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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: 4, Interesting) by gishzida on Sunday March 09 2014, @02:54PM

    by gishzida (2870) on Sunday March 09 2014, @02:54PM (#13617) Journal
    Sound recording / music creation is a weak spot in Android's market [IMHO]. Google has not exactly pitched Android as a music creation / recording platform. Google does not much care who uses Android and does not have a master plan to suck the life out of the walled garden they have created. Manufacturer's that use Android so far as I am aware are not interested in promoting or designing hardware for that kind of niche market which is kind of surprising. Hello? Samsung? Where are you?

    IK Multimedia has some serious mic interface hardware available for Android but IK [like most of the music hardware companies] they mostly focuses on iOS devices / software.

    For field recording I personally use a separate, dedicated [and ancient] M-Audio recorder which can use a T-stereo Mic or it has TRS inputs for XLRs. With an 8 Gb CF card it can record ~10 hours of stereo at 44.1 Khz Wav or even longer when it is set to record MP3 files.

    If you're interested some of my music is HERE [blogspot.com]
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