Hi all.
For record my Digitakt/Digitone jam I’m using an iPhone (12 mini) connected using the usb-to-lighting adapter (the so called camera adapter).
I’m using the iPhone for simplicity, it can record audio and video, I don’t need the computer or other external hardware.
But, what about the quality of the audio? I can’t find any technical information about the recording quality.
Do you think that is comparable to the quality obtained if I use a computer with a DAW? And what about a digital recorder (like a Tascam or Zoom), are the better?
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m doing right now.
But…
If I record using the default camera app do I obtain a lossless quality audio? I don’t think so, because the camera app encode the audio/video stream in a compressed format.
Probably using the default Voice Recorder would be better (it has an option that enable lossless quality), but I lost the video.
Are there any video recording app that uses better audio format?
Hi,
you definitely “need” (there are other options of course) the amazing App “Audioshare”! It’s a standard in the iOS Musicians World. You can record, convert, share – and it‘s a brillant librarian for your recordings.
Cheers.
you cannot record into the camera app via usb / using your DT/DN as audio interface. In that use case, your iPhone will record audio via its microphones and the quality will be nowhere near to what it would be if it were recorded straight via USB.
I stand corrected, thanks @JohnnyEgo
What exactly are you trying to achieve? When you say “record” most of us here will assume you mean recording audio. But you also want to film your jam, yes?
I’d say if you want to use your iPhone, you’ll have to make a choice - either use it to film yourself jamming OR use it to record high quality audio via USB (an in either case, use another device to do the other thing).
The other option is to use the phone just for the video and a software (Ableton) for the audio, the using a video editor to mix the two sources. But if I find a valid app for recording would be better.
Hi @emadb I do the same, plug USB cable from Digitakt to iPhone and use the class complaint audio out from DK as “Microphone” direct input to the camera. So simple, no need to sync up audio with video later. Anyway, i’ve copied the video file to Mac and opened with VLC and got the codec/audio info, you can see in the screen shot below. Good news, it 44100Hz and 32bit.
Hi guys, I’ve searched tirelessly about this topic trying to find a solution to the quiet levels when recording video and audio directly into my iphone.
Does anybody know a good video app that has a decent gain adjustment?
I used to use the camera app to record audio and video over USB from my Syntakt straight into my phone too, but I started running into problems recently with the audio levels and the like. Sometimes it just wouldn’t work.
This year I got a zoom H2n to use as either an interface or standalone recorder and now just let that sit and record on its line in separately while the video is recording from my phone.
I then use the H2n with USB as an external storage and transfer the wav files into the phone and stitch them in the video later in iMovie, sometimes processing the raw video with other apps for effects before syncing the nice audio from the recorder on top.
Syncing is not too hard either either thanks to the audio coming out of my little speakers on my desk being recorded into the phone video. Or if I’m using headphones, I can just listen for a big click of the play button on the Syntakt.
I do this all the time for both synth jaming and recording digital piano etc.
From DN/DT and Syntakr I find the levels of the audio to be good for posting on YouTube, instagram etc but from the new Analog Heat +FX it’s to low so on would also like to find a good way to set the gain of the audio higher.
So far I have used the app “InShot” that has a very fast and easy way to higher the gain but you can’t raise the levels high enough in that app so I would need a better one.
Thanks for the recommendation. I think iMovie has a similar amount you can boost it by, it helps but I need a bit more. Hopefully there’s an app out there that goes to 11.
I record with just my phone a lot of the time. That low output I only seem to get if I’m pushing the output too much, almost like the phone throttles it back if your red lining it too much - either that or I’m imagining it.
