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If you're recording live instruments through an interface, something is wrong there because that shouldn't be the case. If you're doing a tom of stuff through audiobus, etc., that may have something to do with it. Any plugins running, etc? You can check the performance meter in the upper right by the timeline to see what's up there, it will tell you the ram you have free- tap the CPU meter to get different info.
I used to get this until I had a better understanding of how auria uses the ram. Still, that being said, unless it's one part I'm doing, I still track in the computer and use auria mostly for mixing.
As for the original question, loopy and samplr are both apps that I would love to love but just can't get my head around. I understand them, but don't find them to be of a lot of use for what I do. However, I have seen people do amazing things with them so I know they are of good quality. Beatmaker 2 is another one, I'd love to use it but the workflow is just not for me, too much switching screens around and the way they are laid out makes no sense to me. But again, I've seen people do great work on it. That's what choices are good.
I don't look at most apps as being money wasted if thy are not for me. I figure that for the small price most of these are going for its worth it just to push development on the iOS platform in general. I have definitely bought apps knowing that I was going to get minimal use but to support a developer that I feel does good work in general.
A lot of helpful comments coming out on this thread. Sometimes we all just need help seeing an app in a different light, although sometimes it just makes sense to move on if an app just ain't our cuppa tea...
The conclusion of this thread might well be that the apps that are "too complex" to handle (need longer time investment to get into and/ or have a illogical navigation structure) but have quite nice/ cool video coverage are those that in most cases not working. Maybe we can conclude that iOS apps shouldn't be made too complex, besides that some developers need to writer better manuals. And yes there's of course also a lot of ergonomics that needs some rethinking by developers. Too small buttons, sliders, etc. make things a lot harder to handle.
Thank you! I'll be sure to give it a go!
It must have been while you were kissing me. ;-)
@mrufino1, I am using an interface with a mic'd acoustic and a vocal mic, and maybe classic reverb, but that's it. If I shut everything down and a hard reset I might be able to get a couple of minutes in but not usually. It seems most of the people who use Auria use it like you do, just for final mixing. I'd like to hear from someone who records live audio into it and gets a whole song in one take, and see if it's possible on an iPad 4. I can do it in Cubasis all day long.
I have tracked into it successfully before, that's a strange issue you're having. I have the "bypass effects while tracking" checked, maybe that's the difference. But I don't have a huge occasion to track on iPad, most of what I do is recording live gigs that I'm playing on or doing sound for, then importing to auria.
@washboy. Huh?
"You took the words right out of my mouth..."
(Sorry, poor joke)
@Bootsy I've recorded lots of stuff with an iPad 4 into Auria, the key is to set the preferences to disable effects when recording. I now have an Air 2 and that can handle the effects being on when tracking, but my iPad 4 couldn't (which was annoying as I like to have a little reverb when singing).
Aha, I understand! The quotes don't always work (as evidenced now). Very clever though, even though meatloaf is not an artist I can stand, too many years of playing paradise by the dashboard light on gigs I guess...
@mrufino1 Understandable, BOOH isn't really memorable for the bass parts, I'm sure they're fine. But man. I've never heard soaring lead guitar work like that before or since. Todd Rundgren's finest hour as a Guitar God.
The app I'd love to understand and simply do not is Loopy. I just don't get it. The interface confuses me. I don't have a midi controller suited for starting and stopping loops. Yet it's certainly an app I'll need to play shows with the kind of music I'm writing now.
Animoog. It's like princess amnesia. Still no state saving.
There's other reasons, the bass parts are fine. Part of it is that I worked with someone who was obsessed with meatloaf and I heard that album almost every day for 4 years. Kasim Sulton played bass on that album, didn't he?
Isn't the problem with Meat Loaf that he's cheesy as hell?
I remember The Meat Loaf video to Bat out of Hell being on New Years Eve Rock Around the Clock 1984.....but then they had The Cure in concert and all was well with the world!
Ok thanks @richardyot, I really like some reverb when I'm singing also. I guess I need anew air! Or I'll just keep using Cubasis. It just works.
Auria and cubasis..
After using keyboard shortcuts and a mouse to edit audio recording I just find it an exercise in pure frustration editing audio on iPad. So fiddly and inaccurate, and so damn slow.. Give me an i7, 16GB RAM, and SSD drives any day.
Luckily icm4+ audiopass through let's me record in realtime and reduces the load on my iPads CPU so better performance and no valuable disk space wasted on audio recordings.