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I wouldn't take those App Store reviews too seriously. MultiTrackStudio gets most things right, with a small footprint, and it's a very stable app. It just has a very utilitarian look and a bit of a learning curve (like any good DAW will...), that combo tends to lead to bad reviews left on the App Store out of impatience and frustration.
Please wait for the new Auria........ Auria Pro, it will have midi. I think we are all waiting with bated breathe when it's released.
Be careful there. MultiTrack Studio ≠ MultitrackStudio for iPad. One is a garbage app from Cosey Management, and the other is from Giel Bremmers.
yah, committing and mixing down AB or IAA effects straight away is a hard pill for a lot of people to swallow. For iOS I aproach it quite differently than PC daws and try to think of writing, recording and mixing more as a traditional painting, where you commit descisions rather than a virtual factory floor with all the levers and pulleys exposed forever.
i think in the end if people get more used to the idea of commiting audio on the fly (due to the inherent limitations of most current iOS daw workflows) it could be liberating for them. I tend to do it a lot these days in cubasis and it can give a lot of creative mileage and free up workflow headaches. plus making decisions and commiting can simply be good for creativity and keep one from overworking things. Heck most of the best music made in the last century was done that way. 8)
@Lady_App_titude
I think the reviews reflect the idiosyncrasies of MTS, and the learning curve. People get angry with what they don't understand...It's a phenomenal application, with an incredible responsive developer...I guess I'll have to update my review!
Thank you, thank you. I see now! What a difference a space makes!
No it was a completely different app -- similar name but no space in the title of the app. See above. What a difference a space makes!
Yep - I immediately posted a new review then saw 5 stars all over MTS already...
This is very subjective. I only really use dynamics, multiband compressor, EQ and convolution reverb in MTS of the stock plugins. all good quality, No presets though which I found a bit disappointing at first.... not as good as Fabfilter plugins too of course but then perfectly good to use for most purposes. But then it's very easy to transfer into Auria and use those plugins. I'm happy using multiple apps for their strengths though, Iuckily they are not too expensive to just own one DAW.
+1
We have to have a Google hangout / Skype/ FaceTime session sometime, auria has been very stable for me and the input matrix doesn't cause me fits.
The thing that unlocked auria for me was understanding the ram usage. Once I understood that I've not had any crashes.
In fact, is someone able to set up some sort of conference where we could record it? Kind of like sonic talk does? That's the part I get confused on and may not have the right stuff to do it, but maybe we could set up an online meeting once in a while to go over a specific app or topic and all share, rather than just "hanging out?" Sounds like a new thread is coming... In a few weeks I hit my slow gigging season so I will have time.
I don't use Skype, but a dedicated problem solving thread would be good - I know it'd probably be more appropriate on the Auria forum but I think it'd get more responses on here.
Could be a RAM thing, I've had warnings before, but ignored them as I only had a couple of tracks and no other apps running, and using an Air2. Didn't have warnings before the crashes though. I think maybe I'm just doing too many edits and things with it, maybe the cache or something is freaking out.
Is it easy to back up to Dropbox? I fancy a reinstall but obviously that'd wipe out the work I've done so need to copy it across first.
I too suffered from Monzauriatis Syndrome back in the day and gave up on the lovely Auria. I am curious how mrufino1 uses it..? I went straight for IAA synth recording and was in a world of woe. In my casual observances it seemed that people just recording live audio in with an interface tended to have fewer issues than those trying to record a couple IAA apps at once...? Just wondering if there is a certain workflow / configuration more prone to audio loss illnesses.
@studs1966 I've got N-track studio and I use it all the time. Very happy with it. Fits my Audio/Midi needs perfectly and doesn't crash like it used to. I've also got Cubasis, MTDaw, Auria, and GarageBand but I like N-track best.
@AudioGus I would say trying to record a couple of IAA apps at once is already sounding risky to me, I record IAA synths all the time in Auria, but I record one track at a time.
One thing worth checking for people who are losing sound, is in the settings that the "record effects" option is on, otherwise your IAA plugins are likely to be disabled once you hit record.
I would say as a general workflow/good practice is to separate the recording phase from the mixing phase, do all the recording at the start and the once you've got everything in place only then start adding plugins and effects for mixing, that way you have the maximum amount of resources available during the recording phase.
I was creating tracks in Auria on an iPad 2, when you really had to watch the CPU and RAM all the time, so I guess I must have got into certain habits. Having said that on the latest hardware Auria runs pretty well.
On my ipad2 I did the same thing, recording a track at a time. once I got my ipad Air I went through a phase of recording four or five iaa synths at once, mostly just because it could but have since got back to just a track or two at a time. I never really had any problems in cubasis with full on audio drop outs like I did in Auria when recording in either of these scenarios. But yes it really is amazing the difference in power between the ipad2 and the air.
Latest MTS update...
Suddenly the latency on using synths (Animoog) as IAA instruments got ridiculously bad... Press a key in Animoog (or send it a midi note from MTS) and literally wait 2 seconds before you hear it. Just silly..
I'm sure it wasn't like that the other day.
So I reverted to Audiobus and it's almost zero latency (but the occasional weird behaviour requiring app restarts)..
I would say generally:
Richard - I hear you on not crossing sessions - recording one whole track, committing and moving on etc... Makes total sense for the reasons you give
But I would say - no!!!! - That's so not the way I currently create my tracks. I'm so iterative... I have a 4 bar loop, I try this with this, I decide against it, I try it with something else, I change the chord, I change the melody, I change the patch. It starts to become 16 bars... then 32 etc.. etc... The idea of being able to sit down and record 3 minutes of 1 instrument, commit, then move on is totally foreign to me! Thus my love of Gadget.
But i'm bored of Gadget
So my compromise is - keep the midi. Record the parts, yes, and unload the app - but don't delete midi track and then I can go back and change things up and re-record the audio etc..
This is plan... now if I could just get some decent time to sit down and get on with it that would be lovely
. At this rate Auria Pro will be out before I finish even one track on MTS 
Yeah, that's what I've always done in Cubasis, record the audio but keep the midi track (synth unloaded and track muted), that way you always have the option of going back. In my case though I rarely go back.
That's cool. But presumably you do it verse by verse - or section by section?
The idea of doing a whole song worth of an instrument is daunting to me - to say the least. And I also hate the idea of just using repeating loops without any variation (although I suppose you could use effects etc. afterward to add variation).
Maybe once the song has it main elements in place - yes... I could see myself overdubbing parts for the whole song and not going back. But that initial phase is so bloody iterative and I change my mind so much
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Yes, I don't think I ever have an instrument running through a whole song, each section is usually quite distinct and different from the rest, and generally each bit is made of 4 or 8 bar loops.
Oh I'm so on the verge of buying MTS should I, or wait for Auria pro??? Can't decide....
Have them all is a motto, yes? But really... Damn.
Tell me to wait for AP please
Wait for Auria Pro
It should have some nice goodies, like a sampler, and the Fabfilter Twin 2 synth.
Thanx, but I'll buy both me thinks
Latest update...
I just had a fantastic 3 hour session with MTS.
Really starting to gel with it now.
Thanks, Richard, for the simple advice of:
jam
record the midi
tidy the midi
record to audio via AB (lovely that you can then tweak the synth parameters while this is happening because it's playing back from midi)
disable but keep the midi track
rinse and repeat for the next instrument / section
I've really made a nice 32 bars now of Sunrizer chords, 2 different interweaving Animoog lead parts (recorded separately), a Patterning drum track I'm going to change, and some great DrumJam percussion fills I did very quickly. More DrumJam to come - definitely.
It's great once you get comfortable with it. And I think one of the key tricks is not writing into the blank piano roll much - but playing (or sequencing) in a more live fashion and just tidying (funny since that's what I do in Gadget anyway).
Next challenge is to try to expand things into different sections of the whole arranged track without getting lost (I always used to get rather lost on the long horizontal timelines of Cubasis and BeatMaker once I went over about 64 bars).
One note is that you have to work out what is best done as IAA and what's best as AB. It's a little bit odd with both (latency with the former, unless you're freezing the track, and occasional sound loss with the latter, but app restarts cure it).
But I'm afraid, @Ashlan - you're gonna need to buy it!
By the way, I haven't bought the IAP yet and I'm not actually sure why I'd need to if my workflow stays like this and I move into Auria for mixing / effects.
To answer your question, I'd say, record IAA or AB into something else entirely (MTD is great) and then export stem by stem into Auria.
I know it sounds crazy. But once Auria has the audio all in then I think that's where it comes into its own.
Cool to hear it's working without IAP, gonna take the same route I believe.
It's gonna be a looong night! (If I buy)
Cheers.
Good to hear your getting into it
That's quite similar to my workflow really and when I'm happy I'll record both midi and audio at the same time so that I have the midi available to adjust in a different session if I want.
Yeah when you get lots of tracks going it starts to get complicated, the song editor is very useful for global edits. I'm hoping Giel will eventually put in the Multitrack editor which is in the Desktop version other wise you have to do edits on individual regions. I normally do as much as I can in MTS and cut up my jams into parts and then ready to move into Auria or my Laptop.
@Matt_Fletcher_2000
Now that you've got MTS, have you tried the clip launch w/Genome deal that you got me going on? It's AB, with Genome and for me a synth (Tera, Animoog, Alchemy, z3ta, I mention these because they are beast sized) and drum synth (Elastic, iElectribe) and one other sample-based box (can't say which but it kicks ass and will soon have the midi capability to do this)...MTS receiving the three instruments audio via AB, sending sync clock only to Genome, which in turn sends sync and note out (per yer choice of scales) to the three instruments. Live play and sequencing in Genome, fresh audio layed out in MTS. The midi from Genome also exports into MTS if need be. And your MTS audio, if monophonic, converts to midi in MTS if need be.
FX wise there's slots for IAA or onboard effects in MTS, and slots for AB effects as each instrument has its own chain in AB. I've not availed myself of it but a lot of iOS fx have midi in, and if youre sending from Genome it wouldn't matter where they were in the chains, whether IAA or AB. Sequenced in Genome you'd get your live play again
This is something I've tried with other top tier iOS daws, and so far it's only been MTS that can play ball and not crash, or crash the other apps.
Yes. Very cool. I have definitely considered pairing Genome clip jamming and remix pad with MTS. But not actually got round to trying it yet.
Your set up sounds like an amazing 'live jam' set up. Id probably be too unconfident to just record the audio in MTS. So I'd personally probably get it writing midi into MTS instead. But I know you can do both.
Right now I'm trying to get the setup time down so I can 'pick up and work' in spare half hours so I'm going more 'one track at a time'. But want to try pretty much the above set up soon.
In terms of Genome sequencing FX rather than notes, that's really cool. I did it a bit a while back with it switching presets in iElectribe and flicking between iElectribe FX settings (all through different midi cc's set up in different Genome clips).
For live play, Genome is super powerful I think.