Jumping Ship

[brewt]

I've been loyal to the competition for a year and a half now (N-track) and quite generally happy with it, but I bought Tracktion a week after I played with it. The N-trackers have been waiting over a year for a revision, which (almost) all users will have to pay for: N-track 3.3 originally cost $49, N-Track 4.0 will cost $49, and owners of N-Track 3.3 will have to pay $22 to get 4.0, unless they bought in the last 6 months, then they get it free.

They're all deleriously happy with what it going to do (according to the betas), but they've never addressed what I saw as a stumbling block: user interface. VST's and VSTI's are just in a great big honkin' list, so you have to remember what each one does. And my complaints of having to remember what each of 350 plugins beeing too hard was always seen as petty.

So as soon as I saw how Traction handles that, and confirmed that it will all work with my crumby hardware (ancient-of-days Lattitude), I quit paying attention to the Bride's budget lamentations and plunked.

So if anybody feels like they're getting ripped off with whatever-Tracktion-will-become, go look at www.N-track.com and see what they're missing.

Jules is a genius.

However, since I did manage to drop the notebook off the bed and cracked the screen (I said some bad words), I may have to transfer all of everything to a new device: can my license get transfered to the new machine if the old one is dead, or do I need to re-invest?

-bjc

[valley]

the license works that you have two machine IDs, so you can have Tracktion installed on two different systems (or OSes if you dual boot) concurrently.

You can chnage the machine IDs too, so if when you get a new machine you can update the machine ID on mackie's website. There are limits to how frequently you can do this, but typically a polite email to the powers that be will get you out of trouble if you go on a hardware swapping frenzy and try to change machine ids to many times in a given period of time.