Sonoma Wire Works: the creators of the popular guitar recording software RiffWorks and Retronyms: the creator of Recorder, the most popular single track recording software in Apple’s App Store, have released a slick, easy to use mobile version of a four track recorder.
The FourTrack app’s main functionalities can be seen in the screenshot to the left which include arming a given track, stereo panning, a playback scroll, and simple track faders.
FourTrack provides four discrete channels of .wav mono 44.1 kHz, and 16-bit sound quality. You can record as much as your iPhone or iPod Touch (2nd Gen) hard-drives can hold and FourTrack allows you too easily transfer your audio files to your computer via wifi.
This application is perfect for the musician that wants to get his or her ideas down on the fly or the group of friends that want to lay down a beat that has some layers to it.
On the flip side, there are some issues that after using it myself, I couldn’t have agreed more with Eliot Van Buskirk review on Wired.com when he stated…
However, the iPhone/iPod Touch hardware is an occasional issue when it comes to recording. The iPhone’s built-in speaker is too soft to allow the program to be used in any meaningful way without headphones, and not every pair of headphones has a skinny enough jack to fit into the first-generation iPhone. Plus, there’s currently no way to use a high-quality mic, and the software doesn’t work on the first-generation iPod Touch — just second-generation models that can be used with a third-party microphone). Nov, 6 2008, By Eliot Van Buskirk. Read more…
Setting aside the iPhone/iPod Touch’s hardware shortcomings, FourTrack marks the beginning of a new era for mobile phone audio recording innovations that will undoubtedly improve as technology advances.
And with Blue Microphones new Blue Icicle: a USB audio interface, I wonder if there’s any possibilities that may lie with it and Google’s new G1?
You can download FourTrack for the iPhone and iPod Touch (2nd Gen) from Apple’s App Store for a justifiable price of $9.99.
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