Mackie Tracktion 3 Ultimate Upgrade

Tracktion 3 Ultimate Upgrade description:

If you like sifting through endless menus and windows to make music, Tracktion 3 is not for you.

Tracktion 3 is based on a simple, single-screen interface which makes it a fast, powerful, complete solution for turning your ideas into finished songs. And unlike the competition, Tracktion 3 comes with all the power and plug-ins you'll ever need. So if you want to keep your music flowing--not locked in menus or limitations—you've come to the right place.

Tracktion 3’s integrated Loop Browser is possibly the most obvious difference between this and previous versions of Tracktion. It lets you pull up a massive variety of pre-recorded music loops in the widest possible range of file formats, including Recycle, Apple Loops and Acid. The Loop Browser pre-organizes these loops by “instruments”, “genres” and “descriptors” (single, ensemble, part, fill, acoustic, etc.).

Tracktion 3’s new high-quality Time Stretching lets you radically adjust the tempo of various loops and samples - or even your own recorded tracks - and bring them into your current creation with superb results. Pitch Shifting lets you put instruments and samples that were originally played in other keys into your song, making it sound as if they were played expressly for your current creation.

Tracktion 3 gives you top virtual instruments like SampleTank, DrumCore, Garritan Personal Orchestra, Native Instruments Kontakt 2Player, LinPlug Alpha 3 Classic Synth and Cronox 3 Sample Synth, the RM IV Drum Addiction, and more.

Tracktion 3 features a powerful-yet-streamlined MIDI editor. This MIDI editor - widely acclaimed in the previous version of Tracktion - has been optimized for even greater speed and ease of use, whether you’re recording frantically from your synth or doing detailed editing of a performance with the MIDI pencil tool. And like everything Tracktion, the MIDI editor is a snap to use, so you’ll keep your composition flowing right along.

Tracktion 3 includes full ReWire 2.0 support for integration with other ReWire-supporting software. ReWire is like having an "invisible cable" that allows you to connect one application to another so you can stream audio and MIDI to and from the linked programs. Tracktion acts as a master (or "mixer") application to which other ReWire slave (or "synth applications") can be linked.

Unlike most other music software, which is designed around analog mixer concepts and routing, Tracktion 3 uses a simple, single-screen interface for all basic recording and editing operations - with a property panel that follows your every move, providing pertinent information for the task at hand. The Tracktion 3 interface uses a signal-flow paradigm for everything. Inputs are on the left side of the screen; Audio and MIDI clips are in the middle. Effects and outputs are on the right. Want to record something? Just drag the audio or MIDI instrument icon to whatever track you like and hit Record.

Tracktion 3 places NO predetermined limits on the number of tracks you can record (or the number of effects you can use). In fact, the only limitation is your host computer’s innate processing power. And since Tracktion 3 takes full advantage of dual core/dual processor CPUs, you’ll finally be rewarded for buying that screaming new Mac or PC - you know, the one that you’ll be paying off for the next four years.

A new Marker Track allows display of all your markers in the edit. But Tracktion's markers are special in that you can treat them as clips, much like audio and MIDI. So you can move them around, split, stretch and edit them. Name and color them as needed to identify different sections of your song. And store and recall them using lightning fast key commands.

Tracktion allows you to save your audio files, songs, and even your final work in a variety of compressed and uncompressed audio formats such as broadcast wav, w64, aiff, or the ever-popular mp3.

Tracktion 3 Ultimate Bundle comes with a full-suite of native effects plug-ins ranging from dynamics to modulation, reverb and more. But it also supports commercially available third party VST and VSTi plug-ins, and comes with a staggering collection of them:

• IK Multimedia SampleTank 2 SE w/ 100 sound sets
• IK Multimedia Amplitube LE w/ upgrade to Duo
• Submersible Music DrumCore TK w/ 2GB drum sample library
• Garritan Personal Orchestra Tracktion 3 Edition w/ full 820MB sound library (powered by Native Instruments Kontakt 2 Player)
• LinPlug Alpha 3 classic synth
• LinPlug CronoX 3 sample synth
• LinPlug RM IV Drum Additction w/ 250 drum kits and 2,000 MIDI loops
• Mackie Mixing and Mastering Tools
• Sonic Reality Tracktion 3 Ultimate Collection w/ 2,000 Apple loops, 200 Rex loops, 1GB multi-track loops
• SWA Video - Mastering Tracktion 3 (almost 4 hours long!)

Tracktion 3 main features include:

• The fastest way to get started producing professional music on Mac or PC
• Streamlined audio and MIDI recording, mixing, editing and mastering
• Clutter-free, single-screen user interface keeps the music flowing
• No limits on track count, virtual instruments, or plug-ins
• Acid, Apple and REX Loop Browser with automatic pitch and tempo adjustment
• High-definition 64-bit/192kHz mix engine for superior sound
• Rack filters for simple creation of complex instrument and effect combinations
• Multi-processor / multi-core CPU support
• QuickTime video support for professional soundtrack creation
• Control surface support including Mackie Control Universal, C4 and more
• Over 150 new features and enhancements from Tracktion 2