not literally, of course,
but the fact that Tracktion is now completely and unrestrictively accessible to all opens up a massive possibility for open collaboration.
a really close friend of mine whom i used to musically piss around with has been unable to afford to get a music package. i showed him tracktion, and he liked the look of it but sadly couldn't justify the extra bucks involved. seeing as he lives far away now, it's been ages since we sliced up sounds.
now he has a free copy, and we can finally work together again on pointless sound experiments, thanks to tracktion's wonderful archive facilitiy.
of course, it's not just use two who can do this now- so many people are now able to open up a tracktion archive and rearrange, rearchive and send... the possibilities for collaborations are massive! sharing work on a song normally means either lots of hassle or having the same DAW software...
... now anyone can have the same software, with what i feel is the best implementation of project archiving/sharing...
i just feel it is a very exciting potential...
pants wet
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- KVRist
- 234 posts since 19 Feb, 2004
yep, everybody get their pampers on
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- KVRAF
- 6490 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from Rochester, NY
ok can you explain how you do the archive thing? You can't, say tweek vst's and stuff on the recieving end, because you dont have the capability (say you dont own the same vst's as the sender).... you know what i mean? So in a way, its not that good
RonC
RonC
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3364 posts since 16 Feb, 2004 from atop a katamari
of course, if the reciever doesn't have the same plugins as you, they'll not be able to do quite so much, but that's something that's never gonna change.
if you limit yourself to freebies of course (which anyone can do, of course) then that problem is slightly smaller,
but in addition, you can render any tracks that use commercial VSTis so that the recipient recieves them as audio tracks.
you can just let someone know what free plugins you're using in a project (so they can grab them beforehand), and any tracks that depend on a commercial plugin can just be rendered to audio; the recipient can still manipulate all the tracks as much as they wish... if they add anything with other commercial plugs, they can bounce those tracks too before they get sent back.
that and the fact that you can compress the audio clips for a small filesize, (as a guide for them to, for example, record a bass guitar part over), and they can send the project back to you and you can have it refer to the original files when you open it.
it is really super!
when you have a project open, click export and you can export the current edit as an archive; this is also excellent for backing things up.
if you limit yourself to freebies of course (which anyone can do, of course) then that problem is slightly smaller,
but in addition, you can render any tracks that use commercial VSTis so that the recipient recieves them as audio tracks.
you can just let someone know what free plugins you're using in a project (so they can grab them beforehand), and any tracks that depend on a commercial plugin can just be rendered to audio; the recipient can still manipulate all the tracks as much as they wish... if they add anything with other commercial plugs, they can bounce those tracks too before they get sent back.
that and the fact that you can compress the audio clips for a small filesize, (as a guide for them to, for example, record a bass guitar part over), and they can send the project back to you and you can have it refer to the original files when you open it.
it is really super!
when you have a project open, click export and you can export the current edit as an archive; this is also excellent for backing things up.
Kick, punch, it's all in the mind.
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- KVRAF
- 1617 posts since 2 Dec, 2003
this is a very good point and I bet Tracktion will become the collab host of choice nowhaydxn wrote:not literally, of course,
but the fact that Tracktion is now completely and unrestrictively accessible to all opens up a massive possibility for open collaboration.
a really close friend of mine whom i used to musically piss around with has been unable to afford to get a music package. i showed him tracktion, and he liked the look of it but sadly couldn't justify the extra bucks involved. seeing as he lives far away now, it's been ages since we sliced up sounds.
now he has a free copy, and we can finally work together again on pointless sound experiments, thanks to tracktion's wonderful archive facilitiy.
of course, it's not just use two who can do this now- so many people are now able to open up a tracktion archive and rearrange, rearchive and send... the possibilities for collaborations are massive! sharing work on a song normally means either lots of hassle or having the same DAW software...
... now anyone can have the same software, with what i feel is the best implementation of project archiving/sharing...
i just feel it is a very exciting potential...
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- KVRAF
- 2009 posts since 9 Apr, 2003 from Cornwall, UK
Yep, I think this features highly in Jules's bid for world domination.
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- KVRAF
- 7489 posts since 6 Jul, 2004
I suggest you go home and have a shower.
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- KVRAF
- 25030 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
yes!!! 
- I already called several friends and friendesses (damned - sometimes it's getting on my nerves that most english nouns don't have a female form 
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- I already called several friends and friendesses (damned - sometimes it's getting on my nerves that most english nouns don't have a female form )-
- KVRian
- 1184 posts since 13 May, 2004 from SF Bay Area, California
What's male about "friends"?jens wrote:yes!!!
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- KVRAF
- 25030 posts since 12 Jul, 2003 from West Caprazumia
dunno - it seems male to me - is it neutral?PaulSC wrote:What's male about "friends"?jens wrote:yes!!!
- my guess is that it is male and you're just using it as if it was neutral. (b.t.w.: I find it extremely amusing that at least some us-americans tend say to a bunch of people 'you guys' while it apparently doesn't matter at all which gender the people that are adressed this way belong to.
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- KVRAF
- 4644 posts since 28 Nov, 2002 from Chicago
It doesn't really need one. "Friend" is naturally gender inclusive. Use the modifiers male or female to add specifics.jens wrote:(damned - sometimes it's getting on my nerves that most english nouns don't have a female form
Someone shot the food. Remember: don't shoot food!
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- KVRAF
- 4644 posts since 28 Nov, 2002 from Chicago
grrr... you people type too fast. 
Someone shot the food. Remember: don't shoot food!
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- KVRist
- 124 posts since 25 Oct, 2003 from Paris, France
What is that quote from, valley ?
piaznest.com
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- KVRist
- 268 posts since 11 Nov, 2003 from kentucky
I have several students who are interested but can't find the link to the free tracktion download. Is this for real?