones out there, too.

Tutorial 2 covers converting midi tracks into sound in MultitrackStudio for iPad. Thumbjam and iSymphonic Orchestra are used as examples to convert midi directly to an audio track using Inter-App Audio. As an alternate approach, midi data is sent to Z3ta+ and the resulting audio is recorded back to MultitrackStudio with Audiobus.

Tutorial 3 covers processing recorded audio tracks using various IAA effects from apps, as well as built-in effects in MTS. I show how to mix down multiple audio tracks to a single track. I also take some recorded clean guitar and add distortion with JamUp Pro, convolution reverb (with custom IR Cabs) using the MTS IAP (and the free 3rd party app Fiddlicator as an alternate), and lastly I round out the guitar tone with EQ.

Tutorial 4 covers recording midi data into MTS from other apps. I'll show how to record multiple midi channels at once from an app, in this case 4 midi channels from Xynthesizr, and then I'll show how to record with virtual midi, in this case from Genome Midi Sequencer.

Link to the app in the app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/multitrackstudio-for-ipad/id776998585?mt=8

Link to the videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/WMSFLL/videos

I've got a few more planned, including the midi editing features, the matrix sampler, mixing/EQing, the effects loop, mid-side EQ, sidechaining, outputting/exporting a finished song. If you have any critique, "better ways", or requests on other subjects you would like to see covered, please let me know.

funjunkie27

Thanks for posting these @Coloobar. I just finished the first and will go through the others after work. I've used MTS. on and off for some time and realize it's quite an app, but I've struggled with it on too many occasions and didn't put in the effort needed to get comfortable with it. Hoping your vids will help.

StormJH1

Huge! Thanks for your work on this @Coloobar! I haven't used MTS or much of anything lately due to lack of time, but I will definitely view these to see if there were any key features I missed, or at least to refresh my memory of all the cool tips and tricks you can do with MTS!

JohnnyGoodyear

@funjunkie27 said:
Thanks for posting these Coloobar. I just finished the first and will go through the others after work. I've used MTS. on and off for some time and realize it's quite an app, but I've struggled with it on too many occasions and didn't put in the effort needed to get comfortable with it. Hoping your vids will help.

Exactamundo!

Thanks Mister Coloo-person

donb720

Generous. Thank you.

taroface

Nice... would be great to see a mention of Song mode!

Maarten

@Coloobar: thank you for the great videos. It would be nice if you'd share your effects presets. I remember the presets are in the app directory and can be exported via iTunes or iFunbox. Maybe you can upload them on the MTS forum? Maybe you can start a new thread where mts users can exchange their effect and instrument presets

funjunkie27

Picked up several tips on these @Coloobar. Thanks again. Inspired to put it back in the toolbox.

Coloobar

@Maarten That sounds like a good idea. I can share some of my EQ presets, but some of them might be very specific to my particular setup so I'm not sure how much use they'll be for you.

Coloobar

I just added Tutorial 5; Basic Midi Creation/Editing

This video covers the basics of manipulating midi notes in MTS. I use a couple of examples to demonstrate creating and using a click track, editing single notes and groups of notes at the same time, adjusting pitch, quantization, using the keyboard, chord and guitar windows. using the song editor to copy and paste bars, expanding a single note to a chord, and outputting a midi drum part to another drum app.

Link to the videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/WMSFLL/videos

StormJH1

This is great - this will be an outstanding resource for current or would-be MTS users. And there was a lack of those previously.

Thank you!!

JohnnyGoodyear

Very grateful for your efforts. Bookmarked all round.

Coloobar

Thanks @StormJH1 @JohnnyGoodyear.

Part 6 is finished: Advanced midi controls, the guitar instrument and midi pitch pending, the midi control panel, editing midi data such as pitch and velocities, setting up a loop for recording, sound on sound (SoS), the midi drum kit instrument, the midi score (music notation) window and editing.

I've just finished redoing all of Part 1-5 to make them more concise, with better audio quality and overdubbed narration. Part 1 - 6 are all combined into one video. Part 6 starts at 30:00 in the video.

JohnnyGoodyear

@Coloobar Wow. Hell of a resource.

Maarten

@Coloobar great tutorial series for a great app. I have a feeling there's a big update around the corner. Since its launch, the app was updated every single month. It's been silent now for several months....

JohnnyGoodyear

@Maarten You either have a well-developed pre-cog thing happening or you're in the know....

Maarten

@johnnyGoodyear let's call it wishful thinking

telecode101

very cool. thanks for the tutorial

Coloobar

I just added the Part 7-12 video. I kept the parts brief by using one or two examples of each:

Part 7: The matrix sampler, including importing wav files and direct midi to wav conversion from another track. The new direct midi to piano roll import feature in version 1.8.

Part 8: Using the Convoluter effect to create a room reverb, the master out effects slots.

Part 9: The automated fader effect

Part 10: Using the effects loop.

Part 11: Effects and mixing, The Dynamics effect including sidechaining/ducking, EQ, adding a low cut filter, and Compression including the new Multiband Compressor in ver. 1.8.

Part 12. Automation. Creating a song fade-out, and a stereo pan sweep.

I don't explain what the effects do in this video, as there are many other tutorials and guides on the internet that explain in great detail about EQ, compression, sidechaining, etc. Hopefully you can hear for yourself the effect in the video. In the future I'll want to do more on the new Multiband Compressor once I wrap my head around how to best use it.