The single biggest advantage of Vegas is the ability to record multiple simultaneous tracks; ACID is limited to recording a single stereo track at a time. Vegas is also much more geared toward the multitrack tapedeck method of working with sound whereas ACID is geared towards assembling loops. ACID's recording ability is really intended only for allowing you to add your own loop material. By default, Vegas uses disk-based tracks so that you aren't limited to the amount of RAM you have. ACID (since it's intended for working with short files) defaults to RAM based tracks and ends up doing a lot of swapping if you have long recordings. Yes, you can alter ACID's behavior, but Vegas already handles large files properly.
Personally, i don't understand why people would pick ACID over Vegas when recording live music. ACID was never intended for this use; Vegas makes it much easier.
Chienworks, thank you, with your reply you have already answered some of my questions.
Would Vegas make it also easier to handle multiple clips? If your project is about 5 minutes long and it has about 30 clips from 3 or 4 different (audio) tracks, can VV3 handle that?
AudioFH: no sweat. I've had hundreds of audio clips in a Vegas project.
One other big difference between ACID and Vegas is that ACID only allows one file per track (which makes it deliciously easy to paint loops), but means you would need a separate track for each audio clip. Vegas allows as many files as you wish on each track.
Hmmm,
it is interesting. How do you achieve multitrack recording in Vegas? I was lately recording Song Competition using Audio Unit (forgot the name) which use ASIO drivers and allows multi track recording via firewire to Nuendo or Cubase.
Is it possible with Vegas???.
Thanks,
Michal
Yes, but you must have those inputs available on you machine and select them one by one by right-clicking on the Vegas track where you want that input to go.
If your sound card supports 6+ simultaneous inputs then vegas will allow you to record all at inputs once, each on an independant track. Then as TorS said, you'll have to select each track input in Vegas to get your tracking correct. Should be everything you need...
For VV4 or VA4 give it hardware support and it should kik butt you know Mackie Control or a HUI that would be cool and how about a classic mixer GUI that would be useful also
If ASIO will be supported, it is great news. As I said, I used firewire to record 6 tracks simultaneously from the sound module. The module has 8 inputs, converts analog to digital (up to 96 or maybe more kH sampling)and sends mixed tracks to PC via firewire. It is then split and recorded in Cubase/Nuendo (both support ASIO). AFAIK ASIO is the protocol to allow above. What I would wish to see is VV to be able to do the same.