Announcing Waveform 9 Public Beta

[dRowAudio]

1. Is there a V9 user guide? when I launch the Help>Show full user guide it launches the v8 manual that's in the
C:\ProgramData\Tracktion\Waveform 9 folder.
The Beta notes say: Full user guide is now installed by default and can be launched from the “Help” menu.

2. With the Keyboard Shortcuts the "Press keyboard to filter" function is great. Is there a way to see unused single key commands to see which keys are still available.

thanks for any help

[1] That's odd, the new version seems to have not copied over correctly on Windows. I'll get that sorted for the next version. Thanks.

[2] No, this would be a bit tricky to do as keys vary between country etc. However, if you press keys in the filter box you should quickly be able to find a key that has no mappings.

[Kott]

Hi.
Latest 9.0.29 eats all CPU under Linux when you just open Edit.
Do I have to give more info (or official report) about this problem?

[dRowAudio]

Hi.
Latest 9.0.29 eats all CPU under Linux when you just open Edit.
Do I have to give more info (or official report) about this problem?

Some more info would be good.
• What Linux variant are you using?
• Does simply opening a new (blank) Edit consume all the CPU?
• How are you measuring CPU consumption? Task Manager? Waveform's resource manager?
• If you open Waveform's resource manager does this show a specific problem plugin?
• Does changing the audio device in the Settings tab make any difference?
• Does this happen with any of the demo projects?
• If you go back to 9.0.28 is the CPU problem present there too?

We need to get an idea of if this is a new problem and what sort of things could be the culprit before we can really look in to it. Cheers.

[Kott]

Some more info would be good.
• What Linux variant are you using?

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (linux-4.15, glibc-2.26)

• Does simply opening a new (blank) Edit consume all the CPU?

yes

• How are you measuring CPU consumption? Task Manager? Waveform's resource manager?

via "top" or "ksysguard", Waveform's resource manager doesn't show high CPU usage

• If you open Waveform's resource manager does this show a specific problem plugin?

no

• Does changing the audio device in the Settings tab make any difference?

no, I tried jack and alsa even with <<none>>

• Does this happen with any of the demo projects?

yes

• If you go back to 9.0.28 is the CPU problem present there too?

yes

[Michl71]

Just tried the latest Version (9.0.29) on Ubuntu 16.04. Everything works fine ...

CPU load is normal.
I'm using JACK Audioserver

[Kott]

maybe smth broken in my setup, but Waveform8 hasn't this problem
ok, I'll check tomorrow

[Kott]

I checked 9.0.29 on mostly clean openSUSE 42.3 (kernel 4.4.104, glibc 2.22) and got same behavior

[Trancit]

Nevermind

[Trancit]

Could we have please a shortcut to insert a Multisampler on the selected track???
This thing is great and will have a lot of use...

[dRowAudio]

Could we have please a shortcut to insert a Multisampler on the selected track???
This thing is great and will have a lot of use...

You can do this if you create a preset for the Multi Sampler (e.g. just the default settings) and then create a script to add that to the selected track:

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var tracks = Tracktion.getSelectedEditElements ('track');
var preset = Tracktion.getPresetFromLibrary ('Multi Sampler Default');
Tracktion.insertPluginPreset (tracks[0], preset);

[Trancit]

You can do this if you create a preset for the Multi Sampler (e.g. just the default settings) and then create a script to add that to the selected track:

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var tracks = Tracktion.getSelectedEditElements ('track');
var preset = Tracktion.getPresetFromLibrary ('Multi Sampler Default');
Tracktion.insertPluginPreset (tracks[0], preset);

Thx very much...

As I said... you guys need urgently to work on your communication...
There are some many hidden goodies in this program and nobody shows me...
You need far more videos to show the cool stuff, ideas for macro scripts, how to use the new features indepth...
It´s not easy to be aware of something if you don´t know, that it is there...
I saw by accident today the Namm video, where the best features of the Multisampler were shown which I wasn´t aware of all the time...

[chico.co.uk]

I saw by accident today the Namm video, where the best features of the Multisampler were shown which I wasn´t aware of all the time...

Mate, the product isn't out of beta yet. They've not finished coding it yet. Not surprisingly, there's not a whole lot of docco about an unreleased beta product, that isn't fully finished yet.

[dRowAudio]

Yep, as chico says, we're working on more documentation and videos.
The next version of the beta should have the updated manual which has a whole chapter covering the Multi Sampler.
We're also in the process of more making feature highlight and tutorial videos so be prepared to tutored

I do hear what you're saying though, I'm often saddened by the amount of questions or feature requests on here for features/tools that we've done for years. It's a constant battle to keep documentation and videos up to date with the pace of development and we're constantly adding things.

The great thing about Javascript macros and one of the main reasons I developed them was make it easier to create custom actions like this. It does require a bit of sideways thought though which isn't everyone's cup of tea.

The feature request list and number of possible things we could do in the DAW is endless, we just hope we do enough of everything so that most people are happy.

If you find tidbits like this that you previously didn't know about, feel free to share them on there or other channels!

[instred]

Did Tracktion every do a video demonstrating Javascript?
If so, where.
If not, why not?

[jabe]

I did wonder if it would be worth having sticky threads under a number of categories for people to leave tips in. There's a manual and existing videos that still have mostly relevant content though.