What's so great about Tracktion?

[m_a_t_t]

I see DAWs that offer "realistically" turnable knobs, animated "flippable" switches and, uhhg, simulations of cryptic LCD displays, to be as silly and backwards-looking as (imagine this) a word-processing program that shows a simulated piece of paper, animates the strikers hitting the virtual paper as you type, a mechanical roller you need to turn (with your mouse) to adjust the position the paper, and and on-screen lever than you need to "grab and move to the left" whenever you complete a line of text.

[jabe]

I see DAWs that offer "realistically" turnable knobs, animated "flippable" switches and, uhhg, simulations of cryptic LCD displays, to be as silly and backwards-looking as (imagine this) a word-processing program that shows a simulated piece of paper, animates the strikers hitting the virtual paper as you type, a mechanical roller you need to turn (with your mouse) to adjust the position the paper, and and on-screen lever than you need to "grab and move to the left" whenever you complete a line of text.

Seconded. Waste of screen space. Warner cartoons were perfect; that's how i want my DAW - clear, simple, uncluttered. No pretend screws in corners and, for Ethel Beethoven's sake, NO stupid (and they all are) knobs.

[gesslr]

I see DAWs that offer "realistically" turnable knobs, animated "flippable" switches and, uhhg, simulations of cryptic LCD displays, to be as silly and backwards-looking as (imagine this) a word-processing program that shows a simulated piece of paper, animates the strikers hitting the virtual paper as you type, a mechanical roller you need to turn (with your mouse) to adjust the position the paper, and and on-screen lever than you need to "grab and move to the left" whenever you complete a line of text.

Fantastic description!

[SuitcaseOfLizards]

For me, it just clicks.

Tried Reaper, Sonar X3, Acid.. none of them was as "out of my face" as Tracktion is. Acid Music Studio, of all things, is second-best FOR WHAT I DO.

My past, geez, 20 tunes were done in Tracktion. I just sit down, assign my two KMI controllers, drop in a couple of synths and I'm off and recording!

FULL DISCLOSURE: I record/compose ambient, dark ambient, New Age, electronic, soundscape and cinematic music strictly using loops and samples, no audio recording, and minimal MIDI editing as I'm an old skool "If you screw it up do it again" sorta duder.

[audibell2]

When I want a mixer view I plug in a behringer BCF2000, using the midi driver and Mackie HUI, and use the flying faders, 2 banks, 16 tracks. It's also easy to make a few stem tracks at the top and mix using those. 1 = percussion, 2= guitars, 3 = subs, 4 = Vox, 5 = horns. Assign all the drum track outputs to track 1; all the guitars to output to trk 2 and so on, also put REV / DEL onto tracks 15 & 16.

A mixer page would be redundant. F1 = projects and files, F2 = setups and F3 = the current track view. I would like to assign Big Meters and/or Timecode counter to F4 but I don't need to see the waveforms as they're being recorded, that just chews up CPU cycles. A larger timecode window would be helpful in dark theatres, to make sure the FireWire cable didn't crap out.
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