Comments on: energyXT 2.5 is Here, is Awesome; European Offices Have Lots of Sunlight!

By: JC

JC — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:25:44 +0000

I have energy xt 2.5, I am personally finding that, you get what you pay for……. This is in my opinion an unfinished sequencer, seems the lightweight feel does run as a theme throughout i.e. bugs and stability. Although massive kudos for what they are doing, Seems a that the PR video money would have been better spent in more development in the sequencer, and replying to people in their own beta testing forum. Guys, get a full test drive before buying!!! And guys at energy xt, please put your money where your mouth is, with regards to beta testing and development…. Got a soft spot for this one, would be great for music peeps globally as a potentially great product

Brilliant for learning, horrible for

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Tue, 05 May 2009 10:52:57 +0000

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By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:06:01 +0000

I, uh, literally do have to go buy a new suit this week. (Seriously)

By: Mallyone

Mallyone — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:04:08 +0000

I think we are all getting sidetracked here by the features and stability, and the product itself for that matter. What I feel is a real point in this article is that Peter is going to throw on a suit, and make an energyXT video for us, complete with American public radio voice…

I mean, you did put it on the table.

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By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:41:28 +0000

Hi Kyran,
Ah, okay, that’s hugely helpful … just the sort of thing I hadn’t found in more casual use. And yes, I agree absolutely that that’s not what you want from the memory management.

It’s really odd that you’d have less automation of internal devices and not the other way around.

I’ll spend some more time with this; greatly appreciated.

By: kyran

kyran — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:50:42 +0000

You can automate vst plugins in the mixer, just not the buildin fx (and synth), which is indeed a big flaw. Especially on linux where there are not that many vst fx availlable. (and the buildin ones do sound nice)

The reason it starts to crackle so fast is because it doesn’t remove plugins from memory when you delete them. So insert an instance of kontakt, then remove it, it’ll still be loaded into memory using the cpu it uses when idling (which can be considerable on certain synths)

It’ll clear the memory when you restart the app.
The reason it works this way is to make the undo functionality work. You can undo the removal of your plugin.

Other hosts (like FL) just warn you that there’s no undoing removing a plugin from the project and then clear it from memory, which is a better approach imo.

By: aje

aje — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:35:33 +0000

The promo video soundtrack reminds me of the Phantom Menace on a low budget, with its menacing percussion and choir. So where’s Darth Vader?

“we’re STRONG on this, STRONG on that, STRONG on the other”. Okay fella.

By: B

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:13:42 +0000

Also, in comparisson to other DAWs you can’t put very much in it before the sound starts to crackle, and you’ll have to restart your machine to make it (temporarily) go away.

By: kragg

kragg — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:13:45 +0000

“Iâ€™m curious which bugs are important to people, though, which stability complaints you have. Iâ€™m newer to the environment so I suspect you know more than I do. Iâ€™ll check through the forums, but for folks who are readers here, please be specific.”

3 big showstopper :

- automation doesn’t remember the starting point setting. So when you rewind, you have lost your initial setting.

- Try to insert a plugin with side-chaining in the mixer : you hear the sound only on one side :(

- No automation for the effects inserted in the mixer, and not even for the embedded synth.

So, no, not quite here.
I like Ext2, as, as you said, it is quick to launch and easy to make something with, but it really becomes frustrating since you try to make something else than a 4 bars pattern quick & dirty test.