12 hours of using n-track. The results?

[Chris Fallen]

I want to use something different. Haha.

1. After having the first two songs drums recorded, they mysteriously vanished, so I set the preferences up for me to set the name of every track I was recording before I started recording. Later on when we had to redo takes on the guitar, vocals, etc, I'd just click and over-write the saved track of the messed up part (IE, my friend would be recording guitar on 'guitar.wav,' and if he fucked up then I would just select and over-write 'guitar.wav' instead of doing a new track). Every so often, sometimes over and over again, the playback speed while recording would be set to another sampling rate so the already recorded parts would be really really really REALLY slow. To fix this I had to record on a new .wav name (like, instead of writing over 'guitar.wav' I'd have to make 'guitar1.wav')

2. When I'd close and open full songs, a lot of the times some of the tracks wouldn't show up, and it would ask me if I'd like to find them manually. Irritating as all hell, cause the tracks are right there and it won't open them. Now I come home and open one of my full songs and 10 out of the 11 tracks come out as x's and I'll have to open them all up again. This isn't too much of a problem, just fricking annoying.

3. I only had three times when N-track just bugged out. When I moved the mouse over any of the buttons they turned black and when I scrolled through the mixer/wave area they got all blurry and stuff, so I just had to restart n-track.

And those are my experiences.

Christopher

 

[Slackmaster2K]

Are you organizing your projects well? Are you setting the working path *before* creating a new project, and changing the working path manually whenever you switch projects?

I've been using n-Track for a good long time now, and don't have problems like you describe. That doesn't mean you're not having them, it's just that n-Track is kind of flakey with file management.

Try the working folder path thing and see how it goes.

Slackmaster 2000

 

[TimOBrien]

He also didn't say what version he was using (we'll assume it was legal???)

You can stop the overwriting parts by going into the preferences, click on the "Options" tab and check the box "Ask for name of files to be recorded". Then you will get the chance to name each take.

On the bug-outs, sounds like you have an old version or you don't have up-to-date video drivers.

I've never had the lost tracks problem and I've been using N-Track for over a year and have songs with up to 30+ tracks.

I always set up a folder for my songs on a second dedicated audio drive and put each take for that song in that folder (I never use the default application folder.)

 

[Chris Fallen]

Yes it's legal, newest version.

I wanted to use the overwriteing that I was doing, so I could keep better track of my parts. Instead of having 'snare1, 2, 4, 9, and 20082' I just use one track and overwrite it instead so I know what one track is the track I'll be using.

My video drivers are up to date.

For my folders, I set up one for each song (3) and then in each of those folders I made a folder for drums, guitar 1, guitar 2, bass, vocals, and vocals 2. Then I saved the takes in each of those. I was only using up to 15 tracks and my computer is pretty darn fast.

Anyway, I still love n-track because it's cheap. Wee.

Christopher