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Subject:New Acid Family Member Posted by: antonio Date:10/21/2002 12:37:24 PM Hello all. Hope everyone is well. My name is Antonio and I purchased Acid 4.0 last week sometime. It came bundled with Sonic Forge 6.0 which i thought was absolutely great and also a host of loop cds!!! In order to avoid reloading a loop disc everytime I want to open a saved project, do I have to copy the loop disc(s) to my hard drive??? The reason I ask is because, sometimes whenever I go to open a saved project, i get prompted to insert a loop disc. Can anyone answer this very basic question for me? I apologize for my ignorance, but I am in the process of migrating from a hardware-based recording system to now, a software-based one, so please be gentle! =) PS does anyone have any success in creating their own drum parts using the "one-shots" ? how do you do it?? it seems very tedious. fruity loops is much easier for me!!
Subject:RE: Newbie Question Reply by: anon Date:10/21/2002 12:51:17 PM Yeah, if you don't want to have to insert the disk with the loops you want to use in a certain project every time, you need to copy the file to your hard drive. The easiest way to do this is just to save them in the folder in Acid 4 which houses your project. The reason you need to put the loops on your hard drive is that the actual project as an .acd file, only contains the loop info, not the loop themselves. As far as making drum tracks with one shots, I did that all the time with Acid 3, but with Acid 4 I've been loading one shots into a drum sampler and going from there. But although the one-shot method does take a little more time to map out, I also preferred that method because of the ease of control over the volume, fades, fx, pan, etc... But with some practice you can get pretty quick at it. if you copy the one shot you can paint them in pretty quick using the paste, then hitting page down to advance the cursor to the next marker.
Subject:RE: Newbie Question Reply by: Iacobus Date:10/21/2002 12:55:46 PM Hello antonio, Unless you save using the ACD-ZIP file extension or simply copy all the media with the project (both options are under File>Save As on the menu bar), you will have to load your loop CD's one by one. You can get around this by copying all the loops off the CD to your hard drive. You don't have to copy the entire contents of each loop CD to your hard drive, only the folder containing the loops to the collection. I believe any necessary loops are in a folder called, "Loops." (Natch.) I use percussion One-shots all the time. Though it can be tedious for some, you really can't beat its control in terms of how the beat progresses over time. Some tips I have would be to use the Selection Tool to select the One-shot block and then copy and paste as necessary. You could also solo just the One-shot tracks, set the Loop Region over a specific area and then use CTRL+M to render to a new track (using the Render loop region only option), which will usually turn the whole shebang into a Loop. HTH, Iacobus
Subject:RE: Newbie Question Reply by: antonio Date:10/21/2002 2:08:13 PM Thanks alot for your response...will do it as soon as i get home!!!
Subject:RE: Newbie Question Reply by: antonio Date:10/21/2002 2:10:24 PM Thanks for the response anon........'preciate it!!! may I ask what drum sampler you use?? is it hardware or software based? how good is giga-studio? isn't that used for sampling???

Subject:New Acid Family Member

Posted by: antonio

Date:10/21/2002 12:37:24 PM

Hello all. Hope everyone is well. My name is Antonio and I purchased Acid 4.0 last week sometime. It came bundled with Sonic Forge 6.0 which i thought was absolutely great and also a host of loop cds!!! In order to avoid reloading a loop disc everytime I want to open a saved project, do I have to copy the loop disc(s) to my hard drive??? The reason I ask is because, sometimes whenever I go to open a saved project, i get prompted to insert a loop disc. Can anyone answer this very basic question for me? I apologize for my ignorance, but I am in the process of migrating from a hardware-based recording system to now, a software-based one, so please be gentle! =)

PS does anyone have any success in creating their own drum parts using the "one-shots" ? how do you do it?? it seems very tedious. fruity loops is much easier for me!!

Subject:RE: Newbie Question

Reply by: anon

Date:10/21/2002 12:51:17 PM

Yeah, if you don't want to have to insert the disk with the loops you want to use in a certain project every time, you need to copy the file to your hard drive. The easiest way to do this is just to save them in the folder in Acid 4 which houses your project. The reason you need to put the loops on your hard drive is that the actual project as an .acd file, only contains the loop info, not the loop themselves.

As far as making drum tracks with one shots, I did that all the time with Acid 3, but with Acid 4 I've been loading one shots into a drum sampler and going from there. But although the one-shot method does take a little more time to map out, I also preferred that method because of the ease of control over the volume, fades, fx, pan, etc... But with some practice you can get pretty quick at it. if you copy the one shot you can paint them in pretty quick using the paste, then hitting page down to advance the cursor to the next marker.

Subject:RE: Newbie Question

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:10/21/2002 12:55:46 PM

Hello antonio,

Unless you save using the ACD-ZIP file extension or simply copy all the media with the project (both options are under File>Save As on the menu bar), you will have to load your loop CD's one by one. You can get around this by copying all the loops off the CD to your hard drive.

You don't have to copy the entire contents of each loop CD to your hard drive, only the folder containing the loops to the collection. I believe any necessary loops are in a folder called, "Loops." (Natch.)

I use percussion One-shots all the time. Though it can be tedious for some, you really can't beat its control in terms of how the beat progresses over time. Some tips I have would be to use the Selection Tool to select the One-shot block and then copy and paste as necessary. You could also solo just the One-shot tracks, set the Loop Region over a specific area and then use CTRL+M to render to a new track (using the Render loop region only option), which will usually turn the whole shebang into a Loop.

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: Newbie Question

Reply by: antonio

Date:10/21/2002 2:08:13 PM

Thanks alot for your response...will do it as soon as i get home!!!

Subject:RE: Newbie Question

Reply by: antonio

Date:10/21/2002 2:10:24 PM

Thanks for the response anon........'preciate it!!! may I ask what drum sampler you use?? is it hardware or software based? how good is giga-studio? isn't that used for sampling???