Support

Email showrecorder@ericdahl.dev with your iPhone or iPad model, your iOS or iPadOS version, your mixer or audio interface, and what happened. A screenshot helps. You can also report a problem on GitHub.

Getting started

1. Connect your mixer's USB audio, or any USB audio interface, to your iPhone or iPad. You need a USB-C iPhone (iPhone 15 or later) or an iPad; a powered USB-C hub is recommended so it charges while you record.
2. Open ShowRecorder. It arms the audio interface and shows a meter for each USB Channel.
3. Press the red button to record, the flag to add a Marker, and the red button again to stop.
4. To keep a second Copy, choose a Drive folder in Settings (an SSD works best). Without one, Takes go to the Device only.

Common questions

Where are my recordings?

Tap Shows on the record screen, or open the Files app: On My iPhone (or iPad), ShowRecorder, Shows. Each Show has a folder for each Take, with one WAV file per channel, a report and a Reaper project.

The channels are called "USB 01", "USB 02".

Open Settings, then Mixer Link, then Find Mixers to get your channel names and colors from the mixer (Behringer X Air XR18 and MR18). With Pro you can also tap Names to type them.

The Drive was unplugged during a Take.

Recording carries on to the Device. When the Drive comes back it rejoins, and after the Take the missing stretch is filled in from the Device Copy.

Will a recording ever stop on its own?

Not because of a Trial, a limit or a license: that is the Show-Safe Promise. It stops only if you stop it, or if every place it is writing to runs out of space.

More about ShowRecorder is on the home page, and the privacy policy explains what the app does with your information.