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It's like Voice Memo's for musicians

Get the "lightness" of Voice Memos, but with quality of your audio interface and mics.

One-Button Workflow

As simple as a tape recorder. Press one button to start and stop your recording. Pressing record again will start a new session. No faffing about with projects or configuration.

Review, rate and add notes

Keep track of what you did on each recording with notes. Use the rating to mark your "keepers". This is great for songwriting, vocal practice, jamming, testing mic placement and more.

Use your good takes in your DAW

If you record something you want to use later, you can just open the files and drag them into your DAW. Tapelet doesn't lock you in with any special format - it just stores stuff in regular folders and audio files you can use anywhere.

Features to keep you in the zone

Taplet was made to help musicians focus on the performance rather than fiddling with software.

Multi-Track Capture

Record multiple tracks at the same time, selecting which inputs on your audio interface you want to capture. Your selection is remembered for next time so you don't even have to think about it.

High Quality Recordings

If your audio interface, mics and room are any good, you're going to get a great quality capture of your ad-hoc performances. This means you can take them to your DAW and build on them easily.

One-Click Record

Hit record whenever you want to capture a new performance. Simple beans. Each time you hit record it automatically creates a new folder with your recorded stems in it, saved as a high quality WAV files.

Drag Stems to Your DAW

Once you have a performance worth building on, drag your stems into the DAW of your choice. These are just WAV files on your disk, no magic or complexity.

Star Your Best Takes

Stick a star on any recordings you think stand out, so you know which ones you might want to work with later and can easily find them.

Add Notes

Keep a note against a recording so you can look back and see what you did differently on that take. Great for when you're trying a bunch of different vocal styles, tempo's or keys.

Works with USB and Network Drives

If you don't want to clog up your drive with audio, you can choose to record to an external drive by default.

"I made this because I'm a busy dad and sometimes I just want to capture an idea as fast as possible. I love my dictaphone, but if I'm at home with good mics and an audio interface I'd rather capture ideas with those so I can use them when I'm producing."

Tobin HarrisDad, Hobbyist Musician, Creator of Tapelet

Six ways to use Tapelet

For when you need to capture quick takes without wrangling with projects and setup

Band Practice

Capture your entire band practice with as many tracks as your audio interface and computer support. Capture as one take or quickly start/stop/start to create new takes per song. Take them to your DAW later for mixing, effects and sharing.

Singer Songwriter Ideas

Songwriters may explore lots of different songs and ideas in a single session. Capture them in high quality without the hassle of DAW separate projects. Rate the good takes and later drag them into your DAW.

Amp Modeller Recording

If your amp modeller acts as an audio interface, you can capture it with Tapelet and record your guitar practice sessions. Similarly, if your audio interface has MON channels you can capture yourself jamming over YouTube.

Vocal Techniques

Practicing your vocals? You can record different takes quickly and make notes about what you did differently. You can rate each file to indicate which techniques are helping you get the best results. Good takes can be exported into a DAW for use in your production.

Mic Placement and Room Treatment

Figuring out how to mic up your source? You can quickly capture takes of the mic in different placements in the room, make notes against each one. Then listen back and decide which placement is the sweet spot.

Jamming

Ever wished you had a high quality recording of that jam session that was "perfect". Tapelet lets you capture your jams in high quality as separate tracks so you can take them to your DAW later.

Turn your MacBook into a Field Recorder

Grab a small audio interface, your favourite mics, and hit the road. Use Tapelet to capture multi-channel audio whilst you're on the road.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions answered

Who makes Tapelet?

It's made by me, Tobin Harris. I'm a software engineer, hobbyist musician and busy dad. By day, I run a UK app development agency called Pocketworks. I write songs and record music in my spare time.

Is it FREE?

Yup, it's FREE whilst in Beta and may even stay that way forever, we'll see. Even if I make a paid version, I won't lock you in. You'll always have a free version that at least matches the functionality you have today.

Will it work with my audio interface?

I'm testing on a UAD X4, a web cam's and the built in MacBook microphone. It's working on all those so it will probably work with any Mac compatible audio interface from brands like Focusrite, Motu, Neve etc.

Does it work with amp modelling software?

I tried it with Tonex which outputs to to MON 1 and MON 2 on my interface. Since I can choose to record those in Tapelet, I could quickly capture practice sessions for guitar that way. Example video here.

How many tracks can you record at one?

I've tried up to 7 so far. I need do a proper test, but suspect it's based on your hardware.

Can you record one track, then record another over the top?

No. Write to us if you think this is really important, but the idea for Tapelet was to be a quick "Record then record again" app that can capture separate audio interface inputs as separate files for later import into DAW.

Why I made Tapelet

Dear musician, engineer or producer,

If you're like me, sometimes you get "in the zone" when practicing and songwriting, and you think "I must record this!"

But my dictaphone sounds a bit crap, and I'm nailing this performance, god damn it!

So, I want to capture it using my nice audio interface and mics so I can actually use it in a real track at some point.

Or, if I'm practicing guitar through DI or a software amp modeller, I just want to capture that in high quality.

But setting up a DAW every time I practice is boring. I have to create different projects if I'm working on different songs. And, I easily get distracted by plugins, configuration and EQ. All this breaks my flow.

What I really want is to stay in the zone and capture a good sound as a practice and write.

So that's why I created Tapelet.

Is stupid simple and lets me capture quality stems without having to think or get distracted. Then, I can drag those into a DAW later when I want to focus on mixing and production.

If this fits your workflow, download and give it a try!

Cheers

Tobin

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