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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: 4, Informative) by ResistTHIS on Sunday March 09 2014, @05:42PM
Latency is horrible on android, it's the reason you see tons of prosumer level apps and gear aimed at DJs and musicians for iOS but none to speak of for android. Latency is an order of magnitude worse, ios has latency in the range of 2-3 ms, android is in the 10s-100s ms range. They keep saying they're going to fix it, at least I've been hearing it since ice cream sandwich, but I guess they've never got around to it.