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Ok so I bought this Cache thing,,, And I like the waveform view/pause/cue element of that BUT I was perturbed to see the volume slider has disappeared.. as I generally preview samples over the top of a loop or track already running some quick way to balance ( in Cubase3 ) the sound against the playing element is essential, is there a way to reimplement a vol knob or slider into the interface?
You may call me a dreamer but what I miss most ( from pc ) is the sample browser in Sony Acid as that played the files in time with the track tempo and also in key ,,, I know, such things would be complex to include and unlikely but I just thought I’d give it a mention as such a thing would make this app essential across the board I imagine. Meanwhile thanks for yr app at a no brainer price mr Le Val
Which part is faster Ed?
@lewisleval I noticed two things which I’d love to see changed:
1. If the Cache AUv3 UI is closed inside AUM, Cache stops sending out audio
2. Even if the Cache AUv3 window is open, when you switch away from AUM to another app, Cache stops sending out audio.
The loading and adding of collections. It was taking minutes for mine to appear it is now instant (many of my collections are on network shares)
OK thanks Edward
Thank you so much for the quick response and being an active part of this community. Hey, we all want you to succeed and make more money in exchange for fearures that will improve your app and your sales!
That said, Favorites.
Favorites folders, favorited samples sort to top, favorite searches saved to folder. Some user determined color coding would help. That would be my number one feature that would make it rocket to the top of my useable, versitile apps.
Again, thank you!
Using Cache on Mac i'm not able to add folders as a Collection. I can navigate through the filesystem, but the "Open" button of the dialog is always greyed out. Would be great to have such a nice sample browser also on the desktop.
Thanks for the work, @lewisleval
Sweet time to buy.
How reliable is the pitch detector?
@lewisleval
It would be great if you could mark individual samples as favourites
That way uou can find them back easily.
Just marking it by clicking a star or heart symbol next to the sample.
after asking Grok to show me the key differences: Sample Crate Vs Cache
i made the purchase
understanding the differences is key, assuming this is accurate
getting no audio from cache in aum since the last update. can anyone confirm? standalone working fine
I’m using 1.1.6 from the App Store. Works fine for me in AUM. iPad m5 with iOS 26.4.
ipados 18 on ipad pro 11''
restart did not fix it
@lewisleval
ok, i found the reason.
i muted system sound in the control center. now that it is on again i hear sound.
but does that mean the cache auv3 does not route audio through aum but directly plays through system sound?
i would rather have the sound going through aum because then i would be able to process the audio, what would be my use case here.
I don’t think it sends audio through aum, i don’t believe thats its main function. Its more for auditioning and organizing samples to be dropped into other Audio Units that loop or play or chop the sample up. Maybe im wrong, but you can use lots of apps, loopers, pads, slicers to play the audio in aum, aum has its own audio player, cache provides an easy way to quickly hear the sample, browse, select, and use in another au app.
yes true. but it's all there, why shouldn't it work that way? at least for me using it inside aum as a source of audio for processing was my intention for buying it.
also the app description does not imply that the audio does not go through the host, which would be very useful in my opinion.
i am not insisting that it has to be changed but i was surprised it is designed that way.
Right on. I hear you. I will say It would be a cool added bonus if the app had that ability.
There must be something broken, because yeah, it didn't use to turn off audio when the iPad was on silent mode. That should absolutely be fixed. A few days ago I noticed that, with the previous version of the app, even when it was working normally, it stopped sending sound when the AUv3 window was closed. That's also not something that should happen imo @lewisleval. There was another app which had some of these issues called Archer's Player, and those issues were quickly remedied once pointed out, so hopefully the same will happen here.
Okay, so I finally bought Cache and I’m a bit confused.
Probably user error but when I press the add folder button, I am shown lots of audio files on my device under the Recent heading. The back and forward arrow icons next to Recent are greyed out and swiping in from the left side of the screen doesn’t open the navigation panel as per the Files app. I’m stuck on this Recents page.
How do I browse other locations on my device to find the folders I want to add? @lewisleval?
You should see Recents, Shared and Browse options somewhere in the browser. Tap Browse.
Right, I’ve discovered what I was doing wrong - I had my iPad in portrait orientation! In landscape orientation, the side navigation area is shown.
Is this a bug though @lewisleval? When in portrait, there doesn’t seem to be a way to access the navigation area and move from the currently shown location?
Thanks for responding @espiegel123. That’s weird, I don’t see that at all. All I see on the top of the browser is this and below it my audio files?
As I just posted, if I turn my device into landscape orientation, I see the regular Files app navigation area but nothing in portrait.
Hi there! Regarding the sound not going through AUM, it's simply because Cache needs an "excuse" to open inside a DAW, and letting DAWs recognise it as an audio effect was the simplest way to do that, so internally, it's not functioning as an actual audio effect, it has a totally different architecture. Cache is essentially an audio file browser (standalone) with an AUv3 extension that then uses everything the standalone has; so it's all the functionality of the standalone app in a format that DAWs will recognise.
I can definitely keep this in mind for potential future functionality, but for the time being the best I can recommend is to use Cache in the way that it works best, browsing, audioning and dragging samples, and then use a more dedicated app such as Elsa to actually play your sounds from and process. This way, your projects will maintain much more stability too.
Cache works best when treated like Logic's sample browser, or Koala's own sample import: you can browse and play samples, but can't do anything with them until they're actually loaded into the project.
Regarding the silent mode situation, that's my fault with the last update, but it will be fixed with the next one.
Thank you for your support!
Hi there, may I ask which OS version you're using? Cache should be using your device's native files functionality, with navigation always available regardless of orientation. If it's a bug, I could try to replicate it on my end and see what's happening.
Thanks for responding @lewisleval. I’m using an iPad A16 (11th Gen iPad) running iPadOS 18.6.2. Cheers.
What a cool variety of apps this dev has out. Love the vibe of the stuff they make, especially the esoteric stuff (though I’ve never used them or have any need to haha).
@lewisleval have you tested with Google Drive? I can’t add folders.
Thank you for the Background Audio update @lewisleval Very much appreciated
A quick question about the operations of this app. From my logical mind it appears as if this is only going to be beneficial in hosts that have the auv3 and the timeline viewable at the same time or in hosts like Loopy and AUM where you can have multiple open AUv3 windows open at the same time. I was thinking that in something like Cubasis you can drop the sample onto the timeline, but you wouldn’t be able to drop the sample directly into an instrument…and I’m thinking this would be the same in Logic Pro and in other apps like BM3 and Auria Pro you would be very limited in what you could achieve with this app. Is this a reasonable assessment?
Please do definitely consider making this pass audio through. It should be doable. The free app Archer's Player manages to do this, also without storing samples internally. It lacks some of the functionality of Cache though. AUM File Player is really not great, Cache could be a useful alternative choice. I would definitely have highlighted the fact it doesn't pass audio through in my video, as a negative, had I realized that at the time. Never even occurred to me that it wouldn't do that, tbh...