Appmuse

My knowledge base is I’d say beginner/intermediate and I pick UIs up pretty quickly but I have no editing or audio engineering background. My project: To efficiently edit a humorous clip together from a game with my friends. I was able to easily grab any mp3 or sound file on my phone, open it in the app, and trim, cut, louden, quieten, distort, whatever I wanted (with even MORE options with Pro), save the end result to my phone and then “paste” it in Apple iMovie to perfectly overlay it over gameplay. All without ever leaving my phone. And without any background or knowledge in audio or editing. I can only imagine what kind of things people with those talents could use this app for. Highly recommended. Show more

I love this app so much, being a rookie mixer! I wish there was a way, instead of having just undo and redo, having the ability to have a memory of the undos and redos. That way you can choose which action was undone or redone without a queue. Or you can undo earlier adjustments without affecting more recent adjustments. I love how you can record over your voice and build layers for harmonies!!!! I do also wish that when you are recording over a song without headphones, you can hear the song play as you record! I literally love everything else about this app. It’s helping a lot as I’m learning to mix!! Show more

Some of the negative reviews make it obvious the user did not try to learn the app or even how their device works with audio. Don’t listen to them. As a professional in the audio/video field for many years, I can highly recommend this app. I use 2 different audio editors for different features each has. Hokusai with the pro upgrades is one of them. Love it! Show more

Pleaseee let us ADD MORE than 30 tracks to each song. Atleast give us 100 if that’s possible so we don’t have to copy and paste it to another song to keep going it’s annoying Show more

This has been my favorite audio editor on the iPad for quire some time, I love it. What are the odds we may see it available for Mac at some point? I’d happily pay a second time! Show more

I like that app

After really trying to use this app That to this date has no updates It's seems that they couldn't care about fixing the bugs in this program or are unwilling . The touch screen sensitivity is almost non existent. The slowness of the app to react is almost as aggravating as waiting for the product to load on your iPad Pro 2020 only to watch the app shut it self down or go black screen, in the middle of a show ... not good . after showing the CS staff at Hokusai the issue on video and pictures they're trying to tell me it's on my side. Show more

Unless I’m missing something, all these wave editing apps are useless on your phones or iPads, as there is no way to get your edited sound files back into your devices without the use of iTunes, which is a Windows program. I’ve purchased two or three of these apps now at significant cost, only to find that once I’ve edited material, there’s no way to get them back into my music library. I write my own songs and backing tracks and import them into my iPad via iTunes or iMazing, but after editing and saving to dropbox I am now unable to get them back onto my device for use. Am I right? If I am, then why purchase them? I long for days now past, when companies produced products without the need for secrecy or subterfuge, products that were so well done and worked so well for the purchaser that the corporations were insured a bright profitable future because they built great products. This is capitalism at its best- The Hokusai team contacted me to tell me that I can do anything I want with the files except what I want. The program is fine as far as it goes but I stand by my point: for anyone who wants to edit performance music on their iPads or iPhones they are useless. If you can’t get your edited files back into your device without a Windows computer and iTunes, tell me what the programs are good for? Not blaming Hokusai . . blaming Apple- Show more

Amazing app. It helped my wife mixed a few tracks for her school project with the kids. Not sure why this app doesn’t have more popularity, mostly being free. Highly recommend!! Show more

This app is perfect. For all who read this, I recommend purchasing the $10 upgrade. It is very much worth your money.

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I really love this app. It’s like a virtual recording studio! It also works as a great sampler for vocals and instruments that have already been recorded (by using one device to record from another device)! You just have to angle the recording device properly for a recording to sound good on playback. However, I really hope that a future update includes a pitch correction feature that makes it possible to change the vocal formant, and not the timbre, when changing the pitch of voices. This app should have the optional ability to separate the timbre from the pitch. In other words, there should be a feature that is able to maintain instead of sounding like Darth Vader when lowering the pitch, and like Chipmunks when raising the pitch, the timbre should stay the same throughout the range of pitches. As far as the minor issue is concerned, the app crashes after so many hours of work, and then when I re-open the app, it takes awhile for all of my files to re-appear. Hopefully this issue can be resolved in a future update, and that the additional feature can be added. Otherwise, this app is a must-have for all! Show more

nice and clever

I use text-to-speech technology. Easy to use. I do have to turn off the "voicover" on Ipad in order to stretch out the wave. Best editing app I have found to use with voiceover. Show more

I love this app. I’ve been making fun recordings and listening to them. But after a pretty long time of using it, it’s starting to have some issues. Every time I try making recordings, it keeps giving me a blank screen and taking me to the status bar with a screen reader I’m using called VoiceOver. I really don’t know what the real issue is, but my guess is that it may need some updates. Show more

I’ve been using this app for a few years to edit music, and it works like a charm. It’s super easy to use and I would totally recommend it.

Confusing, unable to edit music and put in music library

Absolutely love this app, i can literally make quality music bangers. You can literally adjust anything, it’s a matter of your imagination.

I have been looking for something alone the lines of an iOS version of Audacity and this app fills the bill. I sprung for the Pro version and am very pleased! I have a lot of audio files that I need to edit on my iPad and don’t want to add non musical files to my Cubasis library as there are already too many files there. I also didn’t want to carry my laptop where Audacity lives. This was the perfect solution! Thanks to the devs for this truly useful audio editing utility. Well worth the price! Show more

I’ve been in the music business for 50 years and I have produced major label quality CDs and worked internationally. I’ve been told that I have good years and know how to create unique sounds. I especially love to record out of doors and capture the sounds of the city or the songs of birds etc. this app has become my go to, and other than my DAW, most of my projects will start with Hokusai 2. It is absolutely intuitive, and with very few exceptions does pretty much everything that I wanted to. I do have big hands and sometimes I get frustrated with the size of my phone screen. But then I got an iPad and man oh man did I go to town. I started with a free app but then after about a week I was like “I must have more!” One of the more fascinating tools I use is the noise reduction where in you sample a tiny section of NOISE and then run it through the program and that noise is removed. It’s really fantastic and I’ve communicated with the developers and they’re really good about getting back to me. They’re very nice people and I’ve been sharing my ideas with them and one thing I would like to reiterate here is it be nice to have a return to zero (RTZ) function as well as a mute button on each track. With this app and the trio of aps from Amplify one almost doesn’t need a DAW to make great music. Show more