2.0

[Meshuggah]

Seriously, what do people think about v2.0?

I've only tried it a few times, and it works just like 1.2, only there are a bunch of new, very useful features...

[Revone]

It has a couple good new features, it also is faster than 1.2 .... but yeah pretty much its all the same to me.

[brokenwindow]

cool edit 2.0 is by no means faster than 1.2... in most cases, it isn't slower than 1.2...but there are a few..

All the fx, busses, loop features are handy, but also slow it down in performance..

[Scott Tansley]

Actually I have noticed a significant increase in background mixing speed. Loading up old mixes is much quicker now. Also love the track eq which doesn't seem to slow down the computer at all. However, as others have said, the realtime effects will slow things down a bit. But that happens with all other realtime software so no big deal.
This may be of some interest to some of you.
I've been using my joemeek gear to compress things in realtime with great results. What I do is I send all the drum tracks to play out through a different sterio pair. My soundcard has 6 output channels or 3 sterio pairs. So instead of them playing out through the default "out1" they go out the "out2". I then run cables from my soundcards out 2 to the joemeeks input and then from the meeks output back into 2 new recorded chanels. Now since my soundcard is only playing back whats coming out of the stereo "out1" for all tracks, this eliminates the drums (now going "out2") from being heard. But If I turn on solo on the two tracks the meek is about to be recorded into, you turn this on in your soundcards software mixer, now I can hear the stereo compressed drum tracks with the rest of the mix and without hearing the original drum tracks. So I can tweek the compression settings on the outboard meek while its playing back. Fucking awsome. Once Im happy with the sound I can just record them. This can be done with any tracks. I've actually re-recorded guitar tracks the same way but through a wah wah footpeddle.

[mixmkr]

good idea scott...and I suspect a lot of other people may be doing something similar. I have a Layla card that gives me 10 analog outputs (the older 20 bit one), and a digital pair also. I do something like you do, except I usually just record the final mix into a DAT via my mixer and all my outboard stuff. I"ll usually separate vocal tracks, drums (especially snares), and other "more important" tracks to themselves, so I can use different reverbs and schtuff like that. The DAT then goes back to the computer via SPDIF, so I only end up with one D/A conversion. Agreeably, some special tracks will get "re-recorded" back into CEP, to ease up mixing chores, as usually, I like my last mixing passes to basically be "listeners". I almost never make volume or pan adjustments on the mixer...and the same for EQ too....that's all done in CEP. The days of 5 hands on the mixer for a mix are basically gone for me....and it's tweaked until I like it for the final "listen." It also still lets me use all my GLORIOUS outboard reverbs, chorus's and other stuff I can't ever see selling in the immediate future. So..as you can see, there are many work arounds for the real time processing in CEP. I've never been hampered by continuing to use 1.2. ...mainly because I am still running Win95 For some strange reason, it doens't crash EVER, unlike when it does when I did a clean install of Win 98. The new computer will get a new soundcard, current OS, and 2.0 (or later)...if and when I really decide I need it...or the current one dies.

[Scott Tansley]

Yeh mixmkr Im still using Win95 too. Its the best by far for audio. Still. In fact its win95b. The second one released.

[Meshuggah]

Well... after recording 2 whole songs on it, I can only say that I like CEP2, a lot...