So in essence, you are a click away from a world-wide community of talent. It integrates seamlessly into n-Track and one can easily start, join and collaborate on projects from within the DAW. For those that are not familiar with it, Songtree is a free crowd-sourcing music website built and maintained by the team behind n-Track. Songtree integration was probably the most fun new feature to come to version 8. It is also worth mentioning here that n-Track offers fully customizable "skins", so unlike some of its competitors, you won't have to be locked in a particular dark or light theme, but can choose your own view options. I am sure that with further investigation, this could be resolved by creating a custom skin. Since I am not very good at this I tried picking some of the other skin themes but the mixer view continued to display the name of the channel in white. N-Track has a GUI skinning feature where the user can modify the GUI. There were also some strange visual rendering issues, when a bright yellow track color was selected the mixer window displayed its text in white, which is almost unreadable, while the track window displayed it in black, which contrasted well with the color. I didn't experience similar glitches while running LePou and other freeware amp vsts. It is possible that the issue was with my somewhat older versions of Amplitube and EZDrummer, as of now they have moved up a version. At the same time, when the midi file was piped through the built in drum Drums instrument, it managed to produce sound on that same spot. EZDrummer wouldn't start at beat 1:1:000 (at the beginning of a song) and missed producing sound on the first downbeat, when moved over to the next bar, it played fine. Amplitube got weird when a second track was added, it started dropping the plugin sound from the first track and couldn't play both simultaneously. I experienced a few glitches, mainly with Amplitube and EZDrummer. The Multi-take Recording Mode offered easier guitar editing functionality, which is a godsend when comping lead takes. For the most part, the new version of n-Track behaved closer to what I'd expect from a typical DAW and I had a much more pleasant time getting around the controls and working on music. This is essentially a vst guitar amplifier plugin, which when paired with some cabinet impulse responses (IRs) loaded in the freeware 3rd party NadIR plugin produced quite pleasant results. There are some new effects, especially notable to me as a guitarist is the nTube. Right away the interface felt smoother and the audio editing options, which in version 6 were hard to work with, now are more responsive and have a feel similar to Reaper. I opted for the 32bit version as I still have a lot of 32bit software, both freeware and paid versions. The user can choose between a 32 and 64 bit version, depending on the type of 3rd party effects that one wishes to load. N-Track allows Studio 8 to be installed on 2 separate computers, while the Studio 8 EX version can be installed on 5 machines. Installation requires a simple and quick product registration and a relatively small (roughly 80mb) download from the company's site. Here is the list of what is new in version 8: As our review found v.6 already quite robust, albeit with a few hard to graps features, it was interesting to see what the overhaul did to the functionality and feel of the software. This review is a followup of our 2011 review of n-Track Studio v.6.
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