I have a few old songs still festering in Sonar 2 and ACID 4...
I tried to go back to them the other night, just get 'em out of the way, get 'em finished so I could uninstall the programs for good.
Sigh... I couldn't even tolerate the workflow long enough to do it! I can't write music at all now unless I'm using Tracktion!
I think I'm going to have to just export them as single wave files and reopen in Tracktion.
Tracktion has ruined me...
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 250 posts since 15 Jul, 2002
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- KVRAF
- 3080 posts since 26 Mar, 2002 from london
Same here. tried rewiring old Orion songs but even that was too much bother - eventually just streamed wavs and imported.
Every day takes figuring out all over again how to f#ckin’ live.
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- KVRAF
- 1974 posts since 21 Jun, 2002 from Earth
I always keep my options open testing and retesting alternate hosts thinking that something is gonna click that didn't before and guess what? it just doesn't happen. No matter what, I always come back to Tracktion.
It makes me laugh. I'm like a crackhead.
It makes me laugh. I'm like a crackhead.
ModuLR / Radio
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- KVRian
- 974 posts since 10 May, 2003
Can't imagine ever going back to Cubase and the like. It's just not possible anymore. Everytime i see a hardware-mixer GUI i get panic-attacks.
Well, almost
Well, almost
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- KVRist
- 161 posts since 22 Oct, 2003 from New Zealand
I'm with Lava on this too - Sonar 2.2 just doesn't cut it anymore workflow wise, so it's a real chore going back even tho there is the odd feature (loop explorer, mfx midi effects and drum editor are 3 of them) that I still yearn for occasionally.
Jed
Jed
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- KVRist
- 499 posts since 27 Nov, 2003 from Oslo, Norway
Totaly agrea, I used 8 weeks before the end of last year trying to port cubaseSX song works, and Reason blatterings, to Tracktion, ended up exporting audio tracks, but it was a work in progress, so it fell between two chairs.
Tracktion keeps it going, though! No more greedy dev. bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!
Traction:
Tracktion keeps it going, though! No more greedy dev. bastards!!!!!!!!!!!!
Traction:
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- KVRist
- 63 posts since 7 Aug, 2002 from Bristol, UK
Whilst I agree with workflow and ease of use issues, surely you must find there are some advantages to the way Acid and Orion work, for example:
Acid's timestretching is great, I use it mainly just for its Beatmapper (since I mainly like to bootleg songs ala DJ Shadow and 2 Many DJs). Meanwhile, Orion does have some very tasty synths, so that is what I use if for, then I stream the pattern to WAV and use in Tracktion.
So I say, create a healthy union of all your tools, then use Tracktion to bring them all together. I think of Acid, Orion and others as the DNA and Tracktion as the cell from which the DNA is expressed - but then I am a Human Geneticist by training and a Biology teacher to be, so that's just me.
Acid's timestretching is great, I use it mainly just for its Beatmapper (since I mainly like to bootleg songs ala DJ Shadow and 2 Many DJs). Meanwhile, Orion does have some very tasty synths, so that is what I use if for, then I stream the pattern to WAV and use in Tracktion.
So I say, create a healthy union of all your tools, then use Tracktion to bring them all together. I think of Acid, Orion and others as the DNA and Tracktion as the cell from which the DNA is expressed - but then I am a Human Geneticist by training and a Biology teacher to be, so that's just me.
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- KVRist
- 358 posts since 2 Dec, 2002
I found it difficuly to be without Muzys playroom feature, where you can build longer songs out of smaller segments or songs - live. Not unlike Ableton.
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- KVRist
- 161 posts since 30 May, 2004
Same here. After demoing Tracktion for a few days and putting it up against my Sonar - I bought Tracktion.
I never really like Sonar's bizillion windows and itty bitty icons even on 1280x1024. Tracktion is just better and faster at the user interface. I have a really hard time now with Sonar because of how EASY it is to arrange, edit, etc in the main window of Tracktion.
I never really like Sonar's bizillion windows and itty bitty icons even on 1280x1024. Tracktion is just better and faster at the user interface. I have a really hard time now with Sonar because of how EASY it is to arrange, edit, etc in the main window of Tracktion.
