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ah....I wish I'd known that 2.99 trick earlier. Truth is Dear Reader I fucked it up completely. Don't ask. Ended up losing 30 gigs of material/songs. BUT after a grumpy few hours last night I've decided this is AN OPPORTUNITY etc to clear not just digital space, but also headspace. Yes, I've lost a bunch of ideas/vocals/washes/half finished songs, whatever, but I was thinking of SOTMC next year and how to up my game and I think/feel this is going to help...Onwards and upwards always.
Johnny, If you synced your entire iPad to iTunes then I doubt you have lost it all (I presume you're talking about Auria's projects).
To get it back you'd need to restore your entire iPad from that backup (or the last backup you made for that matter).
This is where I screwed myself. I DID sync the whole thing AFTER I'd deleted Auria, thinking (not very much obviously
A good lesson. I should have waited until I got some guidance here rather than forging ahead. Seems to be a pattern
Precisely Captain. Also helped by the thought that I keep in my pocket that in two hundred years no one alive will know our name and none of this will matter a jot. To them. Or us
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Yep. I think you're screwed.
Sorry to hear that.
But glad to hear you're taking a positive philosophical view of it...
I carry round gigabytes of little loops and jams and stuff that I never go back to. So I imagine you haven't really lost that much that would make that much difference. Half of it is probably also in Audioshare if you're anything like me.
At least it wasn't treasured photos or anything...
What I tend to do with Auria projects is to save them to Dropbox, and once I've finished with them I delete them from the iPad. I personally have zero trust in Apple's "backup" systems, because of multiple terrible experiences with them (and I am extremely cautious and computer-savy, but any system that tries to wrestle control away from the user to make things "easy" is fraught with danger). iCloud for instance just simply doesn't work, doesn't sync my notes, randomly deletes my music off my devices etc. It's a heap of dung.
Also, because sometimes (obviously especially true during the last month of beta testing) Auria can corrupt projects, I am cautious and likely to backup my Auria projects to Dropbox every couple of days, so I have something to go back to. Takes a while but as long as you have a decent internet connection then it works pretty well. Then once the project is finished I do a last backup to Dropbox and delete it from the iPad, knowing that it can always be reloaded later, in the very unlikely event I should ever want to do that.
I normally use Reaper on a high power pc.
The bad for me with Auria is the lack of a keyboard, the clumsy loop selection/sizing audio files (yuk) It just destroys the "flow" of the workflow.
For Auria pro to be a killer app (like Reaper) it needs way better editing/looping facilities befote it can even compare to any desktop daw. The developer seems a nice guy, and I wish him well, but way to go yet. (just my opinion)
Mind you I did have the manual open in safari in the background
Ipad air2, iOS 9.1
the job can still be done but has richardyot mentionned in another thread it is really about "freezing tracks"/"bouncing parts"/"buffer size"/"aux sends" and all those things are new to me ... I'm learning
I am amazed at the results and now, to compete on a desktop I would need to buy the fabfilter plugins (is that reasonable ?)
On the other hand, Auria 2.0 is a .00 version, so it's quite possible there are bugs that haven't been ironed out in the beta process. So if you have any examples of CPU overloads when hardly anything was in your project, please send them to me! I would like to see if there's anything going one.
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The exemptions we suffer, whether forced or chosen, make us who we are. - Adam Phillips
Working with computers a lot over the years i have been through a similar thing and lost a hard drive of creative work. But later I came to terms with the fact that it wasn't as valuable as it first seemed when I lost the work.
But crucially I've also I have managed to recover stuff lost too. I think the only possibility with an ipad is to Jailbreak and then try to use recovery software on the file system to find the Auria files because often when deleting files on a drive they are simply marked as deleted and are still there. I've no idea whether this is possible on an ipad but I've done it before on hard drives via windows.
But you may find this is more hassle than it's worth and there's no certainty you'll recover anything (not knowing anything about ipad file systems etc). So if you are resolved to wipe the slate clean then probably the wisest approach.
I really think Apple should make backing up files easier. The itunes thing is really unprofessional and syncing is so confusing i don't and never will trust it.
i can't see how they can get away with it forever when selling the ipad pro.
What was on your one track? Lyra, or any other synth? Any effects?
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I found it strange, but there seems to be a bug.
Thanks for your thoughts. To be truthful (always a challenge), I am sorry that amongst all that was lost there are/were some happy accidents that I will never get back, but I also know that my weakness (like some hoarder) is the creation and collection of lots and lots of things, most of which weigh down the creative pockets somehow, but actually won't likely be used.
I am, perhaps, fortunate, that my 'problem' creatively is always a matter of sorting the wheat from the chaff, not producing material to start with. I have decided (his says imperiously) that this event is going to be a silver-lining thing. AND I have had to reassess/take more professionally exactly what I'm doing and how I'm sorting/saving things. All good.
The biggest problem I have with Reaper is I can't fit it in my pocket. Aside from that I love it. Being able to have six instances of Egoist and Looperator running is awesome!
And CPU usage typically doesn't "creep up" slowly, it peaks. So things may sit at 20% or so, then all of a sudden a peak will come in at 80%. This is the way a lot of audio plugin and synths work - the usage isn't consistent. That's why it's a good idea to measure CPU usage with the CPU MAX mode in Auria.
In any case, like I mentioned, it's still early days for Auria 2, so any time you get a CPU overload, take a look at the project and see if there's a pattern to what you're using in that project. If it's typically happening with a particular Twin 2 patch, or Lyra, etc, let me know. There may indeed be something that needs tweaking.
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Same project. I added the drum agog effect. Then remembered that wasn't really going to do much on a midi track. So I removed it.
Then i went into the input matrix screen and was unable to close it without closing Auria.
i did it again on purpose and the same thing happened, so I did it again and have sent you a very wobbly video. (I wanted to show the finger pressing the X).
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