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Ask SN: Music Recording on Android?

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday March 09 2014, @11:44AM   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: 1) by ccanucs on Sunday March 09 2014, @10:01PM

    by ccanucs (3539) on Sunday March 09 2014, @10:01PM (#13729)

    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 Sunday March 09 2014, @11:44PM

    by Khyber (54) on Sunday March 09 2014, @11:44PM (#13743) Journal

    And the story mentions very specifically Android.

    Which pretty much has zero options like that.

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