MultiTrack DAW vs Q BIT Crusher

The power of a digital audio workstation in the palm of your hand. MultiTrack has been recording on iPhone since 2009, and version 7 rebuilds it from the engine up — with all 32 tracks for everyone. RECORD Record from the built-in mic, any USB or multichannel interface, or an AUv3 or Inter-App Audio instrument — up to 32 inputs at once. Monitoring, Auto Input, punch and loop recording, and latency compensation tuned to your own setup: tap Detect and a short chirp measures it, or set it by hand to the sample. Recorded audio lines up with what you heard. EDIT WITHOUT LOSING TAKES Nothing you record is overwritten, and a take survives a call, a lost interface, or a closed song. Regions point at the audio, so slicing and trimming never touch the file. Regions can overlap, and the overlap is the crossfade. Drag one over its neighbor to blend two takes — eight curve shapes, equal-power or equal-gain. Every fade has a curve of its own: drag a fade handle up or down to bend it. Smart Snap throughout, and 100 levels of undo. TEMPO AND TIME Change time signatures on the ruler, wherever your song requires. Automate the tempo itself (Unlock All Features): draw ramps and curves, and audio, MIDI, and Ableton Link follow in real time. MIX Up to six AUv3 or Inter-App Audio plugins on every track, bus, and the master. Four send busses, pre- or post-fader. EQ and compressor throughout, plus bundled delay and reverb. Sidechains from any track or bus. Freeze a track to reclaim CPU. SURROUND, DONE PROPERLY Stereo, Quad, LCRS, 5.1, 6.1, both 7.1s, and 9.1, plus discrete pass-through from 4 to 16 channels. The panner places sound instead of smearing it: at least 24 dB between neighboring speakers in every layout, and constant level across the field. Switch a speaker off and its share is redistributed, not dropped. MIDI Play AUv3 instruments from hardware controllers, Network MIDI, or other apps, and record every note, loops included. Route it all through the MIDI Matrix with savable filter and transform chains, and import Standard MIDI Files with their tempo maps. Unlock All Features adds piano-roll editing, where Draw mode puts a note under your finger. AUTOMATION — Unlock All Features Draw or record automation for volume, mute, pan, EQ, compressor, sends, pitch, any Audio Unit parameter, and MIDI CC, pitch bend, and channel pressure. MIDI 2.0 goes further: every note carries its own pitch bend and pressure, shaped note by note with a bendable curve on every segment. WARP AND PITCH Pitch shift up to two octaves either way, with formant preservation, no unlock needed. Time stretching and warp editing (Unlock All Features) put source and target timing in one editor: place markers, correct a source BPM, and loop while you audition. EXPORT THAT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR MIX WAV, MP3, FLAC, Apple Lossless, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis. Normalize only if you choose, to a ceiling from -6 to 0 dBFS. Real dither, triangular or noise-shaped, applied after sample rate conversion, where the depth actually drops. Export the song, the loop, stems, or one surround mixdown. FILES AND iCLOUD Projects live in iCloud Drive or on device. Drag audio, MIDI, presets, and projects in and out of Files and other apps, or over Wi-Fi. No account, no tracking, no analytics. SPECIFICATIONS 32 tracks, 32 inputs, 16 outputs, 16 channels per track. 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit float at 44.1 to 192 kHz. AUv3 hosting, Inter-App Audio, Ableton Link, external MIDI Clock, hardware and Network MIDI. UNLOCK ALL FEATURES Adds three things: MIDI editing, time stretching and warp editing, and automation. Everything else is part of the app, all 32 tracks and pitch shifting included. Subscribe with a free trial, or buy once and keep them forever. Bought extra tracks in an earlier version? What you spent comes back as free months of Unlock All Features and a lower one-time price. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ harmonicdog.com

Q BIT is a bit crusher with a time hold, now on your iPhone and iPad. The crusher gives your sound its grit. HOLD grabs slices of your track and holds them, on your song's tempo or at its own pace. Q BIT does more than lower the quality of a sound. It reshapes the signal itself, giving it the character and musicality of a retro sound chip while keeping it relevant to modern production: a way to make digital reduction playable. HOLD is the heart of Q BIT. At every grab, a slice of your track plays as it is; then the hold freezes its end and sustains it until the next grab. On a held note it sounds like a tremolo or a pulse; on drums, like a rhythm of short hits and held tones. SEGMENT sets how much of each slice plays before the hold takes over, and in Sync a green arc on its ring shows the settings that keep every hit of the last bars intact. Use it as an AUv3 plug-in in your favorite host (Logic Pro for iPad, GarageBand, AUM, Cubasis and more) or as a standalone app processing live sound from your microphone or an audio interface. KEY FEATURES: - Four crusher models, each showing only its own controls: Linear, flexible bit crushing where you set the bit depth and the sample rate; SP-1200, a punchy, gritty drum-sampler character with a softer top end; M.93, a vintage digital-delay character, clean on quiet sounds and gritty on loud ones; ZX Spectrum 128, a coarse, retro home-computer character - BITS from 24 down to 2 bit and RATE from your session rate down to 2 kHz (Linear) - MULTIPLY 1x, 2x, 4x or 8x (M.93): each step darker and grainier - CHANNELS (ZX Spectrum 128): Mono, like the original, or Stereo, a chip for each side - HOLD: Off, Free (1 to 16 grabs a second) or Sync (1/4 to 1/32, straight, dotted or triplet, on your host's tempo) - INPUT drives the crusher, MIX blends your dry track back in, OUTPUT sets the final level, and the INPUT / OUTPUT Link switch in the menu changes the drive while keeping the level - MATCH holds the output at the loudness of bypass while you adjust the controls, so you judge the sound, not the volume - The display shows your sound as it plays, the sound going in and the stepped sound coming out, with the OUT and IN peak levels one above the other - Type a value: tap the readout of HOLD RATE, SEGMENT, INPUT, MIX or OUTPUT - Mono and stereo - 33 factory presets in six folders (Drums, Extreme, Lo-Fi Machines, Rhythm, Synths and Keys, Vocals and Samples), with descriptions, tags, search and favorites - A/B slots with copy - Made for touch: the help shows while you touch a control, and a long press opens the preset and folder menus - Preset import and export through Files - Full parameter automation in AUv3 hosts All audio is processed on your device. No account, no data collection, no internet connection required. Q BIT is not affiliated with, and is not endorsed by, the makers of the machines its models follow. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.