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Subject:Very Interesting Reading... Posted by: RasKeita Date:6/19/2003 5:07:12 PM June Edition of Computer Music Magazine... Interview with Inon Zur. "With all due respect to technology, I'm a composer first so I beleive that it doesn't really matter what software you're using as long as you're happy comfortable and have few interruptions to your creativity by technical tasks. It's important that the machine isn't interfering with creating music." Herein is where the problem with Acid 4.0 lies. (Ras Keita's Opinion) Disruption of any kind stifles the creative juices that any artist gets flowing. To have the tool be a detriment rather than an aide, makes said tool useless. Case in point... I loaded Acid 2.0 out of the box onto my machine and "never," no never once did I encounter glitches and bugs. That is what prompted me to invest in 3.0, the solid, stable, reliability. I further invested in more SF products, and still hold them in high regard. The same applies to Reason, there has never been a glitch, a bug, a anything. Mind you I've had Reason since about a week after it first came out. Acid has been and still remains the supreme "loop-based music creation tool" let me rephrase that " professional loop-based music creation tool" Cubase/Logic/Sonar do what they do. IMHO I think SF would have better served the customer, by continuing to enhance Acid's true character. For instance make Acid a VSTi plugin (along the lines of FL Studio) or perhaps a Rewire slave (such as Reason). That way Acid would remain as stable and dependable as we've come to expect, it would also provide much needed Audio Looping Support to the "Big Three". With the ease and rock solid stability of Acid Rewired into Cubase or Sonar I'd be in seventh heaven. I also think the customer base would grow leaps and bounds if Acid was made available to dedicated Cubase/Logic/Sonar users, I have used all of these applications and when it comes to working with "Audio Loops" not one competes with Acid, but acid doesn't compete with them as far as MIDI,VSTi,DXi support goes. My thinking tells me stick to what you do best improve on that. I will still continue to use Cubase SX and Sonar XL when I'm working with MIDI,VSTi,etc. because 4.0 is not up to the task, and going back to the original quote, the machine should not get in the way of creativity. This is by no means meant to be a sllam or as they say a flame it's just my opinion, and I'm entitled to it. So everybody remembers that post about starting a petition for Rewire, I say we start a petition for Rewire slave or Acid as VSTi...Level Vibes
Subject:RE: Very Interesting Reading... Reply by: SHTUNOT Date:6/19/2003 5:19:51 PM >>>I say we start a petition for Rewire slave<<< They stated that this is in the works for 5.0. If you can't wait and want to start one go ahead. For me I'll be happy with being able to rewire to vegas. Ed.

June Edition of Computer Music Magazine...

Interview with Inon Zur.

"With all due respect to technology, I'm a composer first so I beleive that it doesn't really matter what software you're using as long as you're happy comfortable and have few interruptions to your creativity by technical tasks. It's important that the machine isn't interfering with creating music."

Herein is where the problem with Acid 4.0 lies. (Ras Keita's Opinion)
Disruption of any kind stifles the creative juices that any artist gets flowing. To have the tool be a detriment rather than an aide, makes said tool useless.

Case in point...
I loaded Acid 2.0 out of the box onto my machine and "never," no never once did I encounter glitches and bugs. That is what prompted me to invest in 3.0, the solid, stable, reliability. I further invested in more SF products, and still hold them in high regard. The same applies to Reason, there has never been a glitch, a bug, a anything. Mind you I've had Reason since about a week after it first came out.

Acid has been and still remains the supreme "loop-based music creation tool" let me rephrase that " professional loop-based music creation tool" Cubase/Logic/Sonar do what they do. IMHO I think SF would have better served the customer, by continuing to enhance Acid's true character. For instance make Acid a VSTi plugin (along the lines of FL Studio) or perhaps a Rewire slave (such as Reason). That way Acid would remain as stable and dependable as we've come to expect, it would also provide much needed Audio Looping Support to the "Big Three". With the ease and rock solid stability of Acid Rewired into Cubase or Sonar I'd be in seventh heaven. I also think the customer base would grow leaps and bounds if Acid was made available to dedicated Cubase/Logic/Sonar users, I have used all of these applications and when it comes to working with "Audio Loops" not one competes with Acid, but acid doesn't compete with them as far as MIDI,VSTi,DXi support goes. My thinking tells me stick to what you do best improve on that. I will still continue to use Cubase SX and Sonar XL when I'm working with MIDI,VSTi,etc. because 4.0 is not up to the task, and going back to the original quote, the machine should not get in the way of creativity. This is by no means meant to be a sllam or as they say a flame it's just my opinion, and I'm entitled to it.

So everybody remembers that post about starting a petition for Rewire, I say we start a petition for Rewire slave or Acid as VSTi...Level Vibes