NanoStudio 2 Specifications
Compatibility
- Any iPad, iPad Pro, iPhone or iPod running iOS 11.x or later
- Hosts Audio Unit (AUv3) instruments, audio effects and MIDI effects
- Ableton Link, including Start/Stop Sync support
- External USB audio/MIDI hardware, including multi-channel audio devices
Song arrangement and editing
- Arbitrary track grouping/nesting, track lanes and no limit on the number of tracks
- Tempo and time signature tracks, with ability to ramp tempo
- Comprehensive song, MIDI and automation editors all with full undo/redo
- Real-time note, controller and automation recording with optional real-time quantize
- Editing functions include delete, split, join, duplicate, draw, transpose, clean and quantize
- MIDI file import/export of selection (file types 0 and 1) with full support for tempo/time signature tracks
- Event timing typically within 4 samples
Mixer and effects
- Arbitrary track grouping/nesting and no limit on the number of tracks
- Every track has an audio and MIDI effect insert chain with no limit on the number of effects
- Effect chains support Audio Unit (AUv3) audio and MIDI effects
- Add send/return connections between tracks for both audio and MIDI
- All channels, sends and effects are fully latency compensated (eg. for lookahead limiters) so everything stays in phase
- Automation of track/send volume/pan and effect parameters with MIDI learn
- Effects include algorithmic reverb, sidechain compressor/expander, look-ahead limiter, EQ with spectrum analysis, delay, waveshaper, exciter, chorus, flanger and phaser
- Offline mixdown up to 32 bit @ 96kHz with options for exporting track stems and song regions to wav, aiff, ogg or M4A (lossy or lossless)
Sampling and sample editing
- Record your own samples using internal mic or external device - multiple audio hardware channels supported
- Song can be monitored as you record
- Efficiently edit samples up to 2 hours long
- Editing functions include volume fades, trim, reverse, DC offset remove, copy, paste and duplicate with full undo/redo
- Snap to grid based upon sample, song or manually entered tempo
- Editing of sample sustain loop
- Supported file formats: mono/stereo wav, aiff, ogg, m4a (lossy and lossless), mp3 (save to mp3 not possible)
Obsidian (synth)
- 3 oscillator 32 note polyphonic synth with stereo voices
- Each oscillator can use 7 different types of synthesis: Analogue, Wavetable, Phase Distortion, FM, Multi-Saw, Shaped Noise or Multisampled Zones
- 18 filter types including resonant analogue, clean digital, comb and formant
- An innovative spectral loop mode for samples
- Configurable modulation provided by 5 envelopes, 5 LFOs and 10 macro controllers
- Effects chain with a reverb, delay and chorus/flanger/phaser
- 300+ Factory patches
Slate (advanced drum sampler)
- 32 pads with 4 internal effects busses and a final master output bus with limiter
- Each pad can use up to 3 split or layered samples and has its own filter, waveshaper, envelopes and voice grouping options
- 500+ factory samples ranging from multisampled acoustic drums through to cutting-edge electronic percussion and effects, arranged into 50 kits
AU instrument
- Allows you to host an Audio Unit instrument just like an internal instrument
- Full browsing/search of all Audio Unit factory patches
- Acts as a central librarian for all your Audio Unit user patches, with tag attributes and text search
- Supports automation, including real-time recording
External MIDI instrument
- Allows you to send track MIDI to an external hardware or software MIDI instrument
- Supports automation, including real-time recording
- MIDI clock and start/stop events may be sent to external devices, with NS2 acting as the master clock
Sharing and integration
- iOS Files app
- Dropbox
- AudioShare
- iTunes File Sharing
- Email
- Import songs from your iTunes music library
- WebDAV server for full control and backup of your files from a desktop computer
Supported 3rd party hardware/software
- Ableton Link supported, including Start/Stop Sync
- Hosts Audio Unit (AUv3) instruments, audio effects and MIDI effects
- External hardware audio/MIDI devices with multiple audio I/O channels