Diving in head first

  • Thread starter Thread starter BentRabbit
  • Start date Start date
BentRabbit

BentRabbit

New member
OK...
The closest thing to a cheap, stable mixing application that I have on my system has been Tracktion, but it's been giving me fits in the 24 bit category... Cakewalk Music Creator is too limited in effects (but I use it religously to to multitrack editing) and Cubasis will start popping and crackling on me...
I used the trial version of NTrack about 6 or 8 months ago and, since I just sold some gear on Ebay, thought I'd go ahead and throw the full version on my system as well... So this morning, I registered 4.04 at the 24 bit level and piped about 16 tracks of our Collab project through it to tinker with...
So far, I'm glad I spent the $75, but I was only able to toy with it for about 20 minutes... During that time tho, it totally blew away anything Tracktion was doing for me...

My system:
Dell Inspiron Laptop - P4 3.0 gig w/ 1.0 gig RAM and 100 gig HDD - WinXP SP2
Sound = SB Audigy 2 USB

I'll keep ya posted

:)
 
Rock on!I've been using it for almost 5 years and have always been amazed at how much you get for the money!
I don't know about 4.04.I tried an earlier 4. and it was buggy as hell.If you have any stability issues,try 3.3!Very stable.
 
I have been using 4.04 w/o any stability issues....then again I am a computer tech....

I am amazed by the value myself. The built in eq\compressor is by far the best thing ever in any recording software.
 
Well... I put her through some pretty intense paces last night... 18 tracks of a song we recorded last summer... I pulled out the stereo drum tracks and replaced them with 8 tracks of 'raw' drums to tinker with the 'Group' feature... Loved it... Worked like a charm... :)

But this morning, I thought I would see how easy it would be to retrack something on the computer instead of back out on my MR8 or VF16, so I plugged an SM57 into my Yamaha MG10/2, ran out of the mixer into the Line In on my Audigy 2 and recorded a quick vocal track before I had to leave for work...
N-Track worked seamlessly with the sound card with the incoming signal, and the track was recorded... But when I went to play it back, the fresh vocal track began 'drifting' from the other tracks, to the point where, by the end of the song, the new vocals were a full half beat off...

I had to head to work so I didn't get a chance to try and troubleshoot...

Any thoughts for when I get home and start to play with it some more???

:confused:
 
That seems to happen to me every now and again. What you'll have to do is use the "zoom in" on the timeline feature and drag the track back to where it should be. Kind of annoying, but at least it's an easy fix.
 
Not sure if the Audigy is the same as the Live in regard to it's native operating sample rate of 48kHz. The Live's would cause this type of drift if recording was not set to 48kHz.

Other things you can try are the source clock settings in the preferences.
De-select both options for using the system timer. This will cause n-Track to utilize the Audigy's internal clock as apposed to the computer's.
You can also try toggling between "keep audio devices open", or not, check box ... in the Advanced settings of Audio Devices.

HTH
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top