Tracking, we're Tracking...

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Dreamstation 2 tracker/sequencer now available: http://www.dreamstation2.com/

*Selectable tracker AND Piano roll sequencing options
*Supports VST, Dxi and MIDI
*Record audio directly into tracks
*Remixes of C64 tunes 'Sweet and Sour' and 'Belong' in the demo folder
*Better than Renoise!
*Better than Fruity Loops!
*Those last two points are just my personal biased opinion!
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Dreamstation 1 tracker is now FREE

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Don't quite see the point of using old sk00l tracker beside the piano roll editing. I guess they were aiming for hard core tracker fans as well.

Anyways, looks pretty interesting. Will try this one for sure.
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Lots 'o people just like the interface of trackers :) (just like some people prefer a good ole' Atari joystick to an XBox 360 control pad). Damn, choice is good :)

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Chris Abbott wrote:Lots 'o people just like the interface of trackers :)
Those masochists..! :)
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Stormy wrote: Don't quite see the point of using old sk00l tracker beside the piano roll editing.
I thought exactly the same thing when I first tried it, but after a few sessions I was instinctively flicking between the two editing methods like I'd been working that way forever!

Some things are just much quicker to do with a tracker (mainly step sequencing of intricate note sequences/drum programming) and some things are much easier with the piano roll (setting note lengths, velocity, etc).

Let us know what you think if you get around to trying it. :)

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I see Tonka and Jeron Tel in the opening credits. :)

Playing "Belong" sent my CPU performance to 94% - 100% and a bit of clipping. This is my 2Ghz, Compaq Persario.
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Analog-X64 wrote:I see Tonka and Jeron Tel in the opening credits. :)
LOL! That's just because I am a beta tester and Jeroen gave his permission for the S&S remix. I don't make any money from it, sadly. :cry:
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Trackers is good, and dreamstation has some special sound :D
I tryed Dreamstation1 a few years ago, it was verry cpu intensive, though I did not have a fast cpu back then lol :D
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trace wrote:Trackers is good, and dreamstation has some special sound :D
I tryed Dreamstation1 a few years ago, it was verry cpu intensive, though I did not have a fast cpu back then lol :D
DSDXI2 has indeed got a very special sound to it. It's the only synth I know which can make a classic C64 PWM lead with 3 clicks of the mouse! I keep nagging Brian to update it a little, but he apparently has plans for a new soft synth (and drum synth) for DS2.

That must have been some kinda SLOW PC, BTW. I used to run DS1 on a 500mhz PC with the latency at 20ms! :lol:
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Analog-X64 wrote: Playing "Belong" sent my CPU performance to 94% - 100% and a bit of clipping. This is my 2Ghz, Compaq Persario.
:shock: That's not normal - it's around 50% on my Athlon 2100 with 1GB of RAM.

Do me a favour and send me a PM stating your soundcard, ASIO settings etc. Also, could you try a restart and re-open Belong afresh and sell me what happens then?
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Tonka wrote: That must have been some kinda SLOW PC, BTW. I used to run DS1 on a 500mhz PC with the latency at 20ms! :lol:
I think it was like the first pc I even had and that was a pentium 120mhz with like 128mb ram or something LOL :oops:
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trace wrote:
Tonka wrote: That must have been some kinda SLOW PC, BTW. I used to run DS1 on a 500mhz PC with the latency at 20ms! :lol:
I think it was like the first pc I even had and that was a pentium 120mhz with like 128mb ram or something LOL :oops:
LOL! My first PC had a Cyrix 100mhz processor. It would stutter if I played stereo MP3's and took about 20 mins to normalize a wav file! To burn a CD, I used to have to delete everything I could off the harddisk beforehand as I only had a 800mb drive!

Ahh, I can laugh about it now but at the time... :frustration:
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Interesting stuff. I shall have to have a look at this! :)
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Indeedy dooo.. I started out on trackers so anything with the old "c-4 -- 501 -- 40 " style format always makes me smile.
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Nice tracker look.
Ill try it some more tomorrow, sounded quite nice :rock:

Thanks for t he tip!
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