iAudition App Reviews

I am a professional voice actor and I do auditions all the time. I own several voice recording applications that are mostly created for lecture recordings or music. iAudition has been created with the Voice Actor in mind. Most of the other recording apps use different formats that are high quality like .wav or .aiff which are nice, but unnecessary for auditions. This is the first app Ive seen offering direct MP3 recording which has become the standard in the V.O. industry because it is not a heavy format and yet has a decent quality. With iAudition I dont have to convert anything. It is already in the required standard. Another great feature is the click and e-mail button. It saves me tons of time! Unlike in other apps I dont need a WiFi or BlueTooth connection nor typing all those tedious address numbers on the browser of my computer. I can send my audition directly from the app. The interface is among the simplest and intuitive I have seen although It still has room for improvement. The zoom in the editing mode is very limited. I also would like to be able to cut the breathings and gaps of room ambiance without the clips snapping together. Right now the app does the equivalent to shuffle mode in ProTools. Not always helpful. It would be great if we could also slide the clips so we can position them wherever we need them to be. That would be of great help. I have also seen other apps offering the script option (none of them have a scrolling teleprompter yet). Include that and Ill come back with 5 stars. Great job so far.

I actually just found this app because there was a VO audition for it. I bought it, used it and sent it to the agency! Now I dont have to use my garageband to record and go through the trouble of converting it to mp3 when this app does it for you! I should give it a 4 star just cause its a little slow and closes when I dont need to, but I guess you just have to be patient. I also would love it if I can take a clip from 1 recording and paste it to the one youre currently working on. Would be great!!

What a great app! It does everything an auditioning voice talent needs. Record easily, edit quickly and send off! The quality even through an Ipad built in microphone is great. Editing is simple and is set up like a simple Pro-tools. Only drawback is everything you edit snaps into a "shuffle" mode. Perhaps they will add some plug-ins like a noise reduction or eq later. Well worth the price of $4.99!

Sound is good,sending the file pretty easy, but editing is some how confusing or difficult.

This application has promise but there are a few shortcomings: 1. Application quits if you leave it on record and try to pull up the script from your mail program, so you have to get your copy printed or hand write it, which defeats the purpose. 2. Editing is not Apple intuitive. You dont use a finger to drag and select. 3. When you cut a piece sound (noise or breath,for example), the program automatically drags the rest of the file forward, so that the whole file is made shorter by that amount. Thats trouble if you want to keep the timing you put in. If these things were corrected, it would be a great piece of software.

This hasnt been updated in two months, and three huge, unforgivable problems persist: 1. Your file may or may NOT encode to mp3 before sending it, and theres often no way to know because... 2. Sending a file doesnt always work. Ive sent test files to myself and they generally do not arrive. 3. Editing is absolutely broken. If you have one edit, you SHOULD be ok. But if you two or more cuts, want to eliminate breath or make a cut and paste, forget it. The program will cut way more than you selected, paste in the wrong section, will cut from the front of your audio file and leave you with your second paragraph as the beginning of the file, and on and on. The only hope you have is if you either (a) do an absolutely perfect read, or (b) have only one cut to make. Anything more than that, and youre asking this program too much. Whats taking so long to fix these? They shouldve been fixed a month ago. DO NOT BUY THIS UNTIL THEY FIX IT.

Being a voice over talent, I am up against alot of competition in the industry. I still have a full time job for benefits and to help during those slow months, which takes me away from my home studio. Many is the time I had missed an audition because of this and LOVED that someone out there was thinking about me. Now I just find a quiet corner, where-ever I am, record and edit my audition then send it out. This app is NOT meant to replace a professional studio....yet. For auditions, its totally acceptable. People seem to be complaining of edit capabilities. You cant expect Pro Tools or Adobe Audition for under $10. Spend 15 minutes figuring out the controls and youll be fine. Another issue I see is about multi-tasking. It would be great if we could record and view the script at the same time on the same device. For now I use a Kindle for the script and IPod Touch for the recording. Works out great. They both fit in my jacket pocket. I applaud Everyday Giants for their customer service, as well. When I first tried the app I was concerned with the playback quality I was hearing on my device and e-mailed to complain and sought a refund. (Silly me......I was listening back on my IPod Touch and not my studio, duh) Realizing my premature complaint, I sent the file via e-mail to myself and was amazed that I recieved a response from Mitchell Whitfield at Everyday Giants BEFORE I recieved the file in my in-box. Talk about fast!! Mitchell was happy that I figured out the issue and was now a satisfied customer. Cant wait to land my first gig using this. Ill keep ya posted.

I gave been working with this app the past week since Pocket Wavepad crashed due to the 4.3 update. On two occasions I recorded songs, edited them, but after saving, the wave-form totally disappeared in editing mode - it looked like the file was empty. The file still played from the Title List and opened in editing mode, but it was otherwise empty. Has that happened to anyone? Luckily the file could still be sent to my computer for further editing....but until this glitch is fixed I wont use this app for anything urgent!

Ive been using Iaudition for a week now with my Audio Technica AT2020 USB mic. Pros: Simple to use and well thought out. Converts to 128k mp3 attaches file to email automatically. Cons: Editing tool seems hard to use (and Ive been doing digital editing for 20+ years. If you are looking for a quick way to audition on the fly - this would be my choice - kind of the "point and shoot" version of auditioning software. Hard to make a mistake, but not a lot of bells and whistles either.

Not for top brand auditions, but if agy asks for a pronto read to run by a client, you can certainly do that. I hope they make improvements (http avail across web, tune editor) but for the moment its well worth the five bucks!

Update this thing!!! PLEASE!! Pros: you get an mp3. Thats it! Cons: BUGGY. Great app if you enjoy your work being deleted by a crash when you finally nailed a take. EVERY TIME, guys. Crashes VASTLY MORE OFTEN than ANY OTHER APP I HAVE ON MY PHONE. Editing commands malfunction several times per take - if youre not adept at the microsoft school of saving many backups, be prepared to butcher your own hard work with this faulty software. I mean, i get it, its easy to take advantage of actors. Especially by charging money for a program that has one infinitesimal but all-important plus over the competition. But why not show some class - voice over is a classy industry - and update your program so that we can trust it?! Even if it crashed half as often Id be happy.

Not anymore. Dont bother.

The program is easy to use and I like that it converts to mp3 and that it displays a progress bar when sending unlike other apps Ive tried. The editing feature is nice and overall great for quick auditions in a pinch. It does, however, seem to crash when inputting a file name and the sound seems thinner than on other apps Ive tested like iRig Recorder. If you could beef up the sound quality and fix the crash issues it would be a great little app.

Liked the previous version... and though I wish it had all these features to begin with, Im not going to complain now. Great update!!

I like the new features, but LOVE that the bugs were fixed--can finally recommend it.

It may not be the prettiest recording app, but it definitely gets the job done; jumped right in and started recording. Editing was simple, and audio file arrived as an MP3 pretty quickly after sending it. Sound quality was good…or at least as good the mic on my iPad will allow--think Ill try a usb mic next time. Pretty happy so far…

I bought this app because I needed the ability to record decent quality mp3s. Most of the recording apps out there either are for speech (low quality) or else record in lossless formats that take up an amount of space utterly unjustified by the iPhones mic. iAudition allows me to record mp3s of rehearsals in good quality but at mp3 compression ratios. Although I appreciate that it can do this, iAudition is really quite a disaster. Problems: -It does not allow wifi transfers, necessitating the use of email for large files for all those without convenient access to some sort of FTP service. Wifi transfer capability is essential, and I personally would very much like to see dropbox integration as well. -the editing feature, as far a I can tell, simply doesnt work -it is slow and crashes frequently. On one occasion it even decided it would shut off my phone all by itself and delete the recording it had just made. iAudition has potential, but is not, at present, worth the money.

Really good. Love this app.

Sending an audio file takes forever. A one min audio takes 4 minutes to prep for sending AND there is no prep in the bkgrnd so you have to keep coming back. There is no send and forget. Naming files is also primitive. No time stamp. No last used / rename option. Support is flabby and slow too.

Im in the VoiceOver business and my agent demands immediate response for a casting call. This is an amazing app that does exactly what agents are wanting now; an mp3 labeled and emailed to them at a moments notice. This is like having Adobe Audition 1.5 in your pocket. Be on vacation or out of town and never miss a call. This app is amazing. You can even edit. Outstanding and the sound quality is surprisingly good! Highly recommended.