Hokusai Audio Editor Reviews

To get straight to the point, I love HokusaiAudioEditor. Closest thing to Audacity on HokusaiAudioEditor Atore, and meets all my audio editing needs, and I was really excited to move all my work over to my iPad. However, there’s one major thing holding HokusaiAudioEditor back for me. The track limit. The mixing work I do and the projects I’m in typically require at LEAST 10 tracks, typically more. However the limit in HokusaiAudioEditor is only 6 tracks, which I find very limiting. I’m on a 2020 model iPad Pro so I know it could very sasily handle much more. Please raise the track limit even if just for premium members to something like 20.

I've been using HokusaiAudioEditor for over a year or so and it has been great until the last update to version 2 where it won't resume play if some other app took control of the audio, or even if I get a call and try to play again, it won't and I have to restart the pp to get it to resume.
Another issue with it is when you copy and paste the entire audio of 3 minutes long or so on the same track a few times to get a loop effect and play the audio, if goes all static after an hour or so.
Besides the two issues, it has been an awesome tool for my editing needs so far , loaded with great features that would be under premium option on some other apps.

This is an amazing app! I’ve been using it to cut my music and it works miracles (most of the time). There are some times when I would select a region to begin cutting, and then it would just automatically slide to some other spot. Or I would slide the cutter to cover the region I want to delete, and then it would just shrink to where I selected it. Over and over again. This is probably the only complaint I have regarding this and it is rather frustrating to deal with. Please take this into consideration and hopefully make changes to fix this bug. Thank you for reading

It's great that this supports exporting to so many apps. I use this with Nanostudio to make samples of songs for my music all the time. The only problem is that there's no way to speed up and slow down tracks, which is essential for what I'm using it for. The default effects are very limited and the ability to change tempo without changing pitch seems like a must-have for any audio editor. This is still overall a good stripped-down app.

Unless I’m missing something, all these wave editing apps are useless on your phones or iPads, as there is no way to get your edited sound files back into your devices without the use of iTunes, which is a Windows program. I’ve purchased two or three of these apps now at significant cost, only to find that once I’ve edited material, there’s no way to get them back into my music library. I write my own songs and backing tracks and import them into my iPad via iTunes or iMazing, but after editing and saving to dropbox I am now unable to get them back onto my device for use. Am I right? If I am, then why purchase them? I long for days now past, when companies produced products without the need for secrecy or subterfuge, products that were so well done and worked so well for the purchaser that the corporations were insured a bright profitable future because they built great products. This is capitalism at its best-
The Hokusai team contacted me to tell me that I can do anything I want with the files except what I want. The program is fine as far as it goes but I stand by my point: for anyone who wants to edit performance music on their iPads or iPhones they are useless. If you can’t get your edited files back into your device without a Windows computer and iTunes, tell me what the programs are good for? Not blaming Hokusai . . blaming Apple-

First time writing an App review.
I tried many free apps for audio editing, but nearly all were trying to push adverts or were just not upto the mark! Too many hidden problems!
HokusaiAudioEditor by Hokusai is a real gem! It does almost everything you might want on the free app, without buying the pro version. I could do trimming, duplicating, pasting, adding tracks together, zooming to see detail in the wave pattern, exporting the finished project as an .mp4 file but still easily playable (after importing individual tracks as mp3). Easy to bring in tracks via WiFi sharing. All of this I could do within a few mins of trial and error practicing. So easy to learn without reading a manual😀👍
Thank you developer for a genuinely great app.
Never asked me to upgrade or buy anything after a full day’s use.
So far, really so good!!

RE: Problem has been solved. Thank you. I’ll give you your five stars back for prompt response and because HokusaiAudioEditor is very good.

Since your last update, I can't highlight any section on any track with my mouse. I don't use touchscreen as I dislike soiling my tablet. I'm a constant user of Hokusai, and I can't believe you ruined a perfectly good app this way. I hope you can fix this, but you ruined an entire week's worth of work for me. Shameful.

Thanks for being so active. I forget about apps sometimes but then I see an update. I love that the change log has the actual changes that were made. Getting data on and off of the iPad has been a big factor in keeping away from editors on iOS. Glad Apple is finally allowing you access to the USB port. Its amazing it took this long to... access a drive from iOS.
TLDR, you rock and make a great product and I am glad you have access to external drives now.

Hidden behind the arcane name is a wonderful app. It will do what you need, even in the free version. It can import/export (uses Files), cut/paste, and lots more. There's a full user manual on-line and pdf, so there are no mysteries. You can expand the track and use audio scrubbing for precise trimming. A minor limitation is that it only saves as m4a (or wav), not mp3. I don't need the full version, but I'd pay a couple of bucks just to give the author a boost. May there should be a tip jar or a minor upgrade available for a lower price.

I have been looking for something alone the lines of an iOS version of Audacity and HokusaiAudioEditor fills the bill. I sprung for the Pro version and am very pleased! I have a lot of audio files that I need to edit on my iPad and don’t want to add non musical files to my Cubasis library as there are already too many files there. I also didn’t want to carry my laptop where Audacity lives. This was the perfect solution! Thanks to the devs for this truly useful audio editing utility. Well worth the price!

Hokusai 2 Review

So I’m a former  employee so I have a high standard when it comes to Apps, design and productivity.

I needed to do some serious audio editing, Hokusai 2 was among the top I had in mind. I needed something Professional, with a full suite of options. So I loaded up HokusaiAudioEditor and went to work.

What I loved:

- It was easy to import audio and splice the audio the way I wanted it
- Very full featured, allows me to split the stereo tracks, which I was impressed with

- LOTS of options, from ducking, fade in/out, silence, gain, gain compressor, white noise, etc. I need to stop listing them because Ill be here for a hour.

- TONS of Special effects, from phaser, chorus, etc.

- Allows to convert audio to various formats

- Allows to heighten audio tracks so its easier to see

- Allows to zoom in very intuitively, no dropped frames even on my iPad Air 2

- Quick conversions when altering audio

What I didnt like:

- HokusaiAudioEditor gets confused when gesturing between the Heighten Track height and Zooming. I cant begin to tell you how many times I wanted to zoom but it heightened the track size.

- Not as big of deal but when I left the project and re-entered a bug popped up where it didnt load any of my tracks or even project name. It was completely blank. I was worried that HokusaiAudioEditor deleted all the data but when I cloned the project it was there, I forced closed HokusaiAudioEditor and went back to the original project and the data was back. Again no big deal but the bug should be rectified.

- I can only increase the gain by 3.0dB each time (which I could push it to 6.0 or higher instead of redoing it twice)

I was surprised that I did all the editing in the Free version and was able to export it out without needing any of the upgraded features. I didnt need to buy the Pro pack but I did anyway just to say Thank you to the developer for making my job SO MUCH EASIER. HokusaiAudioEditor saved me from rushing home, hitting traffic, and stressing to make my appointments throughout the day. Thank you.

I’ve been trying to edit music and all the apps are free but when you get in it says start free trial. I want to edit my music for free then I found HokusaiAudioEditor called handy audio editor it didn’t cost any money but you could only cut bits of the end or beginning not in the middle and I wanted to cut in the middle so I went searching again for another app. I found this one it is awesome not only you can cut music but you can make your music silence in a point, make it fade in, make it fade out, and make the music get louder in some points I recommend getting HokusaiAudioEditor it is AWESOME.

I’ve been in the music business for 50 years and I have produced major label quality CDs and worked internationally. I’ve been told that I have good years and know how to create unique sounds. I especially love to record out of doors and capture the sounds of the city or the songs of birds etc. HokusaiAudioEditor has become my go to, and other than my DAW, most of my projects will start with Hokusai 2.
It is absolutely intuitive, and with very few exceptions does pretty much everything that I wanted to. I do have big hands and sometimes I get frustrated with the size of my phone screen. But then I got an iPad and man oh man did I go to town. I started with a free app but then after about a week I was like “I must have more!” One of the more fascinating tools I use is the noise reduction where in you sample a tiny section of NOISE and then run it through the program and that noise is removed. It’s really fantastic and I’ve communicated with the developers and they’re really good about getting back to me. They’re very nice people and I’ve been sharing my ideas with them and one thing I would like to reiterate here is it be nice to have a return to zero (RTZ) function as well as a mute button on each track. With HokusaiAudioEditor and the trio of aps from Amplify one almost doesn’t need a DAW to make great music.

“Destructive editing” may not sound good, but it is clearly more useful than what GarageBand offers when you have to split regions to delete audio and then deal with them sliding around. When it comes to adding reverb however, HokusaiAudioEditor is limited by its need to write the “reverb” into the waveform, not allowing for later alterations. The scrub is for real. Unlike the scrub in Music Studio, you can hear all sonic components (e.g. the scratch of my fingernails on the guitar strings) and thereby make more seamless edits. The notch filter effect is well implemented, a little piano keyboard gets you honed in on the exact pitch of a woof note.

I am blind and I have been looking for an app that has all the features HokusaiAudioEditor does and is actually accessible with VoiceOver and you guys did it! The pro version is so worth every penny also! Thank you thank you thank you! You are seriously amazing for making this and I hope it never goes away like literally I've never had an issue with HokusaiAudioEditor and I can do so much! And the one thing I am struggling with I'm pretty sure is a user error ha ha but if you are even considering downloading or paying for HokusaiAudioEditor just do it you will not be disappointed!

The horizontal and vertical of aspect editing tracks are tailor-made for a touchscreen. Copying a portion of one track and paste it over the same location of another results in an overwrite, a user-friendly way to destructively edit. To get the same result on my Cubasis, I have to perform the extra step of splitting the audio of the destination track.

Most of my current usage for a DAW or an editor is to record my bass guitar to tracks that my friends provide. Hokusai does the job so well that most of the time, I don’t have to create it in Cubasis and import it to Hokusai. I could both create and edit my bass tracks with Hokusai.

I’ve had HokusaiAudioEditor for about 5 years! Will never let it go! Never had 1 issue with it! Sound quality when transferring is amazing, perfect! Features are exactly what an artist needs and the extras are enough to create a commercial song 💪🏽 I’ve used it to create entire songs, layers and all, voiceovers for social media, journaling, and simply talking to myself (I’m an introvert 🤣)

In all seriousness - HokusaiAudioEditor is the best app I’ve ever used and I mean that with everything! Please do not change anything! Thank you for taking your job seriously and thank you for making something of such quality 🙏🏽 Money well spent!

HokusaiAudioEditor is super intuitive and very easy to learn. The basic version is pretty solid by itself, but upgrading to premium was worth it just for the noise reduction feature alone (the main reason why I downloaded HokusaiAudioEditor). I tried it twice, the first time it took away all the background noise but my voice sounded like it was in a cave, and the second time it took away all the background noise and my voice was left sounding exactly the same. So there was some trial and error involved, but not much. The AI is not perfect, but that’s OK. It has worked for me once for so far, and that is more than I can say for any other voice recording app!

If you like the destructive editing of Audacity, Hokusai will fit the bill. Hard to believe HokusaiAudioEditor is free. With a proper USB interface and connector, you can record and edit high quality audio on your phone. Also good support - my questions were answered promptly so HokusaiAudioEditor is in active development as we speak unlike most other freeware. Editing is a breeze and feels particularly fluid on an ipad - you’ll be dragging to highlight and edit. Cloud uploads are painless allowing to have a truly mobile recording experience. What this is not: this is not a full DAW. There are other apps for that. But a competent sound recorder program it is - for more options, upgrade to the paid version.

I’m work on an original iPad so you have to get creative and really know your stuff when is comes to editing. I normally stick to iMovie and GarageBand but they wouldn’t let me take my audio, edit it, and not make it a video file. I tried other apps but they wanted money or didn’t work. This is the only app that would let me work. It takes awhile to understand but after that it’s really good. 5 stars for sure!