but…
I’ve just started using Reaper and it seems very nice and technologically superior to just about any other recording software I’ve used to date. Certainly much better than nTrack 3.3. I know Diog has tried it. Anyone else?
Yep,
Tried it and will be using it. Clean running program. I bought 4 versions of Cakewalk before buying N-Track. I have bought 4 versions of N-Track and now I am using another program. I still like N-Track, but I have had some problems lately with lagging and such and I really do not have the energy to figure it out.
Life moves on I guess…
Mike
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Life moves on I guess...
Yup... and it makes me sad. n-Track was my DAW par excellance' for a long time. Seems it has fallen by the wayside. I can't remember the last thing I recorded with n-Track. Ugh... I think I'll go cry now... don't tell anybody... OK?
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Same here Mike, upgraded to nv5, gets real flakey, no asio recording now, other pops and farts.
Reaper on the other hand is seamless for me. No lagging, bogging, crashing, excellent program.
And the bundled plug-ins are awsum! 
Yaz
I got my rebate (50%) trade-in version of Cubase Studio 4 last week - this is a keeper! It works so much smoother than n-Track on my system that I guess I should have made the transfer long ago.
I tried Reaper, and didn’t like it. Stable, skinnable, sleek, flexible as it may be, it somehow didn’t agree with my way of working…
I got the copy of Samplitude 9 SE with the latest issue of Computer Music yesterday (so much for so little, and tips and recviews galore on top of that), and will retire my old Samplitude 8 SE very soon.
n-Track stays, unused, for now… - I have a lot of projects-in-the-making started in n-Track waiting for conversion into Cubase Studio4/Samplitude SE 9-format.
In the meantime, I’m off to make some more music…
regards, Nils
Quote: (DrGuitar @ Nov. 12 2007, 9:37 PM)
I still like N-Track, but I have had some problems lately with lagging and such and I really do not have the energy to figure it out.
yup.....and I just bought a new PC (w/Vista)...
so, I have a lot to do to get back to where I was and I have gone forward with software I don't need to "tweek" all that much...
But, I still come around here and I still have 2 years worth of projects that are NPK-ed....so...
cliff
Yes - I’ve heard that Cubase is nice also.
What was that audio program that Adobe bought years back (I think it was Adobe)?
I remember people saying that they liked how that program influenced their workflow.
I’ve heard the same thing said about Reason.
Reaper seems well designed & well implemented.
I converted a nTrack project and it’s using way less CPU that my nTrack 3.3 project is using.
I always felt that Flavio needed to step back from nTrack and re-design it.
It felt like it was just getting added on to instead of made better. And 4.x and I guess 5.x have been less stable than 3.3.
I’ve had real problems with nTrack crashing because of certain effects I’ve used.
I spoke to Flavio about it a long time ago and he just wrote it off as being the problem with the effects.
I never really believed that & I’m going to test these situations with Reaper soon.
Adobe bought Cool Edit and released it as Adobe Audition.
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I got the copy of Samplitude 9 SE with the latest issue of Computer Music yesterday (so much for so little, and tips and recviews galore on top of that), and will retire my old Samplitude 8 SE very soon.
Love that mag. I take it this is the November issue?
I always have trouble finding it because here in the
'good 'ol US' (don't get me started) the issues seem to
arrive half way or later into the current month.
On another note - I've got to say that CoolEdit Pro - is and has
always been a 'killer app'. In multi-session I can do pretty
much all the grunt work with 'zero' snags. Then xfer to
the special effects apps.
The only prob - (I think) it does not use ASIO4All as a driver
option. But that's not a prob for me.
Again - just like tools, religion, politics, women, drugs, beer,
music, cars, weapons, there is no ONE - that's going to do it all.
Quote: (Mr Soul @ Nov. 13 2007, 1:30 AM)
I've just started using Reaper and it seems very nice and technologically superior to just about any other recording software I've used to date. Certainly much better than nTrack 3.3. I know Diog has tried it. Anyone else?
t'is pretty much my DAW of choice now. I still like n-track and I come back to it for some things.
Reaper does frustrate me sometimes with it's insistance on doing things in certain ways - the use of tracks for Aux busses for example, but it has some great plugins and is really solid.
I have registered n5 and will continue to monitor its development. I hope it lives on and grows in strength.
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Reaper does frustrate me sometimes with it's insistance on doing things in certain ways - the use of tracks for Aux busses for example,
Right - I had to get used to that too.
It has some wierd side-effects too, e.g., you want to listen to just one track so you push the Solo button & then you lose your reverb.
Then you push the Solo button on the Reverb track and you hear your reverb but you also hear all the other tracks being fed into the reverb track (that seems like a bug to me). But this is not the forum for those suggestions :-)
You need to try Alt + clicking the Solo button. Reaper defaults to “Solo in place” behavior. You can change this in Preferences > Audio if you want…
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Quote: (Diogenes @ Nov. 13 2007, 9:37 PM)
You need to try Alt + clicking the Solo button. Reaper defaults to "Solo in place" behavior. You can change this in Preferences > Audio if you want...
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Yes, that's right. That's one of the good things about Reaper - the speed of development. I remember the discussions before that option went in, and then it appeared. Cool.
n-track used to be similar but it's mature now and hard to think what more could go in (we'll except for big things of course)
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I have registered n5 and will continue to monitor its development. I hope it lives on and grows in strength.
Ditto.
Mike
“Solo in place” - what the heck is that? If I press the solo button I expect only that track and any others who have the solo button pressed, to play. I can’t imagine any other behavior. Have you ever used a Mackie mixer? Mackie has a lot of semi-complicated bus stuff going on it in it. A program should always default to simple behavior IMO.
What is the latest on N5? I tried an early N4 version and really didn’t like it at all. I thought the UI was clutterred and the performance of the program was worse than previous versions, so I went back to 3.3.
Quote: (Mr Soul @ Nov. 14 2007, 12:47 PM)
"Solo in place" - what the heck is that? If I press the solo button I expect only that track and any others who have the solo button pressed, to play. I can't imagine any other behavior. Have you ever used a Mackie mixer? Mackie has a lot of semi-complicated bus stuff going on it in it. A program should always default to simple behavior IMO.
What is the latest on N5? I tried an early N4 version and really didn't like it at all. I thought the UI was clutterred and the performance of the program was worse than previous versions, so I went back to 3.3.
There's a setting in the preferences somewhere so it defaults to the behaviour you want...... but we really shouldn't be talking about this here. :-)
Quote: (Mr Soul @ Nov. 14 2007, 12:47 PM)
What is the latest on N5? I tried an early N4 version and really didn't like it at all. I thought the UI was clutterred and the performance of the program was worse than previous versions, so I went back to 3.3.
Well you probably won't like n5 then. :-) Performance and stability seems better but the UI has continued on its passage to shineyness.
Saying that I've never really understood the desire for skinable apps. Some folks seem to get quite excited when additional skinable features get incorporated. Me, I usually use the default skins and live with what it looks like.
Reaper is all I use any more. It simply works for me… no crashes, no work arounds, no weirdness. BTW, dig in to the features a bit… for instance, you can set the mixer to group all receiving tracks to the right thus you have auxes… don’t get miffed as what makes reaper so powerful is the flexibility and with power comes a slightly greater learning curve.
Well, I only record now to an old wire recorder, which is totally stable but only has one plug in, the place where the hi imp jack is, and the sound sucks, but sucks in a good way, if you know what I mean. Anyone know if wire recorders are compatible with Vista?