Did I just waste $20 on this? Afraid so. – Ferrite Recording Studio Review

REVIEW UPDATE: I just don't get it. The fawning raves for this app "don't compute" with my awful experience attempting to understand and use this "upside-down & inside-out" audio editing and production tool App... The hope of transitioning my daily audio production work from an aging MacBook Air to IOS touchscreen convenience was the very reason I got this dandy new iPad Pro in the first place. (Still waiting for my Pencil, by the way - very bad form, Apple). So... Decided to try Twisted Wave, based on recommendation of the Mac OSX version a friend of mine has loved for years. YES! Wish I'd spent my money on it before wasting 6 hours and $20 to unlock In-App features - resulting only in frustration and regret; and the insult of being made to feel stupid for never having taken a tedious 2 month course to learn ProTools. I only needed a straightforward single track or stereo audio editing app, with EQ and compression/limiter features. TWISTED WAVE does that brilliantly! Can I Please get a refund for the mistaken purchase of Ferrite? It is utterly USELESS to me, and the first app I can honestly confess total failure to comprehend. I HATE THIS APP!!! If you are an old Analog Audio Production engineer/editor and longtime Voice Actor/Announcer like myself, don't waste your time and money on Ferrite. Unless you enjoy feeling patronized and "put out to pasture" by "Smart Kids" who've never heard of Ampex, or touched a reel of magnetic tape with fingers and China Marker to be razor-cut on an EditAll block, and assembled seamlessly with 3M splicing tape in under a minute's time, to meet an on-air deadline in less than an hour. But even if you're not a veteran Analog Audio guy, I can't see how anyone wouldn't prefer the intuitive simplicity of Twisted Wave over this headache-inducing clutter of multitrack juggling confusion for simply editing and processing VO tracks and Production Audio clips "on the fly". Here's my original review: Finding website tutorials completely incomprehensible (not to mention annoying and tedious to sit through), seeing virtually no possible way for fingers to simply select a portion of VO track and perform those basic functions within the selection, or precisely delete that selection, then conveniently Save the finished file. All I can figure out so far are controls for front/back-end Cropping, with nothing in-between. Not finding any promised in-app guide access within the huge but mostly empty toolbar window at all, just some tiny "what the hell is That supposed to represent?" icons that launch menus labeled with terminology foreign to my understanding of popular Hollywood production sound studio lexicon. Tutorials on YouTube fail to show how fingers or stylus are actually employed to make selections and efficiently manipulate the audio within a selected segment, let alone a clear example of a human being using the sparse yet disjointed and inexplicably unlabeled miniature-scaled icon/menu-driven interface. Why can't I just select portions of the waveform and work with them, same as any regular IOS multitouch text selection? Being an old Analog audio production/voice-over guy with no patience to take a ProTools training course, I've been happily using Sound Studio in Mac OSX for years, and was hoping for something similarly quick and intuitively simple to import, edit and process a single/stereo track of spoken word audio with on the new iPad Pro; so far, deeply disappointed with a costly in-app purchase I can't make heads'r'tails of. Maybe fine for highly complex multitrack music layering and demo mixing, but utterly useless for voice over work. ProTools guys - have at it. For the rest of us, just get Twisted Wave. (* I am not in any way associated with either of these developers, nor have I been asked or paid to express my opinions of these apps)
Review by Queeks on Ferrite Recording Studio.