[HN Gopher] Waveform Free ___________________________________________________________________ Waveform Free Author : T-A Score : 33 points Date : 2020-03-21 19:41 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.tracktion.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.tracktion.com) | rock_artist wrote: | The real interesting story behind Tracktion is: | | - they have open-source DAW engine | (https://www.tracktion.com/develop/tracktion-engine) | | - as it has strong relationship with JUCE framework, it also | supports SOUL patches which aims to be a modern DSP coding | language. | PaulDavisThe1st wrote: | note that AFAICT, Faust remains more widely used as a modern | DSP coding language. | joan_kode wrote: | Heh, last time I looked at Tracktion Engine, I was specifically | interested in the time-stretching and pitch shifting that they | boast on the page you linked. Tracktion DAW has great time- | stretching, therefore it must be in Tracktion Engine, right? | Nope! Turns out the DAW includes a licensed version of zplane | Elastique for time stretching, which is not included in | Tracktion Engine. Instead, the Engine (which they license | commercially) includes something totally different: a copy of | the open source SoundTouch library. I guess it technically | works... if you want your tracks to sound like they're under | water. | luckydata wrote: | the free version looks like it's essentially useless. | jdietrich wrote: | Not at all. It's missing some of the more advanced features of | the paid version and has only a very basic plugin bundle, but | it's entirely useable. Unlike the free or cheap version of many | other DAWs, it doesn't have any track count limits or | restrictions on importing third-party plugins. | | Just add an audio interface, a MIDI controller and a smattering | of free plugins like the Komplete Start bundle and you'd be | well equipped to start making music. | | https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/bund... | luckydata wrote: | You can't even customize the layout of the screen, it's | limited in ways that are not worth fighting against. Nowadays | you can get much better for very little money. on Mac you got | Garageband that's leaps better and free, on Windows you got | Cakewalk for free. There's others too. This one isn't worth | even looking at. | SonOfLilit wrote: | Unfortunately, Tracktion's overall nice design is completely | ruined for me by having an unusable piano roll editor. Manual | MIDI editing is really important when your keyboard playing | skills aren't up to par (or when you're a kid and can't afford a | MIDI keyboard). | | FL Studio's piano roll has been out there for a decade, I just | can't understand how other DAW vendors didn't match features with | it yet. | cbzbc wrote: | This applies to the entire GUI tbh - that flat look is great | for some things but there are plenty of places in a DAW where | you need some kind of highlighting/shadowing to make small | detail standout. | zengid wrote: | I'd be interested to know how they implemented plugin sandboxing. | From the site: | | > _3rd party plugins are the weak link for any digital audio | workstation. Waveform Free addresses this by implementing plugin | sandboxing. Once activated your work environment is protected by | keeping plugin crashes contained. Instead of the host closing, | the plugin is simply deactivated_ | tbrock wrote: | Probably just using a v8 isolate. | joan_kode wrote: | VST plugins can execute whatever code they want once called by | the host, so the only obvious way of sandboxing them is to have | a separate process (bridging) per plugin. In fact, that's how | the VST loaders in other hosts (eg. Buzz) have been doing it | for many years. This inevitably introduces some overhead due to | inter-process communication and synchronization, but it sounds | like the sandboxing can be activated or deactivated here as | well, so you have the choice between "fast and dangerous" vs. | "slow but safe". | | And since Tracktion is one of the flagship JUCE users, I'm | willing to bet they're using the JUCE interprocess classes: | | https://docs.juce.com/master/group__juce__events-interproces... | worik wrote: | This is not free. | jagged-chisel wrote: | Can you provide a _bit_ more detail? I see it's a "free | download", but since I can't download from a mobile device, I | can't see past the download. | dvtrn wrote: | I presume because users must sign up, and verify email before | being able to download and they don't want to exchange their | information as a "currency" for a free product? | brachi wrote: | > Once addicted we have a perfect selection of deep dive tools | available in Waveform Pro to take you to the next level. | | I like the honest and careful selection of words in | advertisement. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-03-21 23:00 UTC)