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Subject:What is an all-in-one solution?
Posted by: waynegee
Date:9/27/2002 8:56:39 AM

I keep reading on the forum that ACID is not meant to be an "all-in-one solution"...what does that mean? It seems to me(and I have done it) that you can arrange, record, mix and burn a project from start to finish in ACID, just like you can in any other DAW or sequencing product. SO WTF? I mean, now if you can use them, the added synth features make it so you can do ALL your work in one environment. I just read in one of the trade mags that some band recorded their entire new CD (except for vocals/guitars) in Reason(they imported the already recorded vocals/guitars into the Reason samplers and continued from there)...surely ACID is less limited than that! So what does all-in-one really mean? Yeah, Cubase, Sonar, DP and Logic have 8 times more features than ACID but does the exclusion of these features in ACID preclude doing any real work? What can you do elsewhere (besides Rewire) that you can't do in ACID? Daniel Bedingfield has made a no. 1 record using Making Waves, for God's sake...have you seen that thing...oooooof! Anyway, just curious.

Subject:RE: What is an all-in-one solution?
Reply by: spesimen
Date:9/27/2002 11:25:22 AM

>> What can you do elsewhere (besides Rewire) that you can't do in ACID?


well, i think that's an interesting question... everyone will have different needs so 'all-in-one' is necessarily different for everyone. i think the classic definition means you could get an entire track done without having to export to other apps to finish the job, or without having to use other apps to make some of the pieces and components of the song.

for me, constructing beats from scratch that use swing, and easily integrated pattern sequencing are two big factors. for someone else, it might be having the ability to record mulitple takes at once. other people may really need surround to get all their stuff done. so all-in-one is pretty much a tough thing to nail down..i think that's why cubase, sonar, etc have so many features, since they just try to do everything at once. i think some of us of course get kinda cranky when the things we want don't show up in acid but there is something to be said for it's simplicity..

Subject:RE: What is an all-in-one solution?
Reply by: DataCowboy
Date:9/27/2002 1:55:36 PM

I don't recall that Acid does multi-track recording (unless they added it to 4.0), so if you were recording a live band but wanted individual tracks for each musician you couldn't do it. And there's certainly plenty of bands and jam bands that like to record that way to get the full live feel.

Hexadecimal

Subject:RE: What is an all-in-one solution?
Reply by: Iacobus
Date:9/27/2002 3:27:49 PM

I would assume that an all-in-one solution would be an app that the user doesn't have to leave to get everything done, from creation to mastering. My theory is that the more you roll into one, the more you're asking for trouble—essentially a "jack of all trades, master of none" deal. Everything just ends up getting buried in a hideous UI. That's one of the reasons why I like SoFo's apps.

Each is concentrated to a specific task but yet allows them to be modular with each other or another company's app. (A perfect example being the ability to edit a loop in Sound Forge right from ACID.)

Iacobus

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