Music Studio Lite at Mac App Store analyse

Music Studio offers a complete music production environment for the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch with features and a sound quality previously only known to desktop applications and expensive audio hardware. It combines a piano keyboard, 11 studio-quality instruments (124 in the full version), a fully fledged 127-track sequencer, extensive note editing, reverb, real-time effects and much more on a user-friendly interface. AWARDS & REVIEWS OF THE FULL VERSION • "A recent composition of mine started on the iPhone with Music Studio" - Jason Hayes, lead composer of "World of Warcraft" • "GarageBand on your iDevice" - TouchMyApps.com • "Music Studio is loaded to the brim with features and is a no brainer for composers" - AppAdvice.com • "If you’re at all serious about your music you can’t really afford to miss out on this app." - razorianfly.com • "Music Studio justifies the purchase of an iDevice if youre really into it." - appfreakblog.com • Awards from BestAppEver.com, iPhoneAppsPlus.com, apps4idevices, Palm Sounds FEATURES • Photorealistic, dynamically configurable 60-key keyboard (85 in the full version) • Instant positioning via the slide gesture and resize with the pinch gesture • Drum pads, chord pads and chord programming • 11 studio-recorded instruments (16bit 44.1kHz sampled from real instruments) • Release and attack time configurable per instrument • Sustain samples • Pitch bend wheel and accelerometer control • Audio tracks: • Microphone recording • AudioCopy & AudioPaste • iPod library or wav/mp3/AAC/ogg file import • Waveform and audio region editing • Record with CoreAudio (class compliant) hardware • Sampler to a create custom instrument or kit from audio files and recordings • Background audio playback and recording • Low-latency, highly optimized, 128x polyphony, battery saving audio engine • 10 drum loops • High-quality reverb, resonant filter, compressor and limiter effects • 127-track sequencer • Beat & metronome settings (tempo, signature) • Mute, solo, effect bus, pan and volume adjustment for each track • Edit tracks, bars and even individual notes: Draw, quantize, transpose, repeat, move, length, velocity, etc. • Unlimited undo and redo • Detailed in-app help • Play or record 2 different instruments at the same time with 2 keyboard rows • iPhone and iPad Retina Display supported • Compatible with CoreMIDI (MIDI in and out), Virtual MIDI and MIDI hardware. LIMITATIONS OF THE LITE VERSION • Saving, exporting and sharing is disabled, hence only one song can be created. • Only 11 instead of 124 instruments are available • The number of audio tracks is limited to 2 (up to 127 in the full version) • Only 1 user instrument or kit can be created (unlimited in the full version) • The keyboard is limited to 5 octaves instead of 7 (85 keys) • 6 Effects are not available: Delay, EQ, Amp, Phaser, BitCrusher, StereoWidener. • Only 10 instead of 100 beats • The full version features Files app support, iTunes file sharing and a WiFi server for exchanging files with your computer. • MIDI import/export is disabled. • The full version supports Audiobus and Inter-App Audio. • No add-on packages (+70 instruments) Video tutorials are available on the Xewton YouTube channel.