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The midi channels for your tracks in aum are routed between aum and xequence, not in AB
The good old user manual... My bad, I didn't think to check it. Or to be more precise I didn't even think that a user manual exists at all
It's very well explained indeed.
Many thanks!
Hey guys, FYI, I just fixed the issue with crashing when selecting an AU plugin. I'll be releasing the update shortly.
RIm
Great news! Thanks for letting us know.
Nice! Thank you!
That’s great news!.
In case it helps, this is what I noticed, IOS 14.2...
If you need crash logs or anything please let me know.
Now that you’re here @WaveMachineLabs . Could you add me to the Auria forum?. Seems to be closed.
Thank u!.
Yup, I’ve been trying since a year to register on the forum. Moderator never approves. Even messages written asking why my forum membership requests disappear into the ether have been ignored. That’s for a customer who’s spent £100 including IAPs.
I see @WaveMachineLabs has posted about the AuV3 fix. Thanks Rim. I hope this fixes the render problems with universal Fabfilter plugins. If this update fixes my issues I’ll be back on the Auria Pro bus for sure.
If the IAP upgrades are also on sale, you could try LE and then upgrade to pro before the sale ends if you like LE.
LE will tell you enough about the UI to know if you’ll like it or not.
Not sure if LE-> pro would be the same as buying PRO first but if you’re unsure it might save you the full price of pro if you don’t take to it.
Xequence is awesome but I can’t use it because you can’t mix time signatures .
Awesome, thank you!
We've been getting a bunch of spam registrations on our forum lately, so it's possible your request got overlooked. Please send it again to [email protected] and I'll make sure Corey looks out for it.
Rim
Hi! May I ask the same favor of looking out for my registration email: [email protected]? I've tried to register a bunch of times... Thanks in advance, and thank you for continuing to improve Auria. There's still no one who has your ambition for DAW on iOS.
Update just landed...
Yes, and I also re-enabled forum registrations after we updated the captcha. So if you were having issues registering on the forum, you can do that now.
Rim
Both the AUV3 crash and the unfreeze crash seem fixed. Nice! 👍
Great news,
That's great news about the fix, and its great to see you here again @WaveMachineLabs!
Thank you @WaveMachineLabs
@tahiche - ymmv, but when I was participating in WeeklyBeats 2008, I was striving to put out a finished song every week (until I dropped out after a about three months). Every week I tried different workflow combinations. All had their strengths and weaknesses, but Auria Pro came out the winner because I had everything I needed, start to finish in one place. This freed me from most of the distraction and time consumed by bolting things together.
Often I would take stems quickly developed in something else more creatively inspiring, but would get myself into AP as early on as I felt I could. I got more done in AP than any other way.
Anyway, it definitely isn't for everyone, and I also don't use it much in my current mode of just farting around. But if I ever want to get back into actually finishing things AP will always be my go-to. (At least until if/when I get over my allergy to making music on the desktop.)
I get kind of offended when I see people calling Auria Pro ugly, because I find it SEXY AF!
Sexy and ugly are different things, 🙃
Yeah, that’s my intention, try to actually finish stuff. Right now it’s all either AUM dementia or clips in Zenbeats without a real structure.
I don’t find it that hard, it’s sort of like protools but a lot “smaller” and thus more manageable. Warping, transients and all that is basically like Logic. Busing, grouping and so on is the same everywhere. It mind seem hard if you come from GarageBand or any iOS DAW and have no real background in intensive daw usage. So the “not for everybody” I think is less about Auria itself and more about knowing buses, grouping, aux sends, etc...
Thanks Rim. I’ve resent the email....
Hi. I spent some time with Auria yesterday. I was editing and exporting files to use in Drambo flexi sampler.
I just want to say any doubts I had about Auria are gone. Auria is way ahead any DAW I know (and I know a few) in audio editing capabilities.
And by “ahead” I mean you can actually work with audio and get things done. I’m not even getting into transient editing or the fancier stuff. Just basic things like cross fades, merging regions, being able to fine edit audio portions of a region...
I bought both Auria and Cubasis 3 (already owned Cubasis 2) during Black Friday sales. I have to say I can’t see I’m gonna use CB3 much.
It’s not the prettiest, it could be better in many aspects, a little buggy at times (although recent main issues have been addressed), but it’s so far ahead it’s not even debatable. The thing here is that there’s no competition. You use Auria and you realize the rest haven’t even tried. I’m not saying Auria is the best DAW. But if we’re looking at the “A” in “D-A-W” it’s not only the best but the only.
I keep coming to the same question. Why is audio neglected in iOS music?. Crossfades!!. How the bloody hell are crossfades a luxury?.
The only explanation I can think of is that you have 2 kinds of iOS users:
A ) “I just want to have fun”. Audio editing is boring, what’s a cross fade?. Why?. It’s 2020, do people still play guitars?. I’m into droning and evolving audio landscapes.
B )“Im serious about this”. Why would you edit audio on an iPad?. iPad is for sketching. Any proper audio editing and mixing is done in my desktop, don’t be ridiculous.
Then there’s:
C) me. Desktop reeks of work and VisualCode and Outlook, no mouse after 7pm. Sofa. Sofa. Sofa ❤️ iPad.
Why isn’t Auria the most used DAW in iOS?. See “A” and “B”. It doesn’t look sleek or fun.
“It’s ProTools for the iPad”, that’s a general perception and it’s not wrong. Is it way more complicated than Cubasis, Zenbeats or BM3?. No, it’s not. But it does look more complicated and daunting. It looks harshly professional. It doesn’t look like it’s “made for the sofa”.
iPad is pretty things, it’s “designed in California”, you want to hide it’s made in China. Auria should hide the “scary” bits. Like put advanced audio editing on a different window, ditch the “little ProTools” looks, more shiny cute icons. ProTools is horrible!. ProTools users are too “serious” about their stuff. They’re all about “show me the China, do not distract me with design, I’m a pro, as the name implies”. They’re not sofa power-users, they’re not working on an iPad. I don’t know how Auria is doing as a business,
I’m not a product manager, this is just my personal opinion about why the most capable DAW is not the undisputed champion of users.
Cheers!
@tahiche Yeah in many ways that's a fair assessment. I think one major factor is that many iOS musicians simply don't need to edit audio, hell many of them might not even use any audio at all in their projects (it's all MIDI).
Also a lot of users don't really care about mixing, or routing etc... so for them Auria just looks overly complex. It's not helped by the fact that none of the Youtubers use Auria, they all favour Cubasis or BM3. That's a reflection of the different types of music and workflows that people use I guess.
But yes, if you need decent editing and advanced mixing, Auria is still the only option.
Just to add that Cubasis 3 has made major strides compared to Cubasis 2, and the channel groups are a very welcome addition. But it does go to show how far ahead of the game Auria Pro was when it was released back in 2016 that even 4 years later CB3 hasn't fully caught up.
If only Auria was developed at the same pace as Cubasis, it would have pulled even further ahead.
I also fall in the C category. I do play guitar and I also edit audio and sometimes i clean spoken audio recording. I could not do what I do without Auria.
For the look, I like it. It smells professional. I really like the mixing window. The editing Window could use a little bit of a refresh but to me that’s nit picking. Maybe he could hire a wiz kid on fiverr to refresh the design but they have to be careful. This is not a hipster tool. I am not a fan of modern flat so called sleek design. The editing window of NS2 is so ugly to me, the colour choice in perticular.
As you said this is Protools for iOS too bad it’s not a industry standard.
@tahiche, @ecou, @richardyot I would add Audio Evolution to the list of DAWs with really usable automation and easy crossfade between clips. I find the editing modes (scroll vs edit) a bit more involved than necessary but it's solid enough to be my go-to multitrack audio editor. Editing MIDI works quite well too, with a piano roll that can dynamically snap note positions and lengths to the current zoom level.
And it can send MIDI clock with offset correction so it can talk to the outside world too.
That’s cos we in the “C” category are, sadly, an exception! 🤓
My point is, and maybe I wasn’t clear, that Auria is not overly complicated, it just looks too “pro” for the average iOS user. You’d still use it if it looked like NS2. That’s the “designed in California” look. You’d use it cos you’d have no alternative, and maybe it’d bring a larger user base, and that would bring more features, and updates, and more tutorials and more refinement.
It’s not even about making it sleek, minimal, and hipster. Zenbeats looks like an 80’s drop-out. But it doesn’t look difficult or “pro”. This is one of those cases where “pro” doesn’t mean success. iPad is not for “pro” use, it’s a secondary device, a leisure device.
Does CB3 have cross fades?. No further questions your honor!. Seriously, there’s no improvement in audio editing in CB3.
I totally agree with you, Auria was way ahead and still is miles ahead. Without a Roland or Steinberg behind, it’s such an accomplishment. And this goes in line with what I mentioned before, with a larger user base it’d get better and better. It’s my “bullshit expert” opinion that rethinking or maybe even rebranding Auria to make it more “friendly” would, if the world makes sense, put Auria were it belongs in terms of sales and use.
There’s something wrong about how Auria is “placed” in the consumer’s imagery. I got Auria because “I had to”, because the other daws couldn’t do it. There wasn’t an exciting vibe to it. It was like falling back to a classic when the new, exciting stuff fails. The last resort. Why?. I don’t know, it’s what you hear.
Bullshit expert tip number 2: release Auria2 or AuriaHipster or whatever you want to call it. Rework the UI, hide the more “geeky” stuff and add some nice hipster simple Icons, flatten the ui, make it sexier... IOS needs Auria real bad, but they don’t know it. Have i become Auria’s advocate?. Maybe, i just feel it’s unfair that it’s not nearly in the position it deserves.
How is the audio editing?. Yo said it can easily do cross fades, so it already shows a bit of respect for audio... Can you merge regions?. How does it compare to Auria?. If you know of a good video tutorial or showcase... cheers!