Tommy Mokas's dashboard

You know, I think I could deal with Apple Lossless.....I mean, its not like I LOVE buying tons of hard drives! If that would make it something you'd implement soon I could deal...:) Please do keep me posted though, I won't be able to use it for anything serious till then. I'll be glad to provide any feedback for your development purposes.

by the way you have the greatest company name ever. you inspire the ridiculous geek in me

Well here's some perspective for you, and what I would believe to be quite a niche for your product.

I am a professional engineer, and I spend anywhere from 12-20+ hours a day recording music, some of it being my own, some of it being for hire, and some of it being other people's music. At the end of the day, I am still a creative person for myself, but in many situations, the hassle of getting a multitrack recording software is so unappealing that I still use an actual tape recorder for getting song ideas. But organizing tapes in my life is just too much, so I obviously do it on the computer. But by the time I've opened pro tools, setup a track, etc etc, I would have rather have had the tape recorder already done it.

The beautiful thing about this app is that its small and lightweight and I can just have it up all the time, it creates a new tape for me, and I can come back to it later, no hassle at all.

But as I said, if it were just recording uncompressed, I could later build on that demo in a pro app if I wanted to. I generally do those sorts of things with Peak at this point, but it doesn't offer the organizational tool that you offer, not to mention the pure childhood kitsch and fun. Not to mention the fast forward and rewind ACTUALLY WORK LIKE A REAL TAPE DECK! You could even have it correlate to an iTunes Playlist, and then you can burn CD's directly without having to integrate it into your program, saving you development time.

Here's my main point. Your product is amazing and I am in love with it, but I am an audiophile and I refuse to record precious song ideas in a compressed format for many reasons. I can guarantee you that MANY users in the market for something like this would agree with me. If i were to turn a songwriter onto this program and he catches an amazing late nite recording of a great song and its recorded in a compressed format, its not quite going to work as well if i want to pull it into a session as if it was just a wav. I understand that most of your potential market probably doesn't care, but why shut out people who would could use it in different ways? You could make it a feature that required an actual need to record in wav...for instance, in the prefs, having a check box or something of that nature. That way the default would be AAC and only if you actually needed to would you record to WAV. The low/med/high settings could correlate to different bit depth and sample rates, therefore making it a high end recorder as well. I can't imagine since you're using core audio that this would require a total rewrite of your codebase....but, I'm also a musician. I know absolutely nothing about code :)

In closing, I think there is an opportunity being missed by not allowing this simple feature to exist.

I would love to discuss this further with you, if you'd like to contact me outside of this forum (which I think is brilliant, btw), please email me at mokas@casanovastudios.com

I hope you decide to get in touch with me as I'd like to bounce a couple of ideas off of you. Congrats to your new product....hope to be able to use it soon!