I grabbed myself a copy of the beta version of Propellerheads Record (pirate edition) today. I signed up for beta testing when it was released and I'll probably get my own legal version sometime in June but I decided to try it out today anyway.
First of all, as you can see from the picture, my machine (dual core, 3ghz) wasn't good enough to handle the demo song included, even when I dialed the sample rate back to 22khz. A bit disappointing but the song was fairly complex to be fair, and I can freely create my own songs with lesser modules without a problem. I am fairly certain that this program will be as efficient as Reason when it's released.
So far I've only been messing about with the surface, but already I can see the interface is a huge improvement over Reason 4. You know must of the good things already (like lateral rack mounting etc) but theres also finally a decent way to zoom in and out of the sequencer view, with the use an overview window and drag handles.
Oh and one cute little feature, built in qwerty keyboard support for playback, so no-more messing about with midi-yoke (<--- although still a very useful program).
Anything I don't like about it yet? Yes, and will hate forever: No midi out! A program which was created to record "real" instruments and yet won't allow you to sequence your "real" synths from it, is plain silly!
More to come....
4 comments:
Your cpu is drained because your pirated copy of record runs on a debugger engine to get around the copyright protection. From what I understand the program itself is VERY efficient already. Just be patient 9/09/09 will be here in the blink of an eye.
Interesting! It does seem a little slow for a public test release but I'm not sure why it needs to use debugger code to circumvent any copyright protection, I'm just running it in demo mode.
Well it looks like a solid program anyway, not sure if it's of any great use to me though. Maybe when I'm upgrading to Reason 5 or whatever they'll both be bundled together, and I can avail of it's features automatically :)
Thanks for the comment!
i would like to know which demo song were you playing i was a beta tester a and this thing is very stable and uses cpu very efficient
especially at 44.1khz
i love it it mixing engine sounds very good and has a very low latency
The song was the Josh Mobley track. It was the second "private" beta release of Record, which ran in debugging mode, hence the high CPU rate. The later public beta releases didn't have this problem.
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