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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Potential Stagelight bugs...?
I was working with Stagelight last night, trying to transfer projects using that functionality, and every time I'd try between my Win10 PC, iPad and iPhone, it would say "Transfer failed" with no other info. Also, my iPhone was the only one showing up as a target anywhere. I finally gave up and started saving songs to OneDrive which seemed to do the trick.
On another note, I may have been slightly intoxicated but I swear when I plugged in Apple lightning connector headphones to my 1st gen iPad Pro in the middle of playing back a track, everything sped up or maybe just played a half step higher. I did it several times in a row to confirm. It was just 1 drum track and 2 or 3 loops going. Can't figure that one out.
I think that’s the same ‘sample rate / out of tune’ bug we’ve been discussing
Regarding your second point, yes (not that you were intoxicated :-) but that everything sped up and played about half step higher).
This is the issue we are discussing in the previous comments of this thread. When you plug your lightning headphones the sample rate changes from 44KHz to 48KHz and there’s a bug with many AU synths that can’t adapt to the new sample rate. I’m not sure if there’s a problem with the host not properly communicating the new sample rate to the plugins, or the plugins not listening for that message or both.
Many apps have already solved the problem but many others are still suffering from this widespread disease...
I believe we should open a dedicated thread for this “out of tune” issue and involve the different devs in the conversation so we can fix this problem once and for all.
Merry Christmas to you @gregsmith and thanks to everyone for helping us track down this issue!
Posted a new thread here - https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/30502/many-synths-out-of-tune-at-48khz-sample-rate
Please pitch in with your thoughts
@Janosax @MatthewAtStagelight
Just got an email from Matt re my questions insofar as slicing , chopping and editing on Sampleverse . Every concern I had was already on the plan to be addressed in 2019.. This will be one mind blower of an app later this year if it isn’t already ..
So lots of comments on the thread and all pointing back at stagelight being the issue as the synths work fine in other hosts at 48khz
So is anything happening? @MatthewAtStagelight @OpenLabstechsupport
They’re on holidays
And, we’ll dese!
Thanx, I found it out after sitting down with a coffee and thinking logical. My brain 🧠 suddenly awoke
Hey Everyone,
Sorry for late reply here. You're correct in that we've been off for the Holidays. I meant to check in more here over the break, but we all know how crazy things get during these times :-). I hoped to get the final 4.0.4 patch released beforehand but it will be next week (Wednesday to be precise) before we're back in full force. Hope you all have a Happy New Year!
It’s all good, I’m off for another week yet. Was surprised you replied over the holidays at all 😄
👍👍
@MatthewAtStagelight just another quick update - I’ve worked out the last couple of days that on the new iPad Pro on headphones with the USB-C to 3.5mm adapter, the problem doesn’t exist. Presumably it’s switching the sample rate.
I do have something in the works! Incorporating into my synth rig using Prophet 12, Nord Lead 2X, and DSI Tempest. Problem is these things take time!
Thanks for the info @gregsmith . We'll be on to this issue for 4.0.5. With that said, 4.0.4 RC has been submitted for approval and released to the beta channels. Once it is approved, we'll be on to 4.0.5 so hopefully this will get resolved very soon!
Regarding 4.0.4. Below is the changelog. In addition to the usual round of fixes we've made some pretty big enhancements to Track Freeze, and Record to Timeline.... plus... you'll notice we slipped in an option to "Enable Background Audio" :-). With this and Audiobus, I'm now able to route some AUv3 MIDI plugins to Stagelight Instrument tracks. While it's only a first step to supporting AudioBus and IAA, it's cool for what it can do today.
Stagelight 4.0.4 Full Release Notes
Track Freeze Enhancements
-Optimized Speed
-Numerous bug fixes
Rec to Timeline Enhancements
-Can now use main transport to play parts on the timeline view while in LoopBuilder mode. Note: This behavior is only active when the record button is set to Record to Timeline mode.
Other changes and fixes
-Switch for Background Audio support
-Multi-thread updates (for supported devices)
-Added Track I/O Settings back on Android/Chrome devices
-Preliminary Android notch support
-Fixed copy/paste of MPE based MIDI patterns
-MIDI Automation recording fixes
-SampleVerse: Note fixes and interpolation updates
-SampleVerse: Fixed LFO settings where numbers would be shown in decimals vs fractions
-Fixed some stuck note issues
-Fixed issue with Drum Machine not recalling custom drum samples
-iOS: File export support for cloud accounts should work
-Multiple crash/hangs fixes across all platforms
-Fixed some Auto Save bugs
-Android: Fixed SFZ Import directory issue
-Fixed some GUI glitches
Talk soon!
Matt
Awesome stuff
Nice...
@MatthewAtStagelight good news!
I have a modest feature request - in Sampleverse, the keyboard and grid pads always bend the pitch if you slide your finger left or right (no glissando mode). Could we have the option to switch that off so that new notes are triggered when sliding laterally instead of bending the original note?
Relatedly, when we are in that lateral pitch bend mode in sampleverse, could we have the ability to adjust the portamento time? Currently, the bend time is a bit slow for faster tempo expressive playing.
Finally, noise waveform option for the LFO pretty please!
Yes!!!!
It's a big down side, they should add the keyboard to every screen just like every other daw type app out there
I wish there was at least a two stage envelope to adjust each drum sound. Shortening the sample length to approximate decay sounds terrible most of the time. Usually I like lengthening the attack on ride cymbals and it’s not possible right now.
I was trying yesterday for the first time (in deep almost) the desktop app and I didn't find any kind of sample slicer... I was messing with Sampleverse so maybe it's another plug for that? it's a future feature maybe?
I search through the tutorials but nothing related to that...
I think you have to do it through the audio display for now . I think it’s a planned feature.
Whay is audio display? The usual grid? It has copy/paste and sample start/end points?
Sorry I should have explained better . Here is a quote from Matt
“SampleVerse
You can trim samples today by dragging on the left and right ends of the sample. Slicing and more editing capabilities are coming in a future update”
Update live!!
Background Audio now! Thanks so much! Loving this DAW!
No problem. We'll be working on the AU sample rate issue (plus others) next.