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Re: Show HN: Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians

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Post by earthnail »

ronjouch wrote: post #79

Note: requires iOS 14. I would have liked to give it a try, and pay if it proves superior to Apple's "Music Memos", but I can't, as I run an iPhone 6 / iOS 12 that is still very functional and security-patched by Apple (iOS 12.5.5 shipped last week). As a developer, I can for sure understand you're limiting to the "latest and greatest" for API usage simplicity, but I urge you to reconsider requiring iOS 14. Two argum…

Thank you very much for your feedback. I very much understand where you're coming from, and I think you make a very good point outlining that in particular musicians are usually quite short on cash and can't afford the latest and greatest iPhone.

We need at least iOS 14 for the stereo recording functionality. Even then, not all devices that support iOS 14 also support stereo recording, and we don't even offer the in-app purchase option on those devices that don't support it.

We also make heavy use of CoreML, for which we require at least iOS 13. So in theory, we could go one version lower, but since all devices that support iOS 13 also support 14 and 15, we will likely increase the minimum version to iOS 15 once it has reached significant adoption, because of the improvements to CoreML iOS 15 ships with.

I know it's not the answer you wanted. I hope you understand that this choice wasn't made out of ignorance, but simply due to hard technical limitations.

Re: Show HN: Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians

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Post by ronjouch »

earthnail wrote: post #81
ronjouch wrote: post #79

Note: requires iOS 14. I would have liked to give it a try, and pay if it proves superior to Apple's "Music Memos", but I can't, as I run an iPhone 6 / iOS 12 that is still very functional and security-patched by Apple (iOS 12.5.5 shipped last week). As a developer, I can for sure understand you're limiting to the "latest and greatest" for API usage simplicity, but I urge you to reconsider requiring iOS 14. Two argum…

Thank you very much for your feedback. I very much understand where you're coming from, and I think you make a very good point outlining that in particular musicians are usually quite short on cash and can't afford the latest and greatest iPhone. We need at least iOS 14 for the stereo recording functionality. Even then, not all devices that support iOS 14 also support stereo recording, and we don't even offer the in-…

Okay, thanks for the precise reply; makes sense for CoreML. Bookmarking your site, will give your app a try when my trusty iPhone 6 breaks and I get a newer one. Take care.

Re: Show HN: Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians

#83

Post by kall »

abalaji wrote: post #32

With how many musicians use voice memos on iOS, this hits the right niche--somewhere between voice memos and garage band.

Interestingly, apple at one point made an app just like this called "Music Memos" but dropped it pretty soon. I think it has been partly rolled into garageband.

Re: Show HN: Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians

#84

Post by lux »

earthnail wrote: post #72
lux wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Follow up assessment of Soundtrap Capture (and Soundtrap Studio): - Capture: Import was super easy but I see no way to loop, so that's out. - Studio: Full-blown collaborative DAW (overkill) but importing your own loops is gone (wtf?!). Looks like I'll wait for you guys to hopefully add importing audio files and looping.

Thanks for your feedback. I'll promise you we'll add it. No promise on the timeline, though (sorry, hope you understand that). But we'll add it. We always planned to. If you sign up to our email newsletter on our website, you will also hear from us when the feature is out. There will likely be a few emails before that I'm afraid, as we have a few other features in the pipeline worth communicating, but I promise that…

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Re: Show HN: Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians

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Post by kall »

chris_st wrote: post #40
subhro wrote: post #39

I am probably one of the few that use my iPhone more or less like a dumb phone, so pardon my ignorance. Is the iPhone mic able to pick the entire audible spectrum (and then some)? Does this mean companies like Neumann, Shure, Rode should feel someone is coming for their lunch?

Anecdata, but a number of people in the online guitar group I'm in report that their iDevice can't really hear their bass guitar. My iPad Pro can, indeed, hear my bass fairly well, but I don't use it for recording the bass (long story). The microphone is, as I understand it, optimized for voice communication, since its main original job is to be a telephone.

Aren‘t there two types of microphone in the apple world? You have "studio grade microphones" on, I think, the iPad Pro and MacBook Pro, and just plain microphones on anything else. It‘s a marketing term like Retina display but I assume that it means entirely different classes of mic hardware in terms of frequency response etc. If that‘s the case, they should definitely put it in the iPhone Pro as well.

Re: Show HN: Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians

#87

Post by tigeba »

earthnail wrote: post #81
ronjouch wrote: post #79

Note: requires iOS 14. I would have liked to give it a try, and pay if it proves superior to Apple's "Music Memos", but I can't, as I run an iPhone 6 / iOS 12 that is still very functional and security-patched by Apple (iOS 12.5.5 shipped last week). As a developer, I can for sure understand you're limiting to the "latest and greatest" for API usage simplicity, but I urge you to reconsider requiring iOS 14. Two argum…

Thank you very much for your feedback. I very much understand where you're coming from, and I think you make a very good point outlining that in particular musicians are usually quite short on cash and can't afford the latest and greatest iPhone. We need at least iOS 14 for the stereo recording functionality. Even then, not all devices that support iOS 14 also support stereo recording, and we don't even offer the in-…

I write and record music and this seems pretty useful as a tool for songwriting. I can think of some cases where the notes and photo notes for gear and the markers are useful. The instrument detection is I guess neat, but I can tell what I'm playing by listening. Stereo is also not really particularly appealing or interesting, especially if it has weird ML processing on it. One pain point I frequently hit when doing actual recording is saving settings from external analog devices if I want to recall them in a future session via notes. This seems like this could be close to covering this scenario as well. Congrats on launching.

Re: Show HN: Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians

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Post by sneak »

JanNash wrote: post #41
n_sonic wrote: post #36

Hello! So I was very excited to hear that this app made stereo recordings. I make field recordings to use in my own compositions, so the idea of an app that does this was intriguing (and there seem to be none currently on the app store, unless I'm missing them?) I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but it's not recording in stereo? I verified by opening the file in Audacity (sent via AirDrop). I tried holding m…

High quality stereo recording is only available in our premium subscription (20$/year). The subscription comes with a one month free trial, which should give you some time to try it and see if you like it :)

> High quality stereo recording is only available in our premium subscription (20$/year).

Is this the world you want to live in?

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