Audiofile Engineering has updated its field recording iOS app, FIRe, to version 2.

FIRe is designed to turn an iPhone or iPod touch into a professional-level portable audio recorder.

Here’s what’s new in FIRe 2:

• Advanced editing suite with SmartEdits, Bezier fades, change gain, normalize, looping playback, regions and more
• Improved Transport screen with faster and smoother drawing and larger waveform view
• EQ and Dynamics effects by Audiofile Engineering
• iTunes file transfer
• Enhanced input processing powered by iZotope™
• Record in background
• DropBox integration
• Regions

Other features include:

• Record in mono and stereo, 16-bit, 48 kHz
• Live waveform view including rectified view
• Live overview for easy navigation
• Scroll waveform with touch
• Navigate waveform via double-tap with configurable behavior
• Moveable Playback Head
• Tap Playback Head handle to add markers
• Editable Markers and Regions
• Preference to add markers at time intervals
• Overdub mode with playthrough
• Beautiful and accurate VU Input Meters
• VU meters change to output in playback
• Configurable time units display
• Tag Recordings, Markers and Regions with location data
• Pause gracefully when interrupted by phone call
• Countdown with gorgeous graphics
• Record for/until/over threshold… settings
• Preference to automatically move to end and/or add marker when recording starts
• Preference to limit recordings to 2GB
• Screen rotates 180 degrees for better control of the iPhone’s internal mic
• Broadcast WAVE metadata
• Searchable recordings list
• Sorting options for the Recordings List
• Ability to lock recordings
• File export via iTunes File Sharing, FTP and browser access
• SoundCloud (http://soundcloud.com) and DropBox (http://dropbox.com) integration
• Choice of export file formats: WAVE, AIFF, CAF, AAC, Apple Lossless, AAC, Podcast, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC

Hardware Requirements:

• iPhone 3GS & iPhone 4
• 3rd & 4th generation iPod touch

FIRe 2 is available now in the App Store for $5.99.