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.
Download on the App StoreAudiobus is the app that makes the rest of your setup better.
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Last DAW I used regularly before Auria was Studio One, and the only thing that I'm missing so far (one day..) is Melodyne. It FEELS like a professional level DAW.
I do however hope that we get Audio Units.. and precount/punch in to Ableton Link
Thank you for the tips. I will try the other settings and see which I prefer.
Melodyne on iOS would be a dream!
I don't think Rim can do anything with the IAPs per se. He doesn't make any money from them nor does he control the prices, he doesn't write/own them (except Drumagog and one of the reverbs) and he has no control over their content. If I understand correctly, he provides a VST-wrapper that allows other companies to port their app into Auria. That's it.
That's an example of the preciousness I've noted on this forum concerning Auria and its esteemed creator. Whereby any kind of criticism is rejected. Even though I'd bet that, like any good developer, Mr Rim finds feedback useful, and is interested to know what customers think.
Yes, you are correct that WaveMachineLabs doesn't 'owe' customers AU. But, it's a development path that, like Link, IAA and AB support, only the highly insular would wilfully ignore. It is surely in everyone's interest to listen to constructive feedback, and try to deliver what customers think the premier IOS DAW should be capable of doing.
This is where I'm at as well. If and when Auria totally embraces AU and can match or exceed Cubasis in terms of Latency and Track Count with said AU...then I'm in...they could charge $299 and I'd still get it.
Your post proves my earlier point. Giving customers what they want, where possible, is good for business. It doesn't matter how many fantastically clever things an app can do, if it doesn't do the particular thing you need.
I think that as soon as AU really takes off, Rim will be compelled to add. That, if he's not doing that already.
Fact is - and I stated this in an earlier post in another topic - there is currently no AUX effect that can do anything that an Auria plugin cannot match or exceed (most AU FX are inexpensive, barebones apps at this stage, even Frekvens, that do cool things, but not as cool as FF Plug-ins, for example), and while there is a few good AU instruments out there (iSem being my favourite), none of them IMO matches yet the quality and feature range of both the FabFilters Twin and One, which are Desktop-grade synths that work without issues (well, some Twin presets are really CPU-intensive but that's the price of quality), can be fully automated (yes, each and every paramenter), save states and have zero latency. In fact, Auria Plug-ins, be instruments, be effects, work like AU (multiple instances, save states etc), but better.
I must confess: I'd rather have a new exciting Auria Plug-in by a reputed Desktop developer - say, Toontrack or Celemony or U-He (one can dream!) - than AUX support, at the current state of things. But obviously that could change if some killer AUX app comes out. IMHO.
The one area where I find Auria Pro still lacking a bit - and @Nkersov mentioned that as well - is a proper built-in MIDI controller, and yes!, I hope @WaveMachineLabs see it as a priority, because it would be a joy to be able to play apps like Model 15 or DrumPerfect Pro seamlessly from Auria without drawing the notes, using MIDI loops or recording MIDI with lyra and then switching to the preferred IAA.
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That's correct.
Interesting, during my initial research I was quite bullish on Auria before I discovered this forum, now I've been totally de-incentivized. But I'll push through if AU comes. I think @WaveMachineLabs should step up their presence here because some of it's customers are doing it absolutely no favors
$5 Ruismaker has hit a creative sweet spot that I had never quite been able to find via thousands spent on desktop. It's a crime
As far as mixes go...even my best mixes ever on ProTools still ended up being reduced to "send us the stems" when a label showed interest. So mixing prowess is really not as important to me as things that get me creating with minimal friction and maximum enjoyment.
I'm pretty sure Rim has said at some point that both a MIDI controller and AU will be implemented In time, but as a one man development team it's obviously going to take some time. First priority is bug fixes, and there's already been five point releases of Auria Pro this year to fix critical bugs, then I'm sure he will add new features. My guess is that we will probably see those start to appear next year.
Ruismaker is cool indeed! I love it! Yet I keep what I said, @sirdavidabraham: i'd rather have a new killer Auria plug-in than AUX support at the moment if I have to choose.
There's a lot of apps that boosted my creativity for making music in iOS: Garageband (a fantastic songwriting tool), Medly (quite inexpensive and runs fine on my iPhone 4S as well) and Thumbjam, to name a few. But Auria is currently the only app that enables me to do the complete job without Logic/ProTools. Maybe Cubasis 2.0 changes that, but I personally doubt it very much.
EDIT: edited because of typos and crappy iPhone autocorrection.
After posting a thread to help me decide between Auria Pro and Cubasis, I eventually kept both. I only wanted to save some space, but then realised I could just delete the Lyra instruments I didn't use.
Auria Pro and Cubasis work well together. The developers for both apps are helpful and have been active on here when able. Both devs have received comments on here that have bordered on abusive, so if they don't dive on here spending precious time to join in every conversation, I'm probably not surprised.
It's not about kissing ass, it's about being reasonable and open to the realities of their individual situations. It's about understanding economies of scale and the realities of man hours. It's about communicating issues, wants and desires in the proper manner. Either team or individual, I have seen nothing to show that all those involved do not want the best they possibly can for their respective apps.
I'm sure that is the case, and have seen no one here suggesting otherwise. Nothing wrong with using a public forum to say what we like and dislike about Cubasis and Auria Pro, or what we hope will be added.
Nope nothing wrong.
I am very impressed at the Third Party Plugins in Auria and can completely understand why Rim is not rushing to add AU. The third party plugins are amazing and work so easily and effectively at the same level as VSTs.
Unfortunately (for me) my investment in money, time and desire is thoroughly placed in the small collection of AU's that I've accumulated so far (and will continue to). Lyra and the Fabfilter synths are great of course, but I'm not really excited by them. I want to record and automate the sounds that I've developed and come to love from Viking Synth, Ruismaker, Resampler, DC-9 Overdrive, RP-1 (etc.). DAW VSTs always feel cold and uninspiring to me, while iOS AU's have become real instruments in my hands that I've studied, performed with and come to rely on.
I can however see however that AUs intrude squarely on Auria's turf and although I'm sure they'll be adopted now that they're becoming more and more standard practice, Rim holding out on them a little while is 100% understandable, not just from a development but also a business perspective and is even understandable on principle. Who knows, it really could just be a matter of development time. I'm also sure that Rim won't introduce AU functionality until it's at least as seamless as Third-Party-Plugin functionality, which would clearly take extra time too.
What I think we'll see when happen and a Desktop level DAW fully supports AU is more and more 'premium' AUs at Auria Third-Party-Plugin prices (or higher) as companies populate that app store category with ports of much-more-expensive desktop software.
I'm also sure that Rim won't introduce AU functionality until it's at least as seamless as Third-Party-Plugin functionality, which would clearly take extra time too.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world moves ahead. As the mighty Noddy Holder once sang "Nothing can change the shape of things to come." That shape, I submit, is AU.
What I mean is, Rim may find himself in the Betamax position; a technically superior product, beaten by VHS because more content providers supported it.
Agreed, but it'll come. Meanwhile, while we wait for AU and Link, we can aimlessly pass our time recording AU instruments into Auria, synched by Ableton Link.
Totally agree. The business model may be at odds with AU, which is why I have not allowed myself to believe that AU could be coming anytime soon to Auria. Perfectly understandable if so... I'm just enjoying these way too much in Cubasis.
Actually, although that's the common perception, and isn't inaccurate, a more precise reason is that sell-through and pre recorded porn was available on VHS more freely, whereas initially, Betamax content was quite puritanically governed by Sony. Same as the reason the multimedia PC format took off outside the boundaries of the typical Amiga or Atari ST owning computer nerd - you could get porn on it on CD-Rom, so soon everyone had one of those. The Internet, same thing. I've long held a theory that almost all the significant technological developments are propelled by porn.
Then no doubt AUv3 = porn
So Cubasis version 2 comes in a red XXX box and no one now can mention Rim along with job for the rest of this thread
For most of us our art form is not visual as we are only making music, so porn I guess would be difficult, but it is an Aural art form
You did not go there!!!!
Very funny guys
AU support is most definitely coming to Auria. I've been working on it all month. I can't give an exact date for release, but it's on it's way into a free update.
Rim
I somehow feel 'moaning' is a lot easier than 'singing'
Some artists 'adlib' so much it feels like they are sh*tting in their pants...
Yayy!!!! Many thanks!!!
Cool! Thats' nice to hear!
Seamless/Integrated support for the Sandisk iXpand USB Flash-Drives would be totally awesome too!
(Using Sandisks very undocumented SDK/Open Source App. So far only one developer has managed to figure out how it works and add seamless support. The 'iXpand devices' feels like any internal folder on the device with full file-management options). Check out inFuse by Firecore...
I'm holding on a bit longer though
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Good news, thanks for the update on the update.
ural art form
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Just thinking of the first songs that come to mind - ahem - when I think of alternates to singing in popular song.
Je t'aime - Serge Gainsbourough and Jane Birkin
Big Love - Fleetwood Mac
Love to Love You - Donna Summer
I'm sure there must be more,