Good host for audio tracks?

[metamorphosis]

What's wrong with Tracktion? Either 1 or 2? It's still the best.

Yeah - asides from some fairly heavy bugs concerning disk buffering. I wouldn't bother.

[nuisance sonore]

Hmmm. EXT looks very promising.
What I need in the host is loop recording and for it to be able to make/program time signature changes.
Say 20 bars of 4/4 and then go in to 5/8 for 4 bars and then back to 4/4.......
Does anybody know if EXT can do it?

last I've read it was high up on the to do list, but no, not possible yet or I would have bought it already.

[dee ess pee]

Certainly NOT tracktion 2.

Check audition, protools, sonar, sawstudio, n-track, and krystal

[ModuLR]

all hosts have +/-'s ... in spite of any rough edges, T2 is great with audio...

[james0tucson]

protools of course

Just because you can cut your fingernails with garden shears, doesn't mean it's a great idea.

[Lunch Money]

dee ess pee, I can understand people not liking Tracktion, but it's absolutely insane to recommend krystal over it. Also interesting are the protools and sawstudio recommendations....

Sonar, Audition, and (from what I hear, regarding the latest releases) n-track aren't off the wall, though.

Personally, I go for Tracktion. The 'rough edges' are being aggressively attacked, despite what some people may think. I'm fortunate enough to be a little bit more involved, as a beta tester, and while I obviously can't go into detail, I can assure anyone and everyone that it is by no means being ignored.

The stability of T1 makes me very confident that T2 will soon have those rough edges removed... and the only reason (strictly in my opinion, no one has ever said this to me) it's rough at all is all the pressure to release.

Greg

[hello1234]

protools of course

Yes, if you can be limited to 32 total tracks and have an maudio compatible soundcard (mpowered) this is really the best AUDIO host out there....

Oh and it does midi better than you think

BUT!

You might want to consider live 5.........I cannot get over how well it works, I cannot believe how much fun it is........and it's really really stable....

[hello1234]

Hmmm. EXT looks very promising.
What I need in the host is loop recording and for it to be able to make/program time signature changes.
Say 20 bars of 4/4 and then go in to 5/8 for 4 bars and then back to 4/4.......
Does anybody know if EXT can do it?

last I've read it was high up on the to do list, but no, not possible yet or I would have bought it already.

No, and it is the only real drawback about xt.....
jorgen says he's working on it

[nuisance sonore]

Hmmm. EXT looks very promising.
What I need in the host is loop recording and for it to be able to make/program time signature changes.
Say 20 bars of 4/4 and then go in to 5/8 for 4 bars and then back to 4/4.......
Does anybody know if EXT can do it?

last I've read it was high up on the to do list, but no, not possible yet or I would have bought it already.

No, and it is the only real drawback about xt.....
Jules says he's working on it

Jules? I thouht the dev name was Jorgen.
And that's one aspect I don't understand at all, why was this not implemented from the start? I mean, is there anything more basic than tempo when making music? This is the most ridiculous oversight.

[hello1234]

my bad............

[hello1234]

I think it's weird.

energyxt is a nice little do-whippy though

[Germ777]

Jules? I thouht the dev name was Jorgen.
And that's one aspect I don't understand at all, why was this not implemented from the start? I mean, is there anything more basic than tempo when making music? This is the most ridiculous oversight.

It is Jörgen. Jules developed Tracktion.
As far as tempo changes goes. Unfortunately 99.9% of all popular music is under 3 mins long and it stays in 4/4 so from a marketing and developing standpoint. It is not really that important. Most people use these apps to make dance oriented and straight forward music.
I bought XT anyway and I am loving it!!

[stefancrs]

What's wrong with Tracktion? Either 1 or 2? It's still the best.

I guess you haven´t bee to the Europe T2 thread
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86814

Or the "Freelunch" one.
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=86674

T was my first choice, but I need loop recording which is only available in T2 and I can not pay over 200+$ for it right now.

You might want to check out Podium as well then. Very capable, imo. Takes a while to understand it's different design if you're used to some other sequencer, apart from that, everything is soooo elegantly thought-out

[Germ777]

You might want to check out Podium as well then. Very capable, imo. Takes a while to understand it's different design if you're used to some other sequencer, apart from that, everything is soooo elegantly thought-out

I ended up buying that too for my Prog Metal projects
Unfortunately the project fizzled out before I could get anything done
I love Podium but I use lots of FX and the way things work in the lay out just does not lend itself to using them so I am waiting for a change in the FX use. Frits already said he will be doing something about it.

[stefancrs]

Ah, yeah, I think he will support having several effects in series directly on one channel. Hopefully it'll just be a visual thing. Like a "merge" of channels, so that you later on can unmerge them if you decide that you want to send another track into the same chain of inserts, but not at the start of the chain. And so forth