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Still no article mentioning today's Logic Pro update?
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24/48 would be preferable but still. Nice app.

That's assuming the A/D converter on the iOS device is 24 bit.
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Pros would use a better ADC than what's available on an iPhone.

Not for a handy, portable demo.
 
I've encountered a major glitch already - recorded a piece played on piano, played it back with drums and bass. Deleted the track and recorded another different one, tried to play it back but it had reverted to the first (deleted) piece. Only way I could get it to work properly was to exit and restart the app after deleting the first recording. Anyone else experiencing the same?

This same bug happened to me right off the bat. I recorded a second riff but it didn't save and just played my first one. The app then froze and I had to restart the app.
 
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What a great concept to have one Average Joe oriented app and one aimed at professionals at the same time in two separate products.
Average Joe isn't "confused" by too many options and the professionals get most of the features needed in a product.

Now, to imagine they would not only use this concept for audio and video production, but also for photo editing, that'd be a brilliant idea, wouldn't it?
*cough*

Glassed Silver:mac
Quite true. But there's another way to look at this - it's "Camera" for musicians - intended for recording, not final production.

Probably not the place to open another Aperture debate. Based on the updates to Garage Band and Logic Pro, t's clear that Apple hasn't abandoned the concept of supporting both pros and amateurs, and Apple certainly hasn't abandoned amateur photography. I guess it may have come down to whether there was enough professional interest and support for Aperture to justify keeping it alive (at the least, it would have had to have been re-worked in order to support iCloud Photo Library).
 
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Tried this app; it sounded interesting.

Constantly said TOO QUIET on my iPad Air 2 when I tried recording music. No settings, instructions or guidance in the app whatsoever. What a hopeless app from Apple.

I've lost a lot of faith in Apple's ability to create high quality products, be it hardware, software or services. To be fair, hardware is still fairly strong, but their software is just awful now. Constant lagging and freezing on my iPad and iPhone. All 700 reviews I've written on the App Store wiped out. iTunes is still slow as hell, iCloud is still a botch. In an ideal world, Google would not have betrayed Apple, and they would have forged an amazing partnership in which Google provided the service expertise which Apple lack.
 
For anyone interested in taking musical "notes", I released an app in a similar niche a few weeks ago. It's called Composer's Sketchpad, and it's meant to be a sort of modern take on sheet music. (Alternatively: a "doodly" sequencer.) You're presented with a giant canvas (representing time and pitch) that you can pan and zoom around, and you draw musical notes anywhere on the canvas with your finger or Apple Pencil. Notes can be bent to any pitch, allowing you to draw out curvy guitar solos and complex rhythms with ease. Over 100 instruments are available. There's also a free Lite version!

(I really like the gist of Music Memos, but as someone who sucks at singing or playing guitar, I prefer to take musical notes "directly", which is why I made my app.)
 
Tried this app; it sounded interesting.

Constantly said TOO QUIET on my iPad Air 2 when I tried recording music. No settings, instructions or guidance in the app whatsoever. What a hopeless app from Apple.

I've lost a lot of faith in Apple's ability to create high quality products, be it hardware, software or services. To be fair, hardware is still fairly strong, but their software is just awful now. Constant lagging and freezing on my iPad and iPhone. All 700 reviews I've written on the App Store wiped out. iTunes is still slow as hell, iCloud is still a botch. In an ideal world, Google would not have betrayed Apple, and they would have forged an amazing partnership in which Google provided the service expertise which Apple lack.
Why are you still here then?
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and they would have forged an amazing partnership in which Google provided the service expertise which Apple lack.

And Google providing great service... come on man...
You are in the small minority that thinks Google provides better service than Apple..."
 
For anyone interested in taking musical "notes", I released an app in a similar niche a few weeks ago. It's called Composer's Sketchpad, and it's meant to be a sort of modern take on sheet music. (Alternatively: a "doodly" sequencer.) You're presented with a giant canvas (representing time and pitch) that you can pan and zoom around, and you draw musical notes anywhere on the canvas with your finger or Apple Pencil. Notes can be bent to any pitch, allowing you to draw out curvy guitar solos and complex rhythms with ease. Over 100 instruments are available. There's also a free Lite version!

(I really like the gist of Music Memos, but as someone who sucks at singing or playing guitar, I prefer to take musical notes "directly", which is why I made my app.)

Your app looks really cool! I'm going to check it out, thanks for sharing.
 
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For anyone interested in taking musical "notes", I released an app in a similar niche a few weeks ago. It's called Composer's Sketchpad, and it's meant to be a sort of modern take on sheet music. (Alternatively: a "doodly" sequencer.) You're presented with a giant canvas (representing time and pitch) that you can pan and zoom around, and you draw musical notes anywhere on the canvas with your finger or Apple Pencil. Notes can be bent to any pitch, allowing you to draw out curvy guitar solos and complex rhythms with ease. Over 100 instruments are available. There's also a free Lite version!

(I really like the gist of Music Memos, but as someone who sucks at singing or playing guitar, I prefer to take musical notes "directly", which is why I made my app.)
Love the app idea!
 
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Quite true. But there's another way to look at this - it's "Camera" for musicians - intended for recording, not final production.

Probably not the place to open another Aperture debate. Based on the updates to Garage Band and Logic Pro, t's clear that Apple hasn't abandoned the concept of supporting both pros and amateurs, and Apple certainly hasn't abandoned amateur photography. I guess it may have come down to whether there was enough professional interest and support for Aperture to justify keeping it alive (at the least, it would have had to have been re-worked in order to support iCloud Photo Library).
Fair enough, I merely looked at their effort to cater to musicians as opposed to what seems to be the unloved stepchild.

And if money is the reason:
They had it coming pushing down the price of Aperture and halting new major releases until they finally decided to bin it.
There IS a market, especially if they tried keeping the momentum of Aperture that it definitely had at some point.

Hell, just having a good Apple DAC that I can move to from Aperture, day a not totally gimped Photos, would be better if it meant I get to use applications like Affinity Photo.

But Apple Photos lacks some very needed features just for storage and management of a big library.
I'm sorry, Apple completely screwed this up and even if Apple were to say "ok, let's not work on this too much anymore", at least let us enjoy their former great concept of how to sort and manage AND tightly integrate into other Apple devices.
What's left is a weird feeling of an unmotivated Apple.

At least they unofficially keep Aperture alive, OS X updates seem to get bug tested against Aperture as opposed to how it used to be majorly.

Glassed Silver:ios
 
Pros would use a better ADC than what's available on an iPhone.

I earn a living making music (definition of professional) and this app will be extremely helpful.

Preproduction and coming up with song ideas is 90 percent of the job. The final glossy recording is all that necessitates expensive ADC and recording equipment.
 
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