BandLab – Music Making Studio Reviews

by 69420fegget

Band lab lags like no other while I’m trying to record and edit. There’s a quarter of a second of delay from when I hit a string on my guitar to when I hear it in my headphones and that can really mess you up when you’re trying to be precise. You can’t adjust the click track to be one consistent click too. There’s always an accent note and I don’t need one. I just need to know I’m keeping with the beat. I keep experiencing issues with my headphones too, but I have not yet diagnosed if that’s band lab or my brand new headphones being defective. I have ALL of my volume knobs (in the software, on my computer, and my interface) all turned all the way up and every now and then the sound I get back is barely audible despite being recorded at a reasonable volume in the first place. Hell, the bar is jumping up past yellow in some parts when I hit my bass a little too hard while recording. It’s a free useful site but it’s not without its issues. I recommend it for working on your own personal projects (like I’m doing right now) but don’t sink something special into this product. You’ll want something of a better quality at that point.

by Nashler

Update:
At this point it rarely works longer than an hour. I delete and download this multiple times a day to make one song :( it happens at any point. Right when I open BandLab . Or when I’m about to finish. Or when I’m in the middle of recording. It will just force close or suddenly sign me out and say I can’t sign back in. (Error or this link doesn’t exist) That’s when I have to delete it. Also, When I open an existing file. It will randomly say my microphone doesn’t work or I have to choose that option. But It was fine a second ago when I recorded. I’ll push record and it’s an old recording I deleted etc. these are the problems I have. But I still use it with all these frustrations because there’s nothing else out there like this..

So there is no other app out there like this. It’s amazing. I will continue to use it even though there are a few glitches and errors that occur. Sometimes for no reason. It will force close. Then I spend a few minutes deleting BandLab and downloading again. That seems to be the only suggestion from the support group. It does work but a little inconvenient. Sometimes songs just disappear. I’ve had a few occasions of them showing up again. But I’ve also lost a few. I just save them to my computer now. For me, the pros outweigh the cons. Only because I’ve never found a app this simple where you can record your music and singing. Also, the community is awesome :)

by Endmepls

OK this app pisses me off sometimes when I upload a song and I select the genre and picture for it sometimes it just won’t upload under the genre I selected Or with the right picture and it really frustrates me because I can’t seem to get my music where I want it to be without band lab changing the genre for no apparent reason and then when you go to delete it to re-upload it sometimes it will not delete it and the song will become glitched and unremovable and it really aggravates me having three versions of the exact same song on my profile and it triggers my OCD seeing a massive amount of unremovable songs on my profile like CAN I JUST HAVE A CLEAN PROFILE WITH 1 OF EVERY SONG NOT 3 COPYS!!!!!!! And also for some apparent reason not even this app support knows how to fix it I’ve tried to explain but every time the advice was useless UGHHHHHHHH!!!!!.

*sigh*... so basically in conclusion if you want your music to get herd I would highly recommend a this app it’s really a great app but sometimes it just is so slow clunky and glitchy and The suppose it “support” they offer doesn’t really help for some of the things that is wrong with BandLab

by CinVT

We are doing virtual choir for our little New England church services. this app is easy enough that my choir members, including 80 year old folks, are able to access and use the technology. The versatility of multiple platforms allows Androids and IOSs alike to use their smartphones, and a web interface as an option to the mobile app, all integrated. Small niggles... * can’t protect tracks from being recorded over...*”versions” of the song with different peoples tracks all in different files so that I have to open 12 files and copy/paste to get my full mix... * pitch adjustment (autotune) is only available on the much less robust mobile platform rather than on desktop where any serious musician is going to do their mastering (I use Logic to master, but this app has nice mastering features that can get you by, except the one component that every vocal track needs...tuning. But those are small complaints and we are thriving thanks to this platform. Hurrah!

by Yungmvltxn

there are still a few things you have to work on! For example the AutoTune Feature, it sounds all muffled up if I want to use it, also you should add more Vocal Effects for example a Slapback Effect or a Distortion Effect and a Vocal Harmony or Voice Pitch Changer. There are all sorts of ideas, these Features above I suggest. I use BandLab almost everyday and I create amazing songs with it. Also, please try to change the Microphone Frequency or make it sound better because it doesn't sound that bad but it could be better as well. Just make it sound a bit more realistic like the Application "Take" does. They make it sound really good and also have many Effects. And please make the Beats or Music that you import automatically change the BPM to the BPM of the Beat. For example I upload a Beat with 140BPM, but this app still tells me its 120BPM, which is why I have to first add my Vocal Tracks, then change the BPM, then add the Beat to match the BPM. I don't mean to stress you add, those are just things to make your App even better! Love you, keep going forward!

by Wickedlyblind

Hands-down the best there is available to create,meet,& inspire all while having a place to post and store your songs. The only problem which is a big one is that I am forced to delete BandLab completely off my phone at least once a day if I intend on working on anything. Reason is because Band lab can take up to four gigs of space. This is certainly not a fluke because it happens every day on 3 different IOS devices and the worst I’ve seen it get up to is 5.8 gigs! Contacted technical support and after the first two attempts to make the issue clear to robots/peoplebots.... I finally got someone who payed attention and Genuinely was trying to help me. Unfortunate part about everything is after following all the suggestions given to help me solve the problem still has no resolution or a valid acknowledgement from this app support that they are/would fix the problem. Eh... nothings perfect but this had been my only problem up to this date after about 2years of using BandLab . 👌🤞

by Fjfjdhbdjdjn

I don’t usually write reviews for apps AT ALL but BandLab alone has made it possible to easily express a creative musical side of myself. I just got BandLab just under two weeks ago since writing this and I’ve already recorded 7 fully produced songs. They’re pretty basic because I’m still learning but BandLab has made it possible nonetheless and there’s still so many features I have yet to figure out fully. My friend recommended it to me and I’m so glad I got it. The fact that it has so many features without annoying pop up ads is incredible. I’d rate 6 stars if I could

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Ok I found a problem that is insanely annoying. I’ve been trying out a new modern rap type style of music lately and this app as usual has been doing great at helping me with that except for one problem. I need to use the auto pitch feature for this style of music and turning it up causes random faint popping noises to appear on the vocal tracks. I’ve tried everything and it just won’t go away. This glitch/flaw is literally the only thing I’ve encountered on BandLab that is holding it from the status of perfection.

by Meenayii

I absolutely LOVE this app. I have told alllll of my friends about it, and I have been on it nonstop since I figured out there was an app. (It’s a little funky on my Windows PC) Anywho, although this is a phenomenal app for bedroom artists; I am hoping to see better vocal editing features in the future. (Like pitch correcting/autotune etc) I enjoy the filters and effects they have available, but it would be nice to be able to stack filters, change the intensity of the effect without completely resetting the presets.. and separating vocals from instrumentals? Other than that it would be nice to merge layers (or just be able to add more! I’m running out of layer space and making one song with multiple projects!!) overall I would get BandLab . It’s easy to use, it’s fun, and it makes making music soo much easier than you could ever imagine it. Don’t let my suggestions deter you from the download! I’m hoping this app will add those in the future and eventually you could they could take over GarageBand as the best iOS music editor lol. Thank you this app for your hard work and dedication to bringing music to everyday people like me

by Allen Grayson

this app is an excellent app for music making and listening. I absolutely love it. That is, until a problem occurred. I went to get into BandLab just yesterday and instead of going in straight to my profile and the normal screen, it had the entire intro log in screen show up as if I logged out of my account, which I never do. When I tried logging in using my information, is kept on saying that I have “incorrect credentials”. So, I tried logging in with my google account instead. I thought it would work, but then I got a pop-up saying that my email is “already linked to a different account type”. So now, I can’t log in AT ALL, or access any of my stuff, which is really frustrating. It also makes me worried that my account somehow got lost, along with all of my stuff on it. I still get notifications telling me that people liked my song, or started following me, but even when I tap on the notification banner that shows up at the top of the screen to take me to BandLab , NOTHING HAPPENS. If you could please help in any way or give some sort of advice as to what I should do, thank you. My music is very important to me and I don’t want it to be lost forever with my account. Thank you.

by Young CoN_15

So it’s a great app overall and I finally ran into an issue I made a brand new song was very proud and about to post it and I clicked save so I could go and tweak some things and make my audio more clear then only to realize BandLab only saved the beat and not my voice audio and my lyrics disappeared that I had written down aswell I’m overall really disappointed that out of all issues hat could have happened it was this issue I have never had issues until now I would love a reply from a developer or someone that can help me because maybe it got lost in like the apps cloud or something but I worked so hard on this song and now I have nothing but the beat no none of my vocals are there anymore, and my lyrics have been erased aswell off BandLab please someone write back and please fix this bug on your app at this point I’ve tried all I could to retrieve my lost vocals and lyrics so I’m trying to the developer please help me because I was really proud of this song and I hate dissapointing all my fans I have everywhere😢🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

by Hdthfinc

I NEVER write reviews for apps, let alone rate them but I am so happy with BandLab I just felt I needed to share.... I like to import an instrumental version of a song and then add multiple tracks of myself singing over it, harmonizing with myself, basically. I’ve tried so many apps to do this but they either don’t allow me to import my own song or they don’t allow me to edit my vocals or they charge money to use certain features. The only other app I’m aware of that could do this is GarageBand but that can be difficult to figure out and 98% of the time, it doesn’t let me import songs from my phone for some reason. I get so frustrated with it. I’ve have zero issues with this app and it allows you to use all editing feature for FREE. Also, there aren’t ads popping up every 5 seconds like every other free app out there. BandLab is a breath of fresh air and I’m so thankful I’ve found it. It does exactly what I need it to do, with no issues and all for free. To the developers: Thanks so much! Keep up the good work!

by Macadairo

There’s no other like it helped me find my sound Years later update still love this app No other app like it , I’ve since put together a home studio But I still use this app to get new ideas out fast , Its the ultimate portable studio app,It has great presets to start from it finds the key of the beat has great auto tune coupled with great plugins that are extremely easy to understand up to 16 tracks and it’s so fun with a comprehensive work flow , This is what helped me early on learning to rap and sing , I created EPS , Mixtapes , and Albums that my friends and family thought I went to the studio to make when I was younger making songs everywhere from my room , my school , parks around my house , my bathroom at home , my basement at home , etc. All and All I truly love this app it’s been a huge part of my growth as an artist and much more tools for Collabs and growth tools to help grow a fan base like Contest and Master last but not least other user that you can get inspiration from purely deluxe I love you this app.

by Creepyhead Squid Deville

I love BandLab so much that I would fight you over it. Lol. I’m still a beginner to BandLab but have been doing music all my life practically. I’ve used many platforms and programs but this is hands down my choice to go to so I can release my feelings when I need to do it and not be bothered with ads and pop up crap you have to watch before every click of the screen would go through. I will use BandLab until it is no more or I run out of space, which seems to be my only problem so far. I don’t have enough space to hold all the fantastic music and tunes that I’m able to create with my new best friend. this app, you’re the best. Thumbs up buddy! I am as sincere as one can be when I say that I am in love with this app. P.s. my only minor issue is the bots and fake porn profiles that keep trying to trick me. That’s the only thing that I see that could be improved on. Have a great day.

by 212*****

I love BandLab I started using BandLab in October and I love it, my suggestion is to make a tab where it’s just the mixer for all the channels like for example (one track is “master”) and to the left of it is the “current” track and then the rest of the tracks are insert tracks for example when your in the playlist double tap the mic on any track and it will go into the wav form then tap on fx section and then go to the effect that your vocal or whatever it is on and tap the options tab and then neither you can make it so you tap on the 3 dots or add a rectangle in the options tab and it has a gear press it and it goes to the select channel and you will see a rectangle with a arrow pointing up on top of the rectangle and a arrow pointing down on the bottom of the rectangle and you could make it so u can add third party plugins.

Thank you if the developers or developer is reading this 😉

by Lil' Money

Hey this app I can’t thank you enough for making it easy to record music like this. I use your app every time I write lyrics and was ready to make music, but something came up. The Ipad I used to make my music doesn’t work anymore so I bought a new iPad Air. Thing is I can’t connect any of my earphones or headphones to my iPad Air so I can’t really make music. My friend bought me a v8 to make my music high quality and studio like but it runs on Bluetooth. Please do everything you can to make this app support Bluetooth without any latency or delay and make it sound exactly how it sounds on wired earphones or headsets. I’d love to continue using your app to make music because other apps makes it complicated. And this app is the only app I’ll call a real studio without any equipment but I have a v8 to make my music sound better and I can’t use it on this app because it’s Bluetooth. Make Bluetooth work on this app and I’ll forever be grateful that you came into my life, if you can’t I understand and I’ll try to find something to continue making my music on wired earphones. Thank you for reading all of this, you’re the best.

by Lunar Eminy

Honestly, this is more of a vent review then a request because I feel like no one is up to do it. Do you guys know those virtual singers called vocaloids? Well, I really wanted to use one but the problem is that the original and alternative versions (like synesthyser v or however it’s spelled) and honestly I’m just sad because no one gives me any money for anything so I can’t buy it, also the apps are just too darn expensive tbh. I’m not really asking you guys to add it because although this is a app made for songs and stuff and you can add lyrics to it, however I feel like I am pushing the suggestions too far. You guys can just stick with the traditional Japanese instruments though and just completely ignore my rant, those instruments are enough to just make my day. Thank you for reading this and I apologize for such a long and useless review.

by D_W_H_2

The New eq capabilities of this app is awesome. I really appreciate the having the ability to eq vocals and instruments Manuel because it gives us creators the freedom to be more creative and and makes the music sound that much more crisp. And if you know what you are doing you can really achieve that studio quality sound. I hope the developers of BandLab doesn’t take any of these amazing features away. However they should add more features like the ability to be compatible with a larger range of midi controllers also they should try to a more instrument high quality instrument voices and pianos and sounds. Also if possible I’d love for them to allow more than 12 tracks on any project for more complex composition. That would be also. That said, as it stands now, BandLab is amazing and can only get so much better. It’s definitely my go to app for writing and formulation film scores composition and song ideas. Keep up the good work band land team you guys are definitely appreciated.🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽✨🌟🌟

by BkPatriot1776

This is my favorite music production app yet. Most have very limited functionality, have few instruments (or if they have a large variety, most are locked behind a paywall), or are difficult to use. this app has basically none of these issues. It’s easy to use, has a variety of MIDI instruments spanning several genres and styles (as well as recording and amp features), and so far I’ve seen no payed content. I don’t think there are even ads; if there are, they’re so unobtrusive I haven’t noticed. The sharing and forking features are also nice.

I only have one real criticism of BandLab : for some reason, playing your music back in the mix editor causes popping in the phone speaker. This ONLY happens in the editor itself and it doesn’t happen with headphones. Just the speaker. Music playback in other parts of BandLab is fine, and I even screen recorded the editor playback and there were no audio artifacts. It’s strictly some sort of issue between the editor and the speaker.

EDIT: On a closer listen, I think the artifacts may be present in the screen recording too. Regardless, it’s an issue that needs fixing, but otherwise BandLab works perfectly.

I also hope even more MIDI instruments will be added, such as a strummed guitar as opposed to the fingerpicked versions we’re mostly limited to now. The variety of instruments is, again, fantastic, but more variety in the sounds those instruments can make would make BandLab absolutely perfect.

by Josiah Miles

Forget garageband, BandLab has the most simple yet diverse interface I have ever used, people can master using it in days, but then you still find out features you didn't even know were on it, which makes no sense but thats how great it is 😂 I produce my beats on here, record vocals, mix it all, add effects and filters, it even lets you convert video to audio that you can put in your songs without the need for a MP4 to MP3 converter, it already comes built in. You can upload your music on the domain, and it gains attention because of the features like creator connect, groups, and so much more that makes sure your music doesnt just get lost in the mix like SoundCloud, which I uploaded numerous songs on and amounted to 46 followers, I have uploaded 2 songs and a couple comments to this app and have almost reached 500. I would rate BandLab 6 stars if I could, has helped me bring my music creativity to life, and has helped countless friends of mine do the same. 👌🏽

by FLAME130Yt

I’ve used this app for about a year now to build my music career. This is the only app I’ve used and it’s done wonders and worked the exact way I wanted it to. The only problem I have is this update. I thought the update would be better to be honest. When I read the update log I was super excited. Once the update was done I opened this app and the look was way better but the feel of it didn’t feel right. I don’t know what it is there’s something off and the way I sound when I record now just feels off. I’m in a discord server with a bunch of other music creators and they are all dissatisfied with the update. We all were wishing that there would have been an update to the auto tune. Like if there were more options and effects. Kind of like they have in FL studio. These could be paid or not I’d still buy them if they were paid. But over all this is the best app rn for music. I just don’t like the née feel but it still beats everything else.

by D,nickname

I was really excited when I first got BandLab. It was easy to use, compatible for downloading, and offered a variety of loops. However, yesterday, after having it only two weeks all of my saved tracks deleted on me. I kept all of my tracks private since I was still figuring out the “lab” portion so I didn’t share the majority of my music except for on track out of probably 10 so far. Luckily the ones I liked I did back up but it was just unsettling to have everything disappear like that from every folder on BandLab (including the library and my saved folders). Everything was gone. I did some research digging online and found that deleting and re-downloading BandLab can sometimes bring them back and sure enough it did now. But it’s just a strange clutch to still be happening after people have reported it and there have been updates.

If BandLab becomes more secure then it’s on its way to being a huge tool for music makers!

by Coronaconfidential

This is an awesome app that has such tools that can make anyone feel like a rockstar. From being able to upload and play with your music, recordings, collab, network and make money off BandLab. However they don’t give the recognition to the people who’s been on here deserving for at least a check mark such as the other players have been able to receive. I have 12,000 followers and my band has reached up to almost 95,000 listeners, still no check mark. It’d be nice to show your this app community spreading the word and making people famous and not BandLab itself, it’s just ENHANCING our music credibility the rest is on your person alone. Have fun with this but apparently don’t invest because it won’t even get you a check mark. Listen to Loudpvckmobb with king dvbz and his girl queen dvbz and the rest of the mobb they go hard. Find us on every platform because this app helped us get there. Enjoy!

by Dil_bee

I am definitely addicted to BandLab. Far Better than the looping apps. Probably the best iOS composition tool around. The midi reminds me of early PlayStation era gaming. If y’all could work in triplets and maybe 32nd notes it would be unstoppable. I’m excited to try the desktop version in a week or so.

Is there anywhere I could donate to y’all or related software I could purchase? More instruments? Or a super secret triplet feature. I hope this keeps growing and I would feel good helping y’all do so. I’ve spent probably 24 hours on BandLab already. Turned out to be much more than “writing songs while pooping” app. I’d tip my hat if I was wearing one.

One tiny annoyance. It would be nice if the note names reflected the key I selected. Like no sharps in a flat key etc. I’ll keep using either way. But it would be convenient for my brain.

by TroyingMyBest

This is a very good quality app, if you want to be an artist and make music but you don’t have any equipment at all, BandLab is BandLab to go too. Amazing app. Oh and by the way, I just want somethings added to BandLab , can you make more voice fx? Basically all of them just add a simple echo at different levels. Add a deep and raspy effect, add an effect that makes you sound like you’re through a phone, add an effect that makes your voice very faint and but it still stands out, and many more! I would appreciate it if you can add those things, it’ll really make my music sound better! Also another suggestion is too add a litte more options to audio, like make it fade in/out and you can add how long you want the fade to go for, you know that type of stuff, I hope you can see this and take my review in consideration! Peace and love

by Simeezkat4

Overall this is one of the best music apps in my book and I enjoy making songs. Then this happened. I had BandLab already on another device. I got it on this one. I signed in with my old account. Then it said the stuff and you go through the make your own account. I ended up making a new account. Which I was okay with. I could still listen to my old songs on my other device. Then today I looked on my old device to play my old songs. Then what happened is it brought me to the account on this device. That got me worried. I signed out and typed the account in and reset the password. Though it never got sent. I looked it up and my old account still exists! But I can’t get back in my old account. All my songs are private so they weren’t there! PLEASE HELP ME BAND LAB TEAM😖😖😩😫🙏

by Julian()

I got interested in music production as a hobby recently, and I was trying to find a good software for doing so, I started off with Medly, I wrote two songs that were pretty good on it, but BandLab wasn’t good enough and the options for free instruments were very limited. In BandLab though, EVERYTHING IS FREE! Every instrument, every feature is absolutely FREE and PROFESSIONAL! Also since it’s an app you use on your browser, I can use any device we have! Cause I have two younger siblings, and we really fight a lot over different devices (mostly my brother) for ridiculous reasons like, “it has a keyboard” or something like that, so this makes it a lot easier on me cause there are some things that are only on specific devices. This makes it easier for me to work on the exact same song.

by Bedlavedlt

I rarely rate things online. However I make the occasional exception for a service or product that is so outstanding that I feel obligated to the proprietors for their incredible work. BandLab is a dream come true. Thank you so much for providing this service for free. When I discovered the piano roll editing feature I was blown away. I don't own a computer or any microphones. I thought that the voice memo feature on my phone was a miracle. I've lost so much music over the years to a lack of proper recording. Now I have the opportunity to develop my pieces in ways I only thought possible with expensive gear and software. BandLab isn't going to provide what a full studio and production suite will, but it does provide a simple yet robust platform for fleshing out ideas anywjere any time for FREE. That's crazy.

by Gliiz

BandLab is amazing, the this app team is always going to fix the issue if there is one, it’s probably happening when they are updating and making BandLab better, So be patient and work on a song lol!! I’ve been able to really open my horizons and get creative more than I ever thought possible because of all the options like collaborating, I’m a singer but Its so easy to learn that I’ve even made some beats, I didn’t know I could do that....I feel this app helps you discover your talent or talents. It’s so fun to make music and let others see how you express yourself and you never know if a song may touch someone so share it even if it’s not perfect in your eyes! Thank you this app I’m grateful for y’all! <3. Another few perks...it’s free! And no ads!!! And I’ve made lots of friends in the communities I’ve joined.