Abstract: The portable music studio is a modular apparatus that records and mixes music in real time. The portable music studio comprises a dock and a controller. The dock is a switching device that receives a first set of one or more audio signals from a first set of one or more audio sources and routes the each of the received audio signals as a first multichannel audio signal to the controller. The controller is a logic device that independently records each channel of the multichannel signal and directly receives and records a second set of one or more audio sources. The controller mixes this plurality of recorded audio sources. The portable music studio further generates musical audio input directly from the controller. The controller is separable from the dock to allow for recording, mixing and making audio files at a remote location.