Portacapture Control

TEAC CORPORATION

About this app

■Portacapture’s operability at the palm of your hands

The Portacapture Control is an app that provides operability with the same user interface as the touch panel on Portacapture.
In addition to the basic REC start/stop, gain adjustment, mixer control, mark registration, and all the other controls that can be performed on the main unit are available on this app. Moreover, you can always check information about the input level, recording progress/remaining time, battery level, as well as set various parameters including low-cut, limiter, and many more effects.

※The AK-BT1 Bluetooth adapter (separately sold) is needed to be able to control the main unit via the Portacapture Control app. For more information on how to connect Portacapture and AK-BT1 or how to use Portacapture Control, please refer to the instruction manual.

※This app does not support monitoring of the main unit’s input sound. To monitor this, please use the headphones output or the speaker function on Portacapture.

Please carefully read the license agreement below before using this application.
http://tascam.jp/content/downloads/products/862/license_e_app_license.pdf

Ratings and reviews

This app has worked quite well for the past 2 years, but suddenly now crashes or closes when trying to connect. I admit, by "Quite well", I'm allowing for random disconnections rather than running in the background, but at least it did not crash, and it was usable. My guess is that with a number of recent changes to Android 14, perhaps, enough has changed that the app is unstable as of May or June 2024. Or, admittedly, it might be a problem with my pixel 7 pro.

***Update: Location has to be turned on.... Strange* * * I don't get it. The app connected once but will not connect again no matter how many times I reboot everything and reinstall the app. The Portacapture shows up in the Bluetooth list, I only allow the app to pair the unit like the instructions explain but will not reconnect to the unit. The app in the play store indicates my phone is compatible. Disappointing since it was awesome for a minute the one time it connected.

I just got this and it's working well for me so far. At first I paired the BT and opened the app which wouldn't connect. Don't do that. Instead, turn BT on, then open the app and let it connect. It only asked me for the location permission so far, so I don't know why someone's concerned about it reading their clipboard. The only trouble I've had is that the recording guide (in-context help) screen came onto the main unit and I couldn't get around it to start recording. With that feature shut off, it's working great. I'm grateful Tascam made an Android-compatible app. Too many other manufacturers skip it.

What's new

- MTR application "POCKET STUDIO" has been added.
- A tuner application has been added.
- When recording in MANUAL mode, two mixes were recorded at the same time, but the user can now choose whether to record or not.
- EXPANDED PRE REC mode has been added to the prerecording function available when using the FIELD app.
- Operation stability has been improved in other ways.