Along with a learning curve of a new app itself, there was also the learning curve in how to best record into the app. Sonoma Wireworks created an app called FourTrack which is the app Partin used for the recording process. Alexa was finally up and running around 1pm, and the recording began. Soon, Verizon and Sprint were also facing delays because of the great demand of the new iPhone 4S. But then AT&T systems started to overload, and delayed her getting set up. Approaching the front of the line around 10am, she was almost in the store. So this past Friday, iPhone 4S’ release day, Alexa went at 5:30 am to camp out in the long line at the Apple store. Rory pre-ordered his phone, and in thinking about how to approach the video, realized they would need a second phone. We took that as a cue to get a recording of it, and thought- why not the new iPhone 4S? Let’s see what it can do,” says Rory Partin, a Los Angeles based recording artist. We started doing the song together on a recent tour in Europe, and people seemed to like the song. “I’ve been touring lately with Alexa James and thought my new song “Come Running to Me” would be a great song to sing with her. (It worked for the likes of John Lennon.)
And reminisce about the days of the portable tape 4-track. Little wonder: it’s easy to justify a smartphone, harder to justify a tablet on top of the laptop you probably already own.īut enough of that: let’s hear how they recorded. Here’s the other thing: while the iPad gets a lot of attention these days, our internal stats at CDM tell us many, many CDM readers have iPhones – and only a fraction of you have iPads. I’m, meanwhile, hobbling along with my unlocked original G1 in Europe, so, uh, if any vendors want to buy me off, I’m game. The app in question is Sonoma WireWorks’ FourTrack.ĬDM’s own Marsha Vdovin has her 4S and loves it, hopefully shooting with it a bit over at AES.
So, in case you’re curious how a spare cable or adapter or two and a phone can be there – just in case someone forgot their laptop / ADAT machine / reel-to-reel deck – let’s just copy the full press release, as it’s told as a very nice, personal little story. And however you do that I think is healthy.
Perhaps the mobile smartphone is this generation’s new PortaStudio – something so readily accessible and portable that there’s really no excuse not to record a musical event when it happens. Somewhere, other tech vendors are … crying.īut that said, I think the video above is a wonderful thing. Gain control which is a hardware based feature is available on most devices, here is the results of gain control availability on various devices:One of the smallest measures of time in the world is now the time that elapses between when Apple ships a new mobile product and someone has uploaded a video / album / feature film with it. it clearly states gain control is not possible on the 6S or iPad mini ! From what I tested on many devices, if you turn off the "Voice Processing" in settings, AGC has the minimal impact on recorded track. 3 years ago when I started this app, disabling the AGC was working on iPhone 3GS and iPad mini, but not on iPhone 4S! To avoid complexity and incompatibility I decided to leave this feature controlled by iOS. Just like the gain control itself, these workarounds can only work on some devices.
But there are some workarounds that might be used to disable the AGC. It can't be set directly to the hardware or at least there is no documented way to do that.
Of course you can always use the "Advanced Engine" and use a "Volume" filter to do the same, but that would be a software solution which may not give you the same result as a hardware gain control.Īutomatic Gain Control (AGC) is a different story. Gain control which is a hardware based feature is available on most devices, I have no idea why Apple is doing this, but here is the results of gain control availability on various devices:
Unfortunately its not documented by Apple.