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Ways to record musical ideas when your iPad is NOT around
- More recent iPads can read USB storage devices, and some recent looper pedals operate as USB storage devices. I tested this just now with my Boss RC-5: recorded a short loop, "wrote" the loop to memory (so that it would survive turning the looper off), connected the RC-5 to my iPad with a USB cable, turned on Storage in the RC-5's Setup menu, and the contents of the RC-5 became readable in the iPad's Files app, including the loop I had just recorded a few minutes earlier.
Even if you don't end up using the actual loop in a song, this might be a way to save ideas for development later. TC had a pedal, Wire Tap, that could send recordings to an iPhone by WiFi or Bluetooth (I forget which). Unfortunately, they didn't maintain the app and the pedal is now junk.
- You could do the same with any number of apps on your phone. I like AudioShare for this, though I wish it synced its library of recordings to iCloud. Recently I've been using a cheap app called "Just Press Record" on my Apple Watch. (It's similar to the free Voice Memos app, and syncs to iCloud.) A watch recording will almost surely NOT be usable in a final track, but to save the idea, it should be more than adequate. (I realize there are lots of people who always have a phone and never wear a watch. I'm the opposite: always have a watch, only sometimes a phone.)
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The watch thing is a good one. If you're a watch person, you'll have it at hands more easily than a phone.
That being said, some years ago a friend used to carry a dictaphone or any small tape recorder everywhere.
No idea when missing then.
And I used to carry my Boss Micro BR (bigger than a phone) around and could even easily multitrack these ideas.
I’m on Android, which has a much smaller music ecosystem than apple. I use a voice recorder or koala if I get desperate. I keep debating an iPhone, but I’m too wrapped up in google to switch.
If you want to use it for anything musical then iPhone is the way to go. I’ve written quite a few songs that started as GarageBand demos on my phone and wound up in logic with a full band. But, if the voice recorder saving ideas is all you need and you like android otherwise, no reason to switch.
I have quite a number of music apps on my phone but GarageBand and audioshare are really the only ones that I really use. Sometimes funk drummer just to play along with while practicing. Other utilities, like AudioTools for quick n dirty rta, tone generation, etc gets used a lot as well but I’m sure there’s android equivalents.
I used to be very into android, rooting and custom roms but I spent much more time tinkering that doing anything productive.
I just sing stuff into Audioshare on my iPhone. Works a treat!
You know, there is a tool to ensure your Google stuff gets properly moved to iOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201196
Time and tide wait for no man.
It’s not about the migration, it’s about all the backup stuff I do, google drive, photos. iOS doesn’t integrate well for that stuff.
I use Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud Drive with all my iOS devices and desktop. It all works great. You might be thinking of how things used to be. They’ve fixed all of these issues.