Ferrite Recording Studio

This is the best audio editing app I have found out there on the App Store. It is also one of the very few audio editing apps that work with voiceover. What I think would be cool though, is that when you are recording a new track, you can listen to your audio from another project. This way, I could have background music going, and when I can hear that his song is about to end, I could finish up what I am saying and finish the recording at the appropriate time, rather than the Recorder track being too short or too long. I also like how you can just the time more precisely and zoom in and out, I was able to make music loops from songs that I created with my windows PC

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I was really enjoying using the pro version of this app until I discovered there is no way to export edited files in anything other than 16 bits. The internal format is 32 bit but there is no way to access it. Had I known this, I would never had purchased it. I can no longer use all of its great features knowing I cannot export my work in a professional audio format. This is unacceptable. Despite all its great editing features, Ferrite is simply not a professional editing app. Please add 32 or 24 bit export of edited files in a future update. Reply: I edit audio (all kinds) professionally and I thought I had found the perfect audio companion to my iPad Pro. I would like to be able to edit in Ferrite and master the finished edited project in my mastering suite, but your refusal to implement high quality export of edited audio makes that impossible. I also find it preposterous that you would not implement a function that would, in effect, make your product perfect. It is so close. Why not go that extra little bit and make the internal format of edited audio exportable? Your refusal to do so is truly baffling.

There are so many aspects of my podcast editing workflow (usually done in Logic Pro X) that I thought would never be able to be done on an iOS device. This app has it all. I can easily strip silence, it has a quick triple tap for select all following, it can ripple delete and insert, it can add chapters... The list goes on and on. In some ways I prefer it to Logic since I can relax on the couch with a nice pair of Bluetooth headphones instead of sitting at my desk. Getting audio onto the iPad is obviously a little trickier than it is with a computer (I load everything onto iCloud Drive, then import to Ferrite, which takes several minutes even for short episodes) but once it’s in Ferrite editing becomes pretty effortless.

In the two years since I have been trying to go iPad Pro only (foregoing my Mac computers) this is the most startling moment. The guys who built ferrite have captured so much of the sophistication of the professional DAW offerings for computer. The interface is so straightforward and reliable and clever. I have been editing audio for network animation for two decades and I have seen a lot of different workstations from ProTools to Reaper and these Ferrite guys are every bit as clever. They are also friendly and responsive. I hate to say this but I would've been willing to pay even more given the fact that they have solved my final total conversion to iPad living.

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The features here are solid. Everything works and seems to work pretty well. Nice job! On first use, though, the UI is kind of ... not really a train wreck, but maybe more than a fender-bender. After recording you get these little rectangles (without even having curved corners or shadow or translucency or anything) for each recording, which feel a bit Androidy, and thus, somewhat gross. When you delete a recording, you get a weird non-standard “alert” pop-up. This one has heavily rounded corner, a weird off-red color that’s not used anywhere else in the app. It animates onto the screen linearly and again, feels very much NOT at home on iOS. After these initial impressions, I assumed it must be a cross-platform app — but according the website, it’s not. On top of that, I know the app is fairly well-regarded in the community. Probably no developer reads 3-star reviews, but I really think you could improve the initial impressions of the app by addressing some of then UI inconsistency and weirdness. Thanks!