Going to hell in a hand basket

SWW did some heavy marketing around this app, which is presented as the ideal companion to its family of GuitarJack audio interfaces. Oh, the friendly reviews, the salesmanship. Youd think it would be rock solid. Well, at this point, its just plain unusable.

With a firmware upgrade to run the converters at 24-bit/48kHz, youd expect their own software to match the full hardware spec? Nope. WAV files generated by this app out of the GJ2 (30-pin connector into an iPhone 4) are currently 16-bit/44.1kHz instead of the 24-bit/48kHz the ADC was actually delivering at one point. Good luck finding a setting anywhere in the control panel (which they go to great lengths never to release as a separate app), to fix that.

But wait, theres more -- I mean less. Now FourTrack, well, cant track. Set up to record with the GJ2, and it just stops in the middle of things. Just like that. End of file. No warning except if you are monitoring. But by then its too late anyway.

When other apps like Røde Mic went to hell, I could still fall back on FT. Not any more. The thing cant even use the companys own hardware. And it was just about the only one with acceptable monitoring.

Fortunately, there is still Hindenburg, or TwistedWave, or even Hokusai. Despite monitoring and replay glitches, these apps actually record with the GJ2. TW will even set the ADC correctly to 48kHz if you wish. A proper 24/48 audio file is just an export away.

As long as there is a semi-working control panel (and "semi" is mostly what it is, just compare the three embedded versions that cant even operate identically between three SWW apps), you dont have a paperweight. For now.

Philslade about FourTrack, v7.0.1