Right now I’m taking a pretty hard look at Mackie Tracktion 3.
A couple of years ago (wow has it been that long!) I did a review that was pretty well received by the Traction 2 community. In that review I gave myself one hour to build a song and export it to .mp3. Here’s the link to the old article:
http://www.guitargearheads.com/news/article.php?storyid=152
I really liked Traction 2 because it is powerful and easy to use. It had sort of a “Star Trek” interface with I thought was very hip. But in fairness, even though I used it a lot for recording, it was missing a few key features that made it difficult to use as an all around application.
Recently, Mackie release a new version 3 of Tracktion which adds a number of features, including those that I felt were missing. Ease of use shouldn’t be a problem since apparently, even a cat can use it:
New Features:
Loop support
Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting
More powerful MIDI Editor
Rewire 2.0 support
Quicktime Video Integration
I’m pretty excited about Tracktion 3 and can’t wait to bring you the review. But hey, you don’t have to take my word for it. Mackie is giving a away a free demo. Check out the product page for a video tutorial. Just come back and tell us what YOU think!
Product Page: http://www.mackie.com/products/tracktion3/
Demo: http://my.mackie.com/products/tracktion/demov3.asp
Dan
EDIT: I found a cool Tracktion 3 video on YouTube…check it out!