Tracktion Software

jules · Post by **jules** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 10:06 am

Welcome to the official Tracktion Users' forum!

In case you haven't heard of it yet, Tracktion is an audio/midi workstation by Raw Material Software - for more info, visit the website at http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com

I'll be using this forum to announce new developments and releases, see what people think of new ideas, listen to feedback, bugs, etc etc.

And since I designed and wrote the whole thing (well actually only about 99% of it..) I'm probably a pretty good person to come to with your questions. I'll try to check the forum as often as I can, but I've got code to write as well, so don't be too impatient..

Jules

whyterabbyt · Post by **whyterabbyt** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 10:14 am

From the website :

Tracktion - 'Spanking the audio monkey with the slipper of good design'

Now that made me smile

And greetings.

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 10:22 am

whyterabbyt wrote:From the website :
Tracktion - 'Spanking the audio monkey with the slipper of good design'
.

Hehe, 'the day today' or 'brass eye' ??

hardy slicer · Post by **hardy slicer** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 10:39 am

Congrats, Jules! You must be happy with the response Tracktion has received thus far. With the advent of a dedicated forum, prepare yourself as best you can for a barrage of praise, questions, criticisms and suggestions.

Ian B · Post by **Ian B** » Wed Nov 27, 2002 1:18 pm

Welcome Jules,
I hope things are going as well as you wished for. As Hardy Slicer say's

Hardy Slicer wrote: prepare yourself as best you can for a barrage of praise, questions, criticisms and suggestions.

Things may get a bit hectic here

valley · Post by **valley** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 2:54 am

Ian B wrote: Things may get a bit hectic here

Well, you can't say he wasn't warned.

DaveParanoise · Post by **DaveParanoise** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 6:08 pm

I'd like to see the following in future releases of Tracktion:

DirectX and DXi support...
And a real time audio spectrum display at the audio output, like the one in Wavelab...

At the moment I use Cubase and Wavelab and I hate all the windows and fannying around...

I've been waiting for something like Tracktion for a long time, but without these two things I can't really ditched the Steinberg combination...

Everything about Tracktion I like, the app, the web site the help, it's brilliant...

zouze · Post by **zouze** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 12:58 am

Hello everyone
First, Tracktion looks good, but it crashes every time I try to open it.
I run it on a Titanium 867Mhz 512 Ram.
Are audio units planned??
Good luck
Cheers,
Tom.

jules · Post by **jules** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:00 am

Yeah - I'm just hunting down this mac crash... (can't actually get it to happen on my almost-identical PB though).

AUs - probably sometime next year.

handy · Post by **handy** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 11:02 am

It looks like CM magazine are going to up the Tracktion publicity next month - they mention that they've got a planned article on the newbies upsetting the "big" players like cubase, and it has the raw material logo rather prominent!

opiadream · Post by **opiadream** » Thu Nov 13, 2003 12:30 am

i've just finished reading the review in the november issue of CM.
it's making tracktion look rather attractive.
one of the 'against' features in the verdict sounded more like a 'for' feature to me.the lack of a traditional mixer.

Jmp9 · Post by **Jmp9** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 7:44 pm

Jules -

Please accept my thanks and congrats for producing such an effective, easy to use and stunningly affordable application. I only purchased yesterday but have already begun using Tracktion as my main musical notepad/idea tool! BTW, all my plugins-work beautifully - Amplitube works far better in your app than it does in SX! Soft synths (Reason 2.5 and Kontakt) function with no problems at all so far.

I look forward to being a customer of yours for many years to come.

Jmp9

Klemperer · Post by **Klemperer** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 9:33 pm

Hi,

even if I had some difficulties with the "serial-number"-FAQ after purchasing as there is none

and I'd have liked to know before

I just like to say that this is a wonderful program. I just can tell anyone if there being one who didn't know already that even if you own another audio/midi-sequencer Tracktion is THE addition to it. I love my Orion and Massiva with the wonderful EnergyXT, but now there is Tracktion too, and things go that easy... simply wonderful. Anyone who reads this welcome-site should try the demo. I'm sure most of you will buy Tracktion after a day or a week.

stunning! as we Germans say

Kubsch

benzed · Post by **benzed** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:53 am

Hi Jules,

I really just wanted to encourage you on your lovechild, Tracktion.

It has all the hallmarks of greatness but is still a long way off. But there is a light in the distance.

It will be interesting to see where the ride will eventually take you.

Regards
Ben

serotoninsteve · Post by **serotoninsteve** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 2:49 pm

Hello, I´m just new to Tracktion and I have to say great app!
I already tried out some other hosts starting with Orion (to buggy), going to Sam7 (full of bugs,crashes and an horrible GUI and that for 999€!!!!!), Bidule (missing powerfullsequencing) and just now I´m coming from FLstudio, wich I love very much.
But in Traction workflow is much faster!
What I did like to see is a midi editor where you could draw notes with the left and erase with the right mouse button (so you don´t have to switch between the 2 tools) like in FL and for the automation curves and velocities, etc , some lanes UNDER (and not IN) the midi editor (as many as you need for that moment and resizable), so you could see all your automation data at 1 view and you could copie and paste them alltogether in one move (or only the ones that are shown for that moment).
I just bought the latest version 1.5.1.2 for 80 Dollars, so this allowed me to save about 940€ (that makes a lot of new VST´s) in comparison to Sam7 for a better and more intuitive tool!
I think I´ve detected a bug with Reaktor 4 and it´s sequenced synths and automation, I´ve posted this in the vst incompatibility tread!
I want to know why Traction canot be rewire slave, as until now I worked in this way with Ableton and FL, now I have to go the inverse way, but Ableton canot load vst fx while in slave mode.
You are going in the right direction, so keep on!
Greetings!