Tracktion DAW Feedback

[harvon]

An another thing, a possibly not yet implemented feature.

We see the vertical piano keyboard when we increase the height of a track. Now, it would be a useful option to have the particular keys colormarked that belong to the scale of our musical piece.

[spoontechnique]

This exists in a way, the rows will be light gray if they're in key and dark gray if they're out. Also one of the color options will turn the in/out of key notes a certain color.

[harvon]

Oh indeed, there is a tiny tiny letter down left corner of the tempo track. Very good, I can set the key and some scales there, and the rows get reformed.

Thank you, for most cases the available scale set is enough

[574X]

"Groove Doctor may be what you're looking for. If you're thinking of needing to quantise, or tempo map things like, eg, a drum kit, recorded with multiple mics."

That is a great Waveform feature (not apparently available in T7) but is far more complex and macro oriented than needed for this application - time warping a note, applied to several tracks.

In T7, selecting a clip, selecting the second tab, selecting Warp Time, zooming into the precise location, adding nodes and moving a single drum hit, for example, currently appears need to be done several times if you've recorded several tracks. Furthermore it has to be done identically, and this process is prone to error.

[fde101]

Oh indeed, there is a tiny tiny letter down left corner of the tempo track.

It is much more visible in the control panel:

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[chico.co.uk]

"Groove Doctor may be what you're looking for. If you're thinking of needing to quantise, or tempo map things like, eg, a drum kit, recorded with multiple mics."

That is a great Waveform feature (not apparently available in T7) but is far more complex and macro oriented than needed for this application - time warping a note, applied to several tracks.

In T7, selecting a clip, selecting the second tab, selecting Warp Time, zooming into the precise location, adding nodes and moving a single drum hit, for example, currently appears need to be done several times if you've recorded several tracks. Furthermore it has to be done identically, and this process is prone to error.

Actually, one of the specific use cases for this feature is time warping a note, and applying that to several track, particularly drum hits, which are often recorded with multiple mics, when recording live drums. If you want to just do a section, or individual note, split the clips around where you want to do it, flatten them, analyse just those clips.

I agree it would be great to be able to use Warp time on the clip across multiple tracks, at the same time. It's unlikely any new features will be added to T7, so either upgrade, or you've got the features you've got.

[574X]

"It's unlikely any new features will be added to T7, so either upgrade, or you've got the features you've got."

It's truly shameful if Tracktion7 is abandonware.
It is arguably the best "free" (with account) DAW.
I do a considerable amount to promote it for this very reason. (Lately this includes recording, performing, and producing with live drums, di+multi amplifier guitar rigs, strings, multi mic grand piano and several other instruments every day.)
The issues I've brought to attention in this thread address core functionality readily available in most other entry level or low cost DAWs.

[chico.co.uk]

It's a free DAW, which is 3 versions behind the current version of the same paid-for DAW. It will not have new features added to it. Everyone's definition of "core functionality" in DAWs tends to be different, but always boils down to "stuff that I want, that I don't think i've got yet" on forums.

[fde101]

It's truly shameful if Tracktion7 is abandonware.

It's not abandonware. It is an old version which the company has made available for free. Features are being added via the newer versions, and those need to be paid for, as with any other commercial products.

In the past, soon after a new version of the Tracktion DAW was released, the previous version became the OEM version, and the one before that replaced the free version.

Waveform 10 has been out quite a while now and that doesn't seem to have happened yet? Not sure if that policy is in the process of changing or what is going on with it... I would have expected W9 to be the OEM version and W8 the free version by now. Anyway, that is up to Tracktion to decide, and it is what it is. I paid for W10 so makes little difference to me in the end.

[harvon]

There is a new free version, Waveform 10 free, that replaces the T7. It appeared first in the cover of Computer Music many months ago.

https://marketplace.tracktion.com/shop/activate-cmpromo

[exponent1]

There is a new free version, Waveform 10 free, that replaces the T7. It appeared first in the cover of Computer Music many months ago.

https://marketplace.tracktion.com/shop/activate-cmpromo

That's magware and not the official T7 replacement. The CM version is more like Waveform OEM with a couple of added features.

[exponent1]

It constantly irritates me that the ASIO4ALL driver for windows sound is unable to serve multiple clients. When a DAW uses it for example, then no sound on youtube, no sound on any other software. Would it help Tracktion sales if a multiclient ASIO driver would be included in the paid package?

Not a Tracktion specific problem . Use an audio interface with its own ASIO driver or use WASAPI, which eliminates this issue.

[carllackey]

buy waveform 10. it's very inexpensive, has all the core features of t 7, and tons more. support the people who make the software. they don't work for free!

[harvon]

Not a Tracktion specific problem . Use an audio interface with its own ASIO driver or use WASAPI, which eliminates this issue.

No DAW is a solution to matters specific only to that DAW ...

Some audio interfaces come with multiclient ASIO drivers, some don't, so anybody thinking to take this route needs to do some research before buying.

But I don't have or even need an audio interface; motherboard sound + mike and instruments on USB: Good enough for me.

I found that besides ASIO4ALL there are other ASIO solutions to motherboard sound, even ASIO routers. For now I use a multiclient FLEXASIO driver.

[Guillermo Luijk]

I'm a newbie to Tracktion 7 and I'm liking it quite a lot, so congratulations and thanks for making free older versions for people who cannot afford or just use them as a hobby like me.

However there is room for improvement:
- The MIDI edit interface, if not bad, can be improved:
* Not needing to choose the action to take (select, draw, erase). Learn from Cakewalk here: use left and right buttons to mean the different actions so that you can select, draw and delete notes with no additional mouse clicks.
* The vertical/horizontal zoom options over the piano roll are not intuitive at all. I hope I'll get used but so far I need a lot of trial&error (i.e. the result is not achieved in a natural way). And why are you constantly hiding the piano roll keyboard?
- ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY: allow the user to change the colour palette for the track backgrounds and MIDI/audio information. The colours provided are strident for my personal taste, not everyone will like them and the user spends a lot of time looking at those areas.
- What about an (optional) horizontal axis on sample plots? I like to know my samples have no DC component at a glance.
- Some common options like Save or Play, are a bit obfuscated either by their actuation (Save needs two mouse clicks) or position (Play needs to go bottom right). Definitively using keyboard shortcuts here is a must, but it should not.

Regards