Tracktion Software

larsby · Post by **larsby** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:41 pm

Whaaaaaaat?
You can solo tracks, and even mute them????
That is a great feature!!!

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:48 pm

larsby wrote:Whaaaaaaat?
You can solo tracks, and even mute them????
That is a great feature!!!

Bloatware?

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:21 pm

I really hope they don't decide to add a save function. I would hate to listen to some of my stuff a second time.

Koolkeys

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:36 pm

anyway back on point!!!

up the fliping catch in the settings

& koolkeys, if your stuff sounded like mine you deffentley wouldent want a save function

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 11:11 pm

boogooloo1 wrote:Oh, and Meta - I DID start reading your thread, but stopped when everyone started rambling about the old hoary bit depth debate - lol

Yeah... that's the dumb part... but it's after that that I mention that I can get 20+ tracks in cubase no-sweat-

IndiQa · Post by **IndiQa** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:00 am

Works Fine here also 16/4410 24/96 all the same except 24/96 is better

lharless · Post by **lharless** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:33 pm

flanneljammies wrote:
loomchild wrote:...the lack of a proper mixer view which was supposedly there to help your "workflow" is in fact nothing but annoying for most users who are used to regular sequencers/mixing environements.
Then stick with yr "regular" sequencer. I'll stick with my "entry level" one.

HERE HERE!!

polaris20 · Post by **polaris20** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:36 pm

lharless wrote:
we can run 50+ tracks with more than 50 vst plugs before we overload.

not bad. not bad at all.

Jeez, what kind of hardware are you running? That's amazing.

djsubject · Post by **djsubject** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:51 pm

polaris20 wrote:
lharless wrote:
we can run 50+ tracks with more than 50 vst plugs before we overload.

not bad. not bad at all.
Jeez, what kind of hardware are you running? That's amazing.

not realy

i can get up to 90 vst\vsti's running on my amd xp 2000

dont know about 50 audio tracks

but i have had 30+ with no problems

Subz

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:39 pm

Count me as one of those with problems then, 'cause I can't get close to that unless it's just with really basic plug-ins.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:19 pm

Plugin count doesn't mean anything without specifically noticing which they are and how many voices (in case of VSTis) they're playing back.

Regarding audio track count, any modern system should give you around 128 mono tracks at 24bit/44.1kHz without too much noticeable CPU overhead.

lharless · Post by **lharless** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:20 am

polaris20 wrote:
lharless wrote:
we can run 50+ tracks with more than 50 vst plugs before we overload.

not bad. not bad at all.
Jeez, what kind of hardware are you running? That's amazing.

you merely need look at my sig little friend...

it works. and it works nice.

lharless · Post by **lharless** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:38 am

the test was more than 50 tracks of the same 3 minute 16/44.1 mono guitar recording. we used waves LinMB, 10 band eq, Rvox, Rcomp and some other waves plugins mixed with mda, mackie plugs, and some beta bugs stuff... i know we used a ton of other shit we found via kvr too, but i couldn't list all that shit...no way. we're always checking out the free plugs from time to time. i couldn't tell you WHAT we used on every track. but i will tell you that YES, we had no problems with over 50 tracks. i don't remember the exact number of tracks. we were trying to make it fail. at around 50-55-60 tracks, some with plugs, some without (we just added plugs and ran the default settings, just to have them there).

we just wanted to jack everything up and see what it would do. since we record rock bands mostly, we just used 16/44.1 for the test. i'd assume that half this performance would be in order if we upped to 24 bit. lol. what do you think? i dunno.

so... the test went fine. maybe not the most scientific, but then again, we weren't doing it for anyone other than ourselves. haha! so.. no bitchin!

that's my story and im sticking to it...

as for what i do professionally, i don't ever get to that many tracks. i don't even get CLOSE! it just feels good knowing that i can get a high track count if the guy needs it.

anyways.. i don't over effect my tracks either. so if i can use a couple plugs on each track with a track count of about 32, im good to go sistah! woohoo!

lharless · Post by **lharless** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:42 am

my computer is a sager np5670, upgraded to the max specs on EVERYTHING. i use pcmcia firewire, and i have tweaked my OS to the hilt. it's pure audio machine, tweaked out in every way. i think i have like 8 services running. maybe 6. a ton of other tweaks that i found online and from friends in the biz "biz" biz BiZZz...zzz.

we didn't make the transition to T2 until we were happy that this would work either. and we're coming from steinberg products and a really crappy experience with po' tools.

i suggest reading alot and trying new configs out. its worth the read time and experimental time. i dont know what else to say about it.

polaris20 · Post by **polaris20** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:31 pm

You know what would be cool is a standardized test using stock plug-ins for a 3 minute recording, to see how many tracks a computer could do.

They have this over at the Pro Tools forum, and call it the DaveC test (apparently the forum member who devised it).

Then we could list the chipset, FSB, cpu, RAM, HD, etc. of the computer we're using, and make it a sticky.

Just a thought. I've already got many benchmarks run using SANDRA between a variety of computers, because I'm an IT support guy.

Tracktion Software

KVR Audio

Can someone explain why Tracktion can't handle audio??