I agree about the time thing-- in fact, one of my comments was, "If you're not re-arranging the beat at all, I could make a whole drum track in Acid in the time it takes to make one loop with this method" or something similar. So, no argument there.
I disagree with the skill, though. The whole entire point of the example is that if you follow the steps, it takes no skill whatsoever. There's simply nothing you can do wrong. There's not even any programming, because you just snap everything to the individual MIDI clips.
I will amend the thread so that it includes the second way of doing it (visually, with just 1 MIDI clip), but even THAT doesn't require any programming skill. It's all visual.
I don't think that saying Tracktion has 'timestretch' is a lie. It's just not usable for this application. I actually DO use it with loops for sketching out ideas, though. It's easy enough to do if you're mostly using it as a 'more complicated metronome' or to actually arrange my track before passing off drum duties to a collaborator or using Plasma Express to finalize my drum track.
Nobody would buy Tracktion merely because it advertises timestretch; and if they did, they should slap themselves on the wrist for not trying out the publicly and easily available demo.
Greg
