NanoStudio 2

Easy to work with, high quality sounds, the best synthesizer inside the DAW on the entire iPad music production ecosystem, supports AUv3 and I can go on and on. The only thing that’s missing is the ability to record vocals. For electronic music production and beat making this app is a must have. Great work from the developer, my compliments!

I think one of the best if not the best. Often i think it can be better, like the sequencer would like to have option to fill note every beat or every 2 / 4 / 6 steps. Maybe its there but i know about. Also would like to import riffs ( if that is the correct term ). For drum machine, call me lazy but sometimes i dont want to build whole drum loop, importing would be satisfying. A randomize option would be even sweeter.

Thanks for the quick fix!

When Will There be a update with record function?

As it says in its description it’s for making beats and it’s not a DAW, you can’t record any vocals into the tracks. With that being said, Obsidian is Awesome 👏 slate is a masterpiece and the standard effects , instruments etc are high quality. I normaly have to put somany effects on an instrument to get it to sound good but in NanoStudio i hardly use fx only the compressor side chaining awesomely. But adding audio traks to NanoStudio isn’t a bad idea 💡 I thank the guys who made this app 👌 good job 👍

I find this has a very intuitive interface, within 20 mins I was making a fairly complex track with effects and automation. That’s not a bad start compared to other iPad DAWs like Auria and Cubasis. The drum/sampler rack and instrument is nice as is the included synth Obsidian. It’s much deeper than you might think from first glance and you can see that these two were meant to do a lot of heavy lifting which they do in a very resource friendly manner. It’s mostly midi arrangement for now until audio track support is added in the near future. The midi composer and arranger works very well and has quite a few shortcuts and clever tweaks to speed up the process. If I had to criticize I would say the file menus are a little confusing - saving new kits and adding samples to the app is a little counter intuitive and sometimes downright difficult.

Gutted to find my korg nanokey not working, unlike in v1, GarageBand or flstudio where it DOES work.

NanoStudio 2 is an all in one music making powerhouse. Its Obsidian synth is so good you don’t really need any other synths inside the app, as you can import a single sample into Obsidian and turn it into something great with relative ease, and that’s on top of the other synthesis methods it offers. Recording or drawing in automation to further add movement and interest to your sound is a snap, because the interface is as good as you will find on iPhone. All in all NanoStudio 2 ranks up there with the best apps available for iPhone.

Can we get an update soon? Ability to add audio tracks and a beater sampler would be nice.

The audio track thing. They were planned to be added soon after initial release but the dev got sidetracked due to user requests for AUv3 compatibility. For me the audio tracks would have been much more useful than AU. I think audio tracks would’ve generated more sales also. Then he could have justified the time to implement AU. If you don’t need audio tracks then I would suggest NS2 over all the others. It does need an update but still… Also, reading some of these reviews, people are just wrong. Several say that NS2 doesn’t perform certain functions when actually it does. RTFM people! It’s not that hard.