Auria - 48 tracks + VSTs + real editing and automation!!!!!

[9headshydra]

What about Android ?????

There is already tablets with quad core CPUs and soon, quad core tablets at 250$, that may be something I would buy (I dont buy Apple stuff).

ask google to do something,

cheap powerfull tablets have no any interest if you don't have exciting apps to run on it,

at the moment android is not as mature as ios about music software,

it's not about being android or ios fanboy, it's about what you have and can do now,

I don't care about what company is behind tools that's works, because it works

when you buy a drum machine you prefer the one at 500 usd that works or the one at 250 usd that perhaps will work one day ?

to play the paying beta tester is clearly not my goal in life.

if google have any interest in musicians they know exactly what to do with android.

it seems they are not so hurry to please them.

period

[Dewaine]

Though this app looks cool, I am not overly impressed. There are several good audio apps already, and without MIDI this just does not flip my trigger. Glad it seems to be what most want, but not for me.....

Paying $10-$20 for a "VST" effect is not what I am looking for. Now if its was $10-$20 for a VSTI in a real MIDI sequencer, then I'm in!

[IncarnateX]

I think this is great and exciting news, but will I be able to paste audio directly into it from other apps or is the copy-and-paste feature for export of audio only?

If I have to use iTunes to transfer from audio from other apps, it is surely a no-go. I want to use it for mixing and mastering audio from other apps and not as a recording studio.

[Sascha Franck]

In all honesty, while I find this highly impressive from, hm, a "nerdy technical" POV, I don't think it'll be an immediate success at all.
And that's mainly because of the hardware. Right now, there aren't too much decent audio interfaces that work with multiple inputs for iOS devices. Let alone anything with enough inputs to decently record, say, a drumset. So, no band recordings.
Also, considering that most people that are into mobile recording already have a laptop and a suitable audio interface (and for laptops there's a TON of choices), it's tough to believe they will switch to an iPad any day soon.
I do know quite some folks personally who are into one or the other way of mobile recording/sequencing. I couldn't even remotely imagine that any of them would all of a sudden switch - not even those that have iPads already. iDevices are usually used as scratchpads or so. For that you usually need way less advanced audio options and you need MIDI sequencing, sampling, whatever.
So, who is the target audience for such a product? People who want to do multitrack audio recordings but prefer to use their iPads rather than a laptop? So far that seems to be a limited amount of folks - especially due to the lack of almost any decent hardware.
Add to this that almost everybody is using MIDI as well (in one way or the other).
And add to this that storage capacity is limited, too (due to certain utterly dumb iOS restrictions), so even if MIDI was added, where to put your precious sample libraries?
And add to this that file compatibility, file exchange and everything regarding that is just horrible. But these are the things most people into sequencing need on a daily base.
I also don't see anybody buying plugins as in-app-purchases when they can't use them anywhere else. This is especially true for all those already owning a decent plugin connections for their computers.
Ok, the price is right, but still, why bother?

As said, a nice technical gadget, but probably nothing more.

- Sascha

[pc999]

What about Android ?????

There is already tablets with quad core CPUs and soon, quad core tablets at 250$, that may be something I would buy (I dont buy Apple stuff).

ask google to do something,

cheap powerfull tablets have no any interest if you don't have exciting apps to run on it,

at the moment android is not as mature as ios about music software,

it's not about being android or ios fanboy, it's about what you have and can do now,

I don't care about what company is behind tools that's works, because it works

when you buy a drum machine you prefer the one at 500 usd that works or the one at 250 usd that perhaps will work one day ?

to play the paying beta tester is clearly not my goal in life.

if google have any interest in musicians they know exactly what to do with android.

it seems they are not so hurry to please them.

period

Indeed, but I have heard that the v3 (or v4, cant remember) had address those concerns, and given that they are much more open for things like VST and now a bigger market for Apps it would make sense to do them for Android too.

[buscemi]

Indeed, but I have heard that the v3 (or v4, cant remember) had address those concerns, and given that they are much more open for things like VST and now a bigger market for Apps it would make sense to do them for Android too.

Definitely heard wrong (or heard the one-off infomercial alleging this was addressed) and there's a whole thread about it right in this very subforum. Basically low-latency audio processing in Android is still shite and appears to remain shite in every update. Hopefully that will change.

[WaveMachine Labs]

FYI, Auria supports several multichannel USB audio interfaces, some of them with 18 inputs. So recording a drum kit (or an entire band) is not a problem...

Rim

[WaveMachine Labs]

@IncarnateX

Yes Auria supports Audio copy/paste, Dropbox and Soundcloud.

Rim

[Sascha Franck]

FYI, Auria supports several multichannel USB audio interfaces, some of them with 18 inputs. So recording a drum kit (or an entire band) is not a problem...

That's fine - but you still need the CCK then. And from what I know, the CCK doesn't charge your iPad. Not ideal for a longer recording session.

[polaris20]

FYI, Auria supports several multichannel USB audio interfaces, some of them with 18 inputs. So recording a drum kit (or an entire band) is not a problem...

That's fine - but you still need the CCK then. And from what I know, the CCK doesn't charge your iPad. Not ideal for a longer recording session.

As stuff like this makes it to market:

http://www.behringer.com/news/behringer ... ix1642usb/

Recording on the iPad will become more and more relevant for people that own one, especially using something like Auria. I can see it making sense owning an iMac (or PC desktop) and an iPad, and using one of these Behringer mixers plus an iPad to have a portable system for recording.

Unfortunately the Behringer appears to only be stereo in, but I imagine with time that will change too as others jump on the bandwagon.

[sonicflux]

As stuff like this makes it to market:

http://www.behringer.com/news/behringer ... ix1642usb/

Recording on the iPad will become more and more relevant for people that own one, especially using something like Auria. I can see it making sense owning an iMac (or PC desktop) and an iPad, and using one of these Behringer mixers plus an iPad to have a portable system for recording.

That is a horrible design. There is no benefit to having an iPad physically integrated into a mixer. You can accomplish the same thing with the pad connected via a cable, and that wouldn't limit their sales to only iPad owners.

I'm not sure why developers insist on doing this, but I think products that require an iPad to be physically inserted into them will have a very short life span.

[polaris20]

As stuff like this makes it to market:

http://www.behringer.com/news/behringer ... ix1642usb/

Recording on the iPad will become more and more relevant for people that own one, especially using something like Auria. I can see it making sense owning an iMac (or PC desktop) and an iPad, and using one of these Behringer mixers plus an iPad to have a portable system for recording.

That is a horrible design. There is no benefit to having an iPad physically integrated into a mixer. You can accomplish the same thing with the pad connected via a cable, and that wouldn't limit their sales to only iPad owners.

I'm not sure why developers insist on doing this, but I think products that require an iPad to be physically inserted into them will have a very short life span.

I agree completely, but it's definitely a start. Why they don't just make a mixer with a dock connector that can also charge the iPad, I don't know.

[jonnyG]

It is indeed a start, but:

XENYX preamps offer a staggering 130 dB of dynamic range, with a bandwidth that extends from below 10 Hz to 200 kHz for transparent, crystal-clear performance.

I'm off out to buy a hat and then I'm going to eat it.

We've seen it time and again with hardware - it's either brilliantly designed, beautifully constructed and huge sums of money, or it's cheap Chinese junk. And who's to say that the next gen. ipad will even be physically compatible? Chucking a sackful of money at mics, preamps, converters, a mixer and whatnot demands a bit of futureproofing. And if (like most) you're a hobbyist trying to do it on the cheap, then you defo don't have money to waste.

I'd wait a little and see if some standards appear. This stuff imo isn't anywhere near to maturing yet.

Akk, this hat tastes awful.

[polaris20]

It is indeed a start, but:

XENYX preamps offer a staggering 130 dB of dynamic range, with a bandwidth that extends from below 10 Hz to 200 kHz for transparent, crystal-clear performance.

I'm off out to buy a hat and then I'm going to eat it.

We've seen it time and again with hardware - it's either brilliantly designed, beautifully constructed and huge sums of money, or it's cheap Chinese junk. And who's to say that the next gen. ipad will even be physically compatible? Chucking a sackful of money at mics, preamps, converters, a mixer and whatnot demands a bit of futureproofing. And if (like most) you're a hobbyist trying to do it on the cheap, then you defo don't have money to waste.

I'd wait a little and see if some standards appear. This stuff imo isn't anywhere near to maturing yet.

Akk, this hat tastes awful.

The future shape of the iPad is always a concern, which is why these companies just need to make a regular damn audio interface, but ship it with a USB port and a dock connector port. I want my Presonus VSL44 with a dock connector that charges the iPad while I use it. That's it.

However really the charging isn't even necessary, since I get 11 hours of battery life.

[polaris20]

FYI, Auria supports several multichannel USB audio interfaces, some of them with 18 inputs. So recording a drum kit (or an entire band) is not a problem...

That's fine - but you still need the CCK then. And from what I know, the CCK doesn't charge your iPad. Not ideal for a longer recording session.

With the battery life being 10+ hours, I don't think it's that big of a deal, in my opinion. But a device with charging would be nice.