Impact by Focusrite Reviews

Won't work.

billybob tt

The app opens and works fine, but it doesn't work with my iTrack device. The audio records thru my iPad microphone, not the 2 microphone on the iTrack device. Also, it won't record sound with the guitar plug in. The instructional video on YouTube explains nothing about my iTrack device and no one seems to know how to solve the issue. If the app would work with the device, I'd be happy. Instead I'm upset that I wasted $100 on something that does absolutely nothing.

Hardware Great, Software not so much!

Gratefuluser

I was excited to try this today. Now I am just left frustrated. I have never been able to get the Impact app to show me the “audio input” icon. So, without being able to see that, I can not tell the app to look for input from the ¼” jack. The jack is useless. I have deleted the app and re-installed it. No luck. I have tried it on 3 generations of iPhones, no luck. Tried on my iPad Air, no luck. I wonder if anyone at Focusrite is listening. I see nothing on their support forums about this. Only here. For those of you still having trouble, flood their support site with requests to find the bugs.

Disappointed

bandsmartin

I have also tried iTrack Pocket on multiple devices and cannot get the audio input to appear, nor can I export a video. The app continues to crash during the rendering. How can you market a product like this? Why do your initial videos show the multiple input selection, but your most current release doesn't have this capability? Unbelievable.

Needs update!

(: user

Unfortunately, I updated my iPhone to 9.3.1 and now this app won't open. Still works on my iPad, which i fortunately did not update. I've contacted the developer and was told they have been unable to replicate the problem. Well, that doesn't help me any and I'm sure I'm not the only one having the problem. Now the device I bought cannot be used with my phone.

Very disappointed

(: user

This WAS a great app/ device until recently. I upgraded my iPhone to 9.3.1 and now the impact screen comes up and immediately goes away. Focus rites response is that this not a known issue and that I could try resetting my iPhone to the previous update. I was able to use it on my iPad, which I had not yet updated. Well, a few days later, I go to use it with the iPad again and it won't record. If the left side icons for recording mode are on the screen, there is no record button . If the record icon is on the screen, they go away. It appears to be recording--video does record, but no sound. This is the case for both the microphones and the guitar jack. This app is in bad need of an update, and the focusritefolksdont seem to care.

5 stars but..

osvaldo77

The app doesn't show the audio input menu on the app, if your iPhone is updated to 9.3 this app is useless until focusrite updates impact

Crashing

Potter B the Dog

I love focusrite gear, but this app is crashing when opening it, therefore one star. I'll update the stars when they update their app.

Waste of time

Harpnslide

Terrible software. Useless. No sound. No meaningful control. Totally regret wasting the money on the hardware. Focus rite completely failed on this one to the point that it makes me leery of the higher end "real" recording equipment. This was a disrespectful joke.

My go-to video app

BB92647

While there's a million video apps in the App Store, almost all of them are variations on the same thing. Impact is different. While it's supposed to be paired with Focusrite hardware, it isn't necessary. Personally, I take a line out of a mixing board and, through an interface, video record the performance. Board recordings are notoriously dry but impact allows me to add room ambiance (and some compression if needed). The result is the clarity of a board recording but with the ambience of a live room without the hassle of an external mic. Also, a nice feature is that when cropping, I can do so by the audio waveform. This makes things quicker for me. No other app does these basic things. I feel like they're sitting on a goldmine of a unique video app that has the sound come first, whereas most video apps, it's just an afterthought. The downside is that Impact only records in 720. Not a deal breaker, but higher resolutions would be very welcome. I use this app weekly and so far been very stable.

Disappointed with Focusrite

Saral198433

First of all, I love Focusrite's equipment for audio recording on non-mobile devices. Their interfaces and preamps for DAW's are available for every budget, they are reliable, and at times, they are the best in their class. I own two audio interfaces by Focusrite at the moment. One is my go-to except I just purchased the Apollo Duo so that may change, but only if Apollo lives up to my expectations that have been determined are from utilizing Focusrite gear. Now with that said, this app is a disappointment. I left a not so great review on another outlet online, which I did change after getting it to work properly, but someone for the company contacted me with a bunch of different suggestions on what I'm doing wrong, but my suggestion to you, Focusrite, the bottom line is its been over 2 years since you've updated this app. I feel like I'm doing too much work just to use the app. I was using iOS 8.3 when suddenly the amp simulators disappeared. I have plenty of storage available, and I'm sure it's something that MUST be my fault, so I upgraded the iOS, I uninstalled the app, I reinstalled the app, I made sure the itrack pocket was plugged in, after all that, not only are the amp simulators are gone, but now the ground noise is God awfully loud. I have zero fans or any noisemakers running in my room I record in. This isn't ok. One of the reasons I really liked this device, was for the amp simulators. If you guys actually updated this app, I would've bought the version for iPad. I've almost purchased it a few times, but because the app has been neglected and it's been troublesome, I think I'll stick to Shure for mobile devices, and Focusrite I will continue to use in the Mac book. If the simulators worked and the floor noise lessened, this would've been the perfect plug n play for us musicians getting our videos out there. Thank god for the Shure Motive88. Just in case ppl are wondering, yes you can do video with it. The Shure app saves your microphone settings to use in all other video applications. It also has phantom power. If you guys do ever update the app, I'll eagerly check it out since hoping it'll one day be usable again.

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