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Auria abandoned?
I have have read that Auria was no longer being updated is this fact or myth? Wanted to find out before I bought it
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You never really know. Some great apps have gone untouched for years on end, and then been updated with amazing new features. But I would not bet serious money on that happening.
Don’t buy it if it hasn’t been updated in more than a year or so.
Auria still gets maintenance updates, it’s not been abandoned.
It gets very little attention from its developer. For some people, it is stable and reliable...for others not so much. There is also next to no support from the developer. While there is much to recommend it, I would be hesitant to recommend it if the money spent seems significant.
If you are using it primarily to mix recorded audio, it is an excellent mixing app. If you do much MIDI, it can be tricky to deal with.
Boy, that's sad.
Whatever happened to NS2 audio tracks?
They have not come into existence.
Seems kinda slow these days with iOS music apps. Desktop is keeping me busy, but am interested in iOS's development.
As Talking Heads sang - “still waiting” 😗
NS2 didn’t sell in the numbers anticipated and from what I’m led to believe didn’t come anywhere near to covering the time taken to develop the app in the first place, forcing the developer to look elsewhere to put food on the table and thus relegating the app’s development time to “very occasional hobby” status on the rare occasions spare time becomes available to him.
There have been one or two updates relatively recently - 1 as a reaction to issues Apple introduced when launching iOS 15, another with some handy additional functionality that dropped completely out of the blue - so it’s not abandoned completely. But audio tracks no doubt requires significant development time (especially if they are to meet the quality & UX of the rest of NS2) so I suppose any additional sales it would generate (if there are even any) probably won’t justify the development time.
But then, you never know…
Thanks for the explanation @attakk ! That's too bad to hear, NS2's MIDI sequencer is great.
I’m curious how far along audio tracks were at the time of initial release. They were supposed to be out within a not unreasonable time afterward. I imagine some foundational work is already in place. I’d still pay $100 IAP for audio tracks in NS2.
NS2 is a heartbreakingly beautiful piece of software. I can't open it without marveling how properly it is done. It must be close to the pinnacle of what one man can achieve with extreme dedication to details, overall control, massive knowledge and very good taste (and, of course, a brilliant volunteer testing team I hear). Whatever NS does do, it does it efficiently, elegantly and well. In my eyes, its sad recent history is the ultimate example of the ruthlessness of the real world - at the end of the day, it did not sell well enough, and Matt needed to make a living.
I might be totally totally wrong about that last part, because I know nothing about him. But this is what I choose to believe. 🙂
Is Cubasis still the only DAW that supports multi-threaded audio? Or does it matter these days? With the M1 iPads?
I still have some old desktop plugins that are single-threaded, and in a complex song, that can be a problem as I don't (actually my audio interface) doesn't like switching the buffer+sample rate to get more CPU headroom.
The developer was pretty explicit a couple of years ago that major development (i.e. audio tracks) were unlikely to be added unless he could figure out a model that would provide significantly more income...NS2 took years to develop and generated something like 1/5 the revenue of NS1.
Yes, I remember that.
Funny thing is, after updating my iPhone 6S and 2017 iPad Pro to 15.6.1, they no longer start charging automatically when I plug in the lightning cable. I have to unplug the adapter from the wall to kickstart the battery-charging.
Maybe a flaky cable.
No it happened to me as well on my iPhone 6s plus and on an Apple original cable.
Yeah I tried a brand new cable and a different wall outlet. I wonder what was in that update to make my old iDevices do that.
Development of NS2 is also rather slow. We still didn’t get an update of apps interface for new iPad mini’s screen resolution.
Shouldn't the title of this thread be "Is Auria abandoned?", not "Auria abandoned".
Has the developer officially announced that the software is abandoned?
Please change the misleading title.
This is the words from Rim, developer if Auria.
Hi,
Although the pace of updates has been slow, Auria is not abandoned by any means. I've been compiling a list of fixes for the next update and should be starting that in the next few weeks.
Rim
I buried it a couple years back. I marvel at the single-man foray into new hardware in a woefully brutal developer’s market, but fact (or strong opinion) of the matter is iOS is better left to a more streamlined piece of software that can still produce credible results, even if it cannot rival desktop functionality.
About the time it introduced MIDI Auv3 support was when things started getting too unwieldy with midi vs audio record, auv3 automation, etc, all that with a limited 4 slots for each channel.
Agree. It’s a shame he didn’t release Obsidian as standalone AUv3 to make at least some money. It is a great synth showing the same quality as NS2. Instabuy in that case.
/DMfan🇸🇪
I eventually got over the audio tracks cause why get angry, but I did not like that the drum sampler couldnt be split into separate tracks or groups for external auv3 processing per drum type. I know the built-in sends work, but I have much better go-tos. Also think there was a huge problem with recording AU automation. Either of those two major flaws get fixed?
I don’t have NS2 yet, but I think it would be perfect for me. Is there any sign there will be bug fixes/updates for it to work with future iOs versions?
I love how off topic this thread got. It fits though since the title sucks and hasn’t been changed yet
At least nobody has mentioned Drambo yet...
Well now that you mention it….
Drambo is the pinnacle of human excellence
I don’t t suppose anyone’s going to say Drambo has been abandoned. Now that would get a few views.
Drambo does nothing for me. There, I’ve said it… 😮