Tracktion 2 Wishlist 1.2

[chico.co.uk]

Wee bit off topic here, but seeing as it's come up again ...

Why does everyone think that Slicy Drummer is coming out as a VST? People keep posting about it coming soon here and in other kvr forums, but there's nothing I can find on the Musiclab website to suggest that this is actually happening. Can't see nowt saying they've got plans to do it ...

So is this an urban myth? Did someone suggest it one time and everyone's latched on to it? Or have I just missed the anouncement? Someone put me out of my misery!

(I love slicy, and would be well up for a vst version of it, or an mfx wrapper that works in Tracktion)

[Kiwiboyus]

Hey chico.co.uk if you go to the Forum on Musiclabs website the latest word is they are planning on starting a Slicy VSTi in September so maybe by the end of the year they will release it. They kelpt putting it off because they wanted to get Real Guitar and their Midi thingy up and running I believe.

[Lunch Money]

Greg, that's very interesting..if you're saying what I think you're saying, I can set up a rack filter for each drum, then drag it onto the clips..tracktion is top drawer

Heh, now I'M the one that's confused! I'm just saying that filters can be dragged to individual clips instead of into the 'filger' area of each track. If that's something that'd be useful for you, then cool.

[chico.co.uk]

Hey chico.co.uk if you go to the Forum on Musiclabs website the latest word is they are planning on starting a Slicy VSTi in September so maybe by the end of the year they will release it. They kelpt putting it off because they wanted to get Real Guitar and their Midi thingy up and running I believe.

Cheers mate, i've now found the wee post that says

"We'll start with Drum Tools VST in September.

Regards,
Sergey"

Nice one. They've got a great product there, it's so good for non-drummers trying to get "real" sounding patterns. One thing I always liked doing was getting a tambourine sound in DR-008, and messing with the pattern, the humanise and the shuffle sliders and bingo, sounds like a real tambourine playing along with your song. I didn't realise how many of my songs needed just a wee bit of shuffle for the drums to click into place and suddenly fit.

Love Slicy. The faster they can make it a vst the better.

Or would Mod be up for developing Stepchild to have the same kind of features?

If you don't ask, you don't get, as my granny used to say

[chico.co.uk]

Ahh ... but ...

I've also now found the posts from June 2003 and earlier where Musiclab say they're starting on Slicy as a VST "soon" and "at the same time as RealGuitar" etc.

And now they're "starting it in September" 2004 ...

This thing isn't going to be out any time soon. These guys take years to finish stuff.

Shame.

[thoshu]

1. Audio time streching algorithm that doesn't mangle the audio as bad as version 1.x

YES, but keep the old one available as well!

[jtxx000]

It'd be pretty cool if he released an sdk for time stretch algos so that there can be plugins for it.

[Lunch Money]

You could call it "Artifact-stretch".

[Barbarossa]

To get back on topic,

one major feature i really would like to see in T2, is actually introduced in Logic7, too: channel-strip presets.

The actual possibility of putting the PlugIns into RackFilters and storing them, is only a workaround, but no clean and efficient solution.

[haydxn]

i think that's a fair point, but i believe energyXT is a fab companion for Tracktion for that kind of thing (saving preset routings). very elegant

[jtxx000]

Yeah, that would be a very nice feature to have. Also track grouping.

[AD80]

To get back on topic,

one major feature i really would like to see in T2, is actually introduced in Logic7, too: channel-strip presets.

introduced in Logic 7?? SX has had this since version 1.

The actual possibility of putting the PlugIns into RackFilters and storing them, is only a workaround, but no clean and efficient solution.

How so? How does it work differently? It may look different but the functionality is pretty much the same no?

[jtxx000]

Well if I understand it correctly channel-strip presets are easier to save. Here's what I'm thinking: you select multiple consecutive filters on a track and group them together. You can save the group, open up the group and edit it, or ungroup the filters. Once grouped it works like any normal plugin, you can move it around, use it in rack filters, even create groups of groups. This would be a lot simpler and faster than manually inserting the filters into a rack, connecting them all together, then saving the rack.

[AD80]

Well if I understand it correctly channel-strip presets are easier to save. Here's what I'm thinking: you select multiple consecutive filters on a track and group them together. You can save the group, open up the group and edit it, or ungroup the filters. Once grouped it works like any normal plugin, you can move it around, use it in rack filters, even create groups of groups. This would be a lot simpler and faster than manually inserting the filters into a rack, connecting them all together, then saving the rack.

Thats an interesting idea. Groups would be cool.

But the basic channel strip presets that Logic and Cubase have are nowhere near as flexible as Tracktion's racks. One thing that could be improved to make channel presets easier would be if we were able to drag multiple filters into a rack. That would speed things up a little. But its not like you have to constantly make rack presets. Once its made you never have to make it again.

[ModuLR]

hmmm, sounds like all that needs to be done is to make the wrap filter function handle mutiple filters... such that, you shift-select all the filters you want bundled... then right click menu wrap them.. and let tracktion make all the connections for you (just like how wrapping works for a single fitler). Instant rack channel strip with minimal hassel.