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Got the 5.0 packet today - whoohaaaa automation is a dream!

First hands-on experience-report is to come.

Watch out!

Comments

pan Thu, 02/14/2002 - 15:08

OK, you nosey few...just some points:

It seems to not have changed a lot, the overall feeling is a bit faster than 4.x. They fixed some annoying bugs and made few changes for more intuitive handling.

A new USB-only dongle, that stores all of your emagic-keys for EXS etc. is introduced and will hopefully be supported by other manufacturers in the future.

Audioediting is still clumsy, but improved sound quality (native).

BUT a real big step into audio-automation - even with a mouse, you have quite good control over the faders in the Trackmixer. You can individually define Automation-Status for each Track.
You can copy Automation-Data in the Arrange, apply curves on fades and other goodies. (Automation is independent from the environment - no more channel-splitters..phew)

So, no worries to learn on 4.x and later switch to 5.0 - there's nothing different to 4.x - it has just become more complex...
...just add the new functions to your keycommands and have even more fun!

This is spoken quite generally and I'm still digging for new features I did not discover yet.

So long, Niko

pan Tue, 03/05/2002 - 16:26

Where's the update?

I would strongly recommend to stay with 4.81 at this point - 5.0 (update-release) has still some automation bugs - well it's .0 and sooooo delightful already - smooth fades, but stll abit dangerous, when unintentionally clicking in the volume or pan automation - resulting in a "hyperdraw" and minor anomalies like amnesia or is it just my alzheimer???
Performance has really done a step forward!