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As far as recording out of the app goes, remember that iOS screen recorder in iOS13 / iPadOS now supports stereo!
@mifki double-tap to open the browser is nice. I actually tried that when I fired mirack for the 1st time.
Maybe a bit far fetched but what about module to load auv3 in the future? I know plugins like auv3 aren’t made for audiorate modulation but still.
Ah, thanks @Michael_R_Grant ! Didn't know that. Makes it all the more useful.
I assumed it wasn't like that originally because of Youtube et al. Surprised and happy... will have to test to see if any apps block it.
The UI is quite good already, pretty snappy as it is, except for the zooming/scrolling but I tend to make small patches anyways.
I have a question though. Will it ever have a midi out Module converting cv signal to midi CC? Would be fun to use my midi to cv converter to interface with mother32 and 0-coast.
Also, I take back what I said about long press, in some case it might be useful. I use an apple pencil to build patches and bringing the pop up menu with a long press on any areas that are not a knob or button or -atch point could be nice.
what is fastest way to extract audio from recorded video, directly in iPad - is it possible for example in iMovie ?
There may be better ways but I found this which seems to work
https://www.guidingtech.com/extract-audio-from-video-ios/
The first suggestion using Shortcuts, I was able to get it to convert to M4A and ask where to save the audio file.
cool thanks
Open the screen recording in AudioShare. Save as wav.
I've published a new update:
Sorry, dealing with the licensing stuff took all my time, I didn't add support for opening zipped patches are I promised. Will do it next time.
Well Done!
How far off in time is the built-in Audio Recorder?
(For me personally It would be enough to just to be able to record the audio output to a folder with a patch name & time-stamp as the filename and maybe with some options for sample-rate and bit-depth).
I'll start working on it next. I guess it will require a bit more testing than the previous changes.
Would it be useful to have some sort of a built-in action recorder? That would record control and cable changes, show them on a timeline, and obviously replay later.
don't think something sophisticated is needed.. but ok, simple Undo/Redo would be handy in some situation.. but i think there are other more inportant things..
simple audio recorder, ideally with trigger input so it willbe possible stsrt recording for example with note ON and stop it with note OFF would be game changer for many people...
That would almost be like a form of gesture record?
For recording, I think something like Audiobus or IAA integration would be ideal since that opens the possibilities of using miRack with other audio apps on iOS. Or is something like that planned for later? This would be more of a v1 for audio recording?
That would be a ‘bonus’, a simple record output to file (patch name=time.wav) would be enough.
Ideally recording should start when the rack starts to produce audio.
Optionally the start and stop could be synced to a clock for creating loops.
Being able to set the output folder could also be handy to avoid file overload (ie. a separate ‘Recordings’ folder).
Some might need an option to use multiple recorders in the rack for more complex setups and multi channel mixing of the outputs files in a DAW.
I’d be happy with just a basic tape recorder with manual start and stop.
Simple internal recorder would suffice imo. Audiobus routing would be REALLY awesome. Would make recording into our app of choice a dream.
Thank you !
I don't even need an internal recorder. If it could connect to audiobus, I could use a recorder I already have
Purchased this app days ago and I’ve had zero free time of any length to dig in to this. It’s killing me!
@mifki I keep accidentally moving modules that I don't want to move... then it gets kinda fiddly to move them back. Once I get them were I want them... wish I could sorta temporarily lock them down or something.
Thanks for the impending update
There seems to be recorder modules available for VCV, it seems to make sense to add anything like that as modules.
eg this has trigger recording https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@buckydurddle/vcv-rack-simple-recorder
Then you can choose what to record in the patch rather than the whole output or then you can record multiple streams.
And then also add on Audiobus support etc
Didn't know this existed. Something like this would be perfect as v1.
The idea to record a performance as actions is a separate thing, it doesn't affect the work on audio recording that will be done first.
I'll add audio recording to the app first. I know many of you suggest that supporting AudioBus would be a simpler way, but in fact that would require more work and more testing to ensure compatibility. I'll likely implement my own recording module, it's easier than to port any of the existing ones to iOS.
There's a Lock Modules option in the Tools menu.
IAA though defecated, would also allow recording in hosts.
I’m I right to assume that since it is sort of the basic routing architecture used by apple, that it should be simpler to implement?
I’m sorry but I can’t just ignore “defecated”.
in the spirit of modular, I do hope that eventually the Audiobus SDK is added so that audio and midi can more easily be routed to and fro in real time. I don't really use any apps as an island to themselves.
Mirack will only get a lot of use in my case if I can use it in tandem with other hardware and softwares.
Any plans for giving it auv3 hosting?
Not quite so. First, both things are relatively simple to implement. IAA/AudioBus, in fact, a bit harder than in-app recording because I need to ensure compatibility with third-party apps which always requires more development and testing.
However I mentioned many times before is that the main reason why I don't rush to add IAA/AudioBus support is any potential performance issues.
miRack's excellent performance is achieved by using two audio processing threads working at high priority. So both cores on non-Pro iPads are taken and not too much CPU resources are left for other audio apps.
I understand that 1. iPad Pros have 4 cores, so this should not be a problem at all, 2. recording and other simple audio processing should be fine even on 2-core devices, and 3. it's up to users to not create patches and IAA configurations that their hardware can not support. However, people will still complain about it. I can not limit IAA to audio recording only or to Pro models only or to small patches only, so I do not want to add it until I make sure that the user experience will be good in all usage scenarios. Please understand.
This is actually very good reasoning.