Midi Studio App Reviews

Love this app

If you are looking for a midi controller there are cheaper apps out there that are equal if not better. I believed that the keyboard in this app would have musical scale presets such as the GarageBand app keyboard does but that is not the case.

I feel like I wasted my money on this app. There should be presets for the most popular DAWs out there on every layout. Not just the ones you have to buy with an in app purchase. For example: The 4x4 drum pad is an obvious choice for the Kong drum machine in Reason but there isnt a way to line it up to the 16 drum pads in the kong. Is this a money grab? Will I need the custom layout upgrade to make it work? Very deceptive if thats the case.

What gives? I purchased back when the app was 5.7MB not 158MB and there were no in app purchases. The older layouts look better to me, ( more zen like, rather than rock star). Network wifi midi sessions to my Mac have really high latency. (Other midi apps seem to have lower latency). I still use the 6 XY pad layout to map external synth parameters and use a separate midi hardware keyboard. But I still refuse to update to this monster sized version.

Ive got a Mackie Control Universal, but it uses my midi port, and didnt come with a lexan overlay for my daw of choice (reaper) but midi studio already has a preset especially for reaper. sweet. and it works pretty well. not very indepth documentation, andy sensitivey ive gotten it to crash a couple times already, but for wireless itll do pretty well. i like the velocity sensitive drum pads, but being able to assign them out of sequence to whatever notes independently, as well as channels, independent per pad, would be a smidge better. the pix on the itunes page for it showed a malletish looking layout that ive been unable to find.

This is a great midi tool for your studio

everyone is writing all this technical stuff, I just like playing around with music

i have just installed this app, it looks nice but it doesnt play anything, no voice when I play keyboard or drums, I dont know whats the problem, help please !!!

Warning this app will rip you off, especially those who payed for it.

It doesnt want to make ANY sound --

The sound on the app doesnt work I dont know why but it doesnt work. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix this thank you

You need to add a sound engine in the next version if you can, and look into building it so you can take it away from your MIDI Equipment thereby making your ipad or iphone a sound studio. Good job overall though.

Kinda made me laugh when I read some of the bad reviews saying stuff like "theres no sound, doesnt work". A midi controller is what you use to play from an outside source, like a virtual DAW instrument or a sound module. It doesnt do anything on its own. That be said this works, takes a few tries to get it to work right but it does work. Can never have enough controllers

I am posting this because so many have complained because they cant get the sound to work. This is because it is a midi controller not a synth nor a sample engine. *** IT DOES NOT MAKE SOUND *** It is not designed to do so, it controls Midi information such as keyboards and Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) It says this in the description, dont know if it always has or not. I gave it 3 stars so that it will be placed where people complaining can see, I will post my review of it after I have it completely running with Cakewalk Sonar X2

When i got this i was HAPPY but all i heard was nothing so i coludent play plz update ill give it 5 stars if u du

I was hoping to tap drum beats with this. The latency render it completely infeasible. It makes me wonder what those of you who reviewed favorably are using the program for.. The help offered no advice on the possibility of connecting via USB instead of wifi to help latency. That should be an option for sure. I was hoping to be able to use the sliders to control mixing in Logic, obviously that doesnt work either. So, after spending $4, I can use this program for literally nothing. Waste of money.

I think it would be a lot more effective to make midi studio Bluetooth based so that Internet isnt nessasery but still an option.

easy to use, slows device down, doesnt always play, and has glitch problems. ideal in comparison to other midi apps.

Only 2 of the controllers work out of the box and those require an extra in app purchases. For the standard controllers expect to manually configure everything. If there is a better way to configure it, the sparse documentation sure wont tell you. Would be an easy 5 star if everything worked right out of the box. Until then I would give it a pass.

A brilliantly designed app, very easy to use with FLS, Studio One, or even Live.