Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
Audiobus/AUM compatible VIDEO recorder app?
Audio is always a weak point in phone video, I'm wondering if anyone has a video recorder app for ios that can take the output of audiobus or AUM and use that as the source for the audio track? Yes you can record separately and monkey around syncing it up in a video editor, but something fast, where you could just pipe in the good audio would be the bee's knees.
IK multimedia had a video recorder that was compatible, but it looks from the reviews like they broke it the last update.
I'd gotten the built in ios video recorder to work with an external audio interface coming in the cck, but it is very fickle on the order things get plugged in and started, and worse, there's no clue if you're using the interface or the internal mics, until you play it back, it's easy to wreck the video. And there is no meter to see if you're clipping. I saw there were some other video apps that claim to be able to use an interface and have a meter for the audio.
The ultimate would be to use audiobus or aum though, on say, an external mic, so you could process the mic, EQ, compressor, add line in, soft synths if you're doing a music thing, whatever, and what you hear is what goes on the video and you're done. Is it out there? If not, how are you getting good audio for your videos?
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It takes about 2 minutes to replace the audio in an iOS screen recording with an audio track captured by AUM. I use Luma Fusion. I don't see the point in trying to do it any other way, but that's just me.
I like MAVIS the most.
https://apps.apple.com/en/app/mavis-pro-camera/id979227459?l=en
These two have audio level meters as well:
https://apps.apple.com/en/app/procam-8/id730712409?l=en
https://apps.apple.com/en/app/promovie-recorder/id1076481548?l=en
I’ll look at Mavis. The video controls look kinda complicated, I only want complicated audio controls 😅. Expert audio, compleat idiot video please. What do you use it for out of curiosity?
I usually don't capture with the iPhone, it's more like a fallback when I don't have the camera with me.
I love to have control over exposure and focus and that's what MAVIS does well, not only high ISO but also long exposure (i.e. reduced frame rate) - useful in low light conditions when you don't have too much motion.
Note: I haven't tried capturing audio from other apps on the same device but I read that you're OK with using an audio interface.
Update: Found a nice, simple solution with Shure MOTIV. It looks like something they made for their plug in mic, but it works with other audio interfaces. Ish. No joy with iconnectaudio4 (persistent error that it can’t save the video file, typical iOS sh*t) but, it works pretty good with my zoom H6 in audio interface mode. I was using the mode on the H6 for iPhone/iPad, where it doesn’t suck power from the iPhone, and presents just a stereo input.
Did have a bummer thing once, where the audio was all glitchy, so be sure to do a test and listen back if you’re doing something important. Behaved itself otherwise, since... Think it might be picky about order stuff gets plugged in, and how the cck and usb and app gets initialized.
I got one of those usb power bricks for charging phones, 8000mAh, the rig goes iPhone<CCK3<power brick via lightning cable, and also Zoom H6 via mini usb cable. I was able to use the zoom audio interface mode (PC, I believe) where it charges the H6 and the iPhone from the power brick.
It sounds glorious. The app is simple, but you can meter the audio (actual dB numbers on the meter) and set file format for the audio (lossy AAC 96kbps-256kbps, or lossless wav or ALAC). Also has a cool bubble level type line to help get the camera straight.