n-track 2.2

[MikeDog]

Howdy!

I received an email a few weeks back saying that n-track had just released version 2.2. I've seen many people on the fasoft board with problems and hang-ups after the upgrade. Has anyone around here had any problems? I know I won't be upgrading from 2.1.4, but I was wondering if anyone had performance improvements after the upgrade? Just curious...

MikeDog

[Shaky Tee]

My email for 2.3 came in the other day and I downloaded the sucker.

I have to say that I was quite pleased.

I was deciding whether to pay 49 dollars for a Multi Track Plugin for Cool Edit 2000 or to keep the N-Track upgrade.

I've decided to save my money.

It has all the features of the Cool Edit plug in, AND it works with midi. It also has a wizard that will convert your midi tracks to WAVE files.

It also has a little record, mute and solo buttons on the tracks, just like Cool Edit does.

I'm still using Cool Edit 2000 as my wave file editor, but for multitracking, N-Track, for now, is da BOMB!!

[MikeDog]

All those features are in release 2.1.4. I was wondering if there is anything "must have" in 2.2. Everything I've seen so far indicates it is nothing but trouble. But it works fine for you? May I ask about your hardware?

MikeDog

[Shaky Tee]

Well, I just upgraded to a new PC, which might explain it.

I have a Compaq Presario AMD K-2 500 Mhz. 18 gigs (2 hard drives). Soundblaster Live card, with an outside mixer utilized.

I need to work with it some more, but, so far, I've been pretty happy with it.

My only wish is that this thing supported soundfonts. But, well, can't have everything.

[Tom Hicks]

I've run it on W98SE and W2K service pack 1 with no problems.A lot of guys buggered their playback buffer settings due to the recent buggy beta.Just go to preferences>buffering and reset the defaults.
Tom

[six]

I used to run vers 2.1.4. on win95. Now and then it crashed - but it could have been worse.
Now it IS worse. I got more or less a new PC now (AMD Athlon 700, 128mb ram) and I run it under win98se and I barely remember the last time I ended a session with clicking on that x-button.
I got tons of "exeptional errors" (don't know how it is called in the english OS) and the worst thing: if I start it up again, without restarting windows, it won't play any wav's no more (in 9 of 10 cases) - just crash again.

Maybe it's the soundcard (VIA AC97 on board - I WILL change it somewhen in the future).

Has anyone fixed such problems? Could it be the hard-disk?

[Slackmaster2K]

It's basically your operating system. n-Track does not run well on Win9x. I used to run it on Win98 and had the same problems as you...as did many n-Track users. Upgraded to NT4 and later to Windows2000, both of which run n-Track like a dream.

I believe it even states in Flavio's FAQ that n-Track performs better and is more reliable in an NT environment. Not something you want to hear I know.

If 2.1.4 was stable and you don't want to upgrade your OS, then go back to 2.1.4 and keep trying updates until a new version that is stable on your system is released.

Slackmaster 2000