Tracktion Software

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:52 pm

braj wrote: Nope, it doesn't, but the commercial version comes with 2K midi drum loops, which should be good for getting started (especially laying out RMIV drum maps).

Aha! Now that will be useful indeed... if it's included here.

ModuLR · Post by **ModuLR** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:53 pm

headquest wrote: Little things like ignoring timestretch/looping tools in favour of implementing Mackie controller support and broadcast .wav files seem to suggest that the direction Tracktion is headed is not necessarily the one some of us had expected...

it only makes sense that they would want their hardware supported sooner than later... after all, it only uber logical. There is no mystery to unravil behind such a decission... and given a fixed period of time, one can only do so much.

valley · Post by **valley** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:58 pm

ModuLR wrote:
headquest wrote: Little things like ignoring timestretch/looping tools in favour of implementing Mackie controller support and broadcast .wav files seem to suggest that the direction Tracktion is headed is not necessarily the one some of us had expected...
it only makes sense that they would want their hardware supported sooner than later... after all, it only uber logical. There is no mystery to unravil behind such a decission... and given a fixed period of time, one can only do so much.

Yeah. How exactly would they be able to explain to owners of a thousand dollars worth of mixing surface that their own software doesn't support it. That seems like a fast way to annoy customers.

Whether you need MCU/C4 support or not, nothing looks worse for a manufacturer than when their own products can;t talk to each other.

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:04 pm

SUre, it makes excellent sense (and I wasn't implying it is a bad thing at all

). Just an observation about the interesting paralel with Digidesign, and an interesting indication of the goal Mackie may have in their sights. Makes real sense, too.

christianmusicmaker · Post by **christianmusicmaker** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 8:15 pm

headquest wrote:SUre, it makes excellent sense (and I wasn't implying it is a bad thing at all ). Just an observation about the interesting paralel with Digidesign, and an interesting indication of the goal Mackie may have in their sights. Makes real sense, too.

To be honest Headquest I don't think your comments came across in a wrong way...I too have been interested in Mackies approach even the pricing is similar.

Mackie are a hardware company and taking on digidesign even in a small way is certainly interesting to see.They certainly bought Tracktion at a good time.

I really hope those midi files ship with Tracktion... 2000!

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:05 pm

Regarding RMIV depending on Tracktion's MIDI capabilities--

Not the case at all! You can use whatever tool you want (Tracktion or otherwise) to generate MIDI loops and then preview them in RMIV. It adds an extra step compared to just creating them in RMIV or T, but you're not just limited to T's piano roll for programming them.

braj · Post by **braj** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:26 pm

Lunch Money wrote:Regarding RMIV depending on Tracktion's MIDI capabilities--

Not the case at all! You can use whatever tool you want (Tracktion or otherwise) to generate MIDI loops and then preview them in RMIV. It adds an extra step compared to just creating them in RMIV or T, but you're not just limited to T's piano roll for programming them.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Of course it responds to midi from any source, I was referring to creating a drum map easily in T for sequencing RMIV. I don't believe it has an internal drum sequencer, but has a loop library. Are you saying it has an internal drum sequencer?

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