TouchBells vs MultitrackStudio for iPad

TouchBells is an easy and fun to use carillon music instrument (Glockenspiel) for the Apple iPad. The instrument covers a range of 1 1/2 octaves (from C3 to F#4). Classic Xylophone sounds, Vibraphone sounds and Tubular Bells sounds are available. With TouchBells, you can just freely play along or record and play back your songs. You can also share the songs you recorded with other TouchBells users. By using the TouchBells teach mode,  you can learn how to play the songs other TouchBells users share with you. TouchBells is also great for kids early musical education. TouchBells has several unique features: - Xylophone or Vibraphone sounds. - Adjustable Stereo effect. - Its tunable, you can alter the instrument pitch. - Song recording and song management. - Share you songs with other TouchBells users by eMail. - Export your songs for iTunes. - Learn how to play using the Teach Mode. - Play dynamically using TouchBells touch-sensitivity feature. - Choose from four different bar captions (None, German-, American- and Solmisation-Style). Furthermore, TouchBells includes 25 demo songs: - Cradlesong (Wiegenlied) - Frere Jacques - Muss i denn, muss i denn zum Staedtele naus - Silent Night - My Bonny Is Over The Ocean - Ode to Joy - The moon as risen - Rondo all Turka (Turkish March) - When the Saints Go Marching In - Matilda - What shall we do with the trunken sailor? - Kojo no Tsuki - The Song of the Volga Boatmen - La Cucaracha - O Christmas Tree - Jingle Bells - Happy Birthday To You - Schneewalzer - Auld Lang Syne - Row, Row, Row Your Boat - Für Elise - Michael Row the Boat Ashore - She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain - Hänschen Klein - Old Mac Donald With the demo songs and the TouchBells Teach Mode, you can start directly with the learning how to play!

MultitrackStudio turns your iPad into a digital multitrack music recording studio. You can record, edit and mix audio and MIDI tracks. Both "one man band" recording, adding tracks one at a time, and live multitrack recording are supported. Both audio and MIDI tracks can be edited. MIDI editing features include pianoroll, drum, score and pattern editors. Tempo and time signature can change throughout the song. MultitrackStudio for iPad comes with many high quality audio effects including a guitar amp simulator. MIDI instruments include GM-compatible MultitrackStudio Instruments, SoundFont Player and Matrix Sampler. External (hardware) synths can be used as well. AUv3 audio effects, instruments and MIDI effects are supported, so 3rd party apps can integrate into MultitrackStudio. The straightforward user-interface has been designed with tape-based recording in mind. It's easy to use yet powerful. Key features: • Up to 16 audio/MIDI tracks, audio tracks can be mono or stereo. • Editors: audio, pianoroll, drum, score, MIDI patterns, MIDI controllers, tempo/time signature and song. • One effect return section. • One master section. • Three effect slots per mixer section (two for MIDI tracks). • Audio Effects: Automated Fader, Chorus, Compressor, DeEsser, Echo, EQ, Flanger, Guitar Amp, Master Limiter, Noise Gate, Phaser, Reverb, Rotor, Saturator, Stereo Imager, Tremolo, Tuner and Vibrato. • MIDI instruments: MultitrackStudio Instruments (General MIDI compatible), SoundFont Player, Matrix Sampler, up to four Virtual MIDI Apps and up to two CoreMIDI output devices.. • MIDI Effects: Arpeggiator, Poly Modulator and Velocity Curve. • Supports Audio Unit effects and instruments and MIDI effects (the latter require iOS 12). • Supports Inter-App Audio effects and instruments. • Supports Audiobus (acts as output in Audiobus app). • Supports MPE, MIDI 2.0 and MIDI-CI (MIDI 2.0 requires iPadOS 14). The MultitrackStudio Instruments acoustic pianos support the MIDI 2.0 Piano profile. • MIDI sources: onscreen keyboard (keyboard, fourths, guitar, bass, violin, matrix, chords and drum layouts) and up to two CoreMIDI input devices. Supports Bluetooth LE MIDI. • Supports Bluetooth audio output. • Audio sample rate: 44.1 or 48 kHz. • Imports .wav, .aif, .flac, .m4a, .mp3, .mid, .midi2 and various other audio file types (Flac requires iPadOS 16). • Exports .wav, .flac, .m4a, .mid and .midi2 files (Flac requires iPadOS 16). • Import/export audio/MIDI via Document Picker, Copy/paste, iTunes File Sharing, AudioShare or email. • Imports/exports .zip file containing all files needed to open song, compatible with MultitrackStudio for Windows/macOS. • Lyrics/chords prompter and editor. • Also works with mouse/trackpad/keyboard (requires iPadOS 13.4). The Pro Extension (available as in-app purchase) adds these features: • Up to 64 tracks. • Up to 3 extra Effect Slots. (*) • Up to 3 extra Effect Returns. (*) • Up to 8 Groups. (*) • Multichannel audio playback. (*) • Mixer and effect automation. • Audio pitch shifting in track editors. • Time stretching in track editors. • Tempo editor can process audio tracks. • Stretch and Stretch Accelerando in tempo editor. • Multi MIDI Editor (edit multiple tracks in a single editor).. • Convolutor effect with Vintage Reverbs. • Load custom speaker IR in Guitar Amp. • Sidechain input on Compressor and AU effects that support it. • Dynamics effect, supports sidechaining. • Multiband Compressor effect. • Auto Wah effect. • Phase Inverter effect. • Transposer effect. • Vocal Tuner effect. • Sample rate conversion in Export Mix dialog. • Create new song using current as template. • Remote Control for transport ("MIDI Learn") (*) Limited by iPad screen size. There's just one additional space on iPad smaller iPads. 10.5" iPads have two spaces, 12.9" iPads have three spaces. An Effect Slot, an Effect Return and the Output Selector (for groups and multichannel playback) take one space each.