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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Pleased to hear it.
Perhaps you’d be good enough to try your luck getting the Fab Filter preset display issue resolved. Get that fixed and you’d be a hero to....dozens.
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Yes, that is true.
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More inaccurate waffle aimed at at me. I mean, seriously, the ‘professionals and their work’ line is hilariously pompous. No one should be above criticism. Especially from those who are customers.
Tell you what Oscar, why don’t we both be grown up. In person, we’d probably find loads in common and get on famously. But here, I don’t like your posts and you don’t like mine. No big deal, we can agree to ignore each other, yes?
There are some long-lingering bugs in Auria that I would like to see fixed. For example track mixdowns/bounces when insert plugins are present can be time-shifted due to the latency compensation going awry (that's one that I filed personally in the bug reporting system a couple of years ago). There are others there too.
It's frustrating, but it's not unusual in complex software, and I'm an alpha tester for my desktop 3D software so that's really let me see what goes on behind the curtain (it's a fucking mess). The reality is that complex programs have literally thousands of bugs (really) and they will never all get fixed. What counts is prioritisation, and getting the dev's attention and/or convincing them that the problem is meaningful (and show them why).
So reporting bugs (politely) is always worthwhile.
Also, I've personally released stuff that is far far simpler than actual software, and even that was riddled with bugs that took several revisions to fix. Bugs happen because it's simply impossible to anticipate and predict every permutation possible.
I'm 100% certain that's going to be fixed. The lingerers are more likely to be the small annoying bugs, but big breakages get fixed quickly.
As always, you make a good and valid point.
With reference to the FF bug, though, I would ever so politely suggest that this should be a priority, for the simple reason that many AP customers bought into the app because it is the only one that can use Fab Filters. It’s one of the features that gives AP an advantage. Protecting that advantage sounds like a good use of time to me.
+1 agreed. Auria Pro is now working great on my 10.5. The layout issue for 10.5 was reported, acknowledged by the dev, and fixed/updated within 3-days total. It doesn’t get much better than that. Excellent DAW and top-notch developer!
I don’t have any issue with anyone here personally and you’re right, I’m sure in person we’d get on fine. I just find it hard to stand by on this particular issue, which I can only describe as “slander with a moral high ground”. Yeah, ok, that reaction might get me into some uncomfortable discussions (like this one). Nobody is perfect. I tried very hard to and indeed did keep away from it for a long damn time.
I purposefully wrote that post impersonally as I wanted to stress that I’m addressing the specific issue that over time innocent critique has descended into into venomous rhetoric. It’s not just one person, although one person can certainly help to spread and ‘normalise’ the rot.
Just want to stress again that I have absolutely no personal issue here, but am just commenting on a state of affairs which I feel has become a self justifying problem.
Let’s not continue to discuss this here. Feel free to share your thoughts though (if you want) and I’ll read and consider them.
Oscar
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Sounds good to me.
I’m really not a bad bloke, and actually admire what I’ve heard of your work.
It’s easy for all of us to misinterpret something written, lacking as it does all the subtle nuances of a real conversation. Thank fuck we aren’t using those iPhone emoji animations, eh?
Seconded.
I believe Rim stated that that one’s actuall with FF. It would be nice if they fixed it. But if they don’t have the willpower, not much he can do, unfortunately. If there is anything that drives me crazy with Auria, that’s the one.
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I e-mailed FF about this, thinking it was their problem too. But they insist it is WaveLabs responsibility. So with both sides abdicating, this will never get fixed.
On the bright side, the latest update seems to have sorted the more dramatic problems. Good work.
@Zen210507 & @OscarSouth
I just want to acknowledge that you both came to an amicable "agree-to-disagree" agreement about this conversation.
On a forum.
On the internet.
In all honestly, I've never seen this. Most forum arguments descend into petty name calling fairly quickly and never end well. Both of you are real-life people and acted accordingly.
Serious hand-clapping over here. Thanks, boys - it's a nice reminder that not everything on the internet is people sniping at each other from the safety of their bedroom.
.....................and now we return to our regularly scheduled program................
Well, Oscar is definitely for real. I’m part fictional.
But thanks anyway.
Well, for the dreaded issue with preset names not being displayed, I have a workaround that never fails me: I save the preset in the Auria window that contains the plug-in GUI. Even if the preset name in the GUI reverts to “Default”, I always can recall it by using this method. Usually I name with a custom name, usuallu the name of the song plus instrument plus what it does, so I never lose track at all. Plus, this method have the upside of recalling all the tweaks I made. Hope that helps.
Nice use of the latest thingie. Works great on the mixer...
Well put it this way I'm already sold and now preaching like Jimmy Swagger
I recorded myself added some reverb with FF R and microwarmed my recording and played it to my wife who said that's not you you downloaded that from a pros song.
Lol Auria Pro... makes you sound like a Pro.
Join us....
Jimmy Swaggart, hahahah... old but gold!
I've certainly had some problems and issues with AP, but I think we stand up for it simply because it still delivers for us. Accusing us of kissing Rim's ass when answering criticisms of the app or how its maintained is a way of dismissing what we say.
There's a difference between reporting a bug, or complaining about some implementation in an app that doesn't work for the complainer, and maligning the developer. Like saying there's no point in posting bug reports, or that other devs are superior because their apps do this or that, even if they're much simpler apps or working under different circumstances. Maybe some people don't make these distinctions.
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I’m sure this will help those just encountering this irritating bug Unfortunately, I already have a number of songs sequenced in AP and using FF, so unless this method is retroactive, I still wouldn’t see the correct settings,
I’ve made my point and read the views of others, so not looking for an argument.
Suffice it to say that in the specific case of the FF bug, this has been repeatedly reported, for years, and is never considered a priority. This is the developer’s choice.
Furthermore, as you may have seen earlier in the thread, WaveLabs and FabFilters both say the other is responsible. Who does this leave unhappy...yes, it is their customers.
I don't know either. It's a complex interaction that maybe neither developer has a handle on, and also not a priority for either. For some customers it's more critical than for others. I don't t think anyone denied anyone's right to be unhappy.
Haha, i'm already on Team Auria! Those Fab filters and Synths are just too good
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Fab Filters are a game changer. Even for duffers like me, it is easy to start with presets made by pros, and tweak from there to suit our individual requirements. Being able to use these specialised tools to great effect, without needing years of training, is brilliant.
As a bit of a curveball question - does the AP update work ok on ios10?
I'm down to just one app playing up now, so don't really want to lose this fleeting sweet spot, but I've got a growing list of app updates nagging me so it'd be good to tick a few off.
That’s the way to go. I’m a big advocate that the results of any creative process will always speak for themselves.
Using presets as points to start from rather than starting from a ‘blank page’ every time is a brilliant compromise for a streamlined creative flow, if the ‘fine detail tweaking’ isn’t a core part of your creative focus.
Can always go back in the mixing stage and get creative with mix level variables anyway!
Indeed. They're almost like instruments in their own right
One of the brilliant things about here and now, for music makers of all stripes, is that apps can level the playing field to a large extent. At least for production and origination. Obviously not for anything live, though.
Back in the day, to make music that sounded any good, required people to learn an instrument, buy expensive instruments, pay for expensive studio time, and if they wanted others to hear it, go out on the road!
Now, all it takes is sufficient sonic imagination, and a bit of dedication to learning what apps can do. Even the highly specialised task of a sound engineer has been put within reach. Quite literally, a deaf person could produce a track using FF presets, and providing the source was good enough, it would have a decent chance of sounding better than okay. Crucially, the quality of music made with real world instruments, and that made on iPads and/or desktop machines, can now be in the same ball park. That is something I still find absolutely astonishing.