A few weeks ago, a good friend, a professional musician who spends half his life traveling, said to me: “I have the definitive app for saving ideas. And it’s free”. An application, he told me, that was equivalent to investing hundreds of dollars in a good microphone and some filters to soundproof the stage. In the days of algorithms and AIs everywhere, that didn’t seem new to me either. Until I try it.
Here I bring you my experience working with Dolby On, a perfect invention for podcasting, for live streaming, for humming an idea that can be turned into a song in minutes… Whatever comes into your head.
Dolby On, a gift for any musician or podcaster
I wasn’t even the first at home to use the app in question. That same week, my daughter needed to record a step-by-step to learn how to ask and write directions for a modal conversation. After spending half an afternoon testing and taking longer to clean up the audio tracks than recording them, he started recording with Dolby On from my iPhone. AND the change was so noticeable that I only had to send the proofs as they were, without treatment. It is your strength.
This applies to any use. If, for example, you want to record an acoustic guitar in your living room, the application recognizes the different signals and isolates them, positioning them correctly in the scene, filtering out background noise. And it is that behind this application is the Dolby.IO API, the same as Dolby Voice and the work of the same engineers who invented Dolby Atmos, to understand us. We’re talking about real experts in voice processing and advanced spatial audio control.
Suppose you need to send instructions to your department for an exposure at work but the traffic seems to be thunderous. Or what do you say to a colleague, in the midst of a hubbub of guests, how to get to the restaurant where you met for dinner. Or you just want to record a podcast on iOS 17 and its news. Or you have decided to compose a piano sonata and send it to Tim Cook, who will probably listen to you. Dolby On exists for that.
How to Record with Dolby On on Your iPhone or iPad
Don’t get me wrong: this application is not Audacity, much less a professional editor like Logic or Pro Tools. We are talking about a simple and intuitive application, with a very refined design and enough options take the “raws”, that is to say the raw recordings, with the best possible quality. It has a visual editor and options to live stream on different platforms, but don’t expect a full recording studio.
The application has three central icons:
- Real-time video recording.
- Real-time audio recording.
- Streaming on platforms like Twitch, Discord or Facebook.
Once you’ve recorded an audio file, you’ll see that you can edit it by tapping the music note icon in the lower left corner. This will take you to the library of recorded tracks. Once you have selected a specific one you can modify it using the ‘Tools’ sectionthe red button visible in the screenshot above.
You can also export or favor this file. And if you touch the three dots in the lower right corner, you will see that a new menu appears, to rename the file, delete it or apply ‘visuals’, an additional tool to change the color of the file or apply filters in case of editing a video. Many possibilities to be before something totally free.
As you can see from the screenshots, Dolby On has the following tools:
- A metronome with pulses from 20 to 240 BPM (with actual musical notation).
- A monitoring system to tell us when we are cut or clipping due to too high a volume.
- An omnidirectional receiving system to pick up the direction of recorded waves.
- A signal filter to isolate background noise.
- A 3-2-1 accountant to start recording more comfortably.
- A system to add or remove the watermark from our recordings.
- And, icing on the cake, the possibility of recording in Lossless Audio quality, without compression, at 48 kHz quality, in 24-bit resolution WAV files.
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