Among the serious DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation) people record and
produce music with on the face of the Earth, there is one not so
often met in studios but who rules supreme in the home-recording
field due to the exceptional performance/value/ease of use
characteristics. One Italian guy, Flavio Antonioli (FA in FASoft), is
the mastermind behind the N-Track Studio. And I guess that this
software is by far one of the best alternatives to the big-bucks DAWs
on the market today.
The Italian producer of well-known DAW N-Track made a decisive move and
has aligned the new software version to the milestone of
code-development for this year: the Windows Vista. The 5.0.6 version of
the N-Track is more that Vista-compliant, it is Vista-native as FASoft
have included WaveRT support in the upgrade.
The WaveRT driver technology Vista has brought in and started to make a
standard of requires more than simply making a program run in 64-bit
environments; if the software we're speaking of does not work with true
WaveRT audio paths, then it's just a Vista-compliant piece of code and
not a Vista-native one. Nevertheless, the N-Track did it: it now
supports the low-latency operation specifications from Windows Vista
and is almost completely ready to be run on Vista PCs.
Since the FASoft N-Track has always been a DAW requiring rather a small
amount of system resources, imagine the power it will benefit from when
running on a Vista-loaded PC, since it's commonly known that the Vista
systems will have to be substantially faster than average PCs today!
All these coming in an easy to use GUI and very intuitive operation
specs, running all major technologies such as ReWire, VST/i, DX/i and
with extensive support for surround sound design for the extremely
convenient price of $54 (16-bit version) or $79 (for the 24-bit
processing edition).
