When compared to other iOS hosts, what are the weaknesses of iOS Garageband?

Janosax

There is no AB/iaa output for Garageband, only input. Unfortunately.

Audiojunkie

@Janosax said:
There is no AB/iaa output for Garageband, only input. Unfortunately.

Hmm... I just got a moment to check. You're right. I thought I was able to do it.... Bummer! So how does anyone get anything out of GarageBand with rendered AU effects?

Janosax

With that bug, there is no possibility to use AU properly!!!! You always can load AUM as iaa input in GB, and play your audio and AU material here, you will record everything wet in GB as audio. Or you can export all tracks separately for post treatment in something else. I use AUM for AU myself, and hope for a GB fix ASAP, I don’t use it waiting for this.

NoiseHorse

Umm, no Waves plug-ins, no Fabfilter plug-ins. GB has some synths I like, but it would put them up against Twin2 and Micrologue any day of the week. Plus for me the other 2 just sound better.

theconnactic

Alchemy inside garageband is great, but nothing compares to opening twin2, firing a preset that have one or more XY pads, turning the onscreen keyboard on and playing it while using the XY pads at the same tome for random modulation. It’s better than Korg’s famous Kaoss pads IMO.

richlum

Can only loop a single section or all sections. Being able to set the start an end loop points to any bar would make it a lot easier when writing and recording.

Can only quantise a whole clip. Can't just select notes within a midi clip and quantise them.

No midi or stem export.

I still use GB a lot though because it's universal and so easy to move between iphone and ipad to work on the same song

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@Strizbiz said:

@Janosax said:

@Strizbiz said:

@Janosax said:
When you export a song, audio units can be ignored aka dry tracks instead wet, or can be distorded or have bad timing/pitch behavior. Especially true with Audio damage AU suite, but seems to be the case with FAC AU too for some users. Ddmf and blamsoft are ok. Seems GB related as other hosts don’t have the issue. The problem is that Apple is VERY low to fix that kind of issues. I had like many others loading issues with AU and no track sound during perhaps 6 months. It has been fixed but now this new bug is there and I can’t use AU if no export possible This is frustrating as it’s a nice DAW with this so nice audio/midi live loops mode.

You can merge tracks , so GB makes an audio track with the effects applied, and GB will save the session as a copy so you'll still have the original, which is REALLY helpful if you want to open a GB song in Logic Pro X with IOS audio units not available for Mac. I have had some issues with a couple AU when trying to merge them to audio tracks, namely IK Multimedia's Syntronik. I contacted them and they said they were working on it. That will great when that one works, I bought all the IAP's for it.

Unfortunately, the issue is more or less still there when I merge tracks. Some AU give better results but most audio damage don’t. Forgotten to mention that too.

yeah, I have a lot of issues with Audio Damage IOS au's, many crashes, and not just in GarageBand, and I have a lot of their plugins, and have a fear of using them, lol.

Yes, I can only use one instance of pumphouse AUV3 in AUM and eos basically makes AUM crash if you push it too far. I feel audiodamage rush their apps too fast to iOS.

I can have aufx space, Italizer, virsyn reverb and WaveFolder doing all kinds of crazy things, even apefilter and no crashing

Therefore I don’t buy audio damage apps anymore