Good to know about recording over. Often times I start recording, only to have the band futz around for a minute, and I just quickly stop and roll back. Then record over the previous audio. From now on in I'll definitely delete the audio first.
I always open a new project for each take. SongTitleTake1, SongTitleTake2 etc. I assumed this would be less resource intensive then just letting the tape roll and cutting the performances apart later. In fact I'm not sure even how I would do this. This brings me to a feature request
. I wish there was a way to open a new project and quickly have it restore settings from the previous session. So it would automatically load up mono1 for track 1, mono2 for track to, all other i/o settings etc. This way take to take could be much quicker and less prone to error. I always triple check now, and it can kill the mood time wise. If effect/eq/volume/pan settings were recalled as well that woud be even better.
As to my original problem, it was less of a drop out issue. A single, or even a couple tracks seemed to have lost clock sync with the other tracks, and would fall ahead/behind the other tracks. Some times only one track would jump time, then later in the recording other tracks would fall out of sync as well. After recording one take which would usually last under 5 minutes and utilize 5 tracks armed, I noticed that it was taking a really long time for the project to close, and sometimes the app crashed. Upon discovering that the tracks were corrupted when we took a playback break I rebooted the iPad and cycled the tascam, but the next session of takes all resulted in skipping recordings as well.
So this last Weds we tried again, but this time I deleted the app and all it's data first and reloaded the latest version from the app store. Suspecting it was a space related issue I cleared off unused apps and files and went in with 6 gigs of my 16 gig iPad free. This time it was rock solid and flawless. Not one hiccup. So I'd guess it's the nasty garbage cleaners that were wreaking havoc on my sessions.
I'm so impressed with what you have done with this app and it's razor sharp focus on performance and stability. Tascam should license your software to bundle with whatever the successor to us-800 will be. It's a portastudio in the truest sense. Respect.
Couple of questions. When recording simultaneous tracks what is the ballpark time limits that should ensure stability? Is there some ratio like 8 track recordings should be kept under x number of minutes, and 4 tracks x/2 minutes?
How can you clean out bins without mistakenly deleting files that you are actively using? Is the bin manager only accessible using the wifi/web browser interface?
Is there a document with advice for app performance like enabling airplane mode etc?
Does the number of unactive projects in your app affect performance of the active project?
Do you have plans, or even accessibility to APIs that would allow your app to configure the monitoring settings of the us-800 with your app, rather than utilizing a secondary computer with tascam's often buggy and outdated clients?
Thanks again for your great work!