Tracktion Software

SuperFly76 · Post by **SuperFly76** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:10 pm

I was searching the net tonight (as I often do) looking for a substitute for soundforge and came acrost this http://www.acondigital.com/Acoustica.htm . I downloaded the demo and will be testing it in conjunction with traction. I had bought a copy of soundforge in thailand back in the day and had used it for a year before I realized that it was a pirated copy. It was a good pirate, box and all. I finally deleated it after wrestling with my concience for about 23 months and haven't yet replaced it. I have tried other cheap and free programs like Audacity but I found them to feel very cheap and buggy on my system (go figure). Anyway this program Acoustica feels a lot like soundforge just a bit stripped down (no batch processing, chaining, yada yada...). One major feature is that it supports DirectX. It also does the usual cut and paiste editing. I'm trying out the 30 day demo to see if it will work out for me. I just wanted to pass this along to you guys and though for $29 that it might be a good companion to traction. Before the accusations start... No, I am in no way affiliated with the company. ...just a regular Tracktioneer like y'all wanting to share the wealth.

kara · Post by **kara** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:27 pm

Thanks for the info.
altough I must say I'm a audacity users and it never crashed on y PC.
Stil I would be interested to hear if it has something more then audacity.

Rony

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 5:31 pm

Yeah, its good value.

the noise detection & reduction works really well..

SuperFly76 · Post by **SuperFly76** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:24 pm

platinumears wrote:Yeah, its good value.

the noise detection & reduction works really well..

Platnumears,
How long have you used the program? What do you think of it?

bucodi wrote:Thanks for the info.
altough I must say I'm a audacity users and it never crashed on y PC.

I don't know what the problem was but I would be right in the middle of something and all the sudden audacity would dissapear. It didn't crash my computer in the traditional sense but it would just spontaniously shut down. I gave it about 3 days then I didn't use Audacity again. It must be some sort of conflict with my system or something. I wasn't very fond of the GUI either. It seemed a bit clunky to me. I do think that it's an awsome app for the price (free) and if it works for you then that's all that matters.

audiobot202 · Post by **audiobot202** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:05 pm

Looks good. Pity there is no VST support though. How fast is it? The DSP processing I mean..?

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:10 pm

SuperFly76 wrote:
platinumears wrote:How long have you used the program? What do you think of it?

About 6 months I think.. overall I like it.

Actually, I'm indebted to this thread for reminding me to upgrade to v 3.2.. my DAW was offline when I got the e-mail & I forgot.

These comments are about 3.1:

Noise reduction is great, very easy to use (I believe its even easier in 3.2..)

All the basic essential features are there and work very well, except loop points (which I'm hoping is in the upgrade.. gonna install it when I've posted this!)

I get slightly irritated by the fact that you can't (couldn't?) change your selection while the file is playing (I use soundforge at work, so I keep trying to work in the same way.. I suppose the fact that that is the only thing that really annoys me says something about Acoustica's value for money compared to Soundforge!)

As we're in the RMS forum, I'll mention that Acoustica works flawlessly as T's external editor..

Only 2 negative comments really: the CD burning is basic but works fine.. except I can't eject the disc afterwards until I've re-booted!

I suspect that's because I still use an old 8X SCSI burner though, not the end of the world

The other one is slightly worse: It once saved an 8 bit file when it should have been 16, and I didn't notice till it was too late

Fortunately it was just an episode of Hitchikers I'd recorded off the radio

I think that if you open the options page when saving a WAV, but then don't change SR or bit-depth settings, it decides for you. Leastways, whenever I've saved an important file since I've avoided doing that, and its not happened again..

Try the demo.. just don't do what I did and forget to test it till the month runs out

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:27 pm

Just briefly tried 3.2..

we now have region markers, and we can play regions looped, but no proper loop tuning like Soundforge yet..

audiobot202 wrote:How fast is it? The DSP processing I mean..?

I tend not to apply effects in audio editors, but whenever I have used them they've delivered effortlessly.. the compressor is especially good, with complex transfers easy to set up. It certainly doesn't seem slow; apart from the comments I already made (you still can't change your selection during playback

) I can almost forget I'm not using Soundforge at work.

IIRs · Post by **IIRs** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:33 pm

audiobot202 wrote:Pity there is no VST support though.

It would be nice, but doesn't worry me too much as I do all that kind of thing in Tracktion, and usually just launch Acoustica (from within T) when I need to be destructive for a change

I use VSTs inside Soundforge at work however, via a wrapper.. works perfectly (including batching) and doesn't even seem to mind my home-made Synthedit plugs.

Might be worth a try?

SuperFly76 · Post by **SuperFly76** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:41 pm

platnumears wrote:It would be nice, but doesn't worry me too much as I do all that kind of thing in Tracktion, and usually just launch Acoustica (from within T) when I need to be destructive for a change

That's also how I'm planning to use the program if I like it. It's either that or buy soundforge now and wait on getting a new audio computer.

Decisions !?!

audiobot202 · Post by **audiobot202** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:27 pm

I've been using Audition and it seems like a nice upgrade from CEP 2.

ModuLR · Post by **ModuLR** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:42 pm

I just gave it a go, and it really does feel like Screenblast Soundforge (which is Sound Forge stripped down). The interface is nice and responsive. Definately unbloated! For $35 bucks, this makes for a pretty nice pairing as a basic editor for T.

I've never gotten along well with Audacity myself... something about it just doesn't work the way I'd like it to.

Mr. Tingle · Post by **Mr. Tingle** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 10:03 pm

This is a fine wav editor for $39

http://www.ngwave.com/

SuperFly76 · Post by **SuperFly76** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:25 am

Tingle wrote:This is a fine wav editor for $39

http://www.ngwave.com/

I've tried the demo of NG Wave and although it seems nice it has no DirectX support.

P.T. · Post by **P.T.** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:51 am

Besides destructive editing, what sorts of things do other editors do that Tracktion doesn't do?

I've been wondering why people use external editors.

audiobot202 · Post by **audiobot202** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 1:58 am

It all depends on what editing package you're talking about and what process you use to master your audio.

Oftentimes, doing anything other than basic cutting and pasting and re arranging start and end points will require an external editor. What can't you do with such an external editor should really be the question here!

But it all depends on how you work I guess. I'm used to such programs. The chopping, editing, cutting, EQ-ing, noise reduction, conversion, dithering capabilities of pretty much any of them are excellent and goong to be far more comprehensive than Tracktions built ins.

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