mimiCopy Help

iPhone/iPod touch

iPad

Go to the file selection screen.

Go to the settings screen.

From the left: current position and total length of the current track, start position of the loop, and end position of the loop. Drag the corresponding cursors to change the settings.

Start/stop button.

Loop ON/OFF button. The button is lit when loop is ON.

"Quick Rewind" buttons. Tap to rewind by the shown number of seconds. The number of seconds can be changed on the settings screen.

Switch to Quick Loop Setup mode. (See detail)

Switch to Speed Control mode.
(Not shown on an iPad, as the buttons are always shown on the Main screen.)

Switch to Audio Routing Confing mode.
(Feature of Pro version. See here)

On an iPhone or iPod touch, tap the speedometer button at the bottom right corner of the main view.
Not shown on an iPad, as the buttons are always shown on the Main screen.

Controls for changing the playback speed and pitch will be displayed.

Changing the pitch
[NOTE] Some noise may result from changing the pitch. This is a known issue with the current implementation.

Double-tap the knob to reset the playback speed.

It's a feature that enables you to replay (loop playback) the sound between two points in a track.
When the ‘loop button’ is on, it repeatedly plays the sound between the loop interval.
When the button is off, it plays the music and ignores the loop interval. mimiCopy enables you to select up to three loop intervals(*1). You can only replay one loop interval at a time.

How to Specify the Loop Intervals

Select the start and end points by dragging the loop specification markers.

You can also finely adjust the loop start and end points by dragging the time display up and down on the image below.

Tap the to go to the loop start and end points. However, the setting that lets you jump to the end point can be switched on/off. The default setting is off.

How to Select the Loop Intervals

Tap the loop selecting button (see image below) to display the list of loops and to select the loop interval that you'd like to use. When you select the loop interval, the current active loop interval will be displayed on the button. 

(*1)The feature on the pro version allows you to select two or more loop intervals. You can either sign up for a user registration for free or you need to upgrade to the pro version within the app. Click here for user registration.

You can easily set the start/end position of a loop while playing back a track.

Tap the button during playback to set the current position as the start position of the loop and open the “tap to loop” dialog.

Tap the button to set the current position as the end position of the loop and exit the dialog.
Tap “Cancel” to reset the start position and exit the dialog.

Tap the list to load a file (track) into mimiCopy.

The listed files are available for waveform view and time stretching.
Buttons for importing new tracks to the list are shown at the bottom.

Opens the Import Music(iPod) Library screen.(See details)

Open the iOS standard "Files" app from within mimiCopy. You can open files in your device or in the cloud, such as iCloud. To open a file in the cloud, you may need to install the corresponding cloud application or configure it in the "Files" app. You can open files in other apps if the app supports it. The following screen will appear.

Opens the WiFi Transfer screen.(See details)

Opens the Library Selection screen for using the app as an audio player(*). This button is not shown default settings. You can turn it on by setting screen (Use the iPod Player option).

(*) In this case, mimiCopy will simply control your iPod's playback function, and the tracks are not loaded into the app. For this reason, waveform view and speed control will be disabled.

This button is displayed on the lower right side of the setting screen when "Use the iPod player" is turned on. This feature is OFF by default, and this button is also hidden. Note that the waveform display and speed cannot be changed even if you select a song from this button.

You can use WiFi to load files from a computer on the same WiFi network. Follow the instructions on the screen.

You can import tracks from the iPod library.

Select the track to import. When complete, the imported tracks will be displayed in the list.

To import wav and aiff tracks, update iOS to version 4.3 or later.

You can load tracks from iTunes via USB.

You do not need to launch mimiCopy to import. For details, refer to iTunes' Help.

The audio routing function is a feature that enables you to change the route of the audio signal.

What you can do with the Audio Routing Function

- Set up the independent sound volume on mimiCopy.
- Set up the independent sound volume for the right and left channels for tracks with stereo sound.
- Set up the left and right channel balance for music and stereo output. For instance, you can output only the right channel of a sound file, and adjust the left and right channels of a track so that there is a sound output only on the left side of the headphones.
(For mono files, sound from the left and right are both treated the same.)

How to Access Audio Routing View

Tap the icon on the bottom right hand side of the screen. (For an iPad, tap the mixer icon)

After the speed/pitch setting view appears, tap the mixer icon to switch to the audio routing view.

Tap the speed meter icon , and it'll switch to the speed/pitch setting view.
Tap the close button to close the view.
On an iPhone, switch between the speed and pitch setting view.

The view icon will appear on bottom right hand side of the screen when you close the view.

When you close the audio routing view, the mixer icon will appear like in the image above.

Audio Routing View Guide

(1),(2) channel fader: adjust the volume of the left and right channels of the track that is playing. The one on the top is the left (L) channel, and the one at the bottom is the right (R) channel. The default position is set at 0dB (the position shown in the image above), and you can boost the volume a little more than that.
(3),(4) reset sound volume: reset the volume of the left and right channels to the default (0dB).
(5),(6) routing setting button, routing list: since a list of the left and right channel (ch) balance of the output device (e.g., headphones) will show, you can select the routing from the list.

You can adjust the frequency response with the equalizer function. You can cut unwanted bandwidth or turn up the bandwidth you want to listen to. The equalizer is also reflected in the file export.

The equalizer function is a pro version function. You will need to update with in-app purchases in order to use this app.

Using the Equalizer Function

For iPad, please tap on the screen.
In the case of iPhone, tap the meter icon at the bottom right of the screen to switch functions in the following order.
Time Stretching = > Audio Routing = > Equalizer
Switch until you get to the equalizer screen. (Next time, the last called function will open.)

How to set the equalizer

The equalizer function screen looks like the following.

The graph above shows the frequency response of the parameter set with the slider below.

The bottom side is the slider to set the equalizer.
The equalizer is a combination of three filters, Lo, Mid and Hi. Mid is a highly flexible parametric equalizer.

The parameters are as follows.
Lo G: Adjusts the low frequency level.
Mid F: Determines the center frequency of the parametric equalizer.
Mid G: Adjusts the level of the parametric equalizer.
Mid Q: Adjusts the width of the Parametric Equalizer pile.
Hi G: Adjusts the level of the high frequencies.
Mid is easier to understand if you adjust it while looking at the graph.

Folder playback is a feature that repeatedly plays the music in a folder in order.
You can use it like a playlist.

Even during folder playback, the playback speed and pitch (key) that you set up for each track will be played. Via the setting options, you can select to activate or deactivate the loop setting during folder playback. The default setting is off.
When the loop button is on, the active loop interval will play repeatedly. By either manually canceling the loop interval or turning off the loop button, the next track will load and automatically play after the current track is fully played.
You can also repeatedly play the music in the folder playlist. For instance, if you set up the folder to play in the order of track A, B, and C, track A starts over again after track C is over. This setting option for repeating music in the folder playlist is located on the settings page of mimiCopy. The default setting is off. When the setting is off, the music will automatically stop once the last track (track C) ends.

How to Replay the Music in the Folder

Move to ‘File view’ and create a folder.

Move the files to the folder.

Select the playback order within the folder.
Tap the ‘edit’ button on the upper right hand side of the screen, drag the selector (the part labeled O in the image below) on the list, and change the playlist order. It plays from the top. Tap the ‘complete’ button on the upper right hand side of the screen after you arrange the order.

Tap the folder playback button when you're in the same folder as the folder playlist you want to hear. (Button on lower right hand side)

It will go into folder playback mode and take you to the main screen. Then tap the playback button to start the music in the folder.

During folder playback, the folder playback icon will appear in the title bar.

You can also pause the playback, change the loop interval, and adjust the speed during folder playback.
To pause the folder playback and to return to regular playback, go back to file view and select the file again.

[*Note] Make sure that the iPod player is deactivated in the settings to enable folder playback. When the setting is on, the folder playback button will not appear.

It's a feature that enables you to save text memos for each track.
When you tap the memo icon on the “Main view”, memo view will appear and you can freely leave memos there. Memos will remain as long as the corresponding music files are not deleted.
As a data export function is not available, please either take a screen shot or copy and paste the data to another text editor.

[note] The feature on the pro version allows you to memo. You can either sign up for a user registration for free or you need to upgrade to the pro version within the app. Click here for user registration.

You can upgrade to pro version by in-app purchase. If you have already purchased it, you can recover it by pressing the 'Restore' button.

When OFF, Speed control will be like a tape system.

Set the minimum value of speed(time-stretching) slider

When ON, Auto-Lock will be disabled while the main view is open.

When ON, background playback will be enabled. mimiCopy will continue to play audio in the background of other apps.

When OFF, The occasion with the file of the same name isn't overwritten already, and it's preserved under the different name automatically.

It isn't recommended to turn ON.

When OFF, A-B loop are ignored while folder play(playlist).

Displays online help. A network connection is required.

When ON, the waveform view will scroll automatically to keep the current position on the screen.

Sets the number of seconds for the "Quick Rewind" buttons.

Restores default settings.