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TapeDesk 4-Track Tape Studio
Saw this mentioned in another thread; don’t think it’s got a dedicated thread yet?
https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tapedesk-4-track-tape-studio/id6775952225
Anyone got it? Thoughts? Comparisons to Reels?
Lots of recorder apps recently it seems and another from Audiothing still to come.
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looks great...
wish it was auv3:)
Acording to the developer on Reddit, AUv3 is already “on the backlog” (his words).
For a moment I thought that meant Audiothing had a 4-track style app in the works. I’d buy that in a heartbeat!
It’s pretty basic like going back to the very early days of iOS music apps to be honest thinking like Fourtrack (see screenshot ). Feels vibe coded. I f you want to record 4 tracks it does the job. Believe it’s based on the OP-1 the effects are not brilliant.
No, I’m afraid not! Single track field recorder coming from Audiothing.
The website makes a point that the effects were ‘built by hand’ so I’m guessing this means it’s not vibe coded?
There are tons of giveaways that that text is AI-written tbh. And what that phrase 'coded by hand' means, if you look at the context, was that the code for those things was created from scratch for the app, not licensed from another dev.
Untimately, just more garbage marketing speak...
Yes, the context of ‘built by hand’ is that the code was created from scratch, not licensed, and that could mean that it was still vibe coded but it’s hardly a slam dunk giveaway, is it? I don’t know?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: for me, the saddest thing about generative AI is the ‘is it/isn’t it?’ cloak of suspicion it introduces over every creative endeavor so I try to not jump to make a judgement unless I know for sure.
The text being AI generated doesn't mean the app was. I'm just saying, since the text is clearly AI generated, and since the text also makes it clear that that means it didn't use licensed code, I wouldn't assume that 'built by hand' means 'not coded with AI'. I think it's more likely it just means 'not licensed'. Either way, as the kids say, "weird flex". And if the dev did want to claim the entire app was not made with AI, I think they'd make that clear, rather than having one tiny line referring only to the fx.
Also, main thing is, if the fx don't sound good, as @Jumpercollins mentioned, that's the thing that really matters.
Oh, certainly, it’s the quality that matters.
I’m also curious how this compares to Reel 4 Track Recorder:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reel-4-track-recorder/id6760545075
Has anyone tried both?
Hey, dev here, sorry for the late reply, lot of work those days.
The store and site copy is AI-written. English isn't my first language and I leaned on it for the marketing text.
The app itself is all mine though, not vibe-coded. The audio is writted in C++, no JUCE or AudioKit. Ask me anything about the engine, happy to get into it.
AUv3 is done and in testing right now.
On the effects, fair, but "underwhelming" is too vague for me to work with. Which ones, and what's missing? Get specific and I'll fix it. I've got new effects coming too, and I want to keep building this with feedback from here.
I know it’sa weird one, but something that I’ve long thought might be interesting with these four track tour things would be varispeed per track. Someone that’s entirely not possible with a real single tape deck, but something that would be great to take advantage of in the digital realm…
Actually it's pretty simple on the backend! The problem for TapeDesk is the UI. I'll think about how to get it working, but can't promise anything right now.
On the other hand, I'm thinking about adding a new "play" screen for live stuff with the recorded song, like retriggering different parts of the audio at different speeds and so on. Varispeed per track would fit well there.
That does sound fun yeah, and the interface I’m sure would be a slightly tricky proposition, I’ll look forward to seeing how you approach it 🤟
I get that the play option would be simplest, but I was thinking that recording something on guitar, changing speed/direction and then overdubbing a new track with that would be fun, then still further mangling it all up with more speed changes… whatever’s possible and works though!
Thanks for joining this discussion thread @pablo_snz!
This app looks really nice. How do you choose which inputs it records from? Or does it just grab the first four available inputs from any audio interface?
Well, most of that already works, just global not per-track. The SPEED knob re-speeds the whole tape on playback, so you can slow the guitar, overdub on top, done. You can also lock a speed while recording and bake it into the take. So every track can already carry its own baked speed.
Now doing it per track, re-speeding one on its own after its recorded, thats not possible yet. That one id have to build. Reverse too, with the new version (im working on and want to release before the eow) you can bake a region backwards but there's no live per-track direction yet.
The overdub-into-a-warped-track thing is exactly the kind of mangling i want this app to be good at though, so its going on the backlog!
Sweet 🤟🙌🙏