iOS Music Tools: A Songwriter's Toolbox

iZotope Spire $349; izotope.com and spire.live iZotope is justifiably famous for its software. Whether you’re talking about tracking plug-ins like Alloy or Nectar, audio polishing and repair products like Ozone and RX, or the gorgeous Iris2 virtual instrument, the company’s devotion to sound quality and ease of use always shines through. So when we learned of iZotope’s first foray into recording hard-ware, we were justifiably curious...

Spire Studio is a tabletop recording device that pairs up seamlessly with the free Spire Recorder app for iOS. The resulting hardware/software package takes a radical new approach to demo recording, making it so easy that anyone can get started immediately. If you’ve always been intimidated by how long it takes to set up even the simplest recording...