Cool Edit 2.1

[scottboyher]

I just downloaded Cool Edit 2.1 it is an upgrade for all us legal users.. Dunno what new yet except for the intro song....

[scottboyher]

I see we have the ability to move tracks now without loosing their settings!

[Jeyan]

Scott, here is something new on CEP2.1, Usually I can't open a wave in CEP2.0 from SONAR or CAKEWALK Home Studio, but now I can ........WOW! (I was using my old Cool Edit 2000 just for this so far) Anything else new?

[Strryder]

Jeyan,

I've not had any problems opening waves created in Sonar, or Guitar Tracks Pro either. I did have to figure out that after opening one, and inserting it into the multi-track view, I had to change the format to save the file in IF I wanted to start a CEP project using that wave file, CEP would save it fine as cakewalk saved it, but it would take way too long to open the CEP project that way, If I save it in CEP using CEP's default wave format my CEP projects open in seconds rather than minutes.

I think I may have found a bug in CEP, I'm not sure if it happened before I downloaded the 2.1 patch though..

What happens is, when I mute one track, with the track EQ open, and selected for a totally different track, the sliders for where the EQ points are do not function, as a matter of fact, if I try to adjust an EQ point, the slider drops to "0" and gets stuck there...

[Jeyan]

Thanx Strryder, Hope I was the only one who had that problem anyway it is fixed now and I ma glad they put the new 2.1 upgrade on time.

[Strryder]

Among other things, I really wish that they would use a slider or a knob for the wet/dry output bus effect send, HELL, I wish they would set it up with at least 4 "real" aux sends..

If they got it just a little more together on the mixing end, (channel meters-channel based assignable aux sends-etc.), and had ASIO driver support, they would be even more of a serious contender for the "everything you need in one package" recording solution.

[roman]

Originally posted by Strryder
Among other things, I really wish that they would use a slider or a knob for the wet/dry output bus effect send, HELL, I wish they would set it up with at least 4 "real" aux sends..

If they got it just a little more together on the mixing end, (channel meters-channel based assignable aux sends-etc.), and had ASIO driver support, they would be even more of a serious contender for the "everything you need in one package" recording solution.

Hell, I wis CEP was a TRUE mixing console.
but instead we got this FAB sample editor!!!

(oh well, nuendo is a cool mixing console for me)

[Strryder]

I can't get CEP to do a repeat performance of that bug with the track EQ/mute thing....

If it never happens again, I won't miss it at all !!

[Jim Y]

I found a rather sketchy description of what's new in 2.1 here...
http://www.syntrillium.com/cep/whatsnew.html

I'm very annoyed that its not a smallish patch file - looks like the whole program install. OVER 16MEG! I got about 90% over my dial up and the server gave up.

[Jeyan]

I just checked the link and it says CEP2.1 can handle 5.1 surround mix. Any one tried that?

[laptoppop]

They also say that it can use some control surfaces, such as Mackie control and EZBus. Hmmmmmmm

-lee-

[dobro]

"I'm very annoyed that its not a smallish patch file - looks like the whole program install."

Hmmm... It seems to me that Syntrillium haven't had time to do *that* much work on the program since they released it - I mean, remember how long it took to come out in the first place?

I wonder if a complete program install is required for the upgrade because they had to rewrite the whole program at a deep level to get it to do the things they wanted it to do?

[scottboyher]

Hopefully the reason they don't have time to do many upgrades to 2.0 is because they are working on 3.0!

[terrible_buddhi]

hopefully with ASIO so my stupid firestation will work with IT!!!!!

[demensia]

I hope their noise reduction works better like the doc says.