This is why I won't use Tracktion. This is their own plug-in from the T11 Demo. This simply can't happen. I bought v10, but if not for Collective, it would be a total write-off. I don't relish feeling this way about a DAW. Someone LMK when it's truly stable.
Put Tracktion's interface on Reaper's engine, then you'd have something.
Tracktion Waveform 11 PRO looks cool
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- KVRAF
- 1996 posts since 16 Jan, 2013 from USA
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- KVRist
- 165 posts since 23 Aug, 2017
I've been using it for a couple years now. On v11 now. It is true that it isn't the most stable software. Crashes are pretty frequent - not egregiously so, but more than other tried and true programs.
However, the feature set and little workflow enhancements it brings have swayed me into dealing with the occasional crash. And with Waveform 11 things seem better.
The audio clip functionality is fantastic. Clip Effects allow you to apply processing directly to an audio clip (rather than say, an entire track). I have found this very useful when working with samples.
The instruments are quite nice too - Multi Sampler is not the most full-featured of its kind but it has MPE support and allows you to record the system output from your PC. Very useful for ripping and mangling old movie soundtracks playing back in your browser. Subtractive is your typical VA synth that gets the job done - I don't like to use 3rd party plugins if I can avoid it so I appreciate when I have something like this at my disposal. Collective is an FM/sampling synthesizer with a decent sample library, it is pretty versatile. I like it so much that I intend to buy Biotek2 soon.
The Racks feature is pretty cool, but I already use Bitwig Studio as well and find their approach to the modular DAW more intuitive and easygoing. Maybe there's some interesting things you can pull of in Racks, I haven't really dug deep yet.
And I have to say that it just looks better than something like Cubase or even Logic, which I find to be quite ugly and dated in a lot of ways.
However, the feature set and little workflow enhancements it brings have swayed me into dealing with the occasional crash. And with Waveform 11 things seem better.
The audio clip functionality is fantastic. Clip Effects allow you to apply processing directly to an audio clip (rather than say, an entire track). I have found this very useful when working with samples.
The instruments are quite nice too - Multi Sampler is not the most full-featured of its kind but it has MPE support and allows you to record the system output from your PC. Very useful for ripping and mangling old movie soundtracks playing back in your browser. Subtractive is your typical VA synth that gets the job done - I don't like to use 3rd party plugins if I can avoid it so I appreciate when I have something like this at my disposal. Collective is an FM/sampling synthesizer with a decent sample library, it is pretty versatile. I like it so much that I intend to buy Biotek2 soon.
The Racks feature is pretty cool, but I already use Bitwig Studio as well and find their approach to the modular DAW more intuitive and easygoing. Maybe there's some interesting things you can pull of in Racks, I haven't really dug deep yet.
And I have to say that it just looks better than something like Cubase or even Logic, which I find to be quite ugly and dated in a lot of ways.
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- KVRAF
- 1996 posts since 16 Jan, 2013 from USA
I bought it because it looked interesting, but I’ve seen far too many of these in a rather small amount of usage. It would probably work, but I simply won’t trust it. This was likely because no samples were loaded, which indicates sloppy error checking. So much for sandboxing. Even Collective, which I like, scoops the first note every time I change presets.
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There’s an old saying. You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
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- KVRAF
- 23472 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
Tracktion/Waveform is far from being the only one to offer this (and it certainly wasn't the first one either)…lastmessiah wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:59 pm Clip Effects allow you to apply processing directly to an audio clip (rather than say, an entire track). I have found this very useful when working with samples.
"Preamps have literally one job: when you turn up the gain, it gets louder." Jamcat, talking about presmp-emulation plugins.
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- KVRAF
- 4466 posts since 27 Jul, 2004
While there are some unique clip fx inside...jens wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:41 amTracktion/Waveform is far from being the only one to offer this (and it certainly wasn't the first one either)…lastmessiah wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 11:59 pm Clip Effects allow you to apply processing directly to an audio clip (rather than say, an entire track). I have found this very useful when working with samples.
Yes, there are other DAWs offering event based fx but none of them has an integrated trance gate or tape stop effect...
Nevertheless as always with Tracktion they implemented this feature halfbaken... i.e. if you insert a reverb or delay it cuts the tail at the clip boundaries which makes it 100% useless...
On the paper the feature set looks great but since everything lacks of the most essential things Waveform is far less useful in a realtime scenario than it seem to be by looking at it´s feature set...
And a software that crashes randomly every half an hour isn´t a pleasure to work with neither ...
On top their shameless prpaganda about 3rd party VSTs would be a problem for every DAW and being the cause of that trouble is not only embarrassing but a joke regarding this
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- KVRist
- 322 posts since 8 Apr, 2012
Gonna try this. Might switch from Bitwig 
Bitwig
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- KVRAF
- 1996 posts since 16 Jan, 2013 from USA
I’m kind of sorry I was so harsh. The program has potential, but the infinite user beta test needs to stop. Forget new features, and have a two week bug hunt.
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- KVRAF
- 4466 posts since 27 Jul, 2004
I didn´t find you overly harsh...
The program has potential,...
Yes...
User begging for this since ages... tbh this will never happen......but the infinite user beta test needs to stop. Forget new features, and have a two week bug hunt.
They always fix a little bit but it turned out more and more they don´t have no clue at all why this happens...
Because the longterm crashes happen completely randomly there is no way to really track them down...
But it´s not only the crashes, it´s mainly the halfbaken features which start to annoy you when diggin deeper into the programm... i.e. Racks have many problems with latency compensation which is a no-go because of being a central aspect of how Waveform works (sends, multiout Instruments etc...)
Beside all of that it seem to be that they decided bug-fixing and feature expansion doesn´t pay off and strictly follow the insurance selling strategy ... always trying to put more customers on top than loosing afterwards and instead of making the programm useable they simply rely on new features...
I bet most of the problems Waveform 10 had will be present in Waveform 20 too...
It´s a real shame as featurewise it´s a really interesting DAW with many unique helpers... just the Pattern generator/Chordtrack alone as an example is unique and a real inspiration source... but things are as they are and the devs of Tracktion stay with their behaviour since ages now...
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- KVRAF
- 1626 posts since 21 Sep, 2007 from USA
Some of the bug-fixing has essentially been outsourced to the development community. Last year, I believe, the underlying Tracktion engine was open-sourced: https://www.tracktion.com/develop/tracktion-engineTrancit wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:04 am... they decided bug-fixing and feature expansion doesn´t pay off and strictly follow the insurance selling strategy ... always trying to put more customers on top than loosing afterwards and instead of making the programm useable they simply rely on new features...
I bet most of the problems Waveform 10 had will be present in Waveform 20 too...
Last month, a fix was made to the external plugin module...
https://github.com/Tracktion/tracktion_engine/
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- KVRAF
- 23472 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
Why not? That's what it runs on, after all... they may of course ignore the fix, but I think what tonedef71 hints at, is that amongst the reasons (if not THE reason) why they open-sourced it in the first place might be that it may lead to other developers fixing bugs for them for free….
"Preamps have literally one job: when you turn up the gain, it gets louder." Jamcat, talking about presmp-emulation plugins.
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- KVRian
- 826 posts since 25 Aug, 2006
In not saying that's a bad idea. But probably every DAW has been the recipient of that suggestion. Any DAWs other than the recent Cakewalk by Bandlab ever put new feature development on hold to just fix bugs? That's an honest question, not trying to be a smartass. It could also be it's just very rare for a DAW to find itself in that situation.jonljacobi wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:27 pm I’m kind of sorry I was so harsh. The program has potential, but the infinite user beta test needs to stop. Forget new features, and have a two week bug hunt.
