Keep em coming
wow this is the third or fourth update on Vector2 in just weeks, keep them coming please! it’s awesome to see the developer actively working on this audio editor. I’ve been producing various types (mostly electronic) of music since the days of Soundedit. If you have been around as long as I have you’ll know that a good audio editor has never really existed for Mac. Months ago while browsing the Mac App store I was drawn to Vector2 simply because it’s visually pleasing (aka. I LOOKS COOL). Yes, I know that 20 bucks is a lot to pay for looks, but as I just tried to explain I have long had a void to fill in this category.
Thanks to all the recent updates Vector2 now has my attention, so much so that I felt it needed a review, and if i’m lucky the developer will listen. This app does what it says, and it will record your voicememos while at the same time mostly likely be the nicest, most interesting looking app on your screen. For an application that markets itself as glorified voice memo recorder it defintly offers everything you could get in the category. But I also see an app that wants to present itself as a must-have audio utility for any musician with Garageband, Logic, even Ableton Live. To te dev: THere is a huge space for this I believe. Don’t think Multitrack audio recorder, but think more in sound-design-loop-creator-workbench. Make it easy for me to load up a few minutes of audio that I recorded from another app, and select sections at a time of audio using an intuitive “bpm based sample selector” so that I can input a tempo and easily pick whole beats, 1/2 note, 1/4 note eqivelents of time (minutes:seconds), and after i’ve trimmed/ cut/copied/ ultimately pasted said audio, allow me the ability manipulate and to add effects to this piece of audio with the option to Lock-In the begining and end points (or not) so that I know I’m staying in time, which will keep me “in the loop” at whatever bpm i was working for. Of course, it would be awesome IF when you DID changed you start and end (selections) the bpm would dynamically change as well. Then bring her home by adding an Apple Loop creator, IF Apple will allow it. There is absolutly NO Apple Loops creator/ converter tool in exsistance. And yes I know you can make them with Logic, but in practice you can’t. Not the way people like me want to use them.
This may seem like something trivial, but as a musician for well over a decade I promise people WILL notice. Im sure my attempt to explain my “idea” in words just now probably won’t read as it should. But it’s worth a shot. Oh yeah one other thing, if you are afraid you might turn off your target market by offering more professional audio features, hence taking away from the “voice memo recorder”, why not take a page from the Apple Logic X playbook and have Vector2 default to a “Simple Mode” where to access these musician based features the user would have to go into preferences and hit a check box or two, ala Advanced Mode enable.
Well that’s enough of what i think. 4 stars this time, but if i notice an effort by the dev to crank this baby up a notch, you can expect 5 stars from me with every update. Oh yeah, and people would talk, word would get around that there is an audio editor for Mac, finally.
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