Subject:AcidPro4 works perfectly here . . .

Posted by: Spirit

Date:8/23/2002 9:23:33 PM

Maybe I'm alone in the universe, but AcidPro4 is working beautifully here. I'm using it with a 1.8MHz P4 running audio-tweaked XP-Home with a PulsarII soundcard. AsusP4B266 mobo with 512Mb DDR SDRAM. I'm on 5ms latency have no crackles or pops and apart from a crash caused (I believe) by an earlier version of Absynth (since updated) I've had no problems.

I've been happily triggering Pulsar synths via MIDI, then recording them to audio. Couldn't be easier, whereas the procedure to do this in VST is extraordinarily painful.

I've edited MIDI piano roll while playing, chopped notes, doubled MIDI tracks, put MIDI tracks in the chopper, edited to a new track, then dropped it to audio, then chopped that, effected it, rendered again etc etc

I'm not here to skite or deny the problems that others are having, and I've still got a lot of testing to do before I'm convinced about stability etc, since I haven't started really piling ont the tracks yet. But I do want to balance the books. This app can't be totally buggy or I'd be having problems too. I'm not - and I've been hammering it.

This is the app I've been waiting for !

:)

Subject:RE: AcidPro4 works perfectly here . . .

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:8/23/2002 10:30:39 PM

Though I've had general problems with recording MIDI with softsynths (which I just think is related to the VSTi's I'm checking out; they're free) and the already-well-known M-Audio Delta ASIO problem, everything else works like it should. I can playback softsynth tracks fine, I can use the MIDI piano roll editor fine, etc.

Maybe it's because I have the patience of Job, but I'm more than willing to wait out the bugs, just because the audio quality is better vs. ACID Pro 3.0. That alone is worth it for me. (That and measures being automatically marked when I record takes. Much easier to make loops this way.)

I say if you're having problems with ACID Pro 4.0, just wait it out. The best is yet to come.

Iacobus

Subject:RE: AcidPro4 works perfectly here . . .

Reply by: Studio_de_Lara

Date:8/23/2002 10:48:41 PM

Well,people have spent money. Easy to say "wait it out" if you have no problems. If I knew there was a M-Audio problem, do you think I would have spent the money?(since I am a M-Audio card user). There was no warning,"if you own a M-Audio card, ASIO won't work yet". If there was, how many people would have bought into 4.0.
The more I think about it, the more pissed off I get. Why should I wait? If Sonic Foundy knew of this "M-Audio Problem" why didn't they tell people, BEFORE the M-Audio owners purchased a product THAT WOULD NOT WORK?
Getting more pissed off.
Rich

Subject:RE: AcidPro4 works perfectly here . . .

Reply by: MacMoney

Date:8/23/2002 11:34:54 PM

Works well on my P4 1.7,Win2k and Motu and on Win98se P3 800 Darla 20.

George Ware

Subject:RE: AcidPro4 works perfectly here . . .

Reply by: fuzzy

Date:8/24/2002 1:15:06 AM

There was no warning,"if you own a M-Audio card, ASIO won't work yet".

Richard, I understand you being pissed off. But I wonder if you're more pissed of with yourself for buying the upgrade without doing your homework first. I did the same thing myself, only to discover that it didn't have features that I expected.

If you had checked the Release Notes before you purchased, you would have seen the warning (item 6) in the list of Known Issues.

My problem is that Fruityloops VSTi doesn't work yet. That problem wasn't included in the list of known issues. However, like yourself, I probably should have tested the demo version first to see if I was happy with it before upgrading.

So there's a lesson to be learnt here - look before you leap.

The problems will get sorted, and our issues in particular (ASIO & VSTi tempo sync) are at the top of the list so we all just need to be patient.

Subject:RE: AcidPro4 works perfectly here . . .

Reply by: ATP

Date:8/24/2002 7:41:12 AM

ACID 4.0 (demo that is) had been working fine on my pc, AMD XP 2000, 512 mb ram, ASUS A7V KT333, SB Live. my only gripe is the horrendous latency i get, but that's not ACID's fault, i simply need to get a proper sound card. :)

Subject:RE: AcidPro4 works perfectly here . . .

Reply by: Studio_de_Lara

Date:8/24/2002 10:43:20 AM

Yeah,
I just read the release notes. Stupid me......Oh well, live and learn. I still believe some of the main issues should have been worked out BEFORE a release of this magnitude.
Guess I have to work the old way, 'til the ASIO is fixed.
Rich

Subject:RE: AcidPro4 works perfectly here . . .

Reply by: chaircrusher

Date:8/24/2002 10:46:26 AM

The problems with MAudio cards is documented in the README file which you can download before you download the demo. Why don't you go back to Acid 3 until it's resolved? Or, if you can live with latency, why not just use the MME drivers for the Delta.

Subject:RE: AcidPro4 works perfectly here . . .

Reply by: Studio_de_Lara

Date:8/24/2002 10:55:26 AM

Yeah,
I just posted about the release notes. Who woulda thunk? All the info at me finger tips. My Bad...
I actually am using ACID 4 (carefully, alot of saving) without ASIO and playing with the automation using the classic wave drivers. I am doing a sound to DV and the video playback is robust. Still having to work around with VST Instruments, but I am working.
So lesson "learnt" ;>)
Regards,
Rich