why is no one using ntrack

[Idgeit]

Cakewalk?


Anywho, is that Silent Bob in your avatar?
My older bro is a HUGE fan...well he's not physically huge...but...he likes that guys movies...

Cakewalk Sonar 4.

Yup thats bob =). It was actually a moving pic, but i had to shrink it and it stoped moving =(

- Idgeit

 

[Rokket]

I'm running 4.(whatever-revision-it's-on-now) and have mixed up to 28 tracks so far...
Only 'glitch' to report is there's been a couple of occasions after loading up about 12 or 14 tracks, that the playback gets out of synch and even globs a couple of tracks together... some sounded like they're playing backwards... I just close out of the project and reopen it and all is fine from that point on, so it hasn't been a real issue...

Edit: Should mention it's the 24 bit program too... Not sure if that makes a diff...

Sucks...It uses an external editor.

I do all my recording in N-tracks, and then do all the arranging and cutting in audition.....

Also, might be my drivers, but in 4.0.4 the eq and compressor eats my latency. I have to change from 4ms to 50 to not get stutters.....still kinda buggy if you ask me.

Something to think about, huh?

 

[BentRabbit]

Sucks...It uses an external editor.

I do all my recording in N-tracks, and then do all the arranging and cutting in audition.....

Also, might be my drivers, but in 4.0.4 the eq and compressor eats my latency. I have to change from 4ms to 50 to not get stutters.....still kinda buggy if you ask me.

Yeah, I use Cakewalk Music Creator and Audacity for editing too...

I haven't run into any latency issues with 4.x tho.. And I spent some time really piling on effects/EQ/Compression one night seeing if I could find the threshold...

What does your 'puter have in it?

 

[IronFlippy]

Any limitations in the regular software with track counts that anyone knows about?

The reason they call it N-Track is that it has n amount of tracks. Anyone with a high school math education should know that the variable, n, is used to represent a finite or infinite number in a series. The series here is the number of tracks to use. I hope I answered your question.

 

[BentRabbit]

The reason they call it N-Track is that it has n amount of tracks. Anyone with a high school math education should know that the variable, n, is used to represent a finite or infinite number in a series. The series here is the number of tracks to use. I hope I answered your question.

So because they use a variable to represent an infinite number of tracks in the name of the product, we're suppose to take that at face value?

Rokket was asking if anyone had come across any limitations to that, not whether there was a limitation.

My speedometer says 120... Ain't no way my car is going to do it tho...

 

[cellardweller]

Anyone with a high school math education should know that the variable, n, is used to represent a finite or infinite number in a series.

Damn Flippy, you're makin' friends!!!

Being the mathematical illiterate that I am, I will pose the question regardless. Since you are saying N= "a finite or infinite number", doesn't that just mean any number?

Anyway, no need to be a dick about it... this is a pretty peacable forum, you can put your fists down and stop gritting your teeth now

 

[Spaztic]

Yeah, I use Cakewalk Music Creator and Audacity for editing too...

I haven't run into any latency issues with 4.x tho.. And I spent some time really piling on effects/EQ/Compression one night seeing if I could find the threshold...

What does your 'puter have in it?

512mb 3200 Ram
2.4 ghz 800fsb
120 gb 7200
emu0505

Only thing I can think of is the RAM being on the low side. When running waves, or other plugins it has no problem. Only when the realtime eq is running....its weird....

 

[pjk]

I believe there's no practical limit to the # of tracks, though some over at n-forum say they've gotten 86 or so before they've bombed.

The demo won't let you mix down your project. Also, you can only add effects to track 1. This was a while ago that I read that, so it may have changed, but you can try out most of the bells and whistles, before you buy.

Seems 4.x is still buggy, I'm using 3.3 24bit and not haveing much problem.

 

[JohnnyRockU]

I have nTrack, a fairly new version of it. I won't use it, mostly because it's choc full of bugs. It doesn't like me, and I don't like it. Like now when I went to check the exact version I have, it locked up on me. Or like most times when I want to audition a VST instrument and it crashes hard, then BLUE SCREENS XP several minutes later. Those aren't the only problems I've seen. I've told Flavio about my issues, he never responded. nTrack is a good idea, but not quite there yet, and not sure it ever will be. I'm still looking for a good low-cost alternative for audio/midi multi-tracks with VST support with low latency.

 

[bleyrad]

Being the mathematical illiterate that I am, I will pose the question regardless. Since you are saying N= "a finite or infinite number", doesn't that just mean any number?

Yes, exactly... although it goes a little beyond that, in that an infinite number is not actually a number.

 

[PickRocks]

I'm new here -and I use n-track with no problems. IT DID LOCK UP MY OLD COMPUTER (win98) But it works great on my new, inexpensive XP machine.
...Took my a while to learn the software, but I like it a lot.
N-Track is under rated....perhaps because it is so in-expensive.
also ---some users have troubles.

 

[Hi_Flyer]

I've been messing around with the 24-bit version for a few weeks, its great in that its got alot of functionality, and it is VERY AFFORDABLE, but yeah in my experience it is a bit buggy/unstable. However, long-time users caution against jumping on the new versions too quickly, which is exactly what I did, so I'm hoping the new builds of version 4 will get better and better.

 

[cellardweller]

Hi flyer

Do you have 4.0.5 yet?

 

[Hi_Flyer]

yes I just installed 4.0.5 and it seems a little better, but weird things are happening occasionally, I'm not sure if its user error or system configuration or what...

 

[JohnnyRockU]

4.0.5 sucks even worse than earlier versions!!!!

OK I tried 4.0.5. Here's my assessment. In under 5 minutes, it crashed twice (once when scanning for VSTs, and once when I exited the program) and it also caused my computer to blue-screen a few minutes after exiting. Furthermore, the damned installation of 4.0.5 caused all my Netscape Navigator bookmarks to disappear (nice trick, wonder how they managed to do that and what else might be screwed up on my machine now??). This issue might have been associated with the MicroSh*t .NET (should be .CR*P) installation required for 4.0.5. Thanks again, worthless MicroSh*t and nTrack. Am I bitter? Indeed!!!! Use this nTrack cr*p at your own risk.

 

[cellardweller]

This issue might have been associated with the MicroSh*t .NET (should be .CR*P) installation required for 4.0.5.

Whaaa?

You gotta be freakin' kidding me...
I'll be sticking with 3.3.

 

[David Katauskas]

I use 4.0.5 and it has some issues. The issues I've had pertain mostly to the piano roll and horizontal scrolling...then it locks up. I've also had wav synchronization issues after recording a new track.

Other than that, it has been performing fairly well and am happy with it (given that I only paid $49 for the non-24 bit version).

 

[Hi_Flyer]

I spent most of this weekend messing around with 4.0.5 and I only had one crash. It seems more stable than earlier builds of version 4, I dunno about version 3 though... Improved performance may also have to do with other system tweaks, soundcard drivers, etc... there are so many variables that I'm having a hard time figuring out if its the software or what... I have trouble when I get up to around 70-80% CPU usage (with lots of plug-ins), thats when the system gets sluggish, I start hearing pops & clicks, and that seems to be when a crash is most likely to occur.

I had a few wav synch issues though, but this was actually my first time experience with tracking directly to N-track. Until now I have just been re-mixing old tape transfers from a cassette 4-track. So dealing with latency and recording and all of that is a new area that I need to start researching and messing around with...

 

[Rokket]

I wonder how well it would do if I used it the way I am using Vegas now? I record on my MR-8 and transer track to pc. It seems the sync issues and what-not are coming from people who are recording to pc with it.
Or am I reading that wrong?
I may want to see if I can even get the older version of it...

 

[mandocaster]

Yes, exactly... although it goes a little beyond that, in that an infinite number is not actually a number.

Well, the first transfinite number is Aleph naught, representing the cardinality of a countably infinte set. Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and it would have a zero as a subscript in this context.

But then it wouldn't be N-tracks, it would be Aleph naught - tracks.

Maybe that is what Ironflippy meant?