Audiobus: Use your music apps together.
What is Audiobus? — Audiobus is an award-winning music app for iPhone and iPad which lets you use your other music apps together. Chain effects on your favourite synth, run the output of apps or Audio Units into an app like GarageBand or Loopy, or select a different audio interface output for each app. Route MIDI between apps — drive a synth from a MIDI sequencer, or add an arpeggiator to your MIDI keyboard — or sync with your external MIDI gear. And control your entire setup from a MIDI controller.
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Auria Questions.(The now version) Help please.
I'm having trouble recording my guitar into Auria. Using IAA and Bias FX..... The funny thing is, I recorded the first guitar track above, as in the pic. Then I was going to record the 2nd guitar part, and all kinds a different stuff going wrong. I tried auidobus into Auria, and I don't have much luck with that.
I don't recall changing any settings at all between guitar takes. 1st track, there is an upper wave form and a bottom one, 2nd track, only the top wave form, with a flat line below it.
I have tried Tone Stack into Auria IAA, and same result. If I try Bias FX into Loopy HD, and then copy and paste it into Auria, it provides both the upper and lower wave form, like my first track. I need to play to the first track for my 2nd track to jive with it. So going into loopy won't work for me...
Any ideas what I can check? I am baffled, I didn't knowingly change anything. I have powered down my ipad completely twice hoping for a fix. Guitarism, Jam Maestro, they all record 2 wave forms. What the fumanchu is going on? I can't finish my totally awesome song I'm workin on. 
2nd image attached, I get this quite a lot. project you are loading has a sample rate which..............
Mostly this happens if I try to use audiobus. How do I know the sample rate of other apps? Bias FX?
Also, AUria has Sample Rates of 44100, 48000, and 96000. I guess I don't understand what exactly those numbers mean. I assume higher is better quality recording. I can't seem to record anything at the 96k rate in Auria. Especially with audiobus. I'm not sure I'm able to with IAA either. Is this important? To get the best sound quality?
Snapshots. What are these for? What do you do with them? I think they coulod be helpful, if I knew what to do with them.
Do people still start up audiobus first to record into Auria? It is a bit of a pain to do it this way. It always starts a new project that way, and then I have trouble getting things routed/linked up with the project I already started.
Plug-ins: SO, let's say I load pro-q, Saturn, Timeless,select one of the presets to use, then close out the project and come back. I think the preset a choose is still active, as far as I can hear/tell, but it always says default, instead of the preset that I have chosen, the last time I was in the plug-in.
ANy help would be great!! Especially thoughts on my first question......
Thank you
Jason
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other pic:
48k is pretty darn good. CD quality is 44. Most folks can't tell the diff.
Snapshots save all the settings, not the audio files. So, you can go back to what your settings were in a previous test. But, they are not a complete backup of the project.
The whole thing with audiobus, and the chain, is a bit of a pain. It's best to start off your recording session by killing everything, starting audiobus if you need it, then starting the other pieces from within audiobus.
The plugins are a bit of a pain that way, drives me crazy. The actual settings stay, but the preset title itself goes away. But then if you're trying to remember what you actually set the damned thing to, that knowledge is lost. I believe this is a known bug, but not sure if it's auria or fabfilter.
Unless you are doing music for video, you can record at 44.100, 48k only exists to sync the audio frame rate to video frame rate when editing. Nowadays the softwares do this automatically, but the audio in 44.100 takes less space, and there is no difference in audio quality
This recording problem that you having looks like some kind of bug, maybe with inter-app, or Bias, or Auria, what I would do is record the first track, then instead of loading everithyng into another track, I would just drag the recorded audio to another track, and use the first track to record the other guitar, that way you don't 're-load' Bias on another track, which may be causing the problem
Jason, I've had a similar issue with Positive Grid products and the Audiobus/Audioshare chain. With me it's JamuP Pro. Try this workaround to avoid having to go into the Input Matrix, which can be irksome.
Start a new project. Create a few extra audio tracks, stereo if that's how you're recording. Save and close out everything and reboot. Then fire up Audiobus, BiasFX and Auria. Auria will automatically create a track set to record, like your first track in the example above. Once completed, slide that Audio into one of your empty tracks. In other words, your recording track always stays the same, you just move audio out to a new track after each successful take. So record your second, third, etc. takes in the same recording track, moving them as necessary.
I found this took care of issues like the one you are experiencing. I know ultimately the larger problem has to do with routing in the input matrix, but I can't always track that down and fix it, 'cause metalhead. This way, I don't have to. Just keep recording into the track that's listening properly. Hope this helps!
Thanks everyone for your replies! I really appreciate it.
I tried the suggestions here and on the Auria forum. Still no dice with Bias FX or Tonestack IAA. I used Audiobus last night, and by some Miracle, it worked. There was a good bit of latency, so I will deff. need to rerecord and figure out where that issue is coming from. But, I was happy to be able to at least record with audiobus.
Exit question?: When others record guitars, do you typically record them in stereo? Or just mono. I guess it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy recording in stereo. Maybe it doesn't matter as much as I think it does.
If you're recording stereo effects with the guitars, like delay or chorus, then stereo recording makes sense. Otherwise mono is more efficient.