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Does an app like this already exist?
I'm not even sure if this is technically possible, but what would be cool is if you could have this simple utility app that quickly and easily launched a recording.
You'd set up your parameters/settings, ie. 24bit 44.1khz WAV, or whatever you wanted... then the app's icon would be this simple record button on your display. When you launch, it automatically starts recording whatever audio your device is producing.
Oftentimes, I'm playing around with an app, or several apps, and get something going that sounds good. I'll go, "Hey, that's not bad. I should probably record that!" Then myself answers myself with, "Nah, that's too much trouble. You'd have to quit out, relaunch everything in AUM, etc. set up a recording, and start from scratch. It's already 3AM. Just forget it about it and get some sleep instead."
Lazy? Yes. But if it was easy to just start recording on the fly like that, I bet I'd get a lot more of those lucky late night moments recorded.
Does anything like this already exist? If not, is it possible?
I'm thinking, maybe even something that's a macro you could set up that would would launch AudioShare and place all the inputs into a chain, and then start recording with a predefined set of parameters, and an auto level, etc.
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Why wouldn't you record the master track in AUM?
Normally I would set it up in AUM and be ready to record, but if I'm just messing around and didn't start with everything in AUM... I'd have to stop and set up everything again. Set the levels for each channel, set up the recording, start playing and trying to recreate what I had when I was fooling around.
At this point, you just gotta start with AUM or AudioBus with AUM/Audioshare in the output slot. But this is exactly the use case @lala and I were begging/bugging @Sebastian about in hopes of the inclusion of a zero-config record button within the AB toolbar that would capture to AB.
Have a recorder(I know you got one/some) plugged into headphones out; always; it gotta become part of your instrument, tape it, glue it to your device. I know it's not exactly what you've asked for, but if it works...
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Flipping on the little Sony pcm-m10, hit record and let it set an auto level (which it gets right most of the time), would be convenient enough I suppose. It's pre-amps are pretty clean too so that headphone jack might suffice.
But, I'd still rather have a lazy button
Then force yourself to use apps with internal recorder options, at least for the last mail in the chain.
reminds me on the endless loop recording of some pedals where you have a fixed length file that's constantly overwritten in the background.
Lets you always grab the content of the last (say) 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes once a 'that was great' enters your mind
Borderlands does that up to 30 secs
If you only had an external sound card.
....I recently bought ZOOM U24 and it is the best investment I made for the iPad....monitoring, recording, it's great.
To record from iPad I use one of the 2 pairs of U24 outputs into DR05 LINE IN...(Can record any sound quality, you know that, you have the 22SW)...and record into Tascam.
To bring sound back into iPad I use the Tascam's headphones OUT into the two mike inputs of U24, (you need a Y cable for stereo).
Then I record into AS and any sound quality will get recorded/converted to 16bit/44.1kHZ, depending on settings.
Pristine quality
I know it is OLD news to many of you, but I used to struggle like hell with iPad's headphones out
...to record, then PC etc...
Cheers
Or... Some dev could write a little easy-peasy one-click-wonder record button for lazy people. I bet it would become the hot new must-have utility everyone would want.
My guess is that Apple will not let you record the main stereo out as it would make it too easy to rip off stuff from iTunes and the web, things they have taken great pains to try and avoid. Any app doing this would probably fail store approval.
That's what I was thinking.
Yo brother - it kinda sounds like it's happening often enough that tweaking the workflow would be the ticket ; maybe set up a couple of "blank" templates in AB or AUM and always launch the late night jams from there. 4 or 5 lanes or strips, maybe just routed to the speaker, if it's going well you just need to select a new output like AS or Auria... If it's working then "save as new" or whatever...
But that would require me NOT being lazy.
I mostly use AUM, but it's become kind of a hassle in that some apps won't load into it easily. You wait a. Poole of minutes for the load to fail, then launch the app and force quit out, then reload.
Not sure if this is AUM's fault or the other apps have sloppy code, but it happens a lot and it's usually the same offenders.
Gets to the point that you don't want to deal with the loading into AUM headaches just for a quick session.
Then, you get something going that's decent and wished you'd just dealt with the AUM loading issues to start with.
I don't want to kick AUM because I love that app. But it makes me wonder if the loading issues would be less frequent if I just went back to using AB more?
Yep, that's not possible. Hence all of the AB/AUM suggestions.
Setting up a preset in with Audioshare in the output of AudioBus only requires you to not be lazy once. You can do it! If you like to use AUM regularly you can also set up a preset that has more than one lane. Blank->AUM (output) and AUM(input)->AudioShare(output).
Alternatively, if it's usually just a single IAA instrument, you can just load it directly into the audioshare output slots. If that app supports IAA controls, the record button is always there. Otherwise, that's the reason I'm suggesting AB first: any app loaded via AB will have the AS record button available.
I've never owned anything that did that and have always wanted to. Roland has had this on many of their workstation synths since the first Fantom. It's a brilliant idea. Indeed, AB3 would be the perfect app to offer it.
lol, as usual I agree
and I already suggested this @sebastian @Michael ,
always record the last 5 minutes into a temp buffer, trash it if its not asked for ...
Hmm, as much as I like AUM I don't really use it that much - that's an interesting problem. Indeed, I don't get much time to work on tunes - but for me AB has usually been more reliable than using IAA, plus the state saving thing is something that helps me get back to where an idea was going.....