Tracktion Software

herodotus · Post by **herodotus** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:25 pm

I do. Can't help it. My perspective is skewed, perhaps, by the fact that until recently, I didn't even know what a VST plugin was (believe it or not, such people do exist). I didn't even know that you could use a computer to execute midi files via softsynths. And I sure as hell didn't know that you could get an assload of really cool synths FOR FREE just by going to google and entering "free vst plugins". I'm just a simple, middle aged composer who until a few months ago had never heard any of my music in anything like its proper form. I now have, for a total 86$ in software (80$ for Tracktion, 6$ dollars for an old copy of a dicontinued midi file editor called midisoft studio 6) a sonic arsenal beyond my former imaginings. So, like I say my perspective is skewed, but I just don't get WHAT PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT.
LONG LIVE JULES!!!!!!!!!

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:35 pm

im not complaining

before tracktion i was using a dos program, impulse tracker

RONC

Chickenpox · Post by **Chickenpox** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 7:23 pm

i got tracktion 1.6 for nearly nothing (5Euro)!! it is included in the german magazine "keys 1/05"...
i will switch from sx2 to tracktion for some smaller projects.

cpx

declassified · Post by **declassified** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:33 pm

Chickenpox wrote:i got tracktion 1.6 for nearly nothing (5Euro)!! it is included in the german magazine "keys 1/05"...

They just pretend to offer it. It is free! You don't even have to pay. Although the magazine itself is worth 5euro...

I love Tracktion, too. First I used Magix Music Maker, then energyXT and got finally stuck with Tracktion. It's nicely simple and I don't really miss features.

dorme1 · Post by **dorme1** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:42 pm

Yeah...I switched from Sonar...and I'm not even looking back...just so...easy!

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 2:01 am

rpc9943 wrote:im not complaining

REALLY?

Agreed with the topic though-- Tarcktion (sic) rocks.

Dave Wiz · Post by **Dave Wiz** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:49 am

A little while ago this could have been a letter I was writing. Its good to look back and know that you have progressed so much quicker with tracktion than with most other software. I struggled in Cubase. Couldn't do what I wanted in Acid, Fruity Loops is fun but it was when I discovered Tracktion that things really started to take shape. I have met people with their £500 programs and their fancy this and that but at the end of the day Tracktion is at my level and to be honest it suprises them when I show them how much can be done quickly and sounding good.
And its all about enjoying what you do not reading manuals for an hour before you can work anything.
I am nearly 50 so age is no limit.
Hey! Maybe we should have a poll to find the oldest user.
Dave
Dave

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 11:08 am

Just to point out that Tracktion is by no means a beginners app.. I earn my living with Cubase, and feel I know it very well.. but I still prefer to use Tracktion when being creative at home..

Steve Prince · Post by **Steve Prince** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 12:34 pm

Yeah, I came to Tracktion via Mastertracks Pro 6, Muzys and Cubasis; I get heaps more done now. A month or so ago I did two jobs for a friend who is doing her music degree; she got distinctions for both projects. One of the projects involed syncyng her music to a quicktime movie clip. I had to do this manually with both aps open but even that didn't slow down the job too much. I was rapt that Tracktion continued to record even when Quicktime was the foremost app! Video sync would be cool though.

Jules your doing a great job man! Keep up the good work

Steve

Hey Dave I'm 46 so it looks like I'm one of Tracktion's younger users

Dave Wiz · Post by **Dave Wiz** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:02 pm

Steve Prince wrote:Yeah, I came to Tracktion via Mastertracks Pro 6, Muzys and Cubasis; I get heaps more done now. A month or so ago I did two jobs for a friend who is doing her music degree; she got distinctions for both projects. One of the projects involed syncyng her music to a quicktime movie clip. I had to do this manually with both aps open but even that didn't slow down the job too much. I was rapt that Tracktion continued to record even when Quicktime was the foremost app! Video sync would be cool though.

Jules your doing a great job man! Keep up the good work

Steve

Hey Dave I'm 46 so it looks like I'm one of Tracktion's younger users

Maybe Tracktion should be advertised as the sequencer that old people can use,

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:56 pm

Dave Wiz wrote:
Steve Prince wrote:Yeah, I came to Tracktion via Mastertracks Pro 6, Muzys and Cubasis; I get heaps more done now. A month or so ago I did two jobs for a friend who is doing her music degree; she got distinctions for both projects. One of the projects involed syncyng her music to a quicktime movie clip. I had to do this manually with both aps open but even that didn't slow down the job too much. I was rapt that Tracktion continued to record even when Quicktime was the foremost app! Video sync would be cool though.

Jules your doing a great job man! Keep up the good work

Steve

Hey Dave I'm 46 so it looks like I'm one of Tracktion's younger users

Maybe Tracktion should be advertised as the sequencer that old people can use,

I'm 45 myself, and let me tell you, you young folks have it easy! I remember having to record mono into an old Tascam 4-track while my Oberheim drum machine played over speakers, then switching cables and overlaying the drums without any MIDI time code because MIDI was too new! And the primitive instruments.. guitars, basses, even *gasp* monophonic synthesizers with wires! Those were the days..

... may they never return!

valley · Post by **valley** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:08 pm

Dave Wiz wrote: Maybe Tracktion should be advertised as the sequencer that old people can use,

You don't think it is already?

To me it appears that Mackie see Tracktion as the tool of choice for 4-track refugees looking for something as simple and easy to use, and young aspiring electronic musicians who are looking for a cheap way into making music in their bedrooms.

vtx · Post by **vtx** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:13 pm

I've got a bit of a hop to my step too,I brought a track to the studio where I work[all spoilled with expensive apps]done solely in Traction.
After all the rolling eyes were done,,most were fairly impressed,,the key to success in Traction is learning Mackie Final Mix

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:57 pm

woolyloach wrote:I remember having to record mono into an old Tascam 4-track while my Oberheim drum machine played over speakers, then switching cables and overlaying the drums without any MIDI time code because MIDI was too new! And the primitive instruments.. guitars, basses, even *gasp* monophonic synthesizers with wires! Those were the days..

I hear you! Except... well... I just recorded the drums FIRST and played everything else over top...!

declassified · Post by **declassified** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 8:39 pm

Steve Prince wrote:Hey Dave I'm 46 so it looks like I'm one of Tracktion's younger users

So that means I'm totally alien? (aged 17)

Seriously, if you are student, you can't afford Cubase, Logic or Ableton Live. So you have to stick with something cheaper. But I can't complain at all

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