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sekim · Jam Meister Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 97

I'm thinking Jamstix will be right up the alley of many in the N crowd (I used to use N), so here's a thread for them!

RichLum · Jamologist Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Sydney

Hi,

I downloaded the demo this afternoon and I've tried to use it in n-Track and it keeps hanging whilst playing.

I've tried both routing a midi track and playing live and also loading up a wav file and routing that to jamstix via the Audiom8 plugin

seems that whilst it's playing the sytem just hangs and I can't click on any buttons in either n-Track or Jamstix

Program looks promising though...

Rich

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

Sekim,
thanks for opening the thread! I made it sticky.

RichLum, we will investigate this. Stay tuned.
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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sekim · Jam Meister Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 97

Looks like problems with n-Track itself. I can't get Native Instruments B4 to run in the current version of N either...

bw's · Junior Jammer Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 5 Location: omaha

I have downloaded the demo, can't get it to do anything in N-track, but have set it up in minihost. I love the program and would give anything to free jam with it in N-track. I hope this is worked out, if not, please let me know the best alternative setup..

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

Hi bw's and welcome to the board!

At this time we cannot afford to deal with the n-track issues, especially since other VSTi from big companies have problems in n-track, too, indicating host issues.

As far as other hosts are concerned, it is not an easy choice. Here are some hosts that we like and that work well with Jamstix:

- Tracktion
- Sonar 3 and 4
- Cubase SX 2 and 3
- Ableton Live 4.1
- FL Studio 5
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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bw's · Junior Jammer Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 5 Location: omaha

Thanks for the fast reply. You will have my $100 tonight and I will be purchasing Sonar just to run the program. Just to clarify, all of the host programs you listed will run the audio jam utility?

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

Tom · Junior Jammer Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 7

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

Tom · Junior Jammer Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 7

Hi Ralph,

Thanks for looking into ntrack for us, that's great! It just might be that jamstix will perform in Ntrack via a midi track, good thinking.

I personally don't have a problem Ralph, I have a live session this weekend and didn't want to risk installing a demo with the chance of tilting my system just before the session. Especially where a support team uses unfavorable remarks towards ntrack. It sounded to iffy! However I know the ntrack forum is active with thousands of reallly cool ntrack users who would truely be intrested in your software. I'm also a proud user of ntrack and want to see that Flavio gets a fair shake, he has treated us all very well and is constantly upgrading and improving ntrack! Ntrack is growing fast so be prepaired! Laughing

Was there a recorded track of jamstix after your experiment? Or did you just try for a jam sound?

Thanks Ralph,
Tom

Ralph [RZ] · Site Admin Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 13332

Hi Tom, I didn't record the MIDI out.

By the way, I wasn't trying to say anything negative about n-Track. I am sure it is a great product with good support.

Once we get a breather here, we'll be able to put more focus in this. Hope you can understand!
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Rayzoon Technologies LLC
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RichLum · Jamologist Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 142 Location: Sydney

I just tried Jamstox again with n-Track and it seems to be more stable with the latest build of n-track (build 1805).

I am having 2 problems though that I have mailed Flavio the N-track developer about but I'll post them here as well as I'm not sure if they are Jamstix or n-Track issues....

when using Jamstix with n-Track the audio output of Jamstix only comes out of the left channel.

Using Jamstix in Tracktion it comes out both channels fine. I don't like Tracktion though so was only using it to Test Jamstix and want to be able to use it in n-Track Smile

Also when using Jamstix if you press stop in n-track and then move the position marker and press play it seems that sometimes the information about what bar the song is up to is sent to Jamstix and sometimes it isn't.
ie. Sometimes Jamestix will change to the correct bar and play from there and sometimes it just keeps playing from the bar that you stopped the song before moving the position marker in n-track.

The second issue is not that much of a problem as a workaround is to just manually set Jamstix to the correct bar, but the first one is a major problem as I obviously don't want mono drum tracks Smile

Rich

Tom · Junior Jammer Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 7

sekim · Jam Meister Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 97

Flavio is a great guy, very responsive to user problems, so I would imagine he will take a look at it. FWIW - JS is working (with the functionality I use) in these hosts: Samplitude Pro 8.1, FL5.02, Traction 1.6, Acid Pro 4.0f. This may help Flavio as a reference.