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The cpu shoots up pretty high after about 3 tracks on my air 1 but I’m not surprised since it’s so old. I was able to get 20 tracks in on my iPhone 11looping an audio file and could probably keep going but all the loops in unison were beginning to make pretty unsettling sounds
That could be "The greatest News Ever!!!!" and become the "Greatest Thing Ever!!!!"
Sold.
Tim to re-install Xcode and learn a bit about AudioKit. I love a good challenge and will fail miserably but this is step 1 on the @Brambos Frankenstien Development Model:
1.Start with a working example of code.
2. Gut it.
3. Install new guts and stitch the monster app. Apply Lightning. My iPad uses Lightning not USB-C.
4. Add code with small surguries testing for "life" at ever stage.
5. When the creature is ready to terrorize the world start on it's bride.
6. Profits.
7. Go to #1. (#5 was really a #1.)
Brave lad. We all have to start somewhere... Atlanta?
@wim
What's your rig and os version?
Edit:
How are you monitoring?
Are you using Bluetooth headphones,
headphones out or an external audio interface?
How does this compare to Group The Loop in terms of functionality? Tempted by L7's AUV3ness!
iPad Air 2, iOS 13.3, in AUM with only one other synth loaded at a time. Looper is in the FX slot of a send, with the synth sending to it. The synth channel is muted, so all monitoring comes through Looper. Monitoring with wired Apple earbuds in the Air 2's headphone jack. I have double-checked that it's running at 48K.
The problem seems to be with the playback of other tracks while recording, I think, as the recorded audio seems to be laid down as played, and everything plays back OK when not recording. I'll see if muting the other tracks and just recording with the metronome works better.
Interesting. I don't have it and know little about it.
Is there good AUV3 automation and does it work in BM3?
@wim
Okay, L7 until Friday worked internally only at 48kHz.
I had described my issue with the Auv3 version to
Daniel, which sounded similar to your issue and
he implemented the sample rate selector.
Do you have a DAW program other than AUM
that can be used to change the sample rate?
I have found that I need to set the sample rate and buffer size
before I instantiate AUM for many IAA apps since iOS 13
including BM3.
Also L7 IAA needs to be instantiated first before loading it into AUM.
The Auv3 version on my system needed the sample rate
to be changed from 44.1kHz and back again
for it to sync properly in AUM at 44.1kHz.
I'll be doing some more testing this week
also contact @danielfromcodalabs
he is most responsive.
He did mention that most of his developing is being done
on a more recent iPad Pro and he needs access to either
beta testers or bug reports from users with older machines.
This is my test AUM so you know.
These are my current settings
iPad Pro 9.7" 1st generation iOS 13.3
I've tried to do this myself right now.
It's not possible via AUM as yet it seems.
Nice, it's this kind of stuff that makes the price of L7 irrelevant, regardless of whether I'll ever use it or not (but, as an aside, having L7 work as a way of sampling each track in AUM, separately, would be most welcome
).
Hi guys. Apologies for my absence here. Didn’t realize a separate thread was started for the AUv3 update.
Those of you who are having crashes:
Are you recording super long loops? Meaning 16 or 32 measures? If so, you’re probably running up against the AUv3 memory limitation. Unfortunately there’s no way around this but perhaps I could add a memory meter in the app so at least you know when it’s about to crash.
If you’re having sync issues / cracking, make sure the host’s sample rate and L7’s sample rate are the same. You can change L7’s sample rate in settings.
As @Gravitas mentioned earlier, I am indeed looking for beta testers with older devices and iOS versions. If you’re interested, just email me at [email protected].
Thanks everyone!
I’m using iPhone 7plus with AUM & apeMatrix. iOS 13.3
L7 crashes a lot. Only recording 2-4 measures at a time. Usually around 3 tracks before crash. Sometimes doesn’t crash at all.
Crashes on iPad Pro 10.5 iOS 13.3 too, but more stable.
I wasn’t having crashes at all before the build that went AUv3. Tried delete and re-install. Made no difference.
It mostly works ok but not terribly reliable with the most recent update.
Thanks for the reply @danielfromcodalabs 👍
Just tested L7 again in Aum, matching the buffer settings to 256 and sample rate to 48khz just through my iPhone speakers - Still records the start of the loop at the end with DigiStix. I tested Aum by itself (no L7) recording DigiStix and even it recorded a smaller amount of the loop start at the end (it’s much more noticeable in L7s recording though). Hope this info is useful, thanks
Is the crash reproducible? If so, send me the steps to reproduce it at [email protected] and I'll fix it for you.
Not sure if I understand. Seems like this is a problem with DigiStix, not L7. Could you email me a video? [email protected]
Just tried again. On iPhone 7+ ios13.3 Launch AUM, load Mononoke as source. Load L7. Recorded 3 tacks 4 measures each no problem. Launched Playbeat and recorded 4th 4 measure loop. Crashed. Couldn’t reload L7. Relaunched AUM and still can’t relaunch L7. Did hard reset of iPhone. Still can’t launch L7, not even in standalone.
Deleted L7 and reinstalled. Now it works again.
This is pretty much how it’s gone for me ever since updating to the new build.
As mentioned before, I had no crashing or problems at all before the new AUv3 build
any video examples???
@danielfromcodalabs mine crashed during the start up tutorial in standalone. Now every time I open it it crashes after a few seconds without me doing anything. iPad 9.7 on the latest OS.
Standalone crashing in settings screen. About 5-10 seconds and goes away. No previous recording or anything. Pro 10.5 iOS 12.4.1
Different workflows and not sure about multiple AUv3 instances...
I don't own Group the Loop so I can't say for that app.
Only one instance of L7 can be run.
When you try to run a second instance it limits itself automatically.
Most probably to do with memory limitations of Auv3.
What you can try is running both the IAA version and Auv3
version in separate channels in AUM.
One can be configured for vocals and the other to record synths for instance.
I may try that later on this week.
It’s great that AUv3 was added. But for now... on the iPad I think I still prefer the IAA floating window method. I don’t really need more than one instance anyway and it seems to still be very stable in IAA
Thanks for your patience everyone. This is as frustrating for me as it is for you. After finishing the update, I dedicated 3 weeks solely to testing on different devices and fixing bugs. I went through 14 versions of the same update before my 20 beta testers confirmed that they found no more issues.
Needless to say, after all this it’s pretty crazy that the app is crashing for some of you without you taking any action. At the moment I have no idea what could be causing this, but I’ll look into it.
If you have crash logs or specific steps to reproduce crashes, emailing them to me at [email protected] would help out a lot.
Thanks again for your patience.
@danielfromcodalabs
Whenever I start a new session
whether it’s L7 or BM3 etc
I always reset the memory
which could be a factor for others.
Ok... I think I've narrowed my crashing down to the use of a certain app. I just got it recently so I've been using it a lot lately for beats. It's the PlayBeat app. It's the one that's crashing L7 whether I'm recording loops from it solo, or adding it to other loops.
PlayBeats works fine for me other wise.. but it consistently crashes L7 for some reason.
When it crashes, it corrupts the session. If I can get to the sessions panel fast before it crashes, create a new session, then delete the corrupted session, it'll work fine without delete/reinstall.
I thought it had to do with mixing apps that need the playhead running, but I tried Ruismaker Noir, and Pure Acid. Neither of those crashes L7. ONLY when I'm using PlayBeats so far. Other synths I've tried seem to be fine too.
This was on an iPhone 7plus iOS 13.3. I believe it was also Playbeats that was running when L7 crashed on the iPad Pro too.
Hope that helps.
Playbeat also crashes Cubasis‘ Inputs when I route several channels from AUM into CB ,,, at least for me ,,,
Would love it otherwise - but this behavior is really annoying ,,, since re-wiring everything just in the moment of recording goes really on my nerves ...
@skiphunt @Bon_Tempi Thanks, that helps a lot.
Sent, hope it helps 👍
Playbeats is unstable for me in AUM. It can crash out and need to be reloaded if it is sitting around unused.
Hope this helps.