Tracktion Software

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 6:33 am

So I fell asleep while working on a track that was hovering around 80% CPU and using well over 30 plug-ins. All midi with a few audio tracks, about 4 minutes long with some automation. The thing ran all night long in a loop. When I woke up, I ate breakfast then got back to work again like nothing happened. I just slapped my headphones on and started mixing without hitting stop. I figure it ran for another 4 hours after that before I gave it a break.

In contrast, back in my CubaseSX days, I would push stop, go to the bathroom and come back to find out the whole program dissapeared without saving and my comp automatically re-started.

I've been using Tracktion almost every day for a year and its only crashed once! And that was a DR008 conflict with my computer. Damn I love this app.

spacefox · Post by **spacefox** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 6:49 am

This is one of the things I love about Tracktion. No matter how intensive things get (CPU-wise) I can wait and it'll eventually snap out of it. It definitely one of the most reliable apps i ever used.

frankvg · Post by **frankvg** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:34 am

on the other hand: most times when I try to unpack an archive it crashes

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:08 am

frankvg wrote:on the other hand: most times when I try to unpack an archive it crashes

Most times

? Wow, I dont know how you put up with that. I would have switched many moons ago.

piaz · Post by **piaz** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 9:24 am

Well, I do have a fair amount of crashes with Tracktion... due to plug-ins mostly. Though, when it hangs, I have to reboot : unable to just kill the app. Wonder where this comes from ? Drivers I think ?

Btw, has somebody tried T with a Sony C1 style computer (the tiny Transmeta powered one). Frankly, with a good IO PPCCard, this would rock on stage :!

valley · Post by **valley** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 12:37 pm

piaz wrote:Well, I do have a fair amount of crashes with Tracktion... due to plug-ins mostly. Though, when it hangs, I have to reboot : unable to just kill the app. Wonder where this comes from ? Drivers I think ?

If you are using 2k or xp, then it pretty much is only the drivers that can take a machine down.

christianmusicmaker · Post by **christianmusicmaker** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 6:28 pm

AD80 wrote: In contrast, back in my CubaseSX days, I would push stop, go to the bathroom and come back to find out the whole program dissapeared without saving and my comp automatically re-started.

I had similar experiences with SL2.

Tracktion is very stable

ModuLR · Post by **ModuLR** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 6:50 pm

Tracktion is uber stable for me a well. So stable, that I can work on my little plugins and pretty much know it won't go up in smoke when I've introduced some silly error in my terrible code. The worse case scenario, the cpu meter goes red, or it says there is is some kinda violation.. after which is recovers gracefully. In other hosts, such mistakes have completely taken them down. Which makes T pretty nice for developing plugs.

valley · Post by **valley** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:33 pm

ModuLR wrote:Tracktion is uber stable for me a well. So stable, that I can work on my little plugins and pretty much know it won't go up in smoke when I've introduced some silly error in my terrible code.

ahh, you amateur.

If you really want I can send you a few code examples that can really blow Tracktion up[1]. Feel free to learn.

[1] yeah, I can make some *really* stupid mistakes when I'm tired/drunk/not tired/not drunk...

piaz · Post by **piaz** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:34 pm

Thanks AD80, I think likewise, another boring "feature" from my Sensaura library...

ModuLR · Post by **ModuLR** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:05 pm

valley wrote:
ModuLR wrote:Tracktion is uber stable for me a well. So stable, that I can work on my little plugins and pretty much know it won't go up in smoke when I've introduced some silly error in my terrible code.
ahh, you amateur.

If you really want I can send you a few code examples that can really blow Tracktion up[1]. Feel free to learn.

[1] yeah, I can make some *really* stupid mistakes when I'm tired/drunk/not tired/not drunk...

WhiteNoise · Post by **WhiteNoise** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:40 pm

Well, I do have a fair amount of crashes with Tracktion... due to plug-ins mostly. Though, when it hangs, I have to reboot : unable to just kill the app. Wonder where this comes from ? Drivers I think ?

I had this problem and (after many months) I traced it to my midi drivers. I have the 4x4 midiman box if that helps.

I'd also like to add that I'm using the demo Traktion to test things and it does seem to be the most stable host I've used. It can even withstand buggy plugins without crashing (most of the time).

Regards,

püRe · Post by **püRe** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:45 pm

WhiteNoise wrote:
Well, I do have a fair amount of crashes with Tracktion... due to plug-ins mostly. Though, when it hangs, I have to reboot : unable to just kill the app. Wonder where this comes from ? Drivers I think ?
I had this problem and (after many months) I traced it to my midi drivers. I have the 4x4 midiman box if that helps.

Regards,

That thing crashed my windows till I changed it for Midex8

cptgone · Post by **cptgone** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 11:57 pm

AD80 wrote:In contrast, back in my CubaseSX days, I would push stop, go to the bathroom and come back to find out the whole program dissapeared without saving and my comp automatically re-started.

SX and SX2 are very stable now.

Can't comment on Tracktion. The fact that it's object oriented is very gearlust inducing to me though.

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:12 am

cptgone wrote: SX and SX2 are very stable now.

And it only took them over a year.

Nah seriously I dont know how stable or unstable SX is now. I didnt bother upgrading to 2.0. Actually I uninstalled SX and Cubase5.1 from my HD. Dont miss them at all.

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