Auditor - Audio Editor1.0.55 - App Store

A fast, modern, efficient audio editor for the iPad touch screen providing many features for rapidly manipulating audio clips and samples, taking full advantage of the latest advances in iOS.

Extremely simple import and export directly to and from any location in the Files environment.
. Import and export to and from many file formats.
. Macro based multi-file batch format and rate conversion direct from the file browser.
. Single file and region based multi-layer editing modes with mixable bouncing to new layers.
. Special views for creating crossfaded loops and transient slicing with MIDI file export.
. Spectrum views for visualising pitch and frequency.
. Time stretch
. Unlimited timeline Markers.
. Full multi-step undo + rapid and efficient locating, scrolling and zooming.
. Customizable Tool Bar and Transport Bar, (choose which editing functions you want available on buttons).
. Connect to a Mac or PC via SMB file sharing and edit files on external hard disks using the browser.
. A simple record function with support for hardware inputs from attached audio interfaces.
. Light and dark colour themes.

* Auditor is in active development, please refer to the manual (downloadable from our website) to get a feel for all the current features before purchase.

Version History Maintenance build for XCode 26 and Apple age ratings requirement. 1.0.55 Jan 6 - Fixed: Slicing Export panel did not appear when running on iOS 17.
- Due to limitations imposed by XCode Auditor can no longer support iOS 11, minimum OS version is now 12.
- Various tweaks to ensure Auditor is optimised for iOS 17. 1.0.54 12/13/2023 - Maintenance update to ensure compatibility with latest compilers/Swift etc.
- Moved "Save" button to prevent it being obscured by an iOS control.
- Implemented a workaround for a rare case where browser may not appear on launch 1.0.53 06/16/2023 ⁃ Improved WAV importer when reading markers. 1.0.52 11/17/2021 - Fixes a bug where export could fail after loading a FLAC file. 1.0.51 10/30/2021 ⁃ New: Option to Copy/Paste to and from the system clipboard between apps...
⁃ NOTE: The new system clipboard options are disabled by default.
⁃ To enable: Go to Settings.app, locate Auditor in the list, turn on clipboard options.
⁃ Fixed: a couple of minor bugs in playback engine. 1.0.50 04/14/2021 V1.0.49 (150)
⁃ Fixed: Bug that caused the Timestretch UI to freeze and eventually crash Auditor on iOS 14. 1.0.49 12/30/2020 - Fixed an issue importing (small) files containing multi-channel audio.
- Minor bug fixes. 1.0.48 12/18/2020 Fixed: Normalize action in batch macros could fail. 1.0.47 09/19/2020 ⁃ Fixed: Sometimes not de-selecting when tapping in ruler markers.
⁃ Fixed: issue causing incorrect time to text conversion in rare circumstances.
⁃ If an error is issued by the system while reading audio files and if
some audio data has been successfully received prior to the error,
Auditor will now show a message and continue instead of bailing out. 1.0.46 08/04/2020 V1.0.45 (142)
⁃ Implemented Pitch Shift.
⁃ Time Stretch action renamed to Stretch & Pitch
⁃ Fixed: Spectrum Viewer: Commit with markers failed if viewer launched using a global selection.
⁃ Paste Into: Repositions markers and selection range after the insert location.
⁃ Some internal refactoring and optimisations. 1.0.45 07/18/2020 V1.0.44 (140)
⁃ Implemented Time Stretch: Action button added to action bar.
⁃ Slicing: Improved transient detection.
⁃ Slicing: Implemented 'Warp', a mode to stretch a slice by moving its marker.
⁃ ( advice: Warp is undoable, use undo between warping the same slice multiple times)
⁃ Slicing: Tapping on a slice in the waveform area, selects and plays the slice.
⁃ Slicing: Current slice is automatically selected when using transport buttons.
⁃ Slicing: Added Loop button to transport bar to loop around currently selected slice.
⁃ Slicing: Spectrum background now available in both auto and manual.
⁃ Action Bar: Normalize has a parameter to set maximum level.
⁃ Batch Processor: Normalize has a parameter to set maximum level.
⁃ Fixed: Bug causing parts of UI to become unresponsive.
⁃ Fixed: Button enabled state not being correctly updated for some actions.
⁃ Fixed: Don't attempt to show an action's parameter input view if disabled.
⁃ Fixed: Slicing export no longer allows invalid MIDI note numbers.
⁃ Fixed: An error saving CAF files that originated from compressed Apple Loops.
⁃ Fixed: UI was not updating region crossfades when Ripple Edit enabled.
⁃ Fixed: Slicing could crash if region length was a power of 2
⁃ Fixed: An occasional rounding error in Bars Beats time display.
⁃ Fixed: An intermittent bug that could cause a crash while Auditor is launching.
⁃ Fixed: An intermittent error opening files shared from external app.
⁃ Fixed: An intermittent crash bug during UI refresh after loading files.
⁃ Various other minor tweaks and fixes.
⁃ Updated PDF Manual. 1.0.44 07/10/2020 V1.0.43 (118)
- Fixes potential error saving a project file after recording. 1.0.43 05/31/2020 V1.0.42 (117)
- Fixed: Export M4a/ALAC, was exporting AAC instead of lossless.
- Fixed: Export M4a/ALAC bit rate and word size choice was ignored.
- Fixed: FLAC export word size was ignored.
- Fixed: AAC/ADTS export now has a bit rate chooser.
- Fixed: Potential crash after vertically resizing layer lanes.
- Fixed: Reset session range after move-to-playhead action.
- Fixed: incorrect labelling in the M4a format chooser.
- Fixed a crash if audition fails when device connected to usb audio.
- Fixed: don’t attempt to open midi files, ignore them if selected.
- Fixed: Selection overlay could scroll too far when swiping in overview.
- New: Show a progress bar when importing long files
- New: Batch Editor now has a Commit button to help prevent accidental edits.
- Allow filename prefix to be blank when saving separate regions as audio files.
- Ruler marker labels are slightly wider.
- Ruler marker labels adjust font size if name doesn’t fit.
- New: Tap on layer or master volume dial to set volume via text input.
- Implemented some minor snap and drag improvements.
- Several significant “under the hood” optimisations and fixes.
- Use theme colour choice for BPM panel keyboard 1.0.42 05/30/2020 - Fixed: An intermittent error when exporting regions as m4a.
- Added option to export m4a/AAC lossless.
- Fixed: File sharing, “Open In Auditor…” broken in a previous release. 1.0.41 05/15/2020 V1.0.40
- New: Spectrum Viewer for frequency analysis.
- Changed: Loop Tools menu item changed to Tools with a new icon.
- XFade Loop Editor: Added option for a background spectrum display.
- XFade Loop Editor: minor layout alterations.
- Slicing Editor: Added option for a background spectrum display in manual mode.
- Slicing Editor: Fixed some auto-layout issues in portrait mode.
- Fixed: A memory leak which became noticeable during lengthy sessions.
- Fixed: Loading Project an issue where processed files could be loaded from the wrong disk location.
- Updated Onscreen-Help.
- Updated Manual. 1.0.40 05/08/2020 V1.0.35
• New Slicing Editor, manual can be found in documents folder.
• Reinstated a dedicated Locate to Zero transport button. (Available in customise).
• Removed double tap to locate to zero when using locate to next/previous marker.
• Changed: Main Editor:Snap locations in muted layers are now ignored
• Changed: Selection for tempo guess can be a region or the global selection.
• Changed: Action Region Markers no longer creates a marker at frame zero.
• Automatic marker name generation in various places is generally more consistent.
• End to End loop editor: Tapping in view now sets playhead position while playing.
• New transport button: Play to Marker, plays to next marker or end if none exist.
• Fixed: Issues with marker positions and sample rate conversion on import/export.
• Fixed: Waveform rendering could fail after setting unusual time signatures.
• Fixed Export Panel: Colouring issues in iOS 13 Dark Mode.
• Updated PDF manual. 1.0.35 04/07/2020 - New feature: Timeline markers.
- New Action: Add/Delete Marker at playhead position.
- New Action: Split at Markers, splits selected regions at marker locations.
- New Action: Region Markers, adds markers at the start of each region.
- New Action: Split / 2, splits selected regions by half region length.
- New: Options to export selected regions as audio files.
- WAV: Import/export markers in WAV file.
- AIFF: Import/export markers in AIFF files.
- When saving multiple regions as WAV or AIF, meta data contains incremental MIDI note range and key span.
- New option in Settings to import transient locations from AIFF Apple Loops as markers.
- New: “More…” button in Action Bar. Presents all available actions not currently in the bar.
- New in Info Bar: Added a button to hide overview panel.
- New in Info Bar: Added a button to scroll during playback.
- New in Info Bar: Fixed Selection Length. (Enabled with padlock button).
- Changed: Popup Action Menu no longer displays actions that are in the main action bar.
- Changed default Transport buttons in Transport Bar:
- … Locate to Previous: (was called Locate to Zero) now locates to the previous snap location if single tapped, zero if double tapped.
- … Locate to Next: New button to locate to the next snap location if single tapped, or session end if double tapped.
- … (Long press on any transport button to reset/customise the bar for the new changes)
- Long press in region dragger no longer deselects the region under it.
- Region name labels easier to tap on.
- Layer mute and solo states are now saved in project files.
- BPM can now be entered as an expression. i.e 73 x 2
- Light Theme: Increased waveform visibility for muted layers.
- Fixed: Potential crash after undoing region drag.
- Fixed : Error when re-loading a project saved immediately after a join action.
- Fixed: Text expressions containing decimal fractions would fail. ( eg: 1234 * 0.75 is now possible)
- Fixed: A circumstance where Join was not possible.
- Fixed: A circumstance where Split was not possible.
- Fixed: Split action button is properly disabled when it’s not available.
- Various minor UI style improvements.
- Updated help and manual. 1.0.34 03/15/2020 Sod's Law struck again :( ...
- Fixed: A bug introduced in 1.0.32 causing corrupt output from batch processor.
- Changed: Adjusted the range for the Trim macro threshold slider. 1.0.33 02/12/2020 - Fixed: A crash in the macro processor. 1.032 02/12/2020 Fixes some issues introduced in 1.0.3 + Improved format chooser UI.
V1.0.31 (75)
- A new streamlined UI for audio format selection in Save Panel and Macro Editor.
- New: Ripple Edit Mode, enabled from Settings panel from the menu bar.
- New: Auto Trim: A new batch macro action to trim silence from either end of files.
- New: Import multiple files at once into the editor via the “Select/Open” buttons in the browser.
- New: Import: Can now import files to end of the selected layer or to a new layer.
- Changed: Split action splits both sides of selected regions within a global selection,
- Changed: Split action splits at the playhead if there’s no active global selection.
- Changed: Buttons in Save panel now placed higher in the panel to be above the keyboard when setting a filename.
- Save: Can now save a single file session as a Project file.
- Settings Panel: Added project settings area.
- Record Panel: Added Input Monitor / Play Through
- Record Panel: Added option to replace existing audio in the editor
- Record Panel: Added option to record to new layer or same layer.
- Record Panel: Time display uses the same format selected in the editor ruler.
- Record Panel: Waveform display is now used to monitor the input and renders in red if clipping occurs.
- Fixed: An issue that could cause the XFade Loop Editor to crash while initialising.
- Fixed: Potential crash bug in the waveform renderer.
- Fixed: Crash when enabling inputs for recording.
- Fixed: Crash causing termination if WAV file is not perfectly formatted.
- Fixed: Bug in batch converter that could cause a conversion failure.
- Fixed: Bug in batch converter that could cause the output file to be slightly truncated.
- Fixed: Other minor bugs in the file conversion code.
- Fixed: Exporting a selection could be one sample too long in a rare case.
- Fixed: Occasional crash if a region is dragged over a screen edge.
- Improved snap to zero crossing for the play head marker.
- Optimisations to the waveform renderer and various other internal improvements.
- Updated manual 1.0.31 02/08/2020 - New: Ripple Edit Mode, enabled from Settings panel from the menu bar.
- New: Auto Trim: A new batch macro action to trim silence from either end of files.
- New: Import multiple files at once into the editor via the “Select/Open” buttons in the browser.
- New: Import: Can now import files to end of the selected layer or to a new layer.
- Changed: Split action splits both sides of selected regions within a global selection,
- Changed: Split action splits at the playhead if there’s no active global selection.
- Save: Can now save a single file session as a Project file.
- Settings Panel: Added project settings area.
- Record Panel: Added Input Monitor / Play Through
- Record Panel: Added option to replace existing audio in the editor
- Record Panel: Added option to record to new layer or same layer.
- Record Panel: Time display uses the same format selected in the editor ruler.
- Record Panel: Waveform display is now used to monitor the input and renders in red if clipping occurs.
- Fixed: Potential crash bug in the waveform renderer.
- Fixed: Crash when enabling inputs for recording.
- Fixed: Crash causing termination if WAV file is not perfectly formatted.
- Fixed: Bug in batch converter that could cause a conversion failure.
- Fixed: Bug in batch converter that could cause the output file to be slightly truncated.
- Fixed: Exporting a selection could be one sample too long in a rare case.
- Fixed: Occasional crash if a region is dragged over a screen edge.
- Improved snap to zero crossing.
- Optimisations to the waveform renderer and various other internal improvements.
- Updated manual 1.0.3 02/01/2020 - New: End to End Loop Tool: For fine tuning loop end points. See help/manual.
- New: (iOS 13 Only): Browser now has a button to enable tap to audition. See manual.
- Fixed: WAV Sampler chunk loop length, was one sample short when loaded into Auditor.
- Fixed: WAV sampler chunk could be corrupt if written from a project containing a global selection.
- Fixed: Length expressions typed in from the Info Bar are now interpreted correctly.
- Fixed: Prevent customisation of loop editor transport bars.
- Fixed: Incorrect text in confirmation message after successfully saving a Project file.
- Changed: Increased the number of zoom options cycled through when zoom button tapped.
- Changed: When saving Project files, all audio files referenced by the project are now copied to the project folder.
- Restores the Project file icon that went missing in v1.0.1
- Updated help and manual. 1.0.2 11/22/2019 Fixing all known initial teething issues…
- Fixed: an issue on iOS 11 where files are greyed out in the browser!
- Fixed: A situation where exporting to MP3 could crash Auditor.
- Fixed: Incorrect sample rate could be used when exporting to MP3
- fixed: “Play-From” transport action incorrectly ignored the “From” marker when loop enabled.
- Fixed: Potential crash initialising the Make_Unique action.
- Fixed: Potential crash while rendering Rulers markers.
- Fixed: If loop was enabled, audio exported from a project session incorrectly wrote looped audio with the length the session.
- Added support for WAV sampler chunks: loop start and end points are now saved into and loaded from WAV files.
- Added 192 kHz to export and project sample rates
- Added more warnings when identifying low memory situations arising from using extremely long files and/or extremely high sample rate. 1.0.1 11/15/2019 1.0 11/09/2019