Great app but need some features urgently!
Update: Thank you for your kind response. I didn’t realise that Hokusai is a different kind of editor. I will try Ferrite and share my thoughts there.
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I purchased the Pro Pack hoping to use Hokusai as a mobile alternative to Adobe Audition for editing audio on the go. I've enjoyed using the app, but there are two limitations that have made it difficult for me to fully incorporate it into my workflow:
1. Audio clips cannot be freely dragged and repositioned on the timeline. The only workaround I've found is adding silence to create spacing, which is cumbersome and time-consuming.
2. It’s missing volume envelopes. For working on the go, I don’t care for advanced automation features. But volume envelopes is indispensable.
I would be very grateful if you could consider adding these features in a future update. Since I've already invested in the Pro Pack, I'd love to make Hokusai a bigger part of my audio-editing workflow.
Thank you.
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I purchased the Pro Pack hoping to use Hokusai as a mobile alternative to Adobe Audition for editing audio on the go. I've enjoyed using the app, but there are two limitations that have made it difficult for me to fully incorporate it into my workflow:
1. Audio clips cannot be freely dragged and repositioned on the timeline. The only workaround I've found is adding silence to create spacing, which is cumbersome and time-consuming.
2. It’s missing volume envelopes. For working on the go, I don’t care for advanced automation features. But volume envelopes is indispensable.
I would be very grateful if you could consider adding these features in a future update. Since I've already invested in the Pro Pack, I'd love to make Hokusai a bigger part of my audio-editing workflow.
Thank you.
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Response from developer
Hello! It sounds like you’re looking for a very different kind of audio editor to Hokusai. Fortunately, we make one of those too! It’s called Ferrite Recording Studio, it supports moving clips around on a timeline and volume automation envelopes and many other features, and you can find it in the App Store. There’s also a comparison guide on our website, to help figure out which of Hokusai and Ferrite is right for you. Hope that helps!
bad interface
too many steps to start a recording. you need to make it
easy to immediately record audio and stop
without having so many prompts to click
easy to immediately record audio and stop
without having so many prompts to click
Great software!
Needed to use an alternative for remote location podcast construction and editing and I have now been using this for nearly 8 years. Easy to use and does what it needs to with being complex. I keep checking for alternatives and keep on coming back to this software.
Furchtbar
Die App ist so ziemlich das Furchtbarste was ich in vielen Jahren als UX gesehen habe. Vollständig unbedienbar, selbst einfachste Dinge konnte man nicht verstehen. Keinerlei intuitive Oberfläche.
Best Phone Audio Editor!!!!
Best audio app ever! I’ve used since 2012 and have been using it to mix music for my dance studio since, I’ll never use another app! It gets better with every update
No silence trimming
I use it for speech and there is no silence trimming, what a shame...
Purchased
I spent an hour just trying to figure out how to access gain. Finally I got it. Tap the waveform quickly and then the menu appears. I wish this was just in the wrench menu. Anyway, after figuring it out, I’m happy. I can balance my audio and save my files to a higher quality WAV format.
long time fan!
this app is rockin. i’ve had it in my back pocket since 2014 at least, and it’s always been handy! Even now as i sit with my ukulele and sing songs to my newborn, it’s so great to have a multi track handy so i can compose a kids song with my kid, and not need a bunch of interface mumbo jumbo.
Doesn't Work
Don't waste your time. It's slow, clunky, and barrels worked. The record quality is fine but building a basic multi track is pure garbage. Why would I "Upgrade" when the basic doesn't even work? Fix it and I'll buy it but otherwise, trash it.
Sensational
This little app has started me down a new path of creative audio enjoyment. Amazing value.
Near Perfect!
Been using this app for years! I feel an option for folders would be amazing as it’ll be more organized and make it easier to locate certain tracks.
Perfect
Very good app. Thank you..
More features.
I love this app so much! The accessibility is great with voiceover! Can you make more editing features? Also can we take away the staticy sound? And can we share as mp3 files? (Unless I may be stupid and am missing that)
Annoying garbage.
Become annoying garbage. Unstable buggy. Not easy to use UI like merge or same track duplicate and merge etc easy to use features. Ugly messy UI and tools.
Love it
I love this app, I only wish I could export or share mp3 format. It does way more than I need which is to do simple edits on short notification files but they have to end up in mp3 format so I need a format converter.
The snapping is horrible
I dislike when I copy or move around a sound to master in another track but I have to copy the sound and fade in and fade out and then add in my track by using the original and fading in and out and mastering together but there’s a clipping around due to the snapping that makes it misaligned or not moving to correct position.
Why can’t you make separate clips in one track like Audacity?
It so hard when your code snaps every without nonlinear or free flow audio snapping.
Audio snapping is ruining my mastering.
And why can’t you implement an AI waveform snapping where it matches the waveform to another track maybe one below is assigned to be or match the waveform above it.
If it’s a different waveform as a stem use the original unaltered stem and track to that waveform to make the stem match where that stem is compared to the others to make each steam match correctly.
When I do it manually each track doesn’t want to move where I want it to and theres phase distortion due to the track snapping to a set position when I don’t what it to do that.
This app is unintuitive and hard to work with. The rigid “clip snapping” does not allow for precise alignment of tracks.
Please make ways around this.
Please allow for An AI, with an option to match the waveform to what track and pressing the track asking sure if you want to match the current waveform to this say and press yes.
And it will match the waveform to the track, if it doesn’t match in bitrate or speed-
it will apply all the advanced features of methods to change any known differences in each track to apply to the track you what to change or alter.
This is for if the track you want to move is a tape recording or a very damaged track.
Why can’t you make separate clips in one track like Audacity?
It so hard when your code snaps every without nonlinear or free flow audio snapping.
Audio snapping is ruining my mastering.
And why can’t you implement an AI waveform snapping where it matches the waveform to another track maybe one below is assigned to be or match the waveform above it.
If it’s a different waveform as a stem use the original unaltered stem and track to that waveform to make the stem match where that stem is compared to the others to make each steam match correctly.
When I do it manually each track doesn’t want to move where I want it to and theres phase distortion due to the track snapping to a set position when I don’t what it to do that.
This app is unintuitive and hard to work with. The rigid “clip snapping” does not allow for precise alignment of tracks.
Please make ways around this.
Please allow for An AI, with an option to match the waveform to what track and pressing the track asking sure if you want to match the current waveform to this say and press yes.
And it will match the waveform to the track, if it doesn’t match in bitrate or speed-
it will apply all the advanced features of methods to change any known differences in each track to apply to the track you what to change or alter.
This is for if the track you want to move is a tape recording or a very damaged track.
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ADD CLIPPING BACK
please add clipping feature back
Omg I am crying!!!
I am blind and I have been looking for an app that has all the features this app does and is actually accessible with VoiceOver and you guys did it! The pro version is so worth every penny also! Thank you thank you thank you! You are seriously amazing for making this and I hope it never goes away like literally I've never had an issue with this app and I can do so much! And the one thing I am struggling with I'm pretty sure is a user error ha ha but if you are even considering downloading or paying for this app just do it you will not be disappointed!
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Almost perfect
This app is gold and I love it for taking recordings on the go. WAV export is a great plus, as as well as the simple, nice looking UI. This being said, some oddities should be addressed, though. Here suggestions:
1. Add mute / solo buttons the tracks headers! This is crucial for any multitrack audio editor.
2. Add the effects tab (“more…”) to the track headers (context menu of the wrench button) as well. Right now, this is only applicable to selections that are made to the waveforms. It is cumbersome and unnecessary to select the entire waveform at its length, in order to apply an effect to the track itself (e.g. to normalise it).
3. Regarding the selection tool, the left and right handles (blue dots) are quite misplaced. They cover up the centre of the waveform, right where we need to see it when we want to precisely set the selection borders. No precision possible this way, more of a guesswork instead.
Five stars guaranteed, if you manage to overcome these flaws. And by the way…thanks a ton for offering a one-time purchase! You wouldn’t have seen any money from me for a subscription model. ;)
1. Add mute / solo buttons the tracks headers! This is crucial for any multitrack audio editor.
2. Add the effects tab (“more…”) to the track headers (context menu of the wrench button) as well. Right now, this is only applicable to selections that are made to the waveforms. It is cumbersome and unnecessary to select the entire waveform at its length, in order to apply an effect to the track itself (e.g. to normalise it).
3. Regarding the selection tool, the left and right handles (blue dots) are quite misplaced. They cover up the centre of the waveform, right where we need to see it when we want to precisely set the selection borders. No precision possible this way, more of a guesswork instead.
Five stars guaranteed, if you manage to overcome these flaws. And by the way…thanks a ton for offering a one-time purchase! You wouldn’t have seen any money from me for a subscription model. ;)
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Response from developer
Thanks for your feedback! You can mute/unmute tracks in Hokusai by double-tapping on the volume dial. If you’re zoomed out on a project, double-tapping a track will select all of it, making it quick and easy to select it all, to apply an effect (if you’re zoomed in, it’ll select the part you can see — triple tap to select everything, on or off the screen). Hope that helps!
Very Good
It would be the best editor ever if it had auv3 support. The interface is so good, there’s tons of functionality, being able to use my favorite pugins would be the ultimate, i’d pay extra
