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[Trash]

So if you dont want to see the last take always hit undo record or tap cut. If you dont want to go looking for the best take in your filing system for the project, keep all the takes up to audition them. And yes you will have to cut the top take to see and hear the take thats under it.

As for recording a stereo FX on a mono track. You dont actually record an effect but rather it is applied to the original signal either in series ie the plugin list or in parrallel ie. the busses or Aux. It only becomes part of the track after a mixdown.

Hi -

Many thanks for the extensive response.

I dont actually want to keep previous takes as they just take up space. As I think I said in my original post - my old HDD recorder used to have a 'Clean up" option which would remove all historic takes and just leave the top layer (i.e. most recent versions) available. This could be done on a per track or per song basis. The suggestion you make (hitting Undo) actually removes the last take which is exactly what I don't want to do since it is usually the last take which is the one I want to keep (otherwise I wouldn't have redone it - if you see what I mean).

As for the Stereo FX question actually I do record my effects since I mostly don't want or need to edit them later. The effects are part of the sound for me so I 'Print' them as I record (mostly). So my question kind of still stands - If I do this am I generating a stereo signal even though I am supposed to be recording to a Mono track. I tried an experiment and it seemed that I ended up with two waveforms on the mono track which seemed a bit strange..

Thank you again

[PeterDoubt]

Hi -
For the life of me I can't find this information - I'm certain it's simple but I haven't used audiobus before, I have 2 tracks recorded in a project and I'm trying to do a scratch Bass guitar track (track 3) using Thumbjam - just something simple for now. I'm using Audiobus3 with TJ as the input. I can't hear the already recorded tracks to play along to. I've enabled audiobus monitoring in the general settings. Do I have to route tracks 1 and 2 somewhere? When I just try to play the song, the levels are active but there is no sound unless I disable Audiobus.

Thanks...

I got the answer from the Audiobus forum: Auria isn't compatible with Audiobus 3 yet. AB2 works fine.

[Rim]

That's actually not true. Auria is compatible with Audiobus 3. It just doesn't make use of the new Audiobus 3 SDK. This just means that you can't do MIDI routing within Audiobus through Auria (but you can easily route MIDI using the existing CoreMIDI support). Audio routing is still fully compatible.

Rim

[PeterDoubt]

That's actually not true. Auria is compatible with Audiobus 3. It just doesn't make use of the new Audiobus 3 SDK. This just means that you can't do MIDI routing within Audiobus through Auria (but you can easily route MIDI using the existing CoreMIDI support). Audio routing is still fully compatible.

Rim

Well, when I used AB3 and played my already recorded tracks just to practice with ThumbJam, I could not hear anything. I'm talking about tracks 1and 2, vocal and guitar. This was whether Track 3 was armed or not. Audiobus was set to 'Audio', not midi. Using AB2, I was able to hear my prerecorded tracks. Was I missing something?

[Duckmandu]

I'm having trouble getting stereo out of Auria… i've never had this problem before, but presently everything on the master output is in mono. I know the tracks are in stereo, and some the effects, both inserts and send, are in stereo!

One of the three tracks seems to be mono according to the metering, even though I can see from the waveforms that the track is also in stereo; I can tell the two channels are not identical.

The other two tracks are metering in stereo.

I'm guessing something in my signal flow is messed up but I cannot for the life of me figure out what.

Thanks for your help.

- Aaron

[Rim]

Check that the MONO button isn't accidentally pressed on the master channelstrip.

Rim

[jussishow]

Hi !
Trying to figure out the finer details of the PSP Channel Strip.
I know what the expander does ... sort of ...
But what exactly am I listening to when pressing the MON(itor) button ?
Is it the signal "driving" the expander, or ?

[tubwompus]

Torturous noob question if I could, please.

iPad Pro, Focusrite Scarlett 18i20.
Just downloaded Amplitube last night.
New to third-party vst’s as I cut my teeth on Reaper and never needed any effects that weren’t bundled with Reaper.
Question is:
How do I get Auria Pro to recognize Amplitube and allow me to apply it when cutting guitar tracks?

Thank you for your patience with this punter.

ETA-Found it!!!
BUT NOW....Jayzus I’m an idiot.
Now I get a LOUD screech when I hit “play” and AmpliTube is engaged in the channel strip. It fades away after about 2 seconds.
In my confusion, I also bought and downloaded AmpliTube twice, it appears, since it shows up twice in the drop-down menu (did I mention I’m an idiot?) so it’s duplicated and I wonder if the screech is a result of a conflict between the two, although I’m only running one at a time, of course. I’d love to just wipe one of them from this iPad. Sorry for what I’m sure you consider to be inane questions.

[Aeron]

I have Final Touch as an IAA plugin and that shows up twice as well. I did read about it somewhere but can't remember why that is the case. One entry works ok and the other doesn't. Try both in turn and you may find that one of them works ok.

[tubwompus]

Thank ya sir.
Yep, did just that and so far, no sweat.
Also turns out that the screech was a one-time deal that happened to get recorded.
Still much head-scratching ensues but at least I’m back to (relative) sanity. Lol

[Carlos salazar]

Apollo 8 thunderbolt and Auria pro? Any way to make this work? Connectors, Boxes, apps etc.

[Corey W]

Unfortunately, there is no way to successfully convert any Thunderboldt interface into a recognizable device for iOS.

[mdarby]

Anthony,

I just watched a couple of your videos on parallel processing, and using the master limiter for monitoring. Both were excellent! Thank you.

May I ask a basic question on song production?

In order to test my performance skills, and understanding of Auria and other iOS apps, I am trying to cover as accurately as possible Pink Floyd's Money. It has a fair number of parts to master (five different guitar sounds, vocals, effects, etc.) It has multiple time signatures and change in tempo, which has forced me to master Auria tempo tracks. (I've also discovered and reported a bug about MIDI shifting when using tempo tracks which rendered it unusable for recording new MIDI).

Anyway, I have my instruments and vocals recorded. I've recorded multiple takes of the guitar solos in case I want to try editing out errors in my best performance. A few questions.

1. In general, what if any parts should I consider multitracking? Vocals, lead guitar, other? I have an OK but not strong voice. Would multitracking my voice make the mix sound better? If so, do I pan one to the left, and the other to the right, or leave center and perhaps have the second track at a lower level? Might this work on guitar?
2. What is the best way to fix errors in performances with edits from additional performances. I have three tracks of a guitar solo. If there is a botched note in performance #1, should I cut it out and replace with an identical sliced part from performance #2? Or should I slice it from performance #2 and just place it over the waveform for performance #1? Will I need to use cross fading, in which case should I slice a little before and after the note to enable cross fading?
3. In general, are there a few basic tricks to make a lead vocal sound stronger, other than working on the performance and taking singing lessons?

Thanks for any thoughts. I know these are basic questions, but tackling everything at once is a bit daunting. I will try a bunch of the techniques you and others have suggested as well.

All the best,
Michael

[richardyot]

1. In general, what if any parts should I consider multitracking? Vocals, lead guitar, other? I have an OK but not strong voice. Would multitracking my voice make the mix sound better? If so, do I pan one to the left, and the other to the right, or leave center and perhaps have the second track at a lower level? Might this work on guitar?
2. What is the best way to fix errors in performances with edits from additional performances. I have three tracks of a guitar solo. If there is a botched note in performance #1, should I cut it out and replace with an identical sliced part from performance #2? Or should I slice it from performance #2 and just place it over the waveform for performance #1? Will I need to use cross fading, in which case should I slice a little before and after the note to enable cross fading?
3. In general, are there a few basic tricks to make a lead vocal sound stronger, other than working on the performance and taking singing lessons?

Definitely never ever pan a double-tracked vocal. Generally you have them in the center with the double-track set to a lower volume. Double-tracking can improve a vocal but it's important that the timing and the pitch match as closely as possible for the best effect.

Crossfading an edit is usually a good idea.

And finally for vocals I recommend mild compression (say a 4:1 or 5:1 ratio, slow-ish attack and release) and some reverb and/or delay. If your pitch is a little out there is a fairly decent pitch correction tool in GarageBand which you could run your vox into.

[mdarby]

Thank you, @richardyot.