Tracktion expects you to use one project per song. Each edit can be a different variation on the song but in general, that was how it was designed. Now we definitely know that this doesn't always work (especially when recording live) and everyone has there own idea of how things should be organized. We do have plans to really attack this area for T3 and seeing all these great suggestions helps us a lot.
thanks and keep em coming,
Ben
[note} I edited the title of this thread for search purposes.
[FR] T2 File Management Most Difficult!
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[FR] T2 File Management Most Difficult!
2005-08-16T02:25:28+00:00
Granted I have not been using T2 for long but I'm very dissapointed with the file management of the system. I may have missed in the manual where to solve my problems but I don't believe so. With the project manager being the first thing a new user sees it should not be the most difficult part of the system to understand and control. It detracts from an otherwise fine system.
Here are my complaints:
1. When you rename something in the project viewer there is no option to rename the underlying file. This creates a huge mess on your disk. This is true for even simple things like renaming the project or edit. Having a file name different than project name is a disaster waiting to happen. Also, it is very common to create a scratch session where you have no idea what to call the project. When it looks like it will bear fruit I go back and clean up all the names but all the files are left with their default names. There is an option in an edit to rename the source file when you rename a clip but this the only place I could find with this feature. There must be ways to rename both the object and the underlying files at the same time.
2. Since I did not completely understand the file management behavior when I first started, I ended up with files in places that I did not expect or want. I tried to use the export function to consolidate the files but ended up with broken references to the audio files when they were unpacked into a new project. This is not acceptable and hard to fix. In another example, I finished recording 10 songs in seperate projects for a friend and wanted to consolidate the final mixes and all related files into a single project for safe keeping and future reference. I thought no problem, just export them and upack into a new consolodated project. Low and behold, many audio links were broken. In hindsite this might be due to duplicate file names, however, there is no indication what is hapenning and there is no conflict resolution being performed by the unpacking program.
3. There is no way that I know of to specify the directory where you want audio placed for a project. This seems to get set by default when a project is created and is perminent. Also if you try to reuse an edit and put it in a different project it remembers the old directory and insists on puttin new audio there. This definitely needs fixing. If I might suggest project level default directory parameters for audio, exports, edits, etc. you could easily change the directory on the fly. These would ideally be lists so you could have audio in more than one directory.
4. Renaming tracks should have an option to rename the underlying clips and audio automatically.
I know there have seen other posts that have similar comments. File management in music production is very important and mistakes are made if it is not simple, controllable, and easily understood.
I would make this a very high priority for future updates.
If I made any mistatements feel free to correct them as I am most interested in working around these issues.
jhoski
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