No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

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No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Nyanko » Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:23 am

Hi, I have noticed a weird behavior when auria is connected to Thor via a midi channel.
If I try to play an internal instrument on another midi track, the stuff I have entered in the sequencer is executed properly but when I try to play with the internal piano keyboard, I get no sound. If I kill Thor app, I get the sound back in my track though. Is it normal behavior or is there some parameter I need to change somehow? Thanks.

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Anthony Alves » Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:55 am

Can I ask how you are connecting Thor to a midi channel? I can't get Thor to show up in the midi instrument list. I can only use Thor as an IAA plugin right now. Is that how you are connecting Thor? Cheers

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Nyanko » Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:40 am

Yeah I use it with the IAA plugin. Maybe that's why it interferes badly with in app midi instruments actually.

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Rim » Wed Dec 09, 2015 6:42 am

Are you trying to play an IAA using the Lyra keyboard? This isn't supported (the Lyra keyboard is only used for playing Lyra).

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Cpu Red » Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:44 am

This has been going on for quite some time actually. Often if thor is in an iaa slot then the sound output from auria is gone. If you press a key on the keyboard inside of thor then it starts again for a couple of seconds only to shut off again. I was hoping this problem would go away in the pro version but i see it hasnt. I usually just record thor into audioshare for this reason.

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Rim » Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:47 am

That's interesting. Have you contacted the developer of Thor to see why it's doing this?

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Cpu Red » Wed Dec 09, 2015 10:07 am

No , i hadnt cared enough since i can record into audioshare with it and open in into Auria, so it wasnt that big of an issue.

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Nyanko » Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:33 am

Cpu Red wrote:This has been going on for quite some time actually. Often if thor is in an iaa slot then the sound output from auria is gone. If you press a key on the keyboard inside of thor then it starts again for a couple of seconds only to shut off again. I was hoping this problem would go away in the pro version but i see it hasnt. I usually just record thor into audioshare for this reason.
Yeah it's exactly what I am going through. I didn't know it was like that for some time though cause I have been using the iaa only since auria pro. Thanks for the insight.

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by CEIsar » Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:01 am

Rim wrote:That's interesting. Have you contacted the developer of Thor to see why it's doing this?

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Unfortunately Propellerheads doesn`t seem to care much about Thor (a real shame) on iOS,they never delivered an update to make it working as an IAA instrument as well and i remember that it was not easy to send them a support mail .Afair you need an account first etc ( i did it once for the Rebirth app but at least i got an answer some day later...)
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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by theconnactic » Thu Dec 10, 2015 2:02 pm

Unfortunately, I've never got Thor to work as an IAA with Auria. A shame: it's the best iOS synth hands down IMO.

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by krzycrs » Thu Dec 10, 2015 2:20 pm

poll: synths be played audiobuswise or else? :)

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Cpu Red » Fri Jan 01, 2016 3:38 am

After three weeks and ten emails, this is the only real response to this problem I have received from propellerhead. This was over two weeks ago and I havent heard back from them since. I had to pester them for a week to even get this response:

"Thor sends audio as a generator, but Auria should be owning the audio session since it's hooking up Thor as an input to its session. I don't see how Thor could negatively affect Auria's setup to the level where all other audio stops.

I'll ask around to some other developers but right now I have no idea what could be happening."

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Re: No sound from other tracks when connected to Thor

Post by Rim » Fri Jan 01, 2016 6:58 am

Thanks, if they want to contact me directly, please have them e-mail me. Typically when you see all audio being killed like that, it's because something is outputting a NaN. NaNs are special values in a floating point system (it stands for Not A Number). If iOS (Core Audio) ever encounters a NaN in the audio stream, it shuts off all audio for protection. Most likely Thor is outputting a NaN.

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