Arm a track, hit the red circle button to record, and hit the black square to stop. Repeat.

Made for singers, songwriters and musicians to practice, 4 Tracks Audio Recorder lets you record four streams of audio (one at a time) that can be played back all at once and mixed with volume faders. There are also mute buttons for each track, so when recording a new track, you can have silence if not listening through headphones.

While LittleCodeShop.com deserves some kind of bragging rights for placing the first four-track recorder in the App Store, the shine wears off of that crown pretty quickly. The app is more defined by what it can’t do than what it can. Although the inclusion of track delete buttons and an optional, audible metronome from 60 to 200BPM are nice, 4 Track can't export audio to a computer or save more than the one song in progress. There's no panning of tracks from left to right, no fast forward or rewind, and not even a timeline for skipping around in the song. Although the developer promises audio exporting and song saving in a future update, frequent app freezes and often unresponsive controls make 4 Tracks a tough sell.