Soundtrap Studio Reviews

SoundtrapStudio could be great, unfortunately though, it’s not. I first tried using the desktop version on my laptop, to no avail. I usually use Garage Band on my iPad to edit vocals and got this program specifically so I could do that on my computer instead, but for some reason the desktop version refuses to use my microphone. I spent two hours going through my computer and Soundtrap settings, only to give up because of how frustrating it was. I guess technically it did connect, but I couldn’t get the volume up and it sounded very VERY muffled. So I decided to turn to SoundtrapStudio . Thankfully, SoundtrapStudio was able to acknowledge the microphone, but SoundtrapStudio doesn’t carry the tools that I want to use and crashes VERY often. Also the whole point I got it was because I wanted to use my laptop. I had the grand idea to record on my iPad then edit on my computer, but even though I’m on the same account and use the paid version it won’t sync well between devices. Anyway, for my purposes SoundtrapStudio/site has been very frustrating, but it does have some good things packed in. I’m sure it’s useful to many other people

So I had to make a school project. All I had to do was play around with making beats. I started working, and sat at my computer for a while. I went to take a break, so I saved it, and when downstairs to read. But when I came back up, my Chromebook had turned off. No big deal! So I open Soundtrap up again. And when I tried to edit the track I already made, it doesn’t let me. So I think:
“This is annoying, but I can always make a second track beneath it. But when I start making a second track, it sends it back to the beginning of the song, which is not where I want it. I move it back, but since I’m using beats, I edit it. This sends right back to, you guessed it, the beginning. Please allow for tracks to be edited and remove the fact that when you edit beat, it sends you to the beginning.

Another problem I have is with recording my voice. Last year, I had to do a recording of myself speaking for school. But every time I record myself, it sounds really bad. I waste 3 DAYS trying to figure this out, and eventually realize that you got to edit the sound to Clean 1. No clue why they make the default static, but I guess someone thought they should.

So all in all, Soundtrap (of course, not SoundtrapStudio , because SoundtrapStudio is terrible, never use it if you can use the desktop version) has ruined 1 school project, and wasted 1 hour and a half of volunteer time sitting at a compter, after working until 4pm.

Please fix this.

I HÂTE SoundtrapStudio WITH MY WHOLE ENTIRE PITIFUL EXISTENCE. NOTHING CAN EXPRESS MY ANGER TOWARD THIS ABSOLUTE STINKY GARBAGE TRASHY APP. me and my sister had been working on a song together for OVER two MONTHS, not days MONTHS, we saved it every time we closed SoundtrapStudio . one day i opened SoundtrapStudio and it said it COULDNT save right then because SOMEONE ELSE had updated SoundtrapStudio . THEN IT CONTINUED TO DELETE OUR WHOLE SONG WE HAD BEEN WORKING ON. I HOPE THÉ CREATORS READ THIS AND RELIZE THAT THE PAST YEARS MAKING THIS LITERAL GARBAGE APP WAS A COMPLETE WASTE OF THEIR PURPOSELESS LIVES. I HOPE YOU SEE THIS AND REALIZE THAT SoundtrapStudio NEEDS SOME MAJOR UPDATES BECAUSE IT IS SLOW AS CRAP. and one more thing I HOPE THE CREATORS REALIZE THAT THEY RUINED MY CHANCES OF BECOMING AN ARTIST. THANKS A LOT. MY LIFE IS RUINED. I HAD HUNDREDS WAITING FOR THAT SONG TO COME OUT. THANKS FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. don’t get this stupid app, don’t support the blockheads who made it. excuse my foul mouth but SoundtrapStudio doesn’t deserve to have people downloading it because it truely ruined my career. my name is yuma and i am 26 years of age. i control my temper usually but this FREAKING FRUSTRATING APP has got me screaming at my only son. i hope the creators are not chickens i hope they respond and give me an update.

The lag on the iPad (when I have to use it), disrupts the recording, stopping, and after hitting okay in microphone questions. Also, I'm a new user, as well as someone who didn't grow up with computers. As I learn how to use the AP, I do find it easy to use. Living with a disease that keeps me horizontal, outside of a few minutes at a time, I'm grateful to have your program to learn so I may still pursue my dreams and have my lyrics of my life heard one day. Although I may not be able to stand up and sing, I will find my way! Keep in touch, you never know how famous I may end up being. Oh, and when I get there, maybe your company will give me an affiliate site, so others may experience what I am. My future realistic goal thoughts!
Stacie CoG Healing

I found soundtrap about a year ago and it seemed like a dream come true for a beginner to recording music, but at this point SoundtrapStudio is basically useless to me and the desktop version is becoming frustrating as well.

On mobile, you can’t use headphones - HEADPHONES. Which means you can’t actually listen to anything you’re doing (the iPhone’s built in speaker really doesn’t do anything justice), and you also can’t record anything or else you’ll be able to hear the track you’re recording over in your take. You can’t edit instruments, and you have to manually save constantly. SoundtrapStudio also crashes all the time or fails to load things in.

It needs serious help if it wants to keep its user base thriving on its technology. I don’t want to switch to anything else but I’m looking for alternatives at this point

In theory, Soundtrap could be awesome. It’s got a small-ish selection of loops, and medium sized selection of virtual instruments. That said, the glitches are so bad that I can’t trust a single project of mine to actually be there and be editable by the time I come back to it. Each time I use Soundtrap, I probably have to quit and restart SoundtrapStudio 5-10 times per hour. I’ve tried using it on multiple mobile devices, including a computer, and the glitches and problems seem to be consistent regardless. I re-downloaded SoundtrapStudio it this year, after getting frustrated with it for this exact reason a couple years ago. I thought that by now they would’ve fixed all these problems, because I’m obviously not the only having them. Unfortunately, though, nothing has changed, and support has never been able to help with this. They’re just as baffled as I am.

Please please please please please, have a whole ‘nother section just for premium. I have to scroll through hundreds of premium loops and it’s exhausting, and on top of that, if I click out of the column for the loops for a second, when I click on it again it takes me straight to the top like I hadn’t just took 2 minutes trying to find something. There isn’t always something I’m looking for so I can’t always search up specifically what I want. Please make it easier. I really enjoy the songs I make but please try to help me enjoy the process of making them 😞I will still rate a 4 tho ❤️ I know your company and employees are most likely working very hard

This review comes from someone who uses an iPad to make beats. When you first open SoundtrapStudio , it flips the screen like how you normally use an iPhone. It isn’t too bad until you have a tablet with a keyboard attached to it. You could flip the screen until you create a new project. I feel like it isn’t necessary to fill in my personal information like my email and birthdate. I just want to enter SoundtrapStudio and make beats. When making a beat, SoundtrapStudio tends to lag and freeze up. I couldn’t save my project a couple of times when this happened and ended up losing my progress. SoundtrapStudio needs to automatically save your progress instead of having to do it manually once in a while. It lacks the ability to edit your notes with a piano roll. The interface isn’t really user friendly like GarageBand. I found the volume throttle and tools like it difficult to turn it.

I’ve been using SoundtrapStudio for a while now and enjoy it. I can play a variety of instruments, make music fade in/out, add effects, etc. But I’ve been having a problem lately that’s killed the experience for me. The bass. Whenever I play the bass, notes will randomly not play when I click them and even silence notes in previous recordings, but sometimes it comes back after another listen. This problem only affects the bass. The other instruments work just fine. Please, fix this issue and I’ll give 5 stars. If it would help, I have a 6th Gen Apple iPad.

Thanks!

I love this application. But the mobile app just keeps getting worse. The new opening straight to the studio is frustrating. I want to open SoundtrapStudio to see my projects. Also, the project display is worse. Bring back the old version where you could click the project and move the time to wherever you want. Why would you think it is okay to get rid of this? If I want to skip to a certain part to hear it, I should be able to. The new color way (or lack there of) just makes everything confusing. SoundtrapStudio was a 5 ⭐️ app maybe half a year ago, now it’s just plain stupid. I’m sorry but these updates are unnecessary and frankly, make it a worse experience for me and your other users. Please consider making the changes back to how it was, how it should be. - BeatsByOT

Does anyone else seem to randomly lose the ability to login? I’ve had to recreate accounts because after a little while I can’t get into my account anymore. “Login failed. Please try again.” Apparently there’s no way to fix this, and there’s no customer service and nothing online. This has happened 3 times and I’ve lost ALL of my music every time. WHY is there no customer service?

When actually able to access my own account…Unless you’re using a MacBook, syncing is impossible, even when PERFECTLY in time with the metronome…each track is off from the previous one which is just ridiculous. You can only be in a room with one person at a time…whyyyy? That’s just ridiculous. Why isn’t anyone smart enough to make these basic changes to fix these issues? I don’t recommend SoundtrapStudio for these reasons.

The computer version is wonderful! I love the computer version of Soundtrap, however, I’m not that impressed with the phone app. Basically it’s good for listening to songs and maybe contacting with collaboraters. But I found it complicated to try and work on a song on my phone with this thing... for starters (this is especially annoying when you’re collaborating with someone), you can’t see the name of your tracks when they’re in your song, it just shows an instrument. Most of all, it doesn’t like to let me move my tracks, and with the smaller tracks it wouldn’t let me make the tracks longer. Although I didn’t want to take too much time trying to figure it out... I don’t know. I wasn’t very impressed when I first downloaded it on my phone. I recommend working on your songs on the computer version of Soundtrap.

Ok, I have music in my school during quarantine, my teacher showed us SoundtrapStudio and website, but my first music making? Worked very well, but when he told my class that we were using it again, I thought I was prepared. But it sooooooo laggy! I can’t get anything open, I pray that it works JUST to get in the main menu!!! Please just FIX THE LAG.

Another problem; I was playing my music with my mom earlier, she liked it. So when I was going to use this to do an assignment, the only thing that showed up when i opened in studio, was “loading...” and there wasn’t even a lot of beats in it! It just only said “loading..” and I deleted some apps, I waited and waited, nothing happened. Please fix it. Thank you.

I use SoundtrapStudio quite a lot but there are many issues with it, first of all the worst part of SoundtrapStudio is when I’m trying to pick instruments I can’t scroll down, and I know it’s not an issue with my phone I’ve tried this on other phones and I still can’t scroll down, Second there are features that are missing from the desktop version, Now I understand that it’s hard to port applications to a different system, but there are free big features missing for example the patterns beat maker, personally I think the patterns beat maker would be perfect for mobile devices but it’s nowhere in sight, I do like SoundtrapStudio but some issues stand out too much.

I love Soundtrap and have been using it a little over two years now. However my problem is with the new app update. I like the way the old update was with the navigation and the design. To me, it was better than the new one. Whenever you open SoundtrapStudio with the new update, it takes you straight to the studio, which I think is inconvenient. The old app update was much better because all the songs were there when you opened SoundtrapStudio and now you go straight to the studio and you can end up clicking a bunch of things and making a song when you didn’t even want to.

Soundtrap has been a fairly user friendly way to continue some sort of choir during the pandemic. I have used this with my church choir made up of members ranging in age from high schoolers to senior adults and most have been able to use the sight fairly well with some troubleshooting along the way. I’m planning on using Soundtrap for education with my public middle school and high school students when school resumes. One weakness I wish Soundtrap would address is the ability to “lock” a track so that preliminary tracks cannot be erased inadvertently by someone adding a track.

Need to fix the ios app because when i get on it it flashes the screen and keeps loading. Sometimes it even crashes. It just keeps flashing on and off for a while until i can finally press something.

Also, can you add the ability to add the animations in the mobile version so i don't have to use my laptop because its old and the CPU easily gets overloaded with the music? Its probably just a computer problem and not the actual software.

But otherwise, a very well music program that i enjoy using. 🖤🖤🖤

I love that I can, at any place, at any time, as long as I have WiFi... instead of taking notes I can actually freestyle to a beat.

I’m also a web/mobile dev. The future of the OS is the “browser”, and SoundTrap is one of the pioneers leading the way.

Besides a few key board shortcuts and advanced engineering + plug-ins (which I can’t do anyways), its in my top 3 of online audio suites.

Great pricing, awesome response to feed back, and an all around great product. You can’t go wrong with Soundtrap.

I’m advocating for a mass export, or export as “file format”. That would just be too sweet. For now I have no worries and no complaints downloading one by one.

If ur like me... I think I have 100 projects and I want to send them to my final mix engineer, it’d be nice to send them all in bulk.

I still give 5 stars, I’ve been growing along side them and I will definitely be a product advocate.

Cheers, you guys did a great job!

SoundtrapStudio is amazing! The only problem is though, whenever I try to use my mic and record a song it says that the sound is too loud or something like that and I don’t know how to fix it.

Also just a recommendation, can you make it so that you can open the song you created and have it as a project in SoundtrapStudio bandlab. This is the only app I can create actual music with and it’d be awesome if you make this update where you can open it in other apps so that you can create projects there.

But other than that SoundtrapStudio is amazing.

I am writing this during the coronavirus pandemic, in which I am in New York City. I have online school and my orchestra teacher makes us use this. She said to share it to her, but I don’t have a share button! It would have made me get a zero if I weren’t a favorite of hers while I was in school. So to get my work in, I have to collaborate with her. She shouldn’t have to do something different for me while others are sharing it. Today, I had to do an assignment that involves singing. I know I sound like a pig being painfully slaughtered, but the audio was breaking and I couldn’t understand myself after the recordings were played back. I hate this so much, I can’t do it. I can’t I hate hate hate it. It’s horrible.😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

I love SoundtrapStudio and have been using it for a while now to make dongs & stuff. However there are a few things that need improvement. My first and biggest concern is the saving feature. You have to manually save all the time to ensure that you don’t lose your project if SoundtrapStudio crashes or if you have to close it. Multiple times now I have closed SoundtrapStudio , forgetting to save and losing almost all of my progress. I would recommend an auto save feature, or at least some kind of reminder system or confirmation system that makes sure you don’t close SoundtrapStudio without saving. My next concern is quantizing. I love it for some things, like making steady bears & different melodies. However, there should be some kind of feature where you can quantize duplets and triplets in the same section so that you don’t have to split it. Other than that, I love SoundtrapStudio and will keep using it in the future.

Saw SoundtrapStudio advertised and thought I’d try it out. I should have done more research first, for one. I purchased the most expensive package, but didn’t realize that it was year-to-year. I’ve been trying to cancel and get my money back for three days, as it charged over $100. The customer service (Tin) I e-mailed back and fourth with this morning has been LESS than helpful. I don’t think English is their first language, based on their response wording. I’ve ultimately been instructed to “directly” contact Apple. I cancelled my membership, but apparently can not get my money back. I don’t want SoundtrapStudio . I just want my money back. It’s obviously been made very difficult, intentionally. You also can’t truly benefit from SoundtrapStudio, without a desktop, which I didn’t see advertised at all.

It’s honestly a perfectly fine and actually quite fun to play with and is basically my little studio. It can be struggling sometimes when it comes to producing and using effects and beats correctly. Also let’s mention the fact that I’m not a premium member like others so I don’t get as many features xP. But overall pretty good! Still have yet to find bugs, crashes or glitches :)

My friend told me this was a great app to get so we could work together on music. I’m not doubting him but in order to do that I need to be actually able to log in without crashing every single time I re-install SoundtrapStudio , I’ve re-installed it 3 times now Incase it was a glitch, I’ve figured that it’s just the system. Once I see that this crash is fixed I’ll definitely however give SoundtrapStudio Store a five star review with no questions asked because still - this is a very good program, and is helping other artists write there story. Just please, try to fix this system.
Thank you.

So, I was creating a song just using the piano in SoundtrapStudio on my computer, and at some point I wasn't able to access my computer (for certain reasons) and I found out this was on mobile. I had created it with the "Piano Roll" option to make it easier, and when I got to the mobile app, I was disappointed because I had no way to edit my song so basically it was a waste. If the Piano Roll feature can be brought to mobile it would be great!

All names are taken. Nothing works. Even stuff that obviously wouldnt be taken like. Hatfuueg418g is taken. ABCDEFMAHTYS5712 is taken.
ThisShouldntBeTaken is taken.
My name is taken as well as every combination of my name and any set of numbers is taken. Not sure if this is a bug or if SoundtrapStudio just doesn’t like me but I’ve got an iPhone7 so it should work fine.

The tutorials only show how to use the PC version and only one tutorial video provides iOS use, but it’s limited.

I just tried to sign up but it didn’t work (I’m probably just stupid but it should be easier to make an account as in it’s more obvious if I am) I put in my EXISITING email, a password, the country I live in (US) and my birthdate which I don’t feel safe telling random people on the internet but the screen never changed. I pressed the logo, the exit button, in between the two of them, and the dead center of the date thing trying to find a button to make an account but it never worked

So, for some reason. There’s a problem with signing in. When I get SoundtrapStudio on my phone (iPhone 6s) it lets me put in my password and email but then it brings me back to the home screen of the phone. So when I try to manual type my info it says “You Need To Sign In Through Google” but when I do that. It brings me back to my home screen. I’ve tried deleting SoundtrapStudio and reinstalling it. But that hasn’t helped. This has only recently started happening. So I’m kinda confused. It works perfectly on the computer. But for mobile... it’s acting weird. Can’t sign in.

The most basic rule for creating good apps? Don't purposely make it more difficult for people to try your app.

It's called user friction. The idea is to reduce it, not increase it. For example, there's no reason to require new account signup and require legal terms of service agreements before the user gets to the first view in SoundtrapStudio .

Think about it. Yes, it's possible an app really requires a valid account *to use it*. It's not possible an app requires an account just *to see it* or learn about it.

Still think it's possible there's a valid reason? Ok I'll bite. Forget about letting people actually try SoundtrapStudio first.

Can you please explain why you can't link to a 15 second video about SoundtrapStudio , without requiring people agree to legal terms and signup?

What's that? People can find videos on your web site? Do a web search? Ah, but...remember the friction thing?

App design 101: Make things easier. Even if all you can do is show a 15 video clip.

SoundtrapStudio is very good for making music and is easily accessible for newcomers. But, SoundtrapStudio does crash at times, such as when I try to use a picture for my profile.

Also, can I please change my profile name again, I kinda messed up on it when I tried to change it the first time, it would be very generous of you to change it.

Edit: They seemed to have fixed the problem, Cheers!
I have used this on computer, and have made a couple of mediocre songs, but in Mobile(newest IOS IPhone 6s) It decides to crash whenever I login with google, and if I use my email to login, it just says to try again later, even though, I have tried again Later.

Soundtrap is a great way to collaborate music with friends, but I have a few concerns. Unless you have a computer, Soundtrap isn’t for you. I’ve often tried their mobile app, but it constantly crashes.
I’ve also created a google account for it, alas, if you try logging in with google on mobile, it probably won’t work.
It’s a great app, I just wish they would fix the bug. :)

My daughter thinks SoundtrapStudio is fantastic and she uses it all the time. The only problem is that you state that your age is 4+ so because of this i listed the year as 2009, but that doesn’t meet the age requirements. This confused me so I tried a different email and was going to put my age. When I put in my email, I was told that I was underaged (I had not put my age in yet)