It would be great if you stated right away what's advantage of using it over say GarageBand. Is it just about cleaner UI?
Show HN: Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians
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#22It would be great if you stated right away what's advantage of using it over say GarageBand. Is it just about cleaner UI?
Hi Comboy,
It's not trying to compete with GarageBand. GarageBand itself is an instrument in a way; it comes with lots of built-in sounds, loops and more. You should rather think of it as a replacement for Voice Memos :-).
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Hey Chris, thanks for the quick report. Yeah, I've just seen the crashes appear in Sentry. Glad to hear that it does work as expected after the reinstall (although it's definitely unfortunate that it crashed before, sorry for the inconvenience). Did you experience any other weird behaviour before the crash? Best, Jan (from Tape It :)
Very creepy.
Why? I’m sure the usage is low enough that a user hitting the same issue, likely similar in time to their post, stands out quite well and can be linked to a public report.
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#24It would be great if you stated right away what's advantage of using it over say GarageBand. Is it just about cleaner UI?
Hi Comboy, It's not trying to compete with GarageBand. GarageBand itself is an instrument in a way; it comes with lots of built-in sounds, loops and more. You should rather think of it as a replacement for Voice Memos :-).
Why should I use it over Voice Memos?
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#25Going to test this later, I really like the time paragraph feature from a cursory glance. Very intuitive.
Is the paragraph width adjustable? I love the idea of "one screen width == 4 bars" or similar. If it could detect and automatically set width to align with measures, even better.
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Very creepy.
Why? I’m sure the usage is low enough that a user hitting the same issue, likely similar in time to their post, stands out quite well and can be linked to a public report.
Well put, thanks. Also, (I know I'm possibly jinxing it by writing it out loud) we currently have a pretty decent crash-free rate, thus, there weren't that many (fatal) issues to choose from :)
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Hi Comboy, It's not trying to compete with GarageBand. GarageBand itself is an instrument in a way; it comes with lots of built-in sounds, loops and more. You should rather think of it as a replacement for Voice Memos :-).
Why should I use it over Voice Memos?
- You can actually find things again. I personally have so many recordings that are all named after my home address, and it's almost impossible to find anything older than a week.
- You can take notes, both text and photo notes. For example, you can just take a picture of your amp settings to remember them. Many musicians already do that with their camera, but now you can keep it together with your recording
- Much, MUCH better handling of long recording sessions with the Time Paragraph (see website for screenshots). Voice Memos becomes practically unusable once your recording is longer than three minutes.
- Small things like when you play a recording, it will automatically play the next one after it - like Apple Music or Spotify. It is super handy when you just want to review past ideas. We know a lot of musicians who use Box instead of Dropbox for storing their recordings simply because Box will always play the whole folder, whereas Dropbox just plays a single file.
- And of course, much better recording quality by using two microphones on your iPhone instead of one - although that is actually our premium feature. Everything else I listed you get for free :-).
If you're using Voice Memos to record music today, I recommend you give the app a try. And please let me know your thoughts here once you tried it!
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi Comboy, It's not trying to compete with GarageBand. GarageBand itself is an instrument in a way; it comes with lots of built-in sounds, loops and more. You should rather think of it as a replacement for Voice Memos :-).
Why should I use it over Voice Memos?
Read the description in their store page? https://get.tape.it
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#29Going to test this later, I really like the time paragraph feature from a cursory glance. Very intuitive.
Is the paragraph width adjustable? I love the idea of "one screen width == 4 bars" or similar. If it could detect and automatically set width to align with measures, even better.
Thanks for that idea. The paragraph width is currently fixed to three minutes, but a pinch-to-zoom gesture would definitely be very intuitive.
Automatic beat, downbeat and onset detection is on our roadmap, too - not just for adjusting the paragraph width, but also for placing markers and dropping the playhead so that it doesn't cut the onset. It's actually not trivial to implement a good beat tracker for these "loose" recording scenarios - you might fluctuate in your tempo, start and stop again without pausing the recording process, etc.. We won't ship it this year, but I promise it's high on our priority list for next year :).
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? I’m sure the usage is low enough that a user hitting the same issue, likely similar in time to their post, stands out quite well and can be linked to a public report.
Well put, thanks. Also, (I know I'm possibly jinxing it by writing it out loud) we currently have a pretty decent crash-free rate, thus, there weren't that many (fatal) issues to choose from :)
Yeah I assumed you made sure of that before doing a Show HN ;)