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title: "MIDI Tape Recorder - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "MIDI Tape Recorder takes a radically different approach to MIDI recording. Now in version 2.0, it runs both as an Audio Unit v3 plugin inside your favorite host and as a standalone app on iPhone, iPad"
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# MIDI Tape Recorder — United States
> Perfect MIDI recording

![MIDI Tape Recorder App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/98/a2/aa/98a2aa99-ede8-0f71-0a12-b10d3bf77898/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-11-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Uwyn](https://apptail.io/developer/uwyn-kIZ)
**Category:** Music
**Rating:** 4.7/5 (62 ratings)
**Price:** $9.99
**Bundle ID:** com.uwyn.MidiTapeRecorder
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 2.0.2 (released 2026-09-20)
**Original Release:** 2021-12-25
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1598618004)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/midi-tape-recorder-Yvyc/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/midi-tape-recorder-Yvyc/united-states)

## MIDI Tape Recorder Description
MIDI Tape Recorder takes a radically different approach to MIDI recording. Now in version 2.0, it runs both as an Audio Unit v3 plugin inside your favorite host and as a standalone app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

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 their editing features. These changes impact the playback of your performance as MIDI messages get reordered and delayed, altering 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.

It purposefully has no MIDI note editing, no quantization, no individual CC tweaking, nothing you wouldn't do with audio. Instead, very expressive and ultra-dense MIDI streams are perfectly stored and reproduced. It excels at capturing and playing back expressive performances with MPE controllers and MPE plugins.

The controls are purposefully simple and intuitive, like a traditional four-track tape recorder, making it fun to record, play back, and loop your MIDI performance. Even with non-MPE MIDI, it keeps you in the flow and creative, without being interrupted by the technical nature of most DAWs.

New in the standalone app: run MIDI Tape Recorder on its own, with CoreMIDI input and output to route your performance to any of your MIDI apps, synths, and hardware. Sessions are autosaved and can be saved, opened, and shared as documents. Recording keeps running in the background and with the screen locked, so you never lose a take.

MIDI Tape Recorder makes no sound on its own: as a plugin it records inside your host; as a standalone app it routes MIDI to your instruments.

Features:

• Runs as an AUv3 plugin or as a standalone app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
• 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
• Full MPE support
• Continuous loop recording that re-records over the loop on each cycle instead of stopping at the loop end
• Multi-level undo and redo
• Overdub recording, with punch-in/punch-out for automated regional overdubbing
• CoreMIDI input and output routing in the standalone app
• Autosaved, shareable session documents in the standalone app
• Background and screen-locked recording in the standalone app
• Automated storage and recall of all recordings inside the AUv3 host project
• MIDI file import and export, for the whole project or each individual track
• Repeated playback with start and stop locators
• AUv3 parameters for all controls
• Snap-to-beat positioning for the playhead and locators
• Per-track MPE configuration (MCM) detection and envoy
• Host transport and host tempo sync
• Clear all recordings or a single track, and crop the session to a new duration
• Fully resizable UI with per-track input/output activity indicators
• Optional per-track record enable, input monitoring, and mute
• Four virtual MIDI cable inputs, with optional routing of the first cable to all tracks
• AUv3 user presets when the host supports them
• Open source, freely distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

## MIDI Tape Recorder Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/0c/3b/38/0c3b389a-70ab-0e04-42a1-be430d14a64d/652a0012-8457-484a-b2ca-a992d618a0c9_iphone65-screenshot1.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/5f/21/e3/5f21e3e6-1915-1f54-e4b0-d88c88a6e006/9b5f5c3e-9e4e-48fa-910d-9f84076e6cb6_iphone65-screenshot2.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource126/v4/91/7a/06/917a06b2-ed28-a4a6-86d1-25256c09369d/8ea36c96-7c22-4749-81c6-b77d2ec27671_iphone65-screenshot3.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource116/v4/38/4a/b0/384ab062-5441-93c7-92f8-d530eb52f22e/82794293-bf05-4313-bd44-5d054ad95f0f_iphone65-screenshot4.png/1242x2688.png)

## MIDI Tape Recorder Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 54 (87%)
- 4 stars: 4 (6%)
- 3 stars: 2 (3%)
- 2 stars: 0 (0%)
- 1 stars: 2 (3%)

## MIDI Tape Recorder Reviews in United States

### ***** "Wow"
This app is nuts! Love it.
-- MamaSaid..., 2025-05-04

### ****- "Takes a little fiddling around, but…"
…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.
-- Ronzlo, 2024-05-25

### ***** "Geert Fanboy Here"
Wow.  Best MIDI dev in the world?  And this is open source.  So clean, elegant.  I'm learning just from studying the source code.  You go!
-- jdubiner, 2024-01-27

### ***** "Expresss;)sesh"
All the stars for this one!
-- twenny9.5, 2023-12-31

### ***** "Excellent"
Works flawlessly with AUM on the iPad!  I wonder if this is the answer to recording midi using Mainstage on the Mac.  Mainstage only records audio if you want to record a performance.  This may work if you want to record midi for archival reasons inside of Mainstage.
-- Stephen2245, 2023-11-06

### ***** "Brilliant and essential"
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.
-- EdZiPad, 2023-07-17

### ***** "Excellent little midi recorder"
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. 🙃
-- AngGroove, 2023-01-16

### *---- "Ummmm"
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.
-- martinshitonit, 2022-10-19

### ***** "I am confused."
I don’t know how to use it. I been trying to find out how to use it but can’t. And also I am trying to use it on garageband.
-- Aydn ghost, 2022-08-12

### ****- "My first app review ever…"
This app is so outstanding and excellent and all the good things that the other reviewers have already mentioned. Thank you for making this app, and should you decide to start charging for it you won’t get any complaints from me. BUT there is just one thing that doesn’t seem to be working correctly for me, and that’s the midi import function. Pressing the import MIDI file button shows me a list of “Locations”, fine. I wish to import a MIDI file from AudioShare, so I press on that icon and nothing happens. I presume correct behavior would then show me a column with all the AudioShare folders displayed. Is that correct? Similarly nothing also happens when I press any of the other “Locations” shown. Other than this one bug, this app is quite a dream come true.
-- JuanKenobi_22, 2022-06-10

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## MIDI Tape Recorder Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Paid | Germany | Music | #98 |
| Top Paid | United Kingdom | Music | #219 |

## MIDI Tape Recorder Discovered Keywords
- midi sequencer
- perfect controller
- midi recorder
- midi controller pro

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