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That was my nightmare, until I bought a Mac - completely different experience using Logic compared to what I was trying to do on the PC.
Now I'm on the Auria nightmare, which has possibly the worst input level setup of any piece of software I've ever used.
To me was portability.
Always dreamed of being able to take with me a portable mini keyboard controller, the iPad and that's it. Record, compose, or just play music anywhere and anytime.
I am completely floored how this has changed my life as a musician.
With family, ministry, full time work, we only barely have a few minutes to make some music. Forget the evenings, those are booked by family, weekends too. So only time is work breaks and lunch hours. So this is where IOS music has made an impact for me.
My M-Audio Air mini 32 and iPad fit perfectly in my carrying bag, headphones and I'm ready to lay down ideas at any time.
The apps are also amazing! Like Midiband to get the basics of a song going, Cubasis, my ultimate Sound Module, DAW, midi studio especially after the latest update, the drums in Cubasis are outstanding and with the simple sampler, went to the top of my list as my main DAW.
Auria, Z3TA, iGrand Piano, FIRO, Audiobus, iM1, ThumbJam, Roland SC, these apps have completely redefined how I make music. Others not mentioned have also played a huge part in creating or generating my desire to make music. There are like: Sunrizer, Tonestack, Flying Haggis, Samplr, and many more.
Ah, you rocket scientists with all of that input matrix action smoking your heroin tablets on the internet. As a simpleton I have never used the input matrix. Opened it once by accident and ran away.
Cheap stuff that is actually good and easy to use brought me to iOS. I don't have a big budget for this music hobby so I had dabbled in freeware on Mac. I enjoyed it but wasn't really getting anywhere very fast.
on a iPod touch it started with Animoog, thumbjam, GarageBand. Then Audiobus blew things wide open on iOS. and recording into Loopy HD was a gamechanger. Exactly what I was needing for my little hobby.
Be afraid, scary things in there. I watched Doug's latest vid with envy (the AB Remote one) where he recorded into multiple Cubasis channels and adjusted the input volume with ease. Doing this in Auria is akin to hitting yourself in the face with a rubber lobster, whilDRAFT SAVED 16:44
@monzo
WHILE WHAT? WHAT? HITTING YOUR FACE WITH A RUBBER LOBSTER WHILE WHAT?
I've got a whole afternoon in front of me and nothing but wondering to do.....
Sorry, the pop-up got in the way as usual. I tend to wear a fDRAFT SAVED 16:47nd usually put myDRAFT SAVED 16:47iggling like a stranded fish!
That does look very cool. Been playing with some on the fly recording with sonosaurus' apps and the multi channel recording looks like a really nice workflow with the new AB remote
I won't be able to run AB Remote, but really liked the look of the multi-channel recording Doug was doing, but setting the input levels in Auria is just hellish. What are you recording into?
I wish they'd add a mixing option to AB, just a basic volume control for each channel so I don't have to use Auria's horrible thing. Another nice feature would be the option to record a composite of all the AB channels into Audioshare.
I think I read that they are thinking of making it single device so it will work for a lot more people. Had my phone nicked on holiday so I've been forced to upgrade my second device.
I'm using cubasis to record into. When it's on sale, and with an iTunes discount card, you can pick it up for less than £20. I almost went with Auria but Dougs earlier video about how he records with cubasis swayed me.
I think you can do this with Mimix if I remember right?
Ah right didn't know about that one, thanks. Wish AB would build this in though.
I mentioned running Remite on a single device on here but they ignored my comment, good to see it's being considered now though.
Unless they drastically fix the bugs and input recording workflow in the new version of Auria, I doubt I'll upgrade when it comes out. It has some good features but some of the basics are shoddily implemented. I think the best option will be to wait for the next Cubasis sale.
I haven't commented yet. The iPad brought me back to electronic music making after a long hiatus. I just got caught up in my job and I lost touch because I didn't have the time anymore.
Last year Cubasis went on sale so I've had another go at it.. I went a step further and added the iConnect box which alows me to interface with the Mac and Ableton Live. I really like the creativity from the developers in the iOS world. Plus everything is cheap.
Plus everything is cheap.
Point of order, we don't say everything is cheap, we say things are sensibly priced...
Portability is very appealing to me too. iOS is the first platform that has fully realized this, IMO.
Good point. There're' nothing "cheap" about the quality of the apps in iOS. From what I can tell they are comparable to desktop plugins in both sound quality and features. In fact there are now apps that started out in iOS and now being ported to the desktop like
Waldorf's Nave.
The only thing that iOS lacks is a relible method of syncing ALL apps with iOS DAWs. Maybe with the coming Audio Unit plugin protocol in iOS 9 will finally fix this problem.
Not saying everything is roses in the Cubasis garden either Monzo. Just maybe the weeds are a little less aggressive.
Ah ok, flying pans and fires then, thanks for the warning.
There must be something specific to Monzo's setup that is causing the problems, because I've been using Auria to do all my music for the last 18 months and I simply don't encounter the kinds of problems he does. 99% of the time the experience I have had in Auria is absolutely hassle-free.
Also the input matrix isn't really that hard to use, it's just a grid. It shows the project's tracks as rows, and the available inputs (usually just left and right) as columns. You tap on the row and column you want to activate, and that's it. It's like a hardware patch bay, but easier to use.
Always listened to electronic music, but never had the resources to try my hand at it. I think my first app was probably Nanostudio and then I discovered Audiobus and a ton of other music apps.
To be honest, I am not really doing music right now, as I took a break out of frustration with setting everything up on the iPad and I also got rid of my tablet. Automation, MIDI and solid integration seem to be especially important for Electronic music and this is exactly the weak point of iOS apps, with a few exceptions such as Gadget and Caustic (maybe Cubasis now that they have everything in-app).
I don't think I will buy another iPad, but I'm interested to see what FLStudio, Nanostudio and BM3 will look like on the iPhone.
It is true we don't hear many issues concerning Auria, considering it's popularity here. But there are many factors that can bring a complex piece of software to it's knees. At work our QA guys root out issues that arise from using the app too quickly or with much more data or even sometimes just doing things in a different sequence, so we can't assume that there is something wrong with @monzo's iPad.
I know how to use the input matrix, but it's just a really clunky way of working with inputs. A better solution would be to have a selection on the track itself, as GarageBand, Logic and most DAW's do. And why is the IAA selector in the effects section? I think the strange UI/workflow is causing the app to get confused when I close instruments or swap things around in AB.
I did consider a problem with my iPad, but ruled that out as generally it works perfectly, it's only when I use Audiobus and Auria that I get problems, everything else is fine. I also signed up to the Auria forums, and soon realised I wasn't the only one having issues with it.
I think you're right, it could be the way I work. I do have a habit of recording different apps/instruments onto the same track, and switching apps in AB while I'm working on a track so maybe this is tangling up Auria - maybe I need to stop my obsessive track saving habit and stick with one instrument per track. The random nature of the issues would suggest it's not a hardware problem, but some kind of glitch that's happening as a result of a sequence of actions.
Generally with Auria and AB you don't need to use the input matrix at all, it should just be set up automatically. However you mention that you are switching instruments on the same track, which is something I've never done so it might might explain why our experiences are so different. There really is no need to do this IMO, the iPad can handle plenty of tracks in Auria, so it's not worth trying to restrict them. You can always delete tracks later.
This could be it. I've had similar problems when changing in another instrument or effect on one track. Auria seems to memorise certain settings and then go haywire if you mess with them. Making a fresh track seems to set things straight.
Further thoughts...
I was looking to upgrade my ancient music PC, the cost of buying a second hand i7 system and all the upgrades I'd have to make to it - extra SSD's etc. was more than I could afford, so I bought a 64GB Ipad Air 2 instead from ebay.
I'm now using it to make music, now that I've found Gadget to be the way to go for me, currently. The Air 2 should be current for a while now and I plan to do more on it it - particularly with Auria. I like the idea of using something (like Gadget) that does everything in the one 'host app'. I still find AB / apps using differing AB SDK versions to be less than ideal.
@Monzo, there's lots of Auria fans here, I'm sure they could sort out your woes. You do seem to have more woes than the average soul here.
I think it's more down to the way I work - I like to keep things uncluttered, so fewer tracks the better for me. The couple of songs that corrupted though did use a lot of tracks, and since buying Timeless I'm noticing the CPU usage creeping up...but I guess it's worth a try.
Ah right, thanks for the confirmation. This could be the thing then.
I'm a bit of an editing freak, so maybe my track fiddling is causing the issues. Looks like the replies above are confirming this so I'll try and be a bit more straight forward in the way I'm working and see if that helps.
Right, Rim has said that there is a bug with "project auto clean-up" setting (in the app settings) which can cause data loss, so that feature should be disabled until it's fixed. I did lose some audio once on a 42 track project because of this bug, so I've made sure to disable the setting ever since.
One more tip for Auria — Save Snapshots frequently. This way if you have issues you can go back to previous state. It is the same for me in Logic. With lots of editing eventually I'd get into trouble so I save a new version of the song every time I work on it.
Did not know this. Thanks. On a previous reply of yours, you mention that one doesn't really need to use the input matrix. As indicated, I NEVER use it, but always feel I must be missing some functionality. I just set up up out in the main common room and work from there. What AM I missing by not utilizing the matrix?
@monzo Selfishly I want you to unicorn all your problems and be happy because you're a grumpy good presence around the place and I hate to think of you taking yourself off to sit in the corner of some other youth club (:).
I do recognize your OCD tidy tendencies and thus was not surprised to hear that you put lots of different bits (technical term) on the same track. I have my own tendencies and the very idea of doing this gives me hives, but then even using things separately I rarely go deeper than seven or eight instr./patches (usually only three or four). This, of course, is the very root of workflow and seems to be why one man's silk-like chalk is another man's puzzled limburger
It's just a means of ensuring the right input is going to the right track, but as you say you rarely need it. If for any reason there is no input on a record-ready track you would open the input matrix and route the incoming audio to the correct track.
I've always had this disabled, but thanks for the tip.
Thanks for that one too, I haven't done this before so good idea.
I doubt anyone else would have me!
Regarding THE MATRIX - Auria automatically sets up a new track each time you connect an app via AB, or reconnects your app to an existing one if you're adding the same app to it. This annoys me because I don't always want to start a new track - and instead want to add audio to an existing one (but using a different instrument), so I have to go into THE MATRIX and ask it nicely to let me record a new synth onto an existing track. As well as keeping things nice and tidy, it'll be affected by any fx chains you're using on that track, so keep CPU usage down a bit by replicating it elsewhere. I could probably use the AUX thing here but I haven't worked that one out yet...
Similarly I don't always want to use the same track when I'm using an app, previously used on the song. I might want to record on a brand new track, as the existing one might be full, or just record a different synth sound, but with the same app. Again, it's off to THE MATRIX to see if it'll let me record on a new one.
I now see this behavior is unacceptable and will stop CONFUSING THE MATRIX from now on. Still doesn't explain the weird volume thing I had a couple of days ago, but maybe reigning in my mucking about will help that one too.