Track8
Thingstone GmbH Music iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Track8 is a paid Music app for iPhone and iPad by Thingstone GmbH. Rated 5.0/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated September 28, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 3 ratings
- Price
- 8.99 USD
- on the App Store
- Size
- 36 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 28
- 2026 · v1.2.3
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About Track8
Track8 is a focused 8-track recorder for iPad, iPhone and Mac: press record, play, done. It is the same software that runs on the Track8 hardware recorder, so it works as a complete recorder on its own, and it opens the hardware's projects unchanged if you own one. No timeline to arrange, no plug-in chains to manage before you can record. Eight audio tracks and eight MIDI tracks, a loop, punch in and out, markers for structure, and a mixer with track and master effects. Every control has one job and sits on the panel in front of you: tap the buttons, drag the encoders, and use the screen in the middle for editing, exactly as on the hardware. What you can do - Record audio and MIDI on eight tracks each, with loop, punch, count-in and a metronome - Arrange with markers: jump, loop, copy and move whole sections - Edit audio and MIDI on the device, with undo - Reshape recordings with the Clipboard Modifier: time, pitch, granular, spectral, filter and voice tools, for audio and for MIDI - Mix with track and master effects, sends and automation - Host AUv3 instruments and effects as outboard gear, wired like a hardware synth or pedal - Use any audio interface, including multi-channel ones, with low latency on recent iPads and iPhones - Map USB, Bluetooth and network MIDI controllers with MIDI Learn - Export mixes and stems to a folder of your choice With or without the hardware Projects are plain files that move between the app and the Track8 hardware in both directions. Record on the go, finish on the desk, or use the app as your only recorder. Track8 is not a DAW and does not try to be one. It is a recording instrument: immediate, obvious and fast, so the idea gets recorded while it is still an idea.
What’s new
Version 1.2.3 · Updated September 28, 2026
Runs on iPhone Track8 now runs on iPhone, in landscape and zoomed to the device panel. The new zoom button on iPad and Mac does the same: just the panel, as large as the window allows. The device no longer rotates with the iPad. Much lower latency BUFFER SIZE now sets the iOS audio buffer. New installs start at 64 samples on recent devices. If the sound crackles, pick a larger value. The AUDIO settings show your audio device by name and the real round-trip latency. AUv3 plugins as outboard gear Eight rack slots host Audio Unit instruments, effects and MIDI processors. Each plugin is wired like a hardware synth or pedal: into a track input, an insert, a send or the mix. MIDI controllers MIDI Learn and the MIDI DEVICE and CONTROL screens now work in the app with USB, Bluetooth and network MIDI, using the same mapping file as the hardware. Bluetooth controllers pair from the DEVICE screen. Multi-channel interfaces Every input and output of your interface is available, not just channels 1 and 2. MIDI Clipboard Modifier Copy a MIDI passage and mangle it before pasting: velocity, timing, transpose, filter, melodize, chord, strum, arpeggio, LFOs, echo, ratchet, chance, humanize and Euclidean rhythms. Audio Clipboard Modifier New SPECTR page (stretch, freeze, blur, spectral gate, tuned sieve, frequency shift, peaks), new VOICE page (chorus, flange, phaser, comb, formant, harmony, width) and TUNE for pitch correction. Fixes - Takes played back with a buzz on iPad and Mac. The recordings were fine. - Crackles at small buffer sizes on iPhone. - Touching an encoder after turning it no longer counts as a push. - Exporting to a folder now exports to that folder; realtime export works. - Renaming a project no longer quits the app. - On a Mac the app starts with an audio device at any sample rate.
App privacy
The developer, Thingstone GmbH, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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