Tracktion Software

tovokas · Post by **tovokas** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 3:42 am

I usually record at 24/44, with roughly half my tracks strictly virtual, so even in the bad old days I didn't run into many hard drive/buffering issues. (I rarely have more than 10-12 audio clips playing at the same time, even in huge songs)

But I'll load things up and let you know what I find.

Jesse Gorter · Post by **Jesse Gorter** » Sun Jun 19, 2011 9:48 am

it crashed way too many times for me to really work with it.

tovokas · Post by **tovokas** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 12:19 am

metamorphosis wrote:Does it still have the buffering problem? (test by aligning 24 24bit 96khz long audio clips on different tracks and see how many tracks you can enable before it starts to glitch).
Cheers,
Ma@

Interesting... at exactly 24 clips (24 bit 88khz) it starts to glitch. (If I lower the buffer down from 150 megs to something lower, the glitches correspondingly kick in at lower and lower track numbers)

Again, I've never run into this in actual use because of how I work (I completed my entire last CD in Tracktion 3 without encountering it) - but it seems to be a totally arbitrary problem based on the 150 meg buffer limit. (Which is absurdly low considering the amount of ram everyone is running around with now...

)

Just another one of those, 'if they were just making simple updates' things...

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:58 pm

Yeah, it's been that way since V1 unfortunately. With 96khz you get about 21 tracks before it starts to glitch. It's a pig to deal with in studio scenarios. Particularly since I've gotten used to recording at 96k, and vocals in particular seem to sound better in that space.

Dave Wiz · Post by **Dave Wiz** » Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:03 pm

federu wrote:
Spitfire31 wrote: Just lift your foot off the brake pedal and it'll run fine again…:D

Joachim

Freudian mistake obviously . I'll lift my foot till my car breaks. Thanks.
Now back to music.

Is that when you say one thing but really mean to say amother?

grozbat · Post by **grozbat** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:53 pm

I've always loved Tracktion and am loath to leave for another DAW it. I can't figure out why it was never a success because to me it was always the best, simplest, most productive DAW around. It never sold music magazines though, with their "How do I do this in CuBase/Logic/ProTools" articles, because doing anything in Tracktion was always a no-brainer. I wonder if that's why the magazines never ever mentioned Tracktion - realizing that no one would need to buy their magazines if everyone used Tracktion.

I wish Mackie would give Tracktion away for free. At least the basic version. That way it should enjoy a renaissance and Mackie would probably end up making more money selling upgrades.

opus_diaboli · Post by **opus_diaboli** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 6:34 pm

The strange thing is that I started with Tracktion years ago and I really liked it. Then, after I realized, that Tracktion has no feature, I switched to Reaper. This was three (?) years ago and now, when I look at the Tracktion interface again, it looks utterly clunky, somewhat limited and strange to me. So in the end it's just a matter of habits. All I can say now is that Reaper offers much more possibilities and once you learned the basics it's very comfortable to work with. Really. And it gets better and better with every release.

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:41 am

Have to disagree with you there.

opus_diaboli · Post by **opus_diaboli** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:57 am

metamorphosis wrote:Have to disagree with you there.

No problem. In what point exactly do you disagree?

skipkent · Post by **skipkent** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 1:43 am

I'll wager he's disagreeing with your comments on Tracktion's workflow and ergonomics. Reaper does lot's of stuff and does it really well, but many of us prefer working in Tracktion. To some of us it's not the least bit clunky or strange at all.

To me, it's a really unique and inspiring program in which I really enjoy working and playing with ideas. I also enjoy Reaper for a variety of tasks, ReaRoute formost among them. It's a work of genius for which I have nothing but praise.

Tracktion is where I feel at home, though, and for that reason it's the place I get the best work done.

paveloso · Post by **paveloso** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:03 am

I left Tracktion years ago, right after I felt alienated by T3. I do have a T2 license that I open from time to time but, honestly, I like the beautiful blue welcome screen, but not much else anymore. I find I can do more things comfortably and easily in Ableton Live than in Tracktion, and more detailed audio stuff in Pro Tools.

Moaning over a tool seems futile to me, however. In the end, tools cannot be more important than one's own creativity.

An artisan would not be doomed without one particular chisel. If he was doomed, maybe he wasn't that much of an artisan to begin with!

skipkent · Post by **skipkent** » Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:13 am

No arguments there. And I do love the blue screen of T2 much better than the bright orange obnoxiousness of T3! I love the features of T3, though. Very happy with those myself overall. There are issues occasionally, but nothing I can't or won't work around. All the songs I'm happiest with were done in Tracktion. That's the bottom line for me.

Live is fun for jamming and I like the routing, but I could never get comfortable with the horizontal edit page in the same way I am with Tracktion.

In the end, I found I can jam on ideas *almost* as easily in T as in Live's session view, so I'm no longer drawn to Live.

One thing I really love about Tracktion is the project page, and how it keeps track of all the versions and lets you add notes, change file names and such really easily, all on one page.

None of that is impossible in other apps of course and yes, Reaper probably does it better with just a couple of macro commands

.

seamonkey · Post by **seamonkey** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:34 pm

After upgrading to a new computer I took the plunge and purchased Cubase 6. This was after years of using Tracktion 2. One of the reasons I switched to 6 was I purchased the T3 Ultimate bundle package.
Between installing all new software, a new soundcard(TC Electronics Impact Twin), a new computer, a new midi keyboard, I thought T3 would be sweet.
Numerous problems became such a hassle I uninstalled it and stuck it in a drawer.

Yesterday I was having Tracktion withdrawal pains so thought now that things had settled down I would give it a try because some Albino fxp soundbanks I created while using Tracktion aren't loading in Cubase.

I can't get my midi interface to work and I experienced quite a few crashes out of nowhere. Also when playing back more than one track the entire mix becomes distorted(even the demo songs are horrible). I've lowered all volumes, changed the latency buffer and nothing changes it.

I'm going to see if I can download T2 and see if that works.
I guess I'll just have to manually write down all the settings of my Albino sounds and recreate them in Cubase version.

skipkent · Post by **skipkent** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:04 pm

Are you running the version from the box, or from the Mackie site? There were several bug fix releases as I recall, so if you haven't I would definitely go to Mackie and get the latest (even though the latest is quite old, of course

).

seamonkey · Post by **seamonkey** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:15 pm

Hi skip thanks for the info.
I just off the Mackie site and decided to install from there, and guess what?
it loaded perfectly and the audio isn't crackling at all.
So I'm going to load Albino in and see if I can get my M-Audio Oxygene 61 to work with it.
Thanks again.

ok..the Oxygene 61 is showing up in the list. When I click on the box and make it the controller I am getting the green bar peaking but no audio from Albino. The audio for Albino works when I push the audition button. e to e is enabled.

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Are there still people using Tracktion?