Despite all the minor gripes (see the ol' mono issue), after a few days of putting it through it's paces in a professional environment, I'm falling in love with Vegas 4. This thing really does rock. New features that I have to say I honestly initially thought were pretty small, are making significant changes to the way I work - giving me the ability to work faster and with more production options:
- Gotta love the new ripple. Took a little bit of getting used to, but overall makes a lot more sense and is much more usable. Inserting, moving and deleting slap bang is the middle of a project is now so much easier.
- Didn't realise the implications of bus tracks until I started playing with them; awesome. Combined with:
- Automatable effects, wow! Great to be able to kill a delay return when you want to, and eq. sweep that return while you're at it. This has got to be the best implementation of automation I've seen in a DAW - beats the hell out of madly trying to grab flying faders with the mouse to make adjustments, as in Pro Tools, SADiE and the others.
- The new scrub options are also useful.
So, as we'd say in south London, 'big up' guys. Great job. While I'm here though, a couple of things I'd like to see in perhaps a 4a or 4b:
- I know we can now select the default envelope fade types, but it'd be very useful if we could also select the default <event> fade types. I'm perpetually having to change these as generally use one which isn't the default.
- Is there any chance of having a preview button on the stretching part of the event properties dialog? It'd be nice to be able to simply listen to the different stretching algorithms there. As it is, I'm often trying one, flicking back to the timeline, soloing, listening and going back to the properties page, changing the setting, etc. So, this would be really useful.
- Related to that, though this one may seem a little strange. I'd like you to bring back the stretching algorithms from VV3, whilst retaining the new Forge-like ones. I found Autofade for Voice really useful for some sources. The others were crap, to be honest, used how they should be, but fantastic for doing the odd bit of quick phasing and flanging to voices!
I think that's enough to be getting on with - apologies for the long post. What do people make of those suggestions?
Again, great software and let's hope all goes well with whatever happens in February.
Ben
- Gotta love the new ripple. Took a little bit of getting used to, but overall makes a lot more sense and is much more usable. Inserting, moving and deleting slap bang is the middle of a project is now so much easier.
- Didn't realise the implications of bus tracks until I started playing with them; awesome. Combined with:
- Automatable effects, wow! Great to be able to kill a delay return when you want to, and eq. sweep that return while you're at it. This has got to be the best implementation of automation I've seen in a DAW - beats the hell out of madly trying to grab flying faders with the mouse to make adjustments, as in Pro Tools, SADiE and the others.
- The new scrub options are also useful.
So, as we'd say in south London, 'big up' guys. Great job. While I'm here though, a couple of things I'd like to see in perhaps a 4a or 4b:
- I know we can now select the default envelope fade types, but it'd be very useful if we could also select the default <event> fade types. I'm perpetually having to change these as generally use one which isn't the default.
- Is there any chance of having a preview button on the stretching part of the event properties dialog? It'd be nice to be able to simply listen to the different stretching algorithms there. As it is, I'm often trying one, flicking back to the timeline, soloing, listening and going back to the properties page, changing the setting, etc. So, this would be really useful.
- Related to that, though this one may seem a little strange. I'd like you to bring back the stretching algorithms from VV3, whilst retaining the new Forge-like ones. I found Autofade for Voice really useful for some sources. The others were crap, to be honest, used how they should be, but fantastic for doing the odd bit of quick phasing and flanging to voices!
I think that's enough to be getting on with - apologies for the long post. What do people make of those suggestions?
Again, great software and let's hope all goes well with whatever happens in February.
Ben