MIDI Tape Recorder

Effortless Perfect Recording

Published by: Uwyn
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Description

MIDI Tape Recorder is an open source Audio Unit v3 plugin with a radically different approach towards MIDI recording.
MIDI messages are recorded and played back with the same accuracy and precision as audio recordings. Most modern DAWs, even at their highest resolution, still change the timing of MIDI messages to accommodate for their editing features. These changes impact the playback of your performance as MIDI messages get reordered and delayed, causing changes in how they influence sound, sometimes in very significant ways.
MIDI Tape Recorder records your performance exactly as you play it, just like an audio recorder, accurately reproducing every nuance of your performance.
MIDI Tape Recorder purposefully has no MIDI note editing, no quantization, no individual CC tweaking, nothing that you wouldn't do with audio. Instead, very expressive and ultra-dense MIDI streams are perfectly stored and reproduced. MIDI Tape Recorder excels at capturing and playing back expressive performances with MPE controllers and MPE MIDI plugins.
The controls are purposefully simple and intuitive, similar to a traditional four-track audio recorder, making it fun to record, play back and loop your MIDI performance. Even when recording non-MPE MIDI, MIDI Tape Recorder makes it easy to stay in the flow and be creative without being interrupted by the technical nature of most DAWs.
MIDI Tape Recorder makes no sound on its own and requires an AUv3 host to function.
Features:
• Four independent tracks for recording MIDI channel voice messages
• Sample accurate MIDI recording and playback
• Real-time display of active recorded notes and other received messages
• MPE support
• Multi-level undo and redo
• Overdub recording
• Punch in and punch out recording for automated regional overdubbing
• Automated storage and recall of all recordings inside the AUv3 host project
• MIDI file import and export for the project or each individual track
• Repeated playback with start and stop locators
• AUv3 parameters for all controls
• Snap to beat option for positioning playhead and start/stop locators
• Detection of MPE configuration message (MCM) reception for each track
• Envoy of MCM at start of play or when pressing the track's MPE button
• Host transport and host tempo sync
• Clear all recordings or clear a single track
• Crop session to new duration
• Fully resizable UI
• Activity indicators for MIDI input and output on each track
• Optional tool tips for every operation
• Optional per-track record enable, input monitoring, and mute
• Four virtual MIDI cable inputs if the AUv3 host supports it
• Support for AUv3 user presets if the host supports it
• Optional routing of first virtual MIDI cable to all tracks
• Fully open-sourced under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, an approved Free Culture License
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4.74 out of 5

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MIDI Tape Recorder Reviews

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missmatch on

United Kingdom

Can I use it with a usb plugin. Anthony

Brilliant idea, difficult to use without a manual

Reviewer794 on

United Kingdom

At first I was lost. There is no recorder here, it seems to be an extra to things I do not understand. It does record on iphone garageband but is tricky. I usea Yamaha P-115 piano with a special musical cable that looks like an old style USB Printer one end and new iPhone other end. 1. Install. 2. Power off wait power on. 3. Open Garage band. 4. Create Song; Tracks; External; Audio Unit Extensions; click on Midi T...order; 5. Click on the Top right volume knob. 6. Use common sense to record freestyle piano to a green midi track. 7. + new track eg. KEYBOARD, more sounds, subtle piano 8. move the green midi track to the piano lane and play. Hopefully no quantise, no volume change, all as you played 9. How to get this midi file out of garageband? Export project gives an empty file. Export phone ring creates a midi but stuck in your phone... ???

Great to have, but struggles in cubasis 3

PBUH91 on

United Kingdom

Update: I came back to this and fiddled with it until I got it working. There’s a few things I think are missing to make it flawless, but it does what it says on the tin, so five stars is well deserved. Thanks for the response, it’s good to know you’re willing to improve the app :) Original: Great to have and I’m grateful that it’s free, but in cubasis it struggles to work with geoshred. I’m getting very similar results as if I were to record mpe midi directly into cubasis. I hope it improves over time, as it’s a promising little app that solves a huge problem for iOS users, but for my needs, it doesn’t work. I haven’t tried AUM yet, but when I do, I’ll update this review.

Super but one request

Emerging Statesman on

United Kingdom

Love this app everyone should have it. One request: is it possible to have a setting to snap the start and end points? Maybe an option to turn this on and off? Sometimes it would be really useful. Thanks.

Excellent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Shaygadepista on

United Kingdom

Excellent service Awesome developer, this is just what I've been looking for Thank you..🙏🙏

Takes a little fiddling around, but…

Ronzlo on

United States

…a utility like this is so obviously useful for almost any musician who uses midi-enabled stuff that it worth it. Would love to see a built-in editor.

Expresss;)sesh

twenny9.5 on

United States

All the stars for this one!

Brilliant and essential

EdZiPad on

United States

A staple of my toolset for recording MIDI on iOS. I’ve been using it for years and it has never let me down, and in my experience is the most faithful and reliable method of recording MIDI. Excellent support from the developer too.

Excellent little midi recorder

AngGroove on

United States

Does exactly what it promises and is super handy. No problems in AUM or Drambo. Negative reviewers should read the documentation and perhaps study up a bit more on how to work with MIDI and AUv3 plugins in their preferred host app. Also, if you get really bizarre recordings that sound like some invisible, recently used IAA midi source app hasn’t closed properly - restart your device. 🙃

Ummmm

martinshitonit on

United States

Hey Devs re, what do you think of maybe letting people know how to use this and what programs would be best used with this? Because I don’t believe any of the reviews… they don’t say a thing about any DAWs and I’m pretty sure that you guys wrote those reviews.

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