Recording volume too low on iPad.

Music Memos never worked for me, always the same "too quiet" issue with my guitar. I've checked the App Store every day for updates that would correct it, but never saw any. Today I just tried it - whistled some notes and it seemed to work. Then I Played some guitar chords and it's working! 🙂

So if you've had this problem, just try it again. All I can say is it's now working for me and I'm writing my first song.

Good luck!

Yes, i have done quite a few recording with my iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi + Cellular.

But I tried only the internal microphone. I'm getting the low volume warning for vocals and the acoustic guitar, but not for insruments that are playing in a high register - flute, accordion, harmonica.

I have the exact same issue on iPad Mini 2. Even very loud sounds right next to the mic are recorded with extremely low volume (barely hearable when replayed), Music Memos is complaining about low volume.

At first I was afraid that my mic is broken, but Siri works perfectly fine (even when speaking very softly) and when testing with other recording app (I used RØDE Rec LE) it was fine as well.

Same problem. I have an iPad 4 that had iOS 9 .2 .1 BEFORE I downloaded the Music Memos app. And with the "instruments" I'm using it says that it's too quiet. Though my instruments are me singing and I'm not some robust opera singer, and playing a piano app on my BlackBerry Playbook. So I thought maybe they were just too quiet and you needed a 12 string acoustic guitar playing bulky cords right up against it. But it doesn't sound like that's the case. Somebody left a review on the Canadian App Store saying it worked fine for his woodwinds. I believe he was using an iPhone. So it sounds like it doesn't work on iPad. And we should tell Apple. I'm virtually certain the iOS 9.2.1 idea is a red herring. Although it would be interesting to know if any iPad users who find the input volume OK are playing like a trumpet really close to it.

Also!! We should all stop playing loud sounds right up against the iPad microphone! Since clearly the microphone is not at fault. And we don't want to damage it . I know my microphone's fine because immediately after the fail with Music Memos I was playing with Keezy and it recorded everything fine. Including humming quietly in order to make a quieter track on the Keezy thing.

It's bizarre that there's no way to increase the input gain. Also it says in the description on the app store that you can use it for voice. But if you go to the Apple website and read the special blurb about it it only mentions keyboards and guitars. It also says it will filter out and ignore sounds that don't sound like keyboards and guitars. So I suspect the computer brain within it is simply rejecting the sounds that we are making. The question remains though why is that happening on iPad and not on iPhone? Unless it's happening on iPhone and will hear from the disgruntled iPhone Music Memos users shortly. Or all the happy iPhone Music Memos users have real physical acoustic pianos.

Oh! It did record me fake singing of the sort that's almost yelling. And with the headphones on I can actually barely hear it. So my theory about it filtering stuff out may be wrong. And there's just an iPad bug. Hope so cause it seems really cool. And I didn't get GarageBand when it was free. ☹️

I have an iPad Air running IOS 9.2.1 I downloaded Music Memos yesterday and I'm seeing the same issue: no matter what I do, all my recordings are really low volume, and indeed the app warns me my "idea" is "too quiet". The "Automatic" mode doesn't work either, obviously because the input level is too low. Pretty sure it's a software issue, as I can use the built-in tuner in Music memos just fine, and record audio at normal volumes in Garageband.

On my iPhone 6, Music Memos works perfectly. Just not on iPad.

I have the same issue on my iPad air (running IOS 9.2.1). When I look at SETTINGS/PRIVACY/MICROPHONE, there's a list of apps that requested access to the mic, and Music Memos ain't there. But I don't see any way to select in. Somebody's got to know something here...

to hiddenmeadow, you clever bugger! I just checked that setting too and Yep, no Music Memos. All my other little music apps and an animation app are right there. So they forgot to put in the line of code that would make Music Memos get sucked into the iPad's privacy settings. Good troubleshooting. Now if we can actually get this information to the right people that would be really great.

Side issue: what does this say about Apple's field testing of their apps? They couldn't be bothered to put this app into an iPad and try and actually use it?

Hey Ponies, I hope you mean clever de-bugger...It's amazing how little the app provides for settings and contacting the dev, like oversimplification to the extreme, so I don't know where to go for support. Gotta be a simple programming fix.

Agreed: It's shocking that such a highly touted app can have such a fundamental flaw. I'll just have to be patient and write down my chord ideas by hand.

As I mentioned before, I have Music Memos running on my iPhone 6, and it works flawlessly. Never got asked for mic permissions either, it just works. (And it's pretty great.)

And on my iPad, it definitely records audio, just at too low a volume. Too low for the "Automatic" mode to work, but the tuner works fine. So definitely a bug, and an embarrassing one, if you ask me. If anyone had tested this on iPad, they would have noticed this right away.