AK Multimedia released an update for the Amplitube app over the weekend, so it now has a built in 4 track recorder. OK, so I had to pay another £5.99 for it, which sucked, but it actually looks quite good.
After brief stages of initial testing last night, I can say that latency appears to have been completely eliminated, unlike any of the other multi track recorders I’ve tried on the iPhone. This is a big plus for Amplitube.
One issue so far (admittedly I may be doing it wrong…) is that the app appears to apply your effects to the output of the four track recorder, rather than recording the effects that you applied to each individual track. Like I said, I might be doing it wrong and I need to have another little play. If this is the case though, it’s understandably a bit of a pain in the nuts. Who wants to listen to four tracks of guitar, all with huge amounts of distortion? Not me! Or at least not most of the time.
If I can make this work to an acceptable degree, I’ll be in a position to start my new top-secret project. Watch this space.
A while ago I promised some recordings to demo my new iRig. Unfortunately, you can’t record using the iPhone amplitube software. You can record using the iRig device and your own effects device or pedals, but of the recording software I’ve trialled, none of them allow you to monitor what you’re playing.
I’ve been told by @ikmultimedia that there is a version of amplitube in development that will allow you to record, but alas there is no sign of it yet and no release date.
I know, I could output from the iRig to another recording device, but what would be the point of that? What would be awesome, would be if amplitube could allow you to monitor and record audio and video. Then it could be used to record directly by people such as myself who then go on to plug the device and the software on their websites, twitter, youtube etc…
So I’m stuck with a potentially very neat piece of kit, but without the software to support it. It’s a sad story.



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