Used this and realised why IAA is not finished.
The thing not commonly explained, is that Audio Unit v3 is not a direct and equal replacement for IAA as a ‘plug-in’ system. As far as I have found, IAA instruments in GarageBand on my iPad Pro M1 are recorded as waveforms ie an audio sound. The sound patches in Nave, have really been worked on, and the sonic adjustments you can make, while playing, seem endless. I think my workflow might be to record a whole lot of material into Apple’s baby DAW, and then cut and shut/comp it into what fits afterward. Audio Unit plugin versions, are limited in GB iOS/iPadOS to what is variable using automation in that DAW, and drops in as MIDI. Thus IAA is a recorded actual sound (ie tweak anything you like, you get what you did, exactly), and AUv3 plugins only really vary and have as automation, what the two wheels to the left were altered to as time went by.
But, IAA can only have one instance per song, not multiple instances like with AUv3. Not always the issue it might be. For that ‘special sound’ or ambient twisting audio in the background, you don’t need multiple instances with Nave, is one way to look at it. So IAA while ‘deprecated’ is by no means replaceable by an Audio Unit version, especially if the IAA connectivity is well done. GB iOS/iPadOS only sends ‘start’ and ‘stop’ MIDI signals I have measured, hence limited automation…all of which leads me to this: The Waldorf Nave has a suite of sounds that come with it, and a ‘tweak-ability’ that are beyond the norms of iOS/iPadOS. I used it for ten minutes, and already have over a dozen other iOS soft synths, and this probably makes half of them look quite weak. I recorded into GB on iPadOS on the Pro M1, messed with some setting or other, and it sounded pretty amazing.
That’s it, it’s quite something, AUv3 not being done vs this having IAA only, isn’t as bad as it might be. The intrinsic excellence of Nave, and the quality of the sound patches as standard, is why it’s not by any means done yet.
But, IAA can only have one instance per song, not multiple instances like with AUv3. Not always the issue it might be. For that ‘special sound’ or ambient twisting audio in the background, you don’t need multiple instances with Nave, is one way to look at it. So IAA while ‘deprecated’ is by no means replaceable by an Audio Unit version, especially if the IAA connectivity is well done. GB iOS/iPadOS only sends ‘start’ and ‘stop’ MIDI signals I have measured, hence limited automation…all of which leads me to this: The Waldorf Nave has a suite of sounds that come with it, and a ‘tweak-ability’ that are beyond the norms of iOS/iPadOS. I used it for ten minutes, and already have over a dozen other iOS soft synths, and this probably makes half of them look quite weak. I recorded into GB on iPadOS on the Pro M1, messed with some setting or other, and it sounded pretty amazing.
That’s it, it’s quite something, AUv3 not being done vs this having IAA only, isn’t as bad as it might be. The intrinsic excellence of Nave, and the quality of the sound patches as standard, is why it’s not by any means done yet.
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