Futucraft Oy has introduced Cotracks – a collaborative music studio for teamwork on a single iPad.
With Cotracks you can create multiple layers of loops and phrases, using multiple instruments. Cotracks is designed to maintain your creative flow and to capture your ideas, regardless whether you are flying solo or collaborating with others.
Collaboration is a key focus of Cotracks. Everyone in your session has the ability to play and record at will, without disrupting or being disrupted by the workflow of others. According to the developer, ‘this makes Cotracks the perfect and inspiring tool for brainstorming new ideas within a group’.
Here’s the official intro video for Cotracks:
Features:
MULTITRACK SEQUENCER
- up to 12 instrument tracks
- beat synchronized playback and recording
INTERFACE
- comfortable access for multiple users
- instruments may be arranged in multiple orientations
- dedicated interface modes for single user, two users and four users
- switch between interface modes with a single tap
- access four instruments simultaneously
- independent playback control constantly available for each instrument
- keys and ribbon controllers for synthesizers
- Futucraft’s dynamic beat synced repeater control
- repeater lets you play and record complex beat synced rhythmic textures
- XY-modulation control
EDITING
- nondestructive quantize and transpose
- change the playback scale of recorded sequences
- drag and drop copying of sequences between instruments
INSTRUMENTS
- polyphonic synthesizer with dozens of high quality instrument presets
- monophonic bass/lead synthesizer with dozens of high quality instrument presets
- sample player with a library of professional quality samples from Inspire Audio
- programmable XY-modulation
- band-limited oscillators to ensure professional grade sound quality
FX
- stereo delay
- stereo phaser
- 2 equalizer units
- dedicated units for each track
FILE
- export each instrument to separate audio clip
- export all in one audio mixdown clip
- export and import sessions via iTunes in XML format for backup and sharing
SUPPORT
- on-screen help and tips
- online support integrated in app
- video tutorials
Cotracks is available now in the App Store. If you’ve used it, let us know what you think of it!
