Tracktion Software

Rack Bitz · Post by **Rack Bitz** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:49 pm

If you dont already know
Well you cant have used Tracktion

Everything

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 5:20 pm

Three words: "ease of use". I've run Logic Silver on the PC (long ago), Sonar 1 (bleah!), and Cubasis, but I've been a thousand times more productive in Tracktion than any of them! Is it the simple UI, the way everything is right there, the ultimate flexibility of filters.. or my current love, rendering to a track? How do I love Tracktion, let me count the ways!

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:03 pm

I was once a user of only impulse tracker. Nothing else. Nothing. I kind of started looking other places where I could do sample based tracking with effects, and found no suitable program. When I saw tracktion, I scoffed at it. Easy to use? Ha. A childs toy, sorry no thanks. Then when I actually tried to use it, i was dumbfounded. YES! This is what i need!

RonC

Rack Bitz · Post by **Rack Bitz** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:39 pm

sorry to hijack but
hey ron do you know you can get a tracker vsti now

cheers

RCcola · Post by **RCcola** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:32 pm

I'm a long-time DP user, and until Tracktion, I thought DP was intuitive. Now, I can't stand how often I have to go searching for things in DP. My favorite thing about Tracktion is this: exactly what you need is available in front of you when you need it. I think Tracktion is better in this respect than even the recently released Live 4. I'm going to love watching Jules turn this app into a true powerhouse, while still holding on to the intuitive part. I feel the other 'big guys' lost sight of that, but I have faith that Jules will not.

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:10 pm

There are too many things to mention, but the most obvious one HAS to be workflow. I can make music with T.

Greg

loophead · Post by **loophead** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:41 pm

Hmm the one reason...let me see...one...Nope can't think of even ONE ! Thats why I did not buy it there was not one good reason to !

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 9:43 pm

see what happens when they let the loop-addicted out of the ableton forums ???

slainte

rob

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 10:02 pm

loophead wrote:Hmm the one reason...let me see...one...Nope can't think of even ONE ! Thats why I did not buy it there was not one good reason to !

Thanks for your opinion. Don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out! Have a nice day, come back again (NOT).

Sleepwalker · Post by **Sleepwalker** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:50 am

rcase wrote:I'm a long-time DP user, and until Tracktion, I thought DP was intuitive. Now, I can't stand how often I have to go searching for things in DP. My favorite thing about Tracktion is this: exactly what you need is available in front of you when you need it. I think Tracktion is better in this respect than even the recently released Live 4. I'm going to love watching Jules turn this app into a true powerhouse, while still holding on to the intuitive part. I feel the other 'big guys' lost sight of that, but I have faith that Jules will not.

And the itchy, teasingly fact that it MADE me going to get live 4 NOW, and at the same time KNOWING I will get T2 later!!!!!

ah, well

headquest · Post by **headquest** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:37 am

I "came over" from Cubase SX 1.

It was the "freeze" function and PDC that initially raised my eyebwrows and got me looking at the Tracktion demo.

It is the lack of mixer which I have come to love most. I believe this is the chief reason why workflow is so much easier in Tracktion than other sequencers. Introduce a mixer and before you know it you need buses, synths and effects vanish into other windows, etc etc. (ok, so I'd like the volume/pan slider to be a fixed size, but that's a minor quibble).

The mixer issue is also why I wont be deserting Tracktion for Live 4 (although I will get this for other reasons - i.e. looping)

Also the thing which has surprised me the most has been the rock solid stability.

Ooops - that's more than one thing, isn't it?

bastien · Post by **bastien** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:13 am

The input arrows - particularly for midi.

I was trying to do some recording with a friend who's a really good keyboard player using 'an other' soft studio, and he was ready to strangle me by the end:

Him: Could I have the piano again?
Me: Yeah, hold on, just got to switch off the midi input on the bass synth, yep, got that menu, done that... just got to go to the sampler and switch the midi input in the config menu. Yep. Done.
Him: Actually, could it be more of an electric piano sound?
Me: Whimper...

Now, he can do it himself if he wants!

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:31 am

koorby · Post by **koorby** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:32 pm

I am utterly convinced that the lack of a mixer in Tracktion actually makes for better mixes. The whole paradigm of inserts, busses, sends (and all that gobshite from a 1960's analog recording studio) is what confuses the hell out of people using other DAW's.

voidar · Post by **voidar** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 3:46 pm

No mixer. I love good mixers with all their gobshite, though I love Tracktion for not having one as I prefere to mix externally.

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