Ferrite Recording Studio Reviews

Great app, but not for my podcast editing needs

Soybean

Ferrite is quite an achievement, but it doesn’t entirely meet my needs for podcast editing. I come from using Audacity on Mac, which isn’t exactly a joy to use, but will have to continue to be my audio editor for podcasts. As an amateur podcast creator noise reduction is particularly important to me since I don’t record in a soundproof studio on top-of-the-line equipment. For starters I find putting auto leveling, noise reduction, and boost into a “preproduction” phase to be strange and annoying. I don’t know why it’s not just an effect you can apply on a track like everything else, which would make it easier to toggle on/off and experiment with. But worse for me, the noise reduction is so aggressive it cuts out some of the spoken audio (even with boost enabled) and leaves the rest sounding distorted. Maybe I’m not recording with enough gain or my guests speak too softly, but the software should be able to deal with it. Again my only comparison is Audacity, which has a feature that allows the user to sample some silent audio to create a noise profile that can be removed from all of the track. Ferrite’s fully-automated approach is easier to apply, but much less useful for my needs. Garage Band supports using my Zoom H6 as a USB audio device and thus can record each of the 4 microphones I have attached to it onto separate tracks right to the iPad. Assuming iOS allows that capability to third-party developers, that would be an amazing addition to Ferrite that would let me overcome annoying import issues from iOS’ limitations on external storage. Right now it’s Zoom’s SD card to Mac to iCloud Drive/Dropbox to Ferrite. But again, that’s an iOS issue, not a Ferrite issue. On the plus side, most of my workflow involves deleting things across all tracks, and Ferrite has clever gestures for that: swipe with two fingers left to right to select across tracks and create clips (that you can move or delete or whatever). But swipe in the other direction (right to left) and the selection is immediately deleted. You don’t have mouse-like precision without a cursor, but it’s still a huge timesaver. My only complaint there is that sometimes it takes a couple tries for the two-finger swipe gesture to register. In general the touch-based editing in Ferrite is powerful and the speed of the iPad Pro makes it faster for me to edit with Ferrite than my MacBook. Easy chapter-marking is a joy. But being unable to tune noise reduction means it can’t quite replace Audacity for me yet. I may yet play around with one pass through Audacity and refined editing with Ferrite.

Top notch

Mick_I

Works wonderful for my projects. There’s a good learning curve so check the PDF & their videos. Highly recommend.

Fantastic Podcast App

Redkryptonite08

I normally do not leave reviews, however, I will make an exception. The support for this app is second to none in the Apple App Store. I have reached out twice now with questions or concerns and received same day (within an hour) responses. The responses not only addressed my issue, but provided more detailed information regarding similar (potential) questions. Well done. Also, the app works really well, with a good many feature. My advise, take the time to learn the app before recording a session.

So So Good

Kwalban

This isn’t just the best podcast editing app for iOS, it’s the best app to edit and produce a podcast on full stop. It has dynamic tools, automatic abilities to strip silence, fix and normalize audio, duck and automate backing tracks. It’s downright amazing, I’ve edited about 200 podcast episodes with it and as someone with a 6 host / 6 mic show it’s powerful yet flexible

Started download on the wrong device.

FRONT ONE

I started to download the app on the wrong device. I wanted it downloaded on my ipad instead of my iphone 5s. How can I correct that? The app is half downloaded. When I realized what I was doing, I stopped it.

Noise Reduction

Kouroshqaffari

This App is awesome. the only thing it needs is "Adaptive Noise Reduction" like Adobe Autions. thats why I record my voice in Adobe Autions first, and then for edit, I do it on this App.

Great for recording and editing but keeps crashing

Jeremyrpickens

I’ve been using Ferrite for about 2 and a half months now and it’s great for recording and editing BUT The biggest downfall is lately it has started crashing during recordings. I bought the pro version because my podcast is about an hour and a half long or longer. It’s really irritating when I look down and the app is closed out. There has been a few times me and my cohost have been in deep conversation and I happen to glance down and nothing is open. We’ve lost anywhere from a few seconds of audio to 15 minutes. Right now I’m looking for something else to record with and maybe I’ll use Ferrite to edit it.

Brilliant app

chiragnd

No shortage of good things to say about Ferrite - gets better with each update. The multi-core update has changed audio processing for me personally and it handles multiple shows, episodes, tracks with utter ease. Keep at it, and look forward to newer updates & automations with time!

Too Bad, I Had Hopes

Wittlewooster

I have had this a while, but it’s too complicated to use. Now, I realize I am in the minority here, I just read all the glowing reviews before writing this. But it’s just too time consuming to figure out where things are and how to use this app. There are many videos on YouTube that “ show” you what the app does, but the videos are extremely short and are more geared for promotional info rather than simple, straightforward instruction on how to do BASIC audio editing with this app. I have been using a computer for audio editing for many years and it is a joy to use. You just can’t beat a computer to do real work.

Difficult to figure out

Belthos

I read once that a user interface UI is like a joke, If you need to explain it it’s not good. This UI is maddeningly unhelpful. I have never seen anything this difficult to figure out the basic operation of splitting out a section of a recording. The app may be fantastic, but they need to make the learning curve much simpler.

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