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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!"
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Khyber on Sunday March 09 2014, @02:22PM
Tablets would be a different story, but a phone is lacking even a basic line level input. You've got a microphone input, but it's not stereo, and it ties you to a sub-optimal speaker in your ear (not like a phone's speakers are worth much for audio in the bassy ranges, anyways.)
There are some things you're just not going to do on a phone. Not until they put in tons of extra ports. This is one of them. Get a tablet instead, or use a netbook with a decent RealTek chipset onboard, where you can use the auto-sensing jacks and tell them what sort of device is on that jack, and it acts accordingly.
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(Score: 1) by adolf on Sunday March 09 2014, @07:10PM
Tablets aren't a different story: The difference between a "tablet" and a "phone" is the size of the screen, and the radios equipped (and sometimes, not even that). The software is the same. Connectivity also tends to be equal between tablets and phones: Both types of devices have various wired outputs (stereo analog, HDMI), 802.11, Bluetooth, hit-or-miss USB OTG, and a microphone input for a headset.
Any solution that works on a tablet is adaptable to work on a similar phone.
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(Score: 2) by Khyber on Monday March 10 2014, @12:30AM
"Tablets aren't a different story: The difference between a "tablet" and a "phone" is the size of the screen"
Plenty of add-on base options for the iPad to give you input ports, with apps to work with said add-ons.
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(Score: 1) by adolf on Wednesday March 19 2014, @05:46PM
Look up at the top of the page. See the line that says "Android"?
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(Score: 1) by guises on Sunday March 09 2014, @09:55PM
Just what sort of tablet are you thinking of here? The typical android or iOS based tablet doesn't have any inputs that a phone doesn't have. They're pretty much the same thing, after all.
(Score: 1) by Mr. Slippery on Monday March 10 2014, @10:05PM
A tablet can be a USB host. With the right software, you could hook a USB audio interface (like this [rolandus.com]) up to one.
(Score: 1) by ccanucs on Sunday March 09 2014, @11:01PM
On an iPhone, using the Camera Connection Kit (which takes a digital USB signal and sends it into the 30-pin adapter as a digital signal) you can send digital USB stereo output from say a Digitech guitar pedal (which fully supports recording into an iPhone as well as an iPad in stereo natively without any other audio I/O interface needed, and with stereo FX in the pedal e.g. ping pong being passed through into the phone) then record that stereo signal into an iPhone studio DAW-like app without any further D->A and A->D conversion required. Or you could attach a dedicated stereo mic like the Tascam or Rode series of stereo mics made for iPhone / iPad directly and likewise record into a recording program or via Audiobus into a stereo FX chain into a recording program. Works very well. You can save the recording and export it to a desktop DAW later if you need to do any post-processing.
(Score: 2) by Khyber on Monday March 10 2014, @12:44AM
And the story mentions very specifically Android.
Which pretty much has zero options like that.
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