N3 concerns
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 5:04 amSo I have been putzing with N3 for a bit now, and I love it. I only have a few small concerns.
Midi keyboard recording: Not my main method of creating a finished piece, but it is useful to squeeze out an idea quickly. N3 is pretty horrid from my experience thus far. anything smaller than 8th notes just blow up into an incoherent mess for note values, and sometimes even gets the notes' pitch wrong, and throws extra notes/omits notes, etc. I had absolutely no problems with this in N2 or Progression, those programs would save it exactly as it was played, if the notation was too complex to handle that would get a little messy, but the playback was always intact. I can't imagine this problem isn't being worked on, I am not worried.
Audio export: Another one I am not worried about, but... I have N3 consistently crashing at about 40 seconds into an audio export.
Guitar effects: This is the most disconcerting one. Importing my Progression files into N3, I thought this would be pretty slick, and it definitely is except for guitar effects. Bends and vibrato sound off key and "computer generated" rather than sounding like a human playing, as in Progression. All the other effects (palm mutes, slides, etc) work just fine.
Also I cannot get Revalver from Progression to work in N3. I rarely use it, but it would be nice to have.
Other than the above I am thoroughly happy with N3, happy with the included VST's, and perhaps most importantly I am happy with the company as a whole.
Midi keyboard recording: Not my main method of creating a finished piece, but it is useful to squeeze out an idea quickly. N3 is pretty horrid from my experience thus far. anything smaller than 8th notes just blow up into an incoherent mess for note values, and sometimes even gets the notes' pitch wrong, and throws extra notes/omits notes, etc. I had absolutely no problems with this in N2 or Progression, those programs would save it exactly as it was played, if the notation was too complex to handle that would get a little messy, but the playback was always intact. I can't imagine this problem isn't being worked on, I am not worried.
Audio export: Another one I am not worried about, but... I have N3 consistently crashing at about 40 seconds into an audio export.
Guitar effects: This is the most disconcerting one. Importing my Progression files into N3, I thought this would be pretty slick, and it definitely is except for guitar effects. Bends and vibrato sound off key and "computer generated" rather than sounding like a human playing, as in Progression. All the other effects (palm mutes, slides, etc) work just fine.
Also I cannot get Revalver from Progression to work in N3. I rarely use it, but it would be nice to have.
Other than the above I am thoroughly happy with N3, happy with the included VST's, and perhaps most importantly I am happy with the company as a whole.
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