So, I have been contemplating the purchase of either Auria, or Meteor. Auria has 48 tracks and some top notch plug ins. Meteor has 12 tracks and from what I gather, some nice plug ins as well.
Can anybody give my any in site to how these really compare to each other?
I gather the whole DAW in the Ipad is somewhat of an audio cut and paste anyway so having on board synths that you can buy in Meteor sounds like a moot point since I can bring over tracks from other synths.
Anyway, thank you,
Shawn
How does Auria compare to Meteor?
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- Banned
- 1583 posts since 19 Aug, 2011
I don't own any of them, but check out Multitrack DAW as well.
https://itunes.apple.com/no/app/multitr ... 22101?mt=8
MultiTrack DAW 3.1.6
June 28, 2012 MultiTrack DAW 3.1.6 is now available on the App Store. Supports 24/96 kHz on iPad!
Stereo Recording - up to 24 stereo or mono tracks
Non-linear, non-destructive editing using Regions and Bins
Fader, pan, mute and solo for each track
Record up to 8 tracks at the same time on iPad with supported hardware (requires iOS5)
Per Track EQ and Compressor (3GS or later)
Bus FX include a sweet Reverb and flexible Delay (3GS or later)
Mastering Section includes EQ and Compressor (3GS or later)
Undo and Redo with 30 levels of undo
Copy and Paste to and from other apps
"Open In..." to and from other apps
Metronome - from 40 to 240 bpm
Time Signatures - various musical time signatures
Looping with the Loop Markers
New Bin Browser previews raw audio files
Bounce by copying multiple regions and pasting
Ruler - shows where you are in the song, displays Bars/Beats or Seconds.
Snap - snaps the timebar to ruler lines (change the zoom to snap to any subdivision)
New Hotbox control for fast workflow
Punch in/out - automatically starts and stops recording
Auto Input - allows monitoring the track underneath until punch points
Speaker/Receiver output selection switch (iPhone only)
Input and Output faders
32 bit floating point precision
Hand optimized in assembly for ARM NEON (3GS or later)
Multi-touch pinch/zoom support
VU meters for each track (fast reacting, low latency)
Selectable input monitoring
User selectable buffer size, with latency compensation for perfectly synced recordings
Animated popup controls
In-app help always grabs the latest help file from web
iPad native support plus iPad USB audio
Opens email attachments and audio files on web pages directly
SoundCloud upload support
iTunes File Sharing
iPod Library import
Wav, Ogg, and AAC compression for export of audio files
https://itunes.apple.com/no/app/multitr ... 22101?mt=8
MultiTrack DAW 3.1.6
June 28, 2012 MultiTrack DAW 3.1.6 is now available on the App Store. Supports 24/96 kHz on iPad!
Stereo Recording - up to 24 stereo or mono tracks
Non-linear, non-destructive editing using Regions and Bins
Fader, pan, mute and solo for each track
Record up to 8 tracks at the same time on iPad with supported hardware (requires iOS5)
Per Track EQ and Compressor (3GS or later)
Bus FX include a sweet Reverb and flexible Delay (3GS or later)
Mastering Section includes EQ and Compressor (3GS or later)
Undo and Redo with 30 levels of undo
Copy and Paste to and from other apps
"Open In..." to and from other apps
Metronome - from 40 to 240 bpm
Time Signatures - various musical time signatures
Looping with the Loop Markers
New Bin Browser previews raw audio files
Bounce by copying multiple regions and pasting
Ruler - shows where you are in the song, displays Bars/Beats or Seconds.
Snap - snaps the timebar to ruler lines (change the zoom to snap to any subdivision)
New Hotbox control for fast workflow
Punch in/out - automatically starts and stops recording
Auto Input - allows monitoring the track underneath until punch points
Speaker/Receiver output selection switch (iPhone only)
Input and Output faders
32 bit floating point precision
Hand optimized in assembly for ARM NEON (3GS or later)
Multi-touch pinch/zoom support
VU meters for each track (fast reacting, low latency)
Selectable input monitoring
User selectable buffer size, with latency compensation for perfectly synced recordings
Animated popup controls
In-app help always grabs the latest help file from web
iPad native support plus iPad USB audio
Opens email attachments and audio files on web pages directly
SoundCloud upload support
iTunes File Sharing
iPod Library import
Wav, Ogg, and AAC compression for export of audio files
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function | http://soundcloud.com/bmoorebeats
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Derek Buddemeyer Derek Buddemeyer https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=270698
- KVRist
- 462 posts since 14 Dec, 2011 from Alliance, NE
I have just about all there is on the market. I do not prefer meteor...Auria is nice, but expensive...although I've had issues with it crashing a ton....very frustrating when this happens. Multitrack DAW is by far the most user friendly and surprisingly, the least expensive. The interface is great and the editing is very intuitive...I love it.
Rock On!
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- KVRAF
- 4420 posts since 7 Nov, 2005 from Florida
I own every DAW for iPad EXCEPT for Auria, which I will be buying shortly.
None of them compare to what I have read and heard and seen about Auria.
I purchased all the in-app purchases for Tabletop, Meteor, N-Track, Multitrack DAW and all the others and I have yet to be able to use one fluidly like a normal DAW in Windows (like Studio One Pro, Samplitude or Cubase, etc).
Auria seems to be the real deal since you CAN use a audio interface (USB) to record as many as 16 inputs (theoretically) - 8 definitely - at once. That puts it on class with any major DAW. It is the ONLY one with track freezing, vsti possibilities (granted, custom wrapped) and high quality effects. It is the only one giving you 48 tracks.
I'd go with Auria and make sure you have lots of space for recording.
Mike
None of them compare to what I have read and heard and seen about Auria.
I purchased all the in-app purchases for Tabletop, Meteor, N-Track, Multitrack DAW and all the others and I have yet to be able to use one fluidly like a normal DAW in Windows (like Studio One Pro, Samplitude or Cubase, etc).
Auria seems to be the real deal since you CAN use a audio interface (USB) to record as many as 16 inputs (theoretically) - 8 definitely - at once. That puts it on class with any major DAW. It is the ONLY one with track freezing, vsti possibilities (granted, custom wrapped) and high quality effects. It is the only one giving you 48 tracks.
I'd go with Auria and make sure you have lots of space for recording.
Mike
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 79 posts since 13 Sep, 2002
Here is another question about these DAW's in general. I am new to all this so bare with me.
Start a song by opening something like Alchemy, get a beat going, play your killer track or idea. Copy that wave you just recorded using audio copy. Go back to the DAW and paste in that track using a hopefully supported audio copy? Open something else like Sunriser. Possibly go back to the DAW and hit play and loop so it plays back the pasted Alchemy track. Somehow keep this going in the background while you go back to Sunriser and play a new killer track. Copy that track and put it on track number 2 of the DAW. Etc, etc until your prize winning song has all the parts in it. Then use the DAW to add effects and mix this song down.
Is this how this process works?
Thank you,
Shawn
Start a song by opening something like Alchemy, get a beat going, play your killer track or idea. Copy that wave you just recorded using audio copy. Go back to the DAW and paste in that track using a hopefully supported audio copy? Open something else like Sunriser. Possibly go back to the DAW and hit play and loop so it plays back the pasted Alchemy track. Somehow keep this going in the background while you go back to Sunriser and play a new killer track. Copy that track and put it on track number 2 of the DAW. Etc, etc until your prize winning song has all the parts in it. Then use the DAW to add effects and mix this song down.
Is this how this process works?
Thank you,
Shawn
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- KVRAF
- 4420 posts since 7 Nov, 2005 from Florida
I am sure you can use any synth or instrument on the iPad that allows for background audio and/or audio copy/paste and I MAY utilize that at some point, but TBH if I buy and use Auria, it will be for recording AUDIO into it via hardware keyboards and virtual instruments from my presonus audiobox usb's outputs. Namely, I will use it as a very flexible, light weight multi-track recorder.
To me that seems to be the most obvious way to use it.
I ASSUME it's clock is rock-solid steady?
Mike
To me that seems to be the most obvious way to use it.
I ASSUME it's clock is rock-solid steady?
Mike
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 79 posts since 13 Sep, 2002
I think the way I would in-vision using this stuff would be having all the sounds and capabilities inside the Ipad itself. That was the main reason I bought the Ipad. That, an interface, some headphones and my steinberger guitar (for compactness), and I'm set. I think my scenario can happen when I figure out how to do all this stuff. Although so far it isn't as easy as doing all this on my macbook. Especially when it comes to doing any kind of edit.
It's all pretty fun at this point.
Thank you for the info.
Shawn
It's all pretty fun at this point.
Thank you for the info.
Shawn
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Derek Buddemeyer Derek Buddemeyer https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=270698
- KVRist
- 462 posts since 14 Dec, 2011 from Alliance, NE
Hopefully AudioBus will be released soon.....then all this copy/paste, email to yourself, open in one app/transfer to another, just to get it all into one will be a thing of the past.....can't wait any longer...almost turned on my PC the other day just to record...lol. I will say that its a good learning experience....using all the runaround methods....just in case you have to implement them in the future....kind of like how most kids have no idea how to use 2 boom boxes with dual cassette recorders in them...hahha!!
Rock On!
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 79 posts since 13 Sep, 2002
Before duel bay I took one cassette deck, recorded over air onto it, played that deck back while playing my guitar through the amp, and had a second cassette deck record this mess over the open air. Totally unusable, but was fun anyway.
Times have changed for the better. At least in the music world.
Shawn.
Times have changed for the better. At least in the music world.
Shawn.
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- KVRist
- 138 posts since 24 Oct, 2012 from berlin
I know it's still a version 1.0 (Auria) but i REALLY hope they don't forget the early (beta)adapter now that we have an iPad 4.
Auria is a great program but for me quite useless at this point because the edit screen is sluggish as hell.And i mean not sluggish with a superhuge project and a lot of plugs running.Just start a new project with a few (7-8)short audio clips (no plugs) and try to to zoom or (even worse) scroll up/down.It can even stop this operation for a few seconds then.I often need to do a lot of smaller edits but it's a pain in the ass if you do it with the current version of auria.They are aware of this and say they gonna improve this in the future but for now they do just bugfixes...well,for me it IS a bug.The biggest one.Hope they fixed all the other bugs before they start to think"mmmh,enough people should have an ipad 4 now and there's no need anymore to improve the code for older models".I'm very happy with my two (recently bought)ipad 2 and i'm not planing to replace them sometime soon.Cause all other things i wanna do with it just running fine and smooth...
I did not regret to buy it,i want to support this project.Doesn't matter that i can not really use it (in the way i want/need) right now.I can wait.Just hoping my patience will pay off sometime soon...That said,the support is great.Sometimes you get developer answers in a couple of minutes (in their forum).
And i'm VERY happy they put my most favorite eq in (Pro Q).Instant buy when i can start serious working with auria.
btw,i LOVE the handling of Multitrack (and it zooms/scrolls like butter...) DAW but i stopped working with it in the same second i realized that i can not select more than one region at once.
What about Meteor and handling/zooming/scrolling?Is it smooth?
Is the mixer only in portrait mode usable?I hate working in portrait mode^^
Anyway,12 Tracks are just not enough for me...
Auria is a great program but for me quite useless at this point because the edit screen is sluggish as hell.And i mean not sluggish with a superhuge project and a lot of plugs running.Just start a new project with a few (7-8)short audio clips (no plugs) and try to to zoom or (even worse) scroll up/down.It can even stop this operation for a few seconds then.I often need to do a lot of smaller edits but it's a pain in the ass if you do it with the current version of auria.They are aware of this and say they gonna improve this in the future but for now they do just bugfixes...well,for me it IS a bug.The biggest one.Hope they fixed all the other bugs before they start to think"mmmh,enough people should have an ipad 4 now and there's no need anymore to improve the code for older models".I'm very happy with my two (recently bought)ipad 2 and i'm not planing to replace them sometime soon.Cause all other things i wanna do with it just running fine and smooth...
I did not regret to buy it,i want to support this project.Doesn't matter that i can not really use it (in the way i want/need) right now.I can wait.Just hoping my patience will pay off sometime soon...That said,the support is great.Sometimes you get developer answers in a couple of minutes (in their forum).
And i'm VERY happy they put my most favorite eq in (Pro Q).Instant buy when i can start serious working with auria.
btw,i LOVE the handling of Multitrack (and it zooms/scrolls like butter...) DAW but i stopped working with it in the same second i realized that i can not select more than one region at once.
What about Meteor and handling/zooming/scrolling?Is it smooth?
Is the mixer only in portrait mode usable?I hate working in portrait mode^^
Anyway,12 Tracks are just not enough for me...
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- KVRAF
- 4420 posts since 7 Nov, 2005 from Florida
Meteor is smooth at all times. I loaded all 12 tracks with samples and no slow downs in zoom, swipes or movement. It's a very solid app. It just needs more tracks and/or track freezing/bumping.
Mike
Mike
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- KVRist
- 138 posts since 24 Oct, 2012 from berlin
thanks for the info!Sounds good.But isn't that possible to freeze tracks?Manual says yes...Karmacomposer wrote:Meteor is smooth at all times. I loaded all 12 tracks with samples and no slow downs in zoom, swipes or movement. It's a very solid app. It just needs more tracks and/or track freezing/bumping.
Mike
And what about the mixer,is it only usable in Portrait or landscape as well?
Maybe i'll give it a try someday.Only 12 tracks,well...can be a good thing though.Keeps the focus on tracks you really need and throw out the trash quickly
And yes,bouncing is another option...
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- KVRist
- 138 posts since 10 Nov, 2009
The mixer is available in both portrait and landscape.Crabshack wrote:thanks for the info!Sounds good.But isn't that possible to freeze tracks?Manual says yes...Karmacomposer wrote:Meteor is smooth at all times. I loaded all 12 tracks with samples and no slow downs in zoom, swipes or movement. It's a very solid app. It just needs more tracks and/or track freezing/bumping.
Mike
And what about the mixer,is it only usable in Portrait or landscape as well?
Maybe i'll give it a try someday.Only 12 tracks,well...can be a good thing though.Keeps the focus on tracks you really need and throw out the trash quickly
And yes,bouncing is another option...
The only freeze I have found is for freezing insert effects.