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1. Cubasis 2 Vs Garageband Ipad 8 When I reviewed the first version of Cubasis, back in the March 2013 issue, I concluded that it was “a very promising mobile music-making tool that could shine if Steinberg iron out the initial quirks and bugs and keep the app up to date”.
2. Mar 14, 2018 Our picks for the best iPad DAW include WaveMachine Labs Auria Pro, Xewton Music Studio, Image Line FL Studio Mobile, Steinberg Cubasis 2, and Apple GarageBand. Our picks for the best iPad DAW include WaveMachine Labs Auria Pro, Xewton Music Studio, Image Line FL Studio Mobile, Steinberg Cubasis 2, and Apple GarageBand.

Which mobile DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) is the right one for you to record music on your iPad or iPhone?⏰ Time Stamps:00:00 Intro00:53 Quick comparison0. How to use Garageband app in iPad? Garageband is an inbuilt app for Apple devices like iOS and Mac OS. In one word Garageband for pc can be described as the one-stop destination for music lovers and the one who wants to build up their career as a musician. GarageBand and irig is a total waste of anyone’s time. Yes, It’s completely possible to record professional quality audio on your ipad but the first thing to do is forget about garage band all together and get the right apps and hardware.

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  From what I've read Cubasis is closer to what Beatmaker already does. I don't own it though (becuase it's outrageously expensive if that's true), so I have to be honest and say I really don't know. I could be completely wrong there. I DO own Auria, though, and I can tell you it's amazing. It has it's growing pains at times with various bugs, but the developers are amazing. They're very active in their forums and they push out updates frequently to address issues and add new plugins. I haven't come across anything remotely close to what I can get out of Auria on iOS in another app. Be warned though, the plugins can get expensive as well. They're worth it imo, but it can get pricey if you start buying everything they offer.
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  I don't own either, but if I was going to buy one, I'd go for Auria. It looks more robust and the PSP Audio channel strip and master strip are top notch. Not to mention the in-app purchase plugins like Pro-Q and Vintage Warmer.
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  My main reason in iOS production was sparked by Avid's ludicrous upgrade pricing to protools 10- I am still on 8.0.5- the last version I plan on using.
  That said, I bought Auria right when it came out, and although I still much prefer editing in protools, I love everything else about Auria. The mix buss sounds great, and for those that want virtual instruments they are coming...
  Cubasis seems like a stripped down version of cubase (which I also used back in the day), and their decision to go 16 bit will hurt them in the 'pro' market.
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  Thank you for the feedback guys! I think i'm going to try out Auria.
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  From what I've heard around the net, Cubasis doesn't even have automation. That pretty much takes it out of the equation completely for pro music production. Not to mention that its effects also supposedly suck.
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  The effects in cubasis are a joke
  Its super high for what it is.
  Garageband instruments sound way superior
  Auria imho sounds better than most daw systems. Auria has fabfilter plugs which are badass...shows over Auria is superior by leaps and bounds. My complaint is Auria is pushing ios pretty hard...so as things get kinda heavy on ipad2 zooming gets real slowwwwww...i have heard ipad 4 makes a big difference here. Havent tried myself though...but will soon
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  auria is bound to get more updates as it's developed by a company who only makes iOS apps where as cubasis is developed by guys who make desktop software too,
  (look at image line and fl studio mobile...)
  plus it's got all those IAP plugins, and audiobus on the way...
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  I love auria and can't wait until they throw midi and audiobus in.The IAP selection is growing fast and is very tempting.A lot of awesome plugins right now.The Pro EQ is my most favorite DAW Eq for years and i was more then happy to see it in auria.And its a pleasure to use it on the touchscreen,better than using a mouse (at least for me).But micgee is right.Aurias edit screen is too sluggish,doesnt matter how big the project is.Although its still possible to drive bigger projects with a lot of channelstrips active (on an ipad 2).But the IAP's are very cpu hungry.And i can imagine that audiobus in auria can eat up the cpu in a second or maybe even impossible to use.So i made the decision now to get myself an ipad 4 this week.
  I was kinda excited when cubasis arrived but after i read the whole manual i'm disappointed.I love the look and i can imagine that its a lot of fun to work with it if the edit window is smooth.But a lot of common features missing.The FX. are a bad joke (2-band eq?Seriously?),no automation,only 16bit,very cheap sounding instruments and it crashes more often than the competitors.Currently not worth 50$,simple as that.
  But these are all points the steinberg developer know and want to improve over the time (regarding to their forum posts)I'll keep an eye on it.But who knows where auria is when steinberg delivered all the promissed things?And what will apple do now?A logic lite on iPad would be awesome.Thats the reason why i still hold on and not buying more auria IAP.
  But i guess i'll stick with auria anyway,they have just an amazing support (probably the best i've ever seen)and can concentrate only on their'little baby'.They just deserve it to support them <!-- s:) --><img src='{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif' alt=':)' /><!-- s:) -->
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  I mostly use Logic pro as my main recorder at the moment...moving to ipad and auria totally soon...
  I'm not excited about apple and the ipad offering they provide musically, garageband is a closed system...it adopts no technologies at all which is lame imho. Logic on ipad is too little too late...auria honestly sounds better than logic pro to my ears...as logic has a real issue when it comes to the final render...logic playbck from actual file versus the actual mixdown file is like day and night...it is impossible to predict what the final render is going to sound like...it is not a what ou hear is what you get thing like protools...auria is dead on here as well. Logic is highly unimpressive...as far as the audio render goes...which is the most important thing in my opinion...logic pro is a great place to build songs...terrible place to finalize this process.
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  Just got an email announcing Auria LE...
  Most likely because as Auria progresses into the realm of midi,VI's, and audiobus,
  LE will probably be the only version that will run on pre-iPad 4...
  Smart move on their part I think.
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  I was interested to know if you were right about Auria LE so I posted a question over on their forum asking specifically about this. Their response was this;
  'Auria LE is Auria with less features, and lower maximum track count. It uses exactly the same codebase, so everything will feel and work the same way.'
  I've never experienced customer service on the level that I consistently get out of the team at WaveMachineLabs (Rim especially). They're the best. That being said, it doesn't sound like the overhead is going to be lower for Auria LE. Maybe I'm reading that wrong.
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  Three big ones concerning overhead- 44.1 khz only, track count (24 in LE) and no 64bit mix buss.
  It's still a great deal if you haven't already purchased Auria.
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  Dam LE should i just get that or the full aura now. All i really want to something to mix/master my BM songs on the iPad!
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  logic playbck from actual file versus the actual mixdown file is like day and night...it is impossible to predict what the final render is going to sound like...

  
  Exactly!
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  I bought the full version and I'm not disappointed in the least. I've also got the Pro Q plugin and a few others. It's every bit as good as you've read. The Pro Q is available to the LE version as well (as well as all the other IAP plugins from what the developers say). It's just up to you if the features listed here for the full version are valuable to you or not.
  Comparison here:
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Thinking of turning your iPad into a mobile recording studio? Check out our round-up of multitrack recording apps first!

IK Multimedia Amplitube For iPad £13.99$19.99

Though primarily a guitar-amp and effects modeller, the iOS versions of IK's Amplitube can be upgraded via an in-app purchase (£10.49$14.99) to offer a feature called Studio. This allows for eight tracks of recording (or four in an iPhone), with effects applicable per track as well as on the main mix. Tracks can have their effects 'frozen' to free up processing, 'bounced' to free up channels for more recording, and audio can be edited in the waveform display.

IK Multimedia Amplitube For iPad

WaveMachine Labs Auria £34.99$49.99

Arguably the most 'professional' iOS DAW around, Auria can accommodate 48 channels of playback and 24 channels of simultaneous recording, at up to 24 bit/96kHz, and it even has support for video. Many of the included effects and processors are coded by established plug-in makers PSP, its mixer has eight subgroups, and the automation implementation is total: volume, pan, sends and plug-in parameters can all be automated, either by recording or 'drawing' in automation lanes.

Review: /sos/oct12/articles/app-works-1012.htm

WaveMachine Labs Auria

Apple Garageband

With support for up to 32 tracks, the free app Garageband comes with a variety of built-in instruments, including piano, drums and a virtual string section. An in-app purchase upgrades it with nine guitar-amp and 10 stompbox models, as well as a sampler that lets you import your own recordings. One unique feature is called Jam Session, which lets multiple Garageband users play together via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, with the designated 'Band Leader' controlling the transport for all participating iOS devices.

Review: /sos/may12/articles/app-works-0512.htm

Apple Garageband

HarmonicDog Multitrack DAW £6.99$9.99

HarmonicDog's simply named Multitrack DAW app can record up to eight tracks of audio in its simplest incarnation, though this can be expanded to either 16 or 24 tracks via in-app upgrades. Each channel has access to compression and EQ, and there's also global reverb and delay. The main mix bus also has EQ and compression for basic mastering, and audio can be exported from the app via Wi-Fi using Apple's iTunes.

Review: /sos/jul11/articles/app-works-0711.htm

Harmonicdog Multitrack DAW

StudioMini XL Recording Studio £6.99$9.99

Famously used by Gorillaz on their album The Fall, XL Recording Studio lets you record up to eight tracks, and comes bundled with 78 pre-recorded loops in a variety of genres. A slider at the bottom of the UI allows you to navigate your song's timeline, and each song has its own text page, allowing you to make a record of notes or lyrics. When you've finished recording, you can email a final mixdown from directly within the app.

Studiomini XL Recording Studio

Meteor Multitrack Recorder £13.99$19.99

Meteor's iOS DAW can record up to 16 tracks, or 24 with an upgrade. It's compatible with CoreMIDI, so can sequence other iOS apps, including synthesizers, and comes with a host of virtual instruments and effects. The mixer gives each track access to three send effects, and the app even includes an automatic pitch-correction processor. Thanks to its MIDI Clock implementation, it can also be synchronised with other studio hardware, including external instruments and hardware sequencers.

Meteor Multitrack Recorder

Steinberg Cubasis £34.99$49.99

Taking its name from one of the older entry-level versions of Cubase, Cubasis aims to make iPad music-making a familiar task to users of Steinberg's long-established DAW. It supports up to 24 physical inputs and outputs, and provides for unlimited audio and MIDI channels. Over 85 instruments based on Steinberg's HALion Sonic soft synth are included, as well as an analogue-modelling synthesizer, the Micrologue. Twelve different effect types are also present, and can be assigned to any of three per-track insert slots or three global sends.

Review: /sos/mar13/articles/app-works-0313.htm

Steinberg Cubasis

Sonoma Wire Works StudioTrack £6.99$9.99

An eight-track recorder, StudioTrack offers a four-band EQ, delay and compression per channel, as well as EQ and compression on the master bus. If eight tracks proves insufficient, you can bounce your project to a stereo track, and have it appear either within the same project or a new one. The built-in metronome can be set to a specific bpm manually, or by tapping the tempo, and it can also keep time using a range of pre-recorded drum loops in a variety of time signatures. For guitarists, a tuner and a selection of amp and effects modellers is also included.

Sonoma Wire Works StudioTrack

When Apple launched their first iPad in 2010, it was derided by many as being little more than an oversized iPhone. Much has changed since then, however: the newer models all feature much faster processors, higher-resolution screens and greater capacity for storage. But perhaps the biggest advance, as far as musicians are concerned, has been the proliferation of audio apps. Thanks to the mushrooming iOS development industry, an iPad can now feasibly replace such indispensable tools as a spectrum analyzer, test oscillator, control surface, synthesizer, guitar tuner, amp modeller.. and even your DAW.

A Bite Of The Apple

Choosing an iPad over a computer or laptop for serious recording has much to recommend it. For starters, they're designed to be intuitive and easy to use, which would certainly be a welcome attribute in the heat of a session. The last thing you want to be doing in between shepherding musicians and untangling XLR cables is plugging in a mouse and keyboard and faffing about with menus.

Reliability is also a big consideration. Apps sold via Apple's App Store are generally tested quite vigorously, and since DAW apps tend to be much simpler than their full-blown software counterparts, there's usually less to go wrong with them. What's more, and unlike computers, iPads have no moving parts, which means they're less sensitive to the occasional jolt that can befall computers and laptops. Also, the absence of any fans means that iPads are completely silent in operation, so you'll never suffer from the fan-whirring or hard-disk access noises that can plague computer recordings.

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Getting Connected

Before you go rushing off to the App Store, however, it's worth noting that you may need to invest in some hardware before your iPad is ready for serious recording. Although some audio interfaces can connect straight to an iPad, many require the optional Apple Camera Connection Kit, which endows iPads with a standard USB port. Even then, for an interface to work with the iPad, it must be Class 2.0 Compliant — in other words, it must have the ability to work on computers without any drivers installed. Further complicating things, some interfaces work in Class Compliant mode but only with limited functionality.. The good news, though, is that most of the app developers on the previous pages maintain a list of interfaces that are known to work with their iOS DAW, so if yours isn't already iPad compatible, you can easily find one that is.

There's More!

While the compact and portable nature of iPads makes them very well suited to recording, sometimes the power of a 'proper' computer is needed come mixdown time — especially for larger projects. Thankfully, most DAW apps make it very easy to export your recordings should you wish to do so, with some even offering wireless transfer of audio files via iTunes. And once you've transferred your project to your 'main' studio computer, your iPad will become free once more to perform one of its many other tasks — perhaps acting as a control surface to help you mix your location recording!

Portable, silent and easy to use. Could this be your next studio?

Crossover mac office 2016. n-Track Studio by n-Track Software is a multitrackaudio editing, digital audio workstation (DAW) program for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Android and iOS.

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n-Track Studio's capabilities include unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, up to 192kHz24-bit high-definition (HD DVD, Blu-ray, etc.) audio recording, extensive plug-in support, and DVD-Videosurround mixing up to 7.1 channel. It has native support for 64-bitCPU architecture computer systems.

History[edit]

The first version of n-Track was released sometime between 1995 and 1996. It was originally a simple dialog box with 4 volume sliders for each of the 4 supported tracks. At the time when version 1.0 was released multitrack recording was still largely done on tape decks or professional digital workstations. Major music software of the time (such as Cubase or Cakewalk) still didn't have audio capabilities and were mostly MIDI only, while audio editors (e.g. Cool Edit and Sound Forge) were mainly concerned with off-line editing for sound design or broadcasting. Although since the mid 90s many other PC multitrack recording programs have emerged n-Track is still quite popular, as it provides a cutting-edge DAW feature set for less than US$100.

In June 2010 n-Track Software released the first version of n-Track for OS X. In 2011 n-Track Software released n-Track Studio for iOS. In October 2013 n-Track Software released n-Track Studio for Android.

Version 8 was released in 2016.^[2] n-Track Studio 9.0 was released in 2018.^[3][4][5]

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References[edit]

1. ^https://ntrack.com/changelog.php
2. ^'n-Track Studio review - n-Track Software's multi-platform DAW/sequencer in its iOS format - Music App Blog'. musicappblog.com.
3. ^'n-track Studio 9: DAW update looks better, works better and adds new effects'.
4. ^'Updated n-Track Studio 9 For iOS Is Available Now'. ask.audio.
5. ^guest (24 February 2018). 'n-Track Studio 9 Brings Updated GUI, New Effects'.

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