#ipad recording

The beauty of a hardware recording unit (opposed to software recording), is the latency free monitoring and the high-quality, unadulterated signal that it’s capable of producing.  It will be available in October at around $160. http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2012/09/06/focusrite-debuts-itrack-solo

Recording audio into a smart phone or perhaps a tablet is not idea – not by any standard.  Consider all the things that you are up against.  Your connections will never be noise free, and you are every limited as to what you can attach to a smartphone or tablet.  Of all difficulties, the power aspect is the most concerning.  You might be able to attach a quality microphone to the 30-pin connector on your iPhone – but you will have no real way of powering the device on its own.  To add to that problem, you will have no real way to even charge the phone while you’re at it.  So right there you have conjured up some serious problems in your system. The second question you need to ask yourself is how well the quality of any sort of device can actually be.  We’ve all had that bad feeling in our stomachs when we’ve purchased little attachments for your phones and wondered how well built they actually were.  Are we just buying a toy?  I think any smart person should expect recording on a device to be average quality at best; so save the professional recordings for your home studio. http://www.digitaldjtips.com/2013/05/review-video-blue-mikey-digital/

There is a distinct difference between performing live and recording live, and it is really nothing more than a mental difference.  When you know you are being recorded and it is going to be a part of history, there is much more personal pressure to perform.  This is the same type of pressure that can cause us to perform worse than usual.  It is ironic because an artist can practice for hours without the fear of being criticized, and do perfectly well – but when they know that they are performing under the gun, they can make mistakes that have never happened before. [embed width="656"]http://youtu.be/61GvsG9fGGM[/embed] What helps the DJ and other producers is making the ability to record so effortless, that they forget that they are even recording.  Once you skip all the additional wiring and constructs that need to be set-up, you can focus only on the task at hand, leaving all of the secondary recording to take care of itself.  Traktor Remix set off of the iPad has been designed for this task.  There are no additional wires or programs that need to be setup – the only catch is that your recorded track must be uploaded from your tablet using iTune, but I’m sure there’s a workaround as well. http://traktortips.com/recording-with-traktor-ipad-app/

Live session for Fab Radio International. Acoustic. Well, I'm blown.

I know Garage band has it's limitations, particularly in the IOS version BUT I can save files on the iPad and then share them with Garage Band on the mac, which allows me many more options for compression, effect and EQ. I also discovered that LOGIC remote works with Garage Band so I can mix from the iPad and control the mac and that once i've gone as far as I can with GB I can hand all the GB files to an engineer,(probably along with a case of Beer) and he can compete final mix and Master in Logic...Hurrah

Synergy Studio

Funny and a bit Rude, this Rap track was created in Meteor Multitrack DAW  from 4PocketsAudio.com by Trevor Tripe.

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