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- [Mike] Hi, this is Mike Schmitz
and welcome to another addition to ScreenCastsOnline.
This week we'll be taking a look at Ferrite Recording Studio
for iOS by Wooji Juice.
Ferrite is a multi-track audio editor
that is designed for journalists and podcasters
from the ground up instead of musicians,
giving you the tools, effects, and automation
that makes publishing finished spoken audio
projects a breeze.
While it's still very difficult to record a podcast
on an iPad, the touch interface combined with the
simple design of Ferrite Recording Studio
makes the iPad a great environment
for editing and publishing.
We'll cover some basic editing techniques
and look at the built-in tools and effects
that make Ferrite such a great option for broadcasters
and podcasters.
We'll show you how to set up automation
like fading out an intro track,
adding artwork and chapter markers to your final export,
and leveling the audio in your final mix
so that nothing is too soft or too loud.
Let's get started.
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Let's start by downloading Ferrite Recording Studio
from the App Store by launching the App Store application
and searching for Ferrite.
This top option is gonna take us exactly where
we want to go.
The application that we're looking for is the first one
listed here, Ferrite Recording Studio
in the upper left.
So let's tap on this to go to the listing
for this application.
And because I purchased this application previously
I can just tap to download it.
Once this is done downloading we'll tap the open
button to open the application on our iPad.
And we see a welcome screen,
which is going to explain to us what's different here
with version 2 compared to the original version 1.
The pricing structure changed between
versions 1 and version 2.
And because I purchased the application previously
when I launched this the Pro in-app purchase
is going to be enabled for me by default.
The Pro in-app purchase for version 2
is not cheap.
It's about 30 US dollars.
But it gives you many additional tools
like the ability to prepare your audio for production
with noise reduction and audio leveling,
which we'll look in a little bit.
You also have the ability to add professional effects
to your tracks, such as EQ, noise gate,
or even dynamic range compression for projects
that are gonna sound super clean.
You can automate the volume panning in the effects settings
so that they vary over time
both on individual tracks and in the final mix
using the automations.
You can tighten audio automatically
to take out awkward pauses or gaps.
You can create templates so you don't need to start
from scratch every time that you want to create
a new podcast episode, for example.
You can use presets.
And there's the ability to use audio
unit extensions if you have other apps installed
on your iOS device that provide other effects.
Those will show up in Ferrite as well
and you can add them to your tracks and projects.
So you get quite a bit with the in-app purchase.
And when you compare it to the cost of something
like Logic Pro X it's a bargain even at 30 US dollars.
So let's dismiss this pop-up screen by tapping the Skip it
button and getting to the application itself.
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