Recording different apps into a master DAW?
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:19 am
I've seen that people are big fans of Beatmaker, but it doesn't look like they have a full iPad version yet. I'm more than happy to be wrong about this....
So in the meantime, I'm hoping to find a way to mix stuff recorded in multiple different applications. Let's say I've recorded a drum part in TJ, and I want to add a synth line in SynthX... What I'd like to do is use audio copy/paste to move the drum part into some sort of "master" application (like a DAW), and have it playing in the background while I play a line over it in SynthX, or SoundPrism, or any other app that also has audio copy/paste and then move it into the DAW app.
I don't know if this is even possible, with the current state of iOS "multitasking," but it's pretty much the Holy Grail of music recording on the iPad for me.
It's awesome that we have audio copy/paste, and the fact that this is a "standard" developed by a 3rd party without help from Apple (or even support for it in their apps) is very cool, IMHO. It shows that even though the things we need to do aren't priorities for Apple, the 3rd party developers can create their own standards and work together to build something like this and bring the iPhone/iPad to a whole new level for musicians.
Now if only the copy/paste could be replaced with something like ReWire :]
So in the meantime, I'm hoping to find a way to mix stuff recorded in multiple different applications. Let's say I've recorded a drum part in TJ, and I want to add a synth line in SynthX... What I'd like to do is use audio copy/paste to move the drum part into some sort of "master" application (like a DAW), and have it playing in the background while I play a line over it in SynthX, or SoundPrism, or any other app that also has audio copy/paste and then move it into the DAW app.
I don't know if this is even possible, with the current state of iOS "multitasking," but it's pretty much the Holy Grail of music recording on the iPad for me.
It's awesome that we have audio copy/paste, and the fact that this is a "standard" developed by a 3rd party without help from Apple (or even support for it in their apps) is very cool, IMHO. It shows that even though the things we need to do aren't priorities for Apple, the 3rd party developers can create their own standards and work together to build something like this and bring the iPhone/iPad to a whole new level for musicians.
Now if only the copy/paste could be replaced with something like ReWire :]