Mix Recording, Preview / Copy / Rename / Delete Recordings & Settings
Mix Recording & Recordings List (Figure 1)
Mixdown Recording Start (Figure 2)
Mixdown Recording Progress (Figure 3)
Mixdown Recording Complete (Figure 4)
Live Mix Recording (Figure 5)
Live Mix Recording (Figure 6)
Pasteboard or AudioCopy (Figure 7)
Email a recording (Figure 8)
Mix Recording Settings (Figure 9)
Mixdown Audio Recording: With non-real time recording (mixdown), it is easy to make the best possible quality audio or MIDI recording of your mix or arrangement (but you cannot interact with it at the same time), even if your device struggles to play it live at the quality you want.
Live Audio Recording: It is easy to record your mix to an audio or MIDI file of specified bar length, and you can interact with it while the recording is being made, even when in the visualizer (iDevice has default audio output set to 22KHz stereo for live play). If your mix struggles to play at that quality, either reduce it, or make a mixdown recording!
To make a mix recording:
Select the Mix Recording Button from the Mixer Screen (see also Navigation).- Mixdown Audio Recording:
- Start: select the Mixdown button (black arrow on white dot) (Figure 1), select the OK button (Figure 2) and you will see a status indicator appear on screen (Figure 3), showing you how the mix recording is progressing. When the mixdown has finished you will be advised of the size of the recording (Figure 4), and which will then appear in the recordings list so that you can preview it.
- Stop: Select the black stop button [desktop version only] to stop the recording (Figure 3) or wait for it to reach the bar length specified in Settings.
- Live Audio Recording:
- Start: select the Live Recording button (white dot) (Figure 1) and you will be presented with a dialog (Figure 5) asking if you want to make a recording which, once accepted, will direct you to the visualizer screen (Figure 6) so that you can play along whilst you are recording (you can, of course, change to the mixer screen to make your changes). The mix recording button shows white so that you know the mix is live recording.
- Stop: In the mixer screen, press the orange stop button, or from the visualizer screen select either the Menu or Message/Display Settings Screen and press the white stop button, or in the Menu press the Rec / Preview button, or simply wait for it to reach the bar length specified in Settings.
To email a mix recording:
Note: On Mixtikl for Desktop, this will only work with the OS preferred Email client.
- Select the item in the recordings list (Figure 1) that you want to email (it can be either an audio or MIDI recording).
- Select the white Email Button in the top toolbar.
- Fill in the details in the email (Figure 8), and send it!
Recording Type:
You can select whether to record your mix to either an audio file, or a MIDI file (but not both at the same time).
Tip: Note events and music generated by tap events in the visuallizer also get recorded, too!
- Recording Type (checkbox)
- Audio
- MIDI
To Preview, Copy, Rename & Delete Mix Recordings:
Tip: You can quickly get to the Mix recordings screen from the Preview button on the Main Menu.
- Copy to Clipboard
- Select an item in the recordings list (Figure 1)
- Press the Clipboard button, and then either select the Pasteboard button or the Sonoma AudioCopy button (Figure 7). If the latter, follow the Sonoma AudioCopy instructions.
- Preview
- Select an item in the recordings list (Figure 1)
- Press the Preview button to start playback
- Press the Preview button again to stop playback
- Delete
- Select an item in the recordings list (Figure 1)
- Press the Delete button to call up the text edit screen
- Press OK if you want to delete the recording
- Rename
- Select an item in the recordings list (Figure 1)
- Press the Rename button to call up the text edit screen
- Rename the file and press return to accept the change
Mix Recording Settings
- Select the Settings button (Figure 1) to show the Settings screen (Figure 9). Here you can define the settings for both Live recordings and Mixdown recordings, and (aside from the preface) they can be different for each.
- File name preface
- Allows the prefix to the recording (e.g. mix_*.wav) to be changed. This is particularly useful if you are making a series of recordings that you want to easily identify etc.
- The name of the file recorded is as follows: prefix_mixfilename_barlength_date[Y/M/D]_time [H/M/S], e.g. mix_GenMix1-Demo_4_4b_20110223_143818.wav
- Bars Duration (Live Recording / Mixdown)
- The bar length of mix recording, up to 99 bars.
- Tap the control to display the pop up bar list, and select the value you want
- Live recording: 2 bars (default); Mixdown recording: 4 bars (default)
- Format (Live Recording / Mixdown)
- The file format for the recording.
- Tap the control to display the pop up format list, and select the value you want
- 16-bit Wav (default), 8-bit Wav, 16-bit AU, 8-bit AU.
- Audio Quality (Live Recording / Mixdown)
- The different available output frequencies for recordings.
- Tap the control to display the pop up list of audio qualities available, and select the value you want
- Live recording: 22Khz stereo (default); Mixdown recording: 44Khz stereo (default)
- Live Recording: The range of options will be up to that of the quality set in Options for the Audio Output. If this is set, for example, to 22KHz stereo, then that is the maximum quality at which you can record.
