FiRe - Field Recorder
by Audiofile Engineering
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Description
"Audiofile Engineering's FiRe application is by far the most advanced stereo audio recording application we've seen for the iPhone and iPod Touch, going far beyond the limitations of previous go-to apps..."
- Donald Bell, CNET Reviews
"Let’s just cut straight to it: this is, bar none, the most full-featured app out there. It’s the first one that would make me seriously consider using this platform for recording."
- Peter Kirn, Create Digital Music
"The app is brilliant, and smart - it does exactly what it should do, and it does it very, very well."
- Gisle Martens Meyer, Journals of GMM
"I am a BBC Senior Editor working in regional radio and just want to say how impressed I am with FiRe."
- Derm Tanner, BBC Senior Editor
FiRe is the world’s first professional field recorder built exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch, brought to you by the minds at Audiofile Engineering. Combining powerful, elegant and uncluttered audio utilities with unparalleled technical support, Audiofile Engineering is one of the most innovative and experienced audio software developers for Mac OS X and the revolutionary iPhone.
FiRe was created for audio professionals by audio professionals. It's powerful enough for the most experienced musicians and recording engineers, and its efficient workflow and intuitive interface makes it a breeze for business and casual use.
FiRe will revolutionize what you expect from a portable recording application. It’s the first iPhone recorder to display an accurate audio waveform in real time, the first to support markers, Broadcast WAVE metadata, and the instant downloading of files in multiple file formats. FiRe was the first application on any platform to offer native SoundCloud integration. FiRe 1.3.0 brings even more firsts including input processing effects Powered by iZotope and the ability to publish a Podcast directly from your iPhone, even converting markers to chapters.
Features:
- Record in mono and stereo
- Live waveform view including rectified view
- Live Overview for easy navigation
- Scroll waveform with touch
- Navigate waveform via double-tap with configurable behavior
- Moveable Playback Head
- Tap Playback Head handle to add markers
- Editable Markers list
- Preference to add markers at time intervals
- Overdub mode with playthrough
- Beautiful and accurate VU Input Meters
- VU meters change to output in playback
- Configurable time units display
- Tag Recordings with location data
- Pause gracefully when interrupted by phone call
- Countdown with gorgeous graphics
- Record for... settings
- Record until... settings
- Record over threshold... settings
- Quality settings: Low (11.025 kHz), Medium (22.050 kHz) and High (44.1 kHz)
- Preference to automatically move to end and/or add marker when recording starts
- Preference to limit recordings to 2GB
- Screen rotates 180 degrees for better control of the iPhone's internal mic
- Broadcast WAVE metadata
- Preference for amount of info displayed in Recordings List
- Ability to lock recordings
- Searchable recordings list
- File export via local web server and FTP
- Choice of export file formats: WAVE, AIFF, CAF, AAC, Apple Lossless, AAC, Podcast, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC
- SoundCloud integration (http://soundcloud.com), now including location, picture, email notification, public/private download and SoundCloud metadata
Hardware Requirements:
iPhone 3G
iPod Touch (second generation)
First Generation iPhone (headset ONLY)
We highly recommend Blue Mikey (http://www.hearmikey.com) for stereo recording!
IMPORTANT: FiRe does not support sample rates lower than 11.025 kHz. Thus, recording and playback will not work with the internal microphone & speakers on a first generation iPhone. You must use the headset.
What's New in Version 1.4.0
- added input gain and overview in Transport
- improved SoundCloud integration including picture, location and contact notification
- fixed a crash when the recording prefix and suffix were both empty
- improved localization support
- fixed an issue where record and play buttons were active while the countdown display is visible
- fixed an issue automatically adding markers at lower quality sample rates
- fixed an issue updating the recordings list if there are no recordings
Customer Reviews
Great, but...
FiRe is an amazingly good-looking and efficient audio recording application, hands-down the best so far, but... if you want to use this for podcasting or, as in my case, broadcasting, this software is lacking two indispensible tools: basic editing and basic compressing of the files. If I need to upload a sound bite, I need to be able to crop it. A simple "Save between markers" would be more than enough, given the fact that the Markers function in FiRe is extremely good. Secondly, there's no way I'm going to be able to upload a 1 minute sound file to my station in Wave format over 3G. That would be over 10 Mb. We need to be able to compress the file into mp3 or any other small-size format. E-mail sending would also be a huge plus.
Other than that, highly recommended.
Best stereo recording app for the iphone
This is a million times better than any recording app thus far for the iPhone. Very easy to navigate, the waveform display is great, very easy to download the files. I did a couple of hour long recordings at full bandwidth and got some intermittent weirdness, almost sounded like cpu under run. (On an iPhone 3g with the Blue Mikey). Also for playback of the resulting files, I experienced a bit of weirdness. Not surprising given that its version 1.0, but I certainly wouldn't trust my life to it yet. The Blue Mikey also has its own kinks, the capsules seem to overload with reasonable spls way before the audio reaches 0 in fire. Sounds pretty decent though given the $.
I'd like to see an easier faster way to navigate 60 min files. The markers thing is great and works flawlessly, but a fast scrub would be nice. And to dream big, normalization, editing, and export to aac would be awesome.
WOW!
Hands down, the best recording app for the iPhone I've tried, and I've tried them all. The live waveform view, transport head positioning, metadata capabilities, FTP transfer, and dub features, coupled with the intuitive interface make this a must-have for casual foley geeks and serious audiophiles alike. Now I'm inspired to score a stereo mic just to take my geeking to the next level!
Awesome work, guys!
- Category: Music
- Updated Jan 05, 2010
- Current Version: 1.4.0
- 1.5 MB
- Languages: English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish
- Seller: Audiofile Engineering, LLC
- © 2009 Audiofile Engineering, LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
