09-24-2024, 02:34 PM
My band have been using JK for 5 years and our problem with the new release concerns the audio tracks. Previously each instrument/vocal was recorded in a separate track and, after the session was closed, the File Manager would copy all the tracks to all the participants.
With the new release, the File Manager no longer seems to be working--although it looks as though it is trying to transfer tracks and repeatedly failing. I raised this with the support people and they explained that when you stop recording you instantly get your own individual instrument tracks plus aggregated tracks--one per participant--but you no longer get the individual audio tracks delivered to your session folder.
We have always done mixes of our songs by importing the individual tracks into a DAW and mixing them off-line. The aggregated tracks don't work nearly so well for this purpose--for example, one bandmate sings, plays accordion and plays synth bass (controlled from the accordion). In the DAW, these three tracks can be mixed separately and given, for example, different EQ for the three different types of audio. The aggregated track with the three things pre-mixed never sounds so good.
Because of this problem with the new client we will have to sort out a separate third party file sharing system so that we can share the individual instrument/vocal tracks. So, overall, the new client has so far got a thumbs down from us.
With the new release, the File Manager no longer seems to be working--although it looks as though it is trying to transfer tracks and repeatedly failing. I raised this with the support people and they explained that when you stop recording you instantly get your own individual instrument tracks plus aggregated tracks--one per participant--but you no longer get the individual audio tracks delivered to your session folder.
We have always done mixes of our songs by importing the individual tracks into a DAW and mixing them off-line. The aggregated tracks don't work nearly so well for this purpose--for example, one bandmate sings, plays accordion and plays synth bass (controlled from the accordion). In the DAW, these three tracks can be mixed separately and given, for example, different EQ for the three different types of audio. The aggregated track with the three things pre-mixed never sounds so good.
Because of this problem with the new client we will have to sort out a separate third party file sharing system so that we can share the individual instrument/vocal tracks. So, overall, the new client has so far got a thumbs down from us.