Well, I ordered the upgrade already- will let you know as soon as I get here and put it through the paces if any of the original soundtrack features are diminished.- the original definitely does great w/ acid loops, does not crash at all, and indeed does not open SDII files- its definitely worth the $200 and if the pro features are somewhat decent it will be worth the oher 100Originally posted by Shooshie:
Before everyone runs out and spends an unnecessary $300, go read the forums. I read the one Jim referred me to at Apple, and another at OSX Audio (the applications forum), and the experiences reported by others have certainly cooled my jets on the idea for now. I may still get it in a few days, but I'd sure like to see some reports come in that Apple has fixed some bugs.
Here are some SoundTrack Pro issues I've seen reported commonly in the forums so far:
1) Crashes. A LOT.
2) Does not audition all loop libraries easily as the original SoundTrack did. Apparently, it does great with Apple loops, but not with Acid, or something like that.
3) Noise Reduction leaves significant artifacts. At least one person has said that SoundSoap does a much better job, though I'm not convinced based on just one report. You know how forums can be. If everyone says the same thing... then I'd be inclined to believe it.
4) does not open dual-mono SDII files. That's a bummer for us DP users. But we can export to something that it DOES open, and then import those back as necessary. It's just inconvenient; not a deal-killer.
5) various other issues ranging from lag to bugs to instability.
So, I'm still awaiting some encouraging words about Noise Removal, but at this point I'm guessing that it's not going to put Waves out of business.
Shooshie
