Newbie Questions

[bobaudio]

Wow! That ECS thing worked! Thanks for the tip. I really should be better about looking into manuals and such, but thanks for the help.

I thought it was ridiculous that you couldn't use a midi input device to control a vst parameter. Maybe there is a third party tool for this for VSTi's that don't have ECS.. hmm..

[bobaudio]

ok one more while I'm at it...

The events show up as controller data instead of VST automation information. Fair enough. But, how do I edit those blue peaks and valleys I now have? I tried choosing many of the vast number of controller options when I click on the yellow knob in Tracktion. But, no luck. I'm I just not finding the right one? I probably need to go to my keyboard (radium) manual to figure this one out.

Thanks again for helping out this clueless newbie. I promise to help the next round of newbies when the time comes!

[ancientoak]

If you click the knob icon like you say, and open the "controllers" menu, some of those controllers should be in green. Those are the ones active in the midi clip, the red ones haven't been tweaked.
Although if your Radium has 8 or 16 knobs, you would have a better idea of which knob goes with which controller, if you found out what was set up in the Radium. You can download the free midi multi-tool MIDI-OX at http://www.midiox.com and see what CCs are transmitted. Or you can look trough the manual for you Radium for a default mappings chart.

[Hengy]

for info- console (running as a vsti inside tracktion) enables you to control vst's that don't directly support external midi controllers- it allows you to map cc's to parameters, auto assign controllers and a lot more besides. oh and it will also act as a dxi host inside tracktion

[bassburner]

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I really like the feel of Tracktion so far. I'm planning on using it with Reason so we'll see how that goes. I noticed you have a FAQ item about setting up your machine. Here's a site that is about tweaking Windows XP for music usage, http://www.musicxp.net/ (http://www.musicxp.net/).

Thanks,
Andy

[pough]

I'm planning on using it with Reason so we'll see how that goes.

It's ability to work with Reason was one of its main selling points for me. I never did manage to get Cubase SL working with Reason in any way that wasn't so frustrating that it precluded me actually getting anything done. Top marks here for the Rewire implementation! That and Jules himself are worth the price of admission, IMO. All the rest has been icing. And not the cheap, yucky icing either, but the good stuff that's thick and has cream cheese in it.

[Beno]

I hate cream cheese icing...but I love Tracktion!

Ben

[valley]

uh-uh - icing should be thickly layered and set hard, preferably seated on a generous layer of marzipan, enclosing a rich dark fruit cake.... <slobber>

[valley]

I noticed you have a FAQ item about setting up your machine.

Kind of, it's a work in progress...

Here's a site that is about tweaking Windows XP for music usage, http://www.musicxp.net/.

Cheers, I'll add it to the FAQ.

[bassburner]

Cubase, ugh. I own 3.7 and 5 VST and I don't use them. In fact I shaved my head once I got so fed up with latency issues.

[Pädy]

Here's a site that is about tweaking Windows XP for music usage, http://www.musicxp.net/.

Cheers, I'll add it to the FAQ.

Please don't. If you don't know exactly what you're doing, you can easily shoot down your entire computer with those "tuning tips" - I witnessed several such cases.
Besides, it's not like in the old Win 9X days anymore - all you need to do is set the famous processor scheduling to background services - and maybe disable some of those visual effects. Everything else is purely optional really - and again you better know what you're doing then.
In my opinion there should be a penalty for setting up a website like this - it's a disaster waiting to happen.

[ModuLR]

Hmmm.. I LOVE hacking my registry! it's fun tweaking windows.. and I can honestly say that the musicxp.net reghacks are not harmful. Find the key, make the changes.. it's really just not that hard.

[Pädy]

If you LOVE it and think it's FUN to do this, then go on. I definitely won't keep you.
On the other hand if you rather want a reliable and fast system you better keep your hands off those tuning tips.

<Find the key, make the changes.. it's really just not that hard.>

I'm not saying it's hard - on the contrary - it's bloody easy; which is part of the problem. But what I'm trying to bring across here is, there is no point in "tuning" windows. It's a very good and fast music OS right out of the box.

[IIRs]

there is no point in "tuning" windows. It's a very good and fast music OS right out of the box.

[multree]

Is it possible to save edits of an edit like you're working on a song and make so wierd tweakings that maybe annoying tomorrow but maybe not... so is it possible to have a "save as.." amongst the "save edit" in the menu or is there a workaround....

and one tiny suggestion: When you have e.g. 20 tracks and you click on fit all tracks on screen.. (good option btw) and then zoom into the midi editor or even an audio file and zoom back... the file is bigger then before.. so you'll have to click "fit all tracks on screen" again.... would be cool if the zooming wouldn't affect the size it zoomed out of...

Mul

btw: Jules you'll get my money as soon as I found someone with a credit card *gg* Tracktion kicks butt