Android Only: 11 Pro AV Audio Apps Every Technician Needs

SPL for tuning speaker systems, reading levels, even documenting audience experience. Digital Audio Workstations make on-the-job recording sound great.

May 8, 2013 TD Staff Leave a Comment

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Speedy Spectrum Analyzer

Electron Chaos

Cost: $4.99

Rating: 4.7

Requirements: Android 1.6 and up

The Speedy Spectral Analyzer app for Android displays audio content on two different frequency axises, logarithmic and linear. The display is very customizable with different options for zoom and graph coverage. You can even measure frequency peaks and valleys—covering a frequency range of up to 22kHz. This app also is capable of saving graphs and sharing screenshots.

Features include:

Both Logarithmic & Linear frequency axis

Pinch to zoom in on any signal section.

Pan (vertical and horizontal) by simply dragging the screen

Dynamically adjusting FFT size, up to 16384 bins (for 2-3 Hz accuracy), based on the optimal size for your screen

Exponential averaging (adjustable)

Peak hold overlay

Share screen snapshots easily

Range set - full audio range from 20Hz, up to 22kHz.

Peak & valley measurements with crossbar tools

Adjustable dB levels for ceiling / floor

And more

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Sound Meter Pro

Smart Tools Co.

Cost: $0.99

Rating: 4.1 stars

Available on: Android 1.6 and up

With Sound Meter Pro, Measure environmental noise and vibrations with your Android device. This app can capture and measure sound levels up to 100 dB, which is the peak value for Android devices. Measure sound (dB) and environmental vibrations (MMI) and then save, log and chart your data with models. Also, access reference data to place audio frequency measurements into common place contexts for even better, relevant, models.

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RTA Pro Analyzer

RadonSoft

Cost: $5.49

Rating: 4.3

Requirements: Android 1.6 and Up

Turn your Android phone into a professional audio analyser with up to 120 bands.

Professional version of the RTA audio analyser. Adds 1/4, 1/6 and 1/12 analysation band spacing with up to 120 bands, scalable peak holds and more colour schemes. Permanently stores calibration data.

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TouchDAW

humatic

$4.99

Rating: 4.6

Requirements: Android 2.2 and Up

TouchDAW is a full-featured DAW control and general purpose MIDI control app. It allows you to tweak a large set of parameters in popular digital audio workstations as accessible through standard hardware control surfaces. Besides control surface emulation, the app brings a number of general purpose MIDI controllers, such as a multitouch MIDI keyboard, multitouch launchpads, a MIDI mixer, configureable xy-controller pads and the possibility to link a phone’s sensors to MIDI controllers.

TouchDAW works with RTP or multicast MIDI over WIFI and is directly compatible with Apple’s Network MIDI implementation in Mac OS X, native RTP MIDI implementations for Windows and ipMIDI. There is no computer side server or protocol conversion software required.

Supports Cubase / Nuendo, Live, Logic, Pro Tools, Sonar, FL Studio, REAPER, Reason, Studio One, Samplitude, SAWStudio Digital Performer (7.2+) and Vegas / Acid workstations. Standard functionality like mixer and transport operation will be accessible in other applications as well. As of version 1.1 the app can also send MIDI Machine Control (MMC) in parallel with or alternatively to standard DAW control.

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Audio Evolution Mobile

eXtream Software Development

$6.99

Rating: 4.5

Requirements: Android 2.2 and Up

The most powerful multitrack audio recorder on Android packed with features like non-linear non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, mixing, real-time effects and more.

Features:

Multitrack audio playback

Audio recording (while playing back other tracks)

Loop playback

Latency correction

Import of WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Ogg/Vorbis audio files

Import of mp3 (requires an optional download due to patents on mp3 if applicable to your country)

Import of m4a, 3gpp, amr and other audio formats that Android supports if you are running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean or higher

Mastering to stereo WAV, AIFF, FLAC or OGG file

Sample rate conversion

Metronome

Zoom down to the sample

Each track has controls for volume, panning, mute, solo, arm, 4-band EQ, 3 insert effects and output bus selection

Unlimited number of tracks

Unlimited number of groups

Real-time effects include: chorus, delay, dual delay, reverse delay, reverb, bandpass, highpass, lowpass, flanger, noisegate and tremolo

Offline effects: fade in/out, normalize, reverse, pitch shift, time stretching while maintaining pitch

Non-linear non-destructive editing with move, trim, split, cut/copy/paste, remove, range editing

Unlimited undo/redo for editing facilities

Several grid options for aligning your samples (with tempo and time signature settings)

Repeat samples with several options to create loops

Add markers and quickly jump to them

Load/Save projects including loading projects from our desktop DAW Audio Evolution 5

Can use ES File Explorer to select samples for import

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Audalyzer

Moonblink

Cost: Free

Rating: 4.3

Requirements: Android 1.6 and up

The Audalyzer app is developed to display waveform, frequency spectrum, sonagram and VU meter. The db levels are dependent on the microphone range of your Android device.

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FFT

Audia Sound

Cost: $9.99

Rating: 4.7

Requirements: Android 2.3 and up

The FFT app for Android was designed for live sound engineers. It offers real time audio analysis mic calibrations with both linear and logarithmic measurements. This app allows you to save graphs and later overlay multiple graphs and measure live sound over top to compare different sets of data. There are multiple color and display options for use in any environment regardless of light level.

Features Include:

Logarithmic or Linear scale

Fast freeze button

Averaging: exponential, flat, and infinite

Peak Hold, configurable

Peak frequency finder (full range or visible only)

Frequency markers

Snapshots: creating, viewing, and overlaying them

User-configurable microphone calibration

Configure FFT Size and Window type (Size up to 16384; 7 window types supported)

Full control of app colors

Pinch-to-zoom, one-finger panning and zooming

Smooth, immediate response to touch

Continuously updates - never choppy

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iGram Spectral Analyzer

idroidbot

Cost: $1.99

Rating: 4.1

Requirements: Android 2.1 and up

The iGram Spectral Analyzer app for Android is developed to display gram data from real-time audio. This app is useful for musicians, sound engineers, even radar or signal processing engineers.

Features Included:

Selectable sample rates and FFT size.

Matlab like colormaps.

Two crossbars for easy readout and calculating the deltas.

Records data for playback. The recorded data can be outputted to file or socket.

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SpecScope Spectrum Analyzer

NFX Development

Cost: $0.99

Rating: 4.4

Requirements: Android 2.2 and up

The SpecScope Spectrum Analyzer app for Android measures frequencies from 10kHz to 22kHz in both linear and logarithmic measurements. The app’s UI is specifically developed to maximize the usage of each specific Android device. there are four different window options and the app features multiple ways to zoom, mark and navigate the graph during measurements and when the app is paused.

Features Include:

Logarithmic/Linear measurements

Pinch to zoom in both X and Y axis

Simply navigate round the graph by dragging

Selectable No. bin for accuracy versus speed

Three settings of spectrum averaging

Four different windowing options

Threshold trigger to hold the peak value

Tap to pause and resume measurements (graph is still navigational in this mode)

A adjustable sample rate allow analysis from 10 Hz to 22KHz

Optional measurement markers for ease of reading

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SpectralPro Analyzer

RadonSoft

Cost:$5.49

Rating: 4.2 stars

Available on: Android 1.6 and up

With Spectral Pro, display live audio as a colored spectogram. The app has selectable frequency up to 24 kHz, with flexible amplitude and frequency mapping through touch and scroll, different update speeds, and color mappings.

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Waterfall Spectrum Analyzer

idroidbot

Cost: $2.99

Rating: 3.8

Requirements: Android 2.1 and up

The Waterfall Spectral Analyzer app for Android displays audio content in real-time 3-D spectrogram waterfall. The app can display multiple FFT spectrum at the same time with FFT sizes up to 44100 samples. The app can also display a 2-D spectral graph if the waterfall graph is not convenient.

Features Include:

Two graphical displays: 3D Waterfall and 2D spectral graph

Fast and accurate: Tested on Droid X with max sample rate of 48kHz with FFT size of 44100, which equates to 1.0 Hz per bin.

Zoom in and out capabilities for high data resolutions.

Abilities to save and playback recorded data to and from file.

Able to transmit recording data over TCP.

Five well know Matlab colormaps to choose from.

Eight standard windowing functions.

Abilities to save settings to avoid redundancy upon next start up.

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From SPL readings to Digital Audio Workstations, your Android device has what it takes to aid you in almost every pro AV audio-specific task. App developers have created a large breadth of products that not only get the job done quickly, but efficiently.

This collection of pro AV audio apps showcases just how helpful your Android device is in completing mission-critical audio tasks. Finding a great audio app takes consideration, specifically considering what you are planning to use the app for. SPL apps are great for tuning speaker systems, reading levels, even documenting audience experience. Digital Audio Workstations make on-the-job recording sound great and allow you to document installations to the best of you ability with their myriad of mixing options.

Whether you are prepping a conference room, finalizing an event sound system or just troubleshooting a space, these ProAV audio apps are ideal for making your Android device work for you.

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