Tracktion 2 by Mackie

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I am looking at getting a basic home studio software and folks tell this as also good the Tracktion 2 from mackie.

Just over £100.

Its meant to have some great features to get one strated.

Its tempting.

Anyone here familer with tracktion 2.

On the mackie website they have a short video you can watch .

All I want to use it for is to take my files off my DP-01FX through a USB then finalise and add reverbs compression etc with the Tracktion

What sounds tempting is the 64bit audio engine which is meant to be good quality.

would you say this was the best out of the Basic starter pack to home recording ?

David
 
If you wanna just get started, go an try out reaper. Nothing but good things abotu this product, and it is easy and cheap to use! The support is also impecable.


Simon
 
Do you have a link is Reaper the full name of the sofware>

Dave
 
I have tried Tracktion 2, and while it is good, Reaper's routing flexibility and overall quality trumps it any day. Reaper now includes ReWire and is undergoing a midi overhaul at the moment. Another great thing about Reaper is that it is updated on and almost weekly basis, yet the updates never seem to break anything or hurt your existing projects. I have uninstalled Reaper and reinstalled it for every update since .9 and have never had an issue. (The uninstall/reinstall process is painless as the Reaper install is only 1.6 meg.

Overall, my experience with Reaper has been stellar, and once the midi is sorted it will probably become my main platform for composition and recording.
 
Traction 2 is an excellent,intuitive, easy to use, easy to learn, capable and stable program. I highly reccomend it.
 
I also use Traction 2.1 and it is a Very easy program to use...I mean REALLY EASY!!!

I don"t really have a clue as to what it is capible of as I basicly only record live and do over dubs without midi or samples or any of that crap but It does have some nice VST effects.....

I like it because it is set up simular to an analogue setup which is what I was used to so i found it a Breeze to use...I absolutly could not figure out the demo"s of Cubase or Sonar but Traction was a Breeze so I bought it for $99 on sale.....

I also tried N-Track studio and also liked it but liked Traction more....



Cheers
 
Reaper at $40 comes with native plugin's that are actually top notch! pipelineaudio has audio/video tutorials on how to use the application. The software is going to get nothing but better (it is already excellent!) and it will stay cheap. The owner/developer of Reaper is the guy that developed WinAmp. That should give you an idea of how good it is going to be.
 
Is it sold in most music software stores ?

Also what are the minimum requriements of Ram and processing power . I don't have that much . I have 551 mHz and 256 MB Ram.

It looks good and i trust your judgements.
 
Does Reaper have similar things to Traction 2 like the 64bit Audio engine?
There are great write ups about Reaper here so I am tempted :)
dave
 
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