McDSP, maker of high-quality Pro Tools plug-ins, has announced the release of Retro Recorder for iPhone. While looking like a vintage analog cassette recorder on the screen, Retro Recorder promises to be one of the highest quality recorders for the price.
McDSP claims that, with their Patent-pending Audio Level eXtension (ALX) technology, Retro Recorder "...improves recording quality beyond the capability of hand held recorders costing many times more. Even without an external microphone, Retro Recorder can capture detail other recorders cannot - up to 32 times more signal level."
Retro Recorder is priced at $2.99, and is available starting today.
McDSP claims that, with their Patent-pending Audio Level eXtension (ALX) technology, Retro Recorder "...improves recording quality beyond the capability of hand held recorders costing many times more. Even without an external microphone, Retro Recorder can capture detail other recorders cannot - up to 32 times more signal level."
Retro Recorder is priced at $2.99, and is available starting today.
Comments
Howdy,
my name is Colin McDowell. My company, McDSP, makes this highly stylized iPhone recorder app called Retro Recorder.
Recently I was asked if the Audio Level eXtension (ALX) feature on Retro Recorder was similar to the digital photo zoom in features in iPhone apps like Camera Genius and Camera Zoom-In.
In a word, YES !!!!
With ALX, Retro Recorder is the only iPhone recorder app that offers a distortion free audio zoom in (level maximization) capability. You can still export your original and/or ALX-processed recordings to your Mac (ok a PC too).
So ALX is like a volume control? Nope. A simple volume control could cause the audio to clip, creating so much distortion the recording would be useless. ALX uses patent pending techniques to turn up the quiet stuff and balance it out with the loud stuff.
So, in my completely biased opinion, Retro Recorder is perfect for field recordings, interviews, dictations, your kids first words, and even music.
You can find out more about Retro Recorder at http://www.retrorecorder.com.
Colin McDowell
Howdy all,
Retro Recorder has been on sale for a few weeks, but the sale is ending Sept 8th. We’re about to release a version that has mono and stereo recording capability, and supports multiple recording quality modes – medium quality (MQ / 22050 Hz sample rate), and high quality (HQ / 44100 Hz sample rate).
There are a couple of other cool updates to it as well.
If you have been considering Retro Recorder, the $1.99 price is going to around through Sept 8th. After that, we’re bumping it back up to $2.99 or $3.99.
Now you know!
Colin
9/3/2009
Howdy,
our marketing department had some fun and created these movie style trailers now posted on the RetroRecorder channel on youtube. Here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/retrorecorder
…the emphasis is on our ALX patent pending audio processing that let’s Retro Recorder ‘zoom in’, or increase audio levels, without causing distortion. Check it out!
Colin
9/25/2009
It’s a great iphone app but the export feature is very broken, just doesn’t work. I’ve tried repeatedly to export and download files, half way through downloading them to my Mac Book the transfer stops and the file is incomplete. The http site is very unreliable very inconsistent in being able to connect. I’m a big fan of McDSP products, this one has the potential of being great, but it has a way to go. PLEASE fix it!
Ed,
we’ve got another rev coming out shortly – let us know if that addresses the Wi-Fi download issues you’ve experienced.
Everyone,
as of today Retro Recorder by McDSP is in the #3 spot in the business category of the Apple App Store. Thanks to all iPhone app craving people everywhere!!
Colin
11/5/2009
i love this iphone app, it truly does make better recordings, but the export feature just doesn’t work at all for me. its time to fix it.