A question about hosts

[dougsyo]

I tried as much as possible to start the thread as general as possible without going into details with any of the host, but now I find my self really want to ask you about something you said about Tracktion

Tracktion works differently yet from both of them - I looked at it, and since I primarily work with MIDI it didn't seem that hot to me. I kinda liked Muzys until it bellied-up.

I understnd how you wanted to talk general... for me, the specific about Tracktion when I looked at it (I think it was still pre-version 1 at the time) was the MIDI editing, which seemed primitive compared to some of the other sequencers I'd been using (I've also used Jazz and Powertracks Pro Audio).

Doug

[BONES]

i use orion platinum cos bones threatened to kill me if i didnt

And I wasn't f**king around, either.

[BONES]

Hi, I was just wondering;
Why do many people choose some new hosts like Tracktion,FL or Orion instead of the old ones Logic, Protools, Cubase? Is it the price or does it make them feel new and not old?

You can say new but I've been using ORION for 4 or 5 years or so now and Fruity for 18 months before that. My how time flies. I use ORION because it is the most hardware-like paradigm and I have never had to learn how to do anything in it, it is super-intuitive.

[.jon]

Clear interface is a big thing to me. I like to see everything at a glance, and I want as little fiddling as possible. Although Cubase is good & quite complete, the size and amount of things on screen was a problem for me, and there were huge amount of features that I really don't ever need and so don't want to pay for them.

So I bought Tracktion and energy XT, and there's no way I'm ever going to switch over again. My friend, avid Cubase user since 98 or smthng, came over to record some cellos on a tune, and he said "genius" at least three times when he used Tracktion. There are some pretty cool interface features that make arranging very comfortable and very fast.

I'm quite confident Tracktion 2 will be one of the best sequencers ever.

[herodotus]

I bought Tracktion because it was cheap.

I have tried the demo versions of many other hosts, and recorded my last bands demo on a pro tools set up, and I must say, I don't feel like I am missing anything with Tracktion.

[kritikon]

Likewise I'm a Cubase user from Atari days. When you get used to a way of working over lots of years, it's just too much hard work to change it all around, even though some other hosts have some attractive things in them (as does Cubase).

There are probably lots of users like us - back in the day, there was only really Cubase or Logic (or whatever it was called then...can't remember), so you picked one or the other. Then you got used to it and stuck with it, even when the choice started improving, unless there was something particular another host offered. But once you get used to either Logic or Cubase, there's no real big reason to change over - there's very little any other host can do that Cubase/Logic can't do, and vice versa.

And as for the long list of things Cubase doesn't do...I can say exactly the same thing about any other host....but it's all minor stuff really.

[donkey tugger]

or Logic (or whatever it was called then...can't remember).

Notator, and it was still shite.

[origami]

I use FL Studio simply because when I started making music and tried some of the most popular sequencers (Orion, Reason, FL, Muzy's and Cubase) I realised I had to choose one, so FL seemed at the time to be the most suitable for me. I was tempted by Orion too, but Orion didn't record audio at the time, and that was the basic reason I chose FL.
It works for me, I can do everything I've tried to do up to now, so for the moment I won't change. Soon I'll buy my first hardware synth, and if it doesn't work well in FL, then I'll have to reconsider things, but till then...

[kritikon]

Notator, and it was still shite.

Yeah...Notator, that's it. I've heard that Logic is slightly less shite nowadays though? (Although Logic seemed to be stretching things as a descriptive name).
Notator wasn't that good a name either - NoFuckingAnything was more appropriate for me. It was so twisted in concept, I couldn't get it to do anything useable.