New to Auria and must say I love this DAW! I am musician hobbiest at best and just now starting to get serious back into recording now that I've found this app. I used cool edit years ago and at the time I never had the proper gear to interface and my machine wasn't the best in the world for working with audio so I eventually threw my hand in with recording. Now that I have this on my ipad2 I'm fining it a joy to get back into recording. I've also got an opportunity on the horizon that I need to get my chops up to speed on self producing my own music. I'll explain further.
First a little about myself. I am in fact an engineer. Not the kind that is typically here on daw forums, but by day I'm an electrical engineer with the power utility here in my hometown. I'm a system protection, controls and automation engineer, so my daily duties require a lot of interface with software, communications, calculations, etc. I could show y'all some cool looking 60hz waveforms
(rimshot). By hobby, I'm also a gigging musician and I've ran sound all the years I've done this as well. Mostly small bar gig type things. Fun at times,, tho, a pain in the ass at times! So I'm just starting out with auria and mostly trying to do instrumental music which primarily for my own enjoyment, but I have an opportunity to get some of my music placed on TV here in the states. Not a major production, but it would be nation wide market. I've submitted a demo to them and they want me to work for them and I really need to be able to do this on my own. The demo was done at a semi pro studio and it cost a nice chunk of change and a lot of time doing so. My workflow here in auri will mostly consist of me using drum loops and laying down bass and guitars for a country/rock vibe. Speaking of drum loops, I would like any input you may have on where to find nice tracks. I've looked at the MoReVox package here and think I should go with that. For the time being I have used DrumsHD from the App Store and just paste them into auria. I don't have the interface setup like I want just yet, but considering the Behringer version of the alesis io dock. I could do most of what I need with a simple interface like that.
As for mixing and mastering,, I'm finding I've got a lot to learn and would love to collaborate with anyone here that would be willing to offer guidance. I've seen the section for user material submissions here but I wonder if anyone is actually sharing project files? For instance, I would love for someone to critique my work and if they could offer insights or suggestions on what I'm doing or not doing, that would be awesome! I would be willing to upload the project directory to my Dropbox where you could download and have a look. Any other resources for learning and education would be a great help as well. A quick question for instance: when producing a mixdown track of your mix, what's the general practice of doing that? Do you mix it down, then import as a new track or just bounce all the tracks to a new one and master it from there? Would like to know how you guys perform your workflow.
Great resource here and glad I found the app and this forum!
Thanks!
