Good start
So this is the same company that swore it would never develop on a UNIX platform. Welcome Fruity Loops. We are Mac users and we pay.
Still a lot to do on this app since they must have pretty much paid the owner of Music Studio for his design (so its essentially a rip of another software)
Some bads:
- Grid doesnt display lines on anything shorter than 1 beat. Forget it if youre trying to make shorter notes coz youll just have to guess where they fall. Thats less than ideal for a real musical scratchpad.
- The playhead indicator only jumps in beats. Theres no way to tell exactly what note is playing at any specific time (other than anything thats on the beat). It needs a sweep motion rather than a jump from beat to beat.
- If you feel like seeing the app crash, hit play while you add/edit notes in the piano roll. It will either crash or play a random note for excessively long.
- Editing notes is less than ideal. Its quite cumbersome. It needs a rethink on how notes are entered. It has to be faster since this is a out of my head and into the speakers-- notes come out of my head a LOT faster and takes way to long to get it into the app.
- Scrolling in the Piano roll is over-sensitive. You can place your thumb on the keyboard and it will start flying all over the place. Remember, when you enter notes, you generally enter them within close proximity to other notes (either melody writing or harmony -- both have similar needs) so if you need to scroll you dont need to fly up 3 octaves right away. You more than likely want to go up an octave at the most.
- Overall volume is a little on the low side. That can be a good bad thing based on how you want to mix your tracks.
- Forget trying to access the website forums. Youll register on the site and wont be able to read a single article for Mobile apps.
- Forget trying to get in touch with support on the iPad. Their forms dont even work on the iPad.
Some Goods:
- Decent sound engine. Thanks Music Studio!
- Good looking UI.
- Decent preloaded synths
- Nice looking keyboard
Overall its a great piece of software. But its not worth the $20 pricetag for me. Not yet. Lets see what future versions bring to make it worth it.
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FL Studio Mobile, v1.2