Tracktion, 2JW Design Join Forces with Prism Sound & SADiE

[Shalotta]

Newsletter from Tracktion:

"Tracktion Corporation and 2JW Design are pleased to announce they have joined forces
with Prism Sound and SADiE under the umbrella of Audio Squadron
to create a dynamic new player in the pro audio market."
https://www.audiosquadron.com/
(Links to the companies are listed there).

"The bold, ambitious and revolutionary move
to combine the strategy of these market leaders under the canopy of one organization
will increase investment and produce a unique shared creative environment."

For now it says all and nothing, what could be expected to come?

[luxgud]

Mackie again ….

[GreyLion]

Sorry to be a jerk about this, but their emailed press release is the most annoying cliched corpspeak gobbledegook I've seen in years. Whoever wrote it needs to go back to school.

At least I didn't spot 'paradigm-changing' in the text, so there's that.

[reggie1979]

I too don't want to be rude but the problem with Tracktion is WAY too many people a lot of crashes with it. Poof crashes being the most common. I have a hard time thinking that this will be a positive.

And it's too bad. Feature wise, Tracktion is ace.

[Shalotta]

Fair enough, nothing rude or jerky with opinions.

I have no experience with Tracktion and something tells me to better stay away for now.
Watching from the sidelines, my respect goes to their activities and how hard they work on innovation and improvements,
if it pays off one day is written in the stars.

First thoughts:
- a controller and soundcard partly tailored to Waveform (hw)
- high end meets Average Joe to make quality products/releases effordable (strategy)

The news catched my attention to have a little public spin ...

[bungle]

Biggest problem with Tracktion is the insane userbase, if you point any issues you are a baby puncher, so the developer ends up with a bunch of useless toys that say yes to everything, so Tracktion is now hodge podge of mismatched features and bugs.

[jonljacobi]

I quite like Tracktion’s interface. It was only when I saw how slow rendering it was on the Mac that I bailed. I didn’t use it enough to experience any bugs.

Kind of an egotistical release though. Smarmy.

[Shalotta]

So the news are taken:
there are too many Tracktion construction zones
to have confidence in something new like this umbrella model?
Something like ... overpaced, fix things first and get the daw streamlined?

[jochicago]

I read this several times, and it might as well be written in Klingon. It's a study piece on writing a lot of words and saying nothing with them. Does anyone know what the announcement is actually announcing, like functionally?

And to the conversation: I agree, Tracktion is in a weird place and they need to do better. It's a good concept but they are way behind their own curve. The plugins are suspect, the DAW is unstable, some known bugs have been there for years. I hope this "strategic combination of market leaders under one canopy" somehow translates to Tracktion adding 2-3 developers to the team and raising their quality standards enough to compete at the level they have been pretending to be at. I say this as someone that actually likes Waveform and is disappointed to find it unreliable. I enjoy creating with Waveform more then S1, but I never reach for Waveform because why suffer on purpose?

[reggie1979]

I read this several times, and it might as well be written in Klingon. It's a study piece on writing a lot of words and saying nothing with them. Does anyone know what the announcement is actually announcing, like functionally?

And to the conversation: I agree, Tracktion is in a weird place and they need to do better. It's a good concept but they are way behind their own curve. The plugins are suspect, the DAW is unstable, some known bugs have been there for years. I hope this "strategic combination of market leaders under one canopy" somehow translates to Tracktion adding 2-3 developers to the team and raising their quality standards enough to compete at the level they have been pretending to be at. I say this as someone that actually likes Waveform and is disappointed to find it unreliable. I enjoy creating with Waveform more then S1, but I never reach for Waveform because why suffer on purpose?

[GreyLion]

+1 for jochicago. Unfortunately.

I've given up on Tracktion until something changes. I bought up through v9, and they kept abandoning each new version to sell the next one. Never fixing big problems with the one that people had already bought. I think I undertand why. I don't think it was simple greed and laziness. They needed new cash infusions to keep alive.

I don't see any indication from the recent meaningless press release that they're going to get new resources or money. Just a marketing alliance. So. More wait and see before forking over.

[Shalotta]

... So. More wait and see before forking over.

Seems the bottom line for now.

Generally speaking,
it`s never healthy to have a very small amount of unrivalled daws
so I wish Tracktion to take a step forward despite dire predictions.

I have the feeling to have more learned about the daw than a thread about the daw.
Will continue watching the umbrella progress.