Aurora Sound Studio
We have been busy working on a great update for Aurora which will be with you soon.

We have listened to your feedback and have incorporated a number of new features that you though would make Aurora even better.

Aurora Sound Studio HD v1.4 will include these great new features.

MIDI Out Support
Aurora now allows you to use an external keyboard as a sound source replacing the internal synthesiser engines. This new feature can be used by the sequencer and for live play.

Octave Control
An Octave control has been added to the Layer Properties dialog allowing you to transpose both MIDI output and internal instruments.

PasteBoard
PasteBoard support has been added to allow copying of all or part of a songs audio to other applications. Aurora also allows you to copy multi-track audio directly into our multi-track recorder Meteor.

Export Facility
A new 'Export To WAV' option allows a fully automated export of the current song to a WAV file and an alternative to 'Record To File' which allows you to record live performances.

Hold Note Features
We have added a 'Hold Notes' feature which allows consecutive notes to be to be treated as a single held note, rather than repeat triggering of the note. This can be turned on or off on a layer by layer basis.


We have also made a number of improvements with

Improved Stability.
Improved Tempo timing.
Relaxed the profanity filter on file names.



about 2 months ago · Report
Jan Wanschura
nice update.
about 2 months ago · Report

Aurora Sound Studio
Thanks Jan, keep your comments coming on further updates you would like to see, it may have taken us a while but we are listening.

Tracy
about 2 months ago · Report
Aurora Sound Studio
This is now the complete list of everything included in Aurora Sound Studio HD version 1.4

Core MIDI Out Support
Aurora now allows you to use an external keyboard as a sound source replacing the internal synthesiser engines. This new feature can be used by the sequencer and for live play.

Octave Control
An Octave control has been added to the Layer Properties dialog allowing you to transpose both MIDI output and internal instruments.

PasteBoard Support
PasteBoard support has been added to allow copying all or part of a songs audio to other applications. Aurora also allows you to copy multi-track audio directly into our multi-track recorder Meteor.

Export to Wav
A new 'Export To WAV' option allows a fully automated export of the current song to a WAV file and an alternative to 'Record To File' which allows you to record live performances.

Hold Notes
We have added a 'Hold Notes' feature which allows consecutive notes to be to be treated as a single held note, rather than repeat triggering of the note. This can be turned on or off on a layer by layer basis.

Paste Sample
Added the ability to paste sample data from the global PasteBoard into the Sampler so long as the sample length is less than 10 seconds,

MIDI Clock
An experimental MIDI clock feature has been added to synchronise with external MIDI devices.

Bug Fixes

• Improved Stability.
• Improved Tempo timing.
• Relaxed the profanity filter on file names.

about a month ago · Report

Brian Anderson
- I haven't found a way to loop play a set of blocks yet.

This simple feature is absolutely required in order to use Aurora in combination with other hardware. In the big picture, Aurora is one piece of equipment used to create music. Looping a set of patterns or blocks is a must especially with the coming midi update.

The Tenori-on could have been amazing but the simple lacking feature of chain playing blocks eliminated it's usefulness. Aurora has a song mode that chains blocks, yes, but the chain does not loop.

Is there something I am missing?
about a month ago · Report
Brian Anderson
Great update!!

I can control my drum machine with aurora, but still i have the same problem: How can I have it loop an 8 pattern drum beat?

Should I copy the chain over and over to fill 10 mins? Please consider to patch this feature in sooner rather than later!

Great job so far!

about a month ago · Report
Gaetan Krausch-lacroix
nice update, thanks a lot for your work....it's really a great app :-))))))
about a month ago · Report
Aurora Sound Studio
Brian hopefully this will help you with loops

There are a number of ways to achieve what you want but this is not so easy to explain!

If you create a block (block 1) which for the sake of argument we call a ‘verse’ and the verse contains several layers, one of which is a drum layer, we might well want to copy and paste the drum layer into block 2, the ‘chorus’. This seems like a reasonable thing to do, but you don’t necessarily want the same drum beat throughout your song. Sp chances are you will want to create different blocks (song sections) with their own drum patterns or drum layer.

When in song mode and you ADD a block to the a song chain, by default it adds all the layers of a selected block. However, you don’t have to do this, you can mix and match drum layers from whichever block you like. To do this you need to switch from ‘All Layers’ to ‘Single Layer’ then you can freely mix and match layers from any block and add them to a position in the song chain.

See the section on ‘Constructing Your Song’ in the later half of this video.

  

about a month ago · Report
Brian Anderson
Thanks for the reply!

I have watched that video, its a great intro and shows a lot of the great features of Aurora Sound Studio! It does not show any form of looping a set of patterns, it shows manually laying out patterns to play in a single sequence, that plays once.

For example:

I have a lead synth and base playing on a different sequencer, and want to use Aurora to sequence the drums in the background.

I can't loop a 4 block song in Aurora, so instead I have to lay out a massive song for 6 minutes that repeats the patterns in order over and over, to keep the drum loop alive. If I would want to change the 4 block loop to a 5 block loop for different timing, then I would have to recreated the entire song, which means manually copying and pasting 5 blocks repeating over and over for 6 minutes length.

In contrast, If I could loop a song, then I would have a 4 block song. If I want to switch it up, I can add a single block to the end and have a 5 block song.

Please add the ability to continuously loop a song (without a pause or timing hiccup).

Aurora rocks!
Brian