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Throb Farmer
Heyup you lot
I just wanted to clue you in on something that I've recently discovered - TRACKTION ! If you've heard it before, then stop reading cos I'm about to eulogise for a while, but bear with me its relevant. Now I've been using it for a couple of months I think my impressions are pretty clear
I've been making music ever since I had an atari st and cubase. We made three albums like that and it was the most stable reliable bit of kit I ever had. After that I got a PC and cubase vst, and had nothing but problems.
For a decade I upgraded the software, and built increasingly bigger pcs, always chasing the dream of an audio sequencer that worked properly. But, for me, cubase vst never did, in fact it got worse. After the nightmare that was version5 I bought Logic and using only audio tracks and external midi stuff it worked pretty well and I actually finished some tunes.
Then I got Reason and it blew me away - I was getting fed up with midi cabling and a big mixer and synths all over the place. So the synths went in the loft and for a couple of years Reason and me got on fantastic. Made loads of tunes, but they all sounded like Reason.
After trying to rewire logic and reason I decided (mug!) to crossgrade back to cubase sx because of all the positive things I was hearing. Well, it was a disastrous flaky old mess, and from what I've seen of SX2 its just as bad. Productivity zero, totally fucked off with the whole thing. So I sold it, thankfully. Tried Logic5. Crashy and flaky too. And as for Sonar, don't get me started...
Then I heard about Tracktion, a completely new audio sequencer for mac and pc, which was getting some really good press. Totally sceptical I downloaded the demo and had a go. Two hours later I bought it. Since then its been regularly updated and is getting better all the time.
It hosts all the VSTs I've tried with it, and I can get many more tracks playing than with cubase. The graphics are totally minimalistic and clear, and you can do everything from one screen. It has full parameter automation, and this even works with all VST synths too which is something cubase could never quite manage. You can rewire reason to it, and its completely seamless (unlike cubase).
It has a really slick workflow, and some very clever tricks that you can't do in the other sequencers - rack filters are a case in point.
There are some flaws, but mostly to do with it being a bit clunky, and having to 'unlearn' a lot of things but there are no major bugs at all. Most amazingly of all, in a couple of months and two finished tunes done entirely in Tracktion...
<span style='font-family:Times'><span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>IT HAS NOT CRASHED AT ALL. Never. Not once.</span></span></span>
If you're in cubase hell, check it out. Did I mention it costs $80 and is being distributed by Mackie?
Look here for more...Tracktion
I just wanted to clue you in on something that I've recently discovered - TRACKTION ! If you've heard it before, then stop reading cos I'm about to eulogise for a while, but bear with me its relevant. Now I've been using it for a couple of months I think my impressions are pretty clear
I've been making music ever since I had an atari st and cubase. We made three albums like that and it was the most stable reliable bit of kit I ever had. After that I got a PC and cubase vst, and had nothing but problems.
For a decade I upgraded the software, and built increasingly bigger pcs, always chasing the dream of an audio sequencer that worked properly. But, for me, cubase vst never did, in fact it got worse. After the nightmare that was version5 I bought Logic and using only audio tracks and external midi stuff it worked pretty well and I actually finished some tunes.
Then I got Reason and it blew me away - I was getting fed up with midi cabling and a big mixer and synths all over the place. So the synths went in the loft and for a couple of years Reason and me got on fantastic. Made loads of tunes, but they all sounded like Reason.
After trying to rewire logic and reason I decided (mug!) to crossgrade back to cubase sx because of all the positive things I was hearing. Well, it was a disastrous flaky old mess, and from what I've seen of SX2 its just as bad. Productivity zero, totally fucked off with the whole thing. So I sold it, thankfully. Tried Logic5. Crashy and flaky too. And as for Sonar, don't get me started...
Then I heard about Tracktion, a completely new audio sequencer for mac and pc, which was getting some really good press. Totally sceptical I downloaded the demo and had a go. Two hours later I bought it. Since then its been regularly updated and is getting better all the time.
It hosts all the VSTs I've tried with it, and I can get many more tracks playing than with cubase. The graphics are totally minimalistic and clear, and you can do everything from one screen. It has full parameter automation, and this even works with all VST synths too which is something cubase could never quite manage. You can rewire reason to it, and its completely seamless (unlike cubase).
It has a really slick workflow, and some very clever tricks that you can't do in the other sequencers - rack filters are a case in point.
There are some flaws, but mostly to do with it being a bit clunky, and having to 'unlearn' a lot of things but there are no major bugs at all. Most amazingly of all, in a couple of months and two finished tunes done entirely in Tracktion...
<span style='font-family:Times'><span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>IT HAS NOT CRASHED AT ALL. Never. Not once.</span></span></span>
If you're in cubase hell, check it out. Did I mention it costs $80 and is being distributed by Mackie?
Look here for more...Tracktion
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