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Ask SN: Music Recording on Android?

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday March 09 2014, @12:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the OK-Computer dept.

Ethanol-fueled writes:

"After many years of lambasting smartphone users during my tenure at "The Other Site," I finally broke down and got a recent-model Android phone, and I'm appealing to the musicians in the audience for help: Which apps for music recording on Android would you recommend? Any stories, bugs, or gotchas of which we should be made aware? Features provided, number of tracks, backing tracks, effects, etc.? I'd prefer Android-specific information but discussion of music recording on iOS or other mobile platforms, heck any digital recording, would be welcome. Cost is not a factor, but stability is very important.

I've done a good amount of recording using Cubase on PCs so I'm no stranger to digital recording over all, one of the reasons why I'm asking you all is because most 'reviews' online seem untrustworthy, the two I'd think I'd like best are full of bad reviews and I need the straight dope from a technical crowd.

Thanks in advance for your stories and suggestions!"

 
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  • (Score: 2) by elgrantrolo on Sunday March 09 2014, @01:55PM

    by elgrantrolo (1903) on Sunday March 09 2014, @01:55PM (#13606) Journal

    Android is an alternative to Windows as much as Linux and OS X are. For some even more of an alternative because:
    a) It works with mobile devices rather than just conventional PCs
    b) There's already so many users that it's likely to attract a supportive community and/or companies providing useful services
    c) more likely to work out of the box than Linux based software
    d) iPad users do have a lot of music related apps, it's fair to expect the same to happen with Android.

    The last time I checked, in the context of getting a guitar to interface with a PC, it turned out that iOS was at an advantage in terms of getting low latency connections.
    With more quad core CPUs and other performance improvements from the hardware side of things, it felt likely to see this software advantage go away. However, there was a headstart from the iOS camp, in my opinion because iOS inherited from OS X developer expertise. The people at Apple probably saw this happen and worked on it before Google did.

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