n-tracks setup

[J Wah]

I installed n-tracks demo on my pc last night and plan to go through setups tonight and this weekend. Any hints to help setup? I will be running through a Mackie 1202 pro into a SB 64v.

What will be the best input to use "line in" or "mic"? I have read on this site not ot use the mic input but the n-tracks user guide talks about using it.

Is there a demo multi track that can be loaded to see what my computer will handle?

I am new to this computer recording but so far, so cool.


Thanks to all,

J

 

[Gidge]

Go into the line in ONLY....

theres a demo of N-Track at www.fasoft.com

 

[Gidge]

Ok, i see u downloaded it already and u are looking for a multitrack song to load in?.....

 

[larrye]

Hi J wah,
Use line in! There is a utility download to tell you about your computer limits. It talks about it (I think) in the home page of this site. Once you get use to n-track you will love it. If you can think of something you want the program to do it will probably do it. I got cakewalk pro audio with with my ardvark 24/96 card and tried it but I like n-track much better.
tips:
1. low on CPU? Go to preferences - options - uncheck read data from tracks when muted.
2. undock the vu-meters (they can be moved out of the way.
3. resize the vu-meters to taste.
4. there are several things you can do to improve your pc for recording but I can't remember the site. Search this site for that info.
5. Just keep tracking and clicking and you will figure n-track out.

 

[J Wah]

I played around with n-tracks again last night. I was doing the very basics but it was pretty easy to use. Wow, what a difference from what I am used to. I think I figured out the inputs. I was having trouble the previous night with "line in" but I think it was do to the recording levels of the sound card mixer. It's amazing the basic things that can through you off when your doing something new.

I was hoping to load a multi track demo. I thought I read that this could be done but maybe not.

I did see the link at the home page to see what your system could handle but page didn't come up when I tried it. I'll try again.

I have read about freeverb and would like to try that. Are there any compressor plug ins or other effects I should try. The n-tracks compressors cut out every 10 seconds until you register (which I plan to do soon if all goes well). Boy did that have me bummed out for a while. I thought my computer could only hanlde 2 tracks with 1 effect!

 

[Gidge]

http://www.digilogue.de/english/download.htm

 

[J Wah]

Blueline plugins

I installed the Blueline plugins on Friday night ( thanks for the link Gidge ). If I remeber right I could install DirectX and VST plugins. I installed one of them (I think it was the VST) and it installed ok. The other looked for a folder that I didn't have. I think it was Steinberg. Do these plugins work? If they do should they also just be installed in n-tracks VST folder or is there a n-track DirectX folder?

I quickly tried a couple of the Blueline plugins and they came up ok but when I when to change the reverb an error window came up refering to changeing the mono and stereo settings and then n-tracks locked up. I'll have to play with it somemore and If it keeps up I get some more details on the problems but any history of the Bluelie plugs locking up n-tracks?

 

[Slackmaster2K]

I sorta prefer VST plugins to DX plugins anymore...they're just simpler. Anyhow, you have to tell n-Track where your VST plugins are going to be stored, then you just copy all your VST dll's and supporting files to that folder. You specify this folder under File->Preferences->Paths (not sure about the exact naming, but it's the last tab under preferences). Oh, the blueline plugin installer might have been looking for a "steinberg" folder because Steinberg created the VST architecture which is used in all of their products such as Wavelab and Cubase. n-Track is one of few 3rd party applications to support VST.

DirectX plugins don't have to be in a specific folder, because they're registered (e.g., their ID and filename are written to the system registry). This makes things somewhat simpler, but at the same time makes DX plugins harder to install and considerably harder to maintain or remove.

The blueline plugins do lock up n-Track pretty well. They're good plugins though, once you figure out how to use them. a) if it's a stereo effect, send a stereo track into it and if it's a mono effect, send a mono track. b) NEVER EVER add or remove a blueline plugin while playing back audio. Once you have a blue plug on a track and working properly, it should be quite stable, and always ugly.

Slackmaster 2000