 Hi, this is Dani with The Verge and I'm here with iZotope's Spire Studio, which is basically a portable recording studio that you can take with you anywhere on the road. So before this, you would need loads of recording equipment to tackle any of the number of instruments that you might need to complete a song, but this does everything for you. So you can use this to record up to eight separate audio tracks. So you could have an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar, drums, vocals, and it will save them all as separate tracks within this one tiny unit that fits in your backpack. So I have the app for the Spire Studio and I'm going to act as engineer now. We have a box drum and an acoustic guitar and we're going to start a song from scratch and see how this goes on the fly. So what do we do first? Let's do this first. So we're just going to start by playing kind of the rhythm part. John will play the cajon for us and I'll play an acoustic guitar track. We're going to actually record John through the built-in microphone in front of Spire and then I'm going to plug in the acoustic guitar directly into the back. So we'll be recording each part individually. And then we're going to want to sound check it just so that we can set all the levels properly. All right. Okay. We'll have you listen to it since you're the engineer. John and I will go fly solo. We can actually plug right into the back of Spire to have you monitor the sound and you'll be hearing both the guitar part and the cajon kind of blended together here in the headphones. All right. One, two, one, two, three, four. So if we want to layer other parts, which is one of the things that we can easily start doing so we really liked what we just recorded, I'll go back and let's work on adding some effects. I'll put electric guitar on and then we'll layer some vocals on top. Oh, sounds great. So we'll build up the song from scratch. Cool. I'm hearing the previous take that we just recorded in the headphones as well as what he's playing right now, which is really cool. So I can hear the song as it's being layered on the fly to see what the whole project would sound like in total. All right. So for the final touch for our song, we're now going to add vocals courtesy of our producer, Sarah. Now we've recorded three separate layers of audio. I can listen to all three of these dry. I can add effects to them. So I could do some pretty in-depth adjustments before it even reaches a DAW or a digital audio workstation on my computer. So let's see what we've got. If I were a flower grown wild and free, I'd want you to be my sweet honeybee. So after playing around with this for probably 10 minutes, it was pretty easy for me to get a grasp on how it worked. And one thing that I really like about it is that you don't really have to be a technical genius or even really have that much of a technical background in order to get a hold of what it does and how to manipulate the audio and get something that sounds really good out of it. It's really accessible and because it is all in one, one of the nice things about it is that it just bypasses all of the technical setup and allows you to really be in the creative moment and just flow with your inspiration. Isotope Spire Studio is priced at $349 and it's available now. So if you're looking for an option to have an all in one studio that you can just throw in your bag, this could be the thing that you're looking for. For more coverage on CES, just visit us at youtube.com slash the verge.
 Hi, this is Dani with The Verge and I'm here with iZotope's Spire Studio, which is basically
 a portable recording studio that you can take with you anywhere on the road.
 So before this, you would need loads of recording equipment to tackle any of the number of instruments
 that you might need to complete a song, but this does everything for you.
 So you can use this to record up to eight separate audio tracks.
 So you could have an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar, drums, vocals, and it will save them
 all as separate tracks within this one tiny unit that fits in your backpack.
 So I have the app for the Spire Studio and I'm going to act as engineer now.
 We have a box drum and an acoustic guitar and we're going to start a song from scratch
 and see how this goes on the fly.
 So what do we do first?
 Let's do this first.
 So we're just going to start by playing kind of the rhythm part.
 John will play the cajon for us and I'll play an acoustic guitar track.
 We're going to actually record John through the built-in microphone in front of Spire
 and then I'm going to plug in the acoustic guitar directly into the back.
 So we'll be recording each part individually.
 And then we're going to want to sound check it just so that we can set all the levels
 properly.
 All right.
 Okay.
 We'll have you listen to it since you're the engineer.
 John and I will go fly solo.
 We can actually plug right into the back of Spire to have you monitor the sound and you'll
 be hearing both the guitar part and the cajon kind of blended together here in the headphones.
 All right.
 One, two, one, two, three, four.
 So if we want to layer other parts, which is one of the things that we can easily start
 doing so we really liked what we just recorded, I'll go back and let's work on adding some
 effects.
 I'll put electric guitar on and then we'll layer some vocals on top.
 Oh, sounds great.
 So we'll build up the song from scratch.
 Cool.
 I'm hearing the previous take that we just recorded in the headphones as well as what
 he's playing right now, which is really cool.
 So I can hear the song as it's being layered on the fly to see what the whole project would
 sound like in total.
 All right.
 So for the final touch for our song, we're now going to add vocals courtesy of our producer,
 Sarah.
 Now we've recorded three separate layers of audio.
 I can listen to all three of these dry.
 I can add effects to them.
 So I could do some pretty in-depth adjustments before it even reaches a DAW or a digital
 audio workstation on my computer.
 So let's see what we've got.
 If I were a flower grown wild and free, I'd want you to be my sweet honeybee.
 So after playing around with this for probably 10 minutes, it was pretty easy for me to get
 a grasp on how it worked.
 And one thing that I really like about it is that you don't really have to be a technical
 genius or even really have that much of a technical background in order to get a hold
 of what it does and how to manipulate the audio and get something that sounds really
 good out of it.
 It's really accessible and because it is all in one, one of the nice things about it is
 that it just bypasses all of the technical setup and allows you to really be in the creative
 moment and just flow with your inspiration.
 Isotope Spire Studio is priced at $349 and it's available now.
 So if you're looking for an option to have an all in one studio that you can just throw
 in your bag, this could be the thing that you're looking for.
 For more coverage on CES, just visit us at youtube.com slash the verge.