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Subject:I need help saving loops
Posted by: dholt
Date:8/9/2003 7:31:27 PM

When I download loops from Sonic Foundry they come in as acid files. I cannot save acid files to a CD? How do I save loops that I have downloaded to a CD. When I render them all as a wave file it saves onto a CD but the whole song and not the individual loops? Thanks
Subject:RE: I need help saving loops
Reply by: Chienworks
Date:8/9/2003 7:46:17 PM

Are you talking about 8Packs? If so, what you're downloading is a .zip file which contains a .acd project file and 8 .wav files. These .wav files are the loops.

If you're talking about the GetMedia function, these files are all unpacked in ACID after the download is complete and end up in whatever directory you specified when you started the GetMedia download. Look in that directory for the .wav files.
Subject:RE: I need help saving loops
Reply by: dholt
Date:8/9/2003 10:11:07 PM

I'm talking about 8 packs. The loops get loaded in to Acid as a song everytime I click the on download I received. How do I get the individual tracks I want on to a CD?

Subject:RE: I need help saving loops
Reply by: Chienworks
Date:8/10/2003 6:39:26 AM

The file you download is a self-extracting zip file. When you double-click on the .exe file it unzips the contents into a directory with the same name as the .exe file. Open up this directory and you'll see the .acd project file and the loops as .wav files.
Subject:RE: I need help saving loops
Reply by: mortalengines
Date:8/10/2003 11:58:24 PM

don't try to write those files to an "audio cd" either - write them to a data cd-

if you want to just save the loops & kill the acd file- open the thing in acid & individually save each loop to its own wav file folder- then write the individual folders to an "audio cd in your cd writer program- I've had just fine luck with the first method tho & it works much faster & the acd part of the file is not big enough to really care about
Subject:RE: I need help saving loops
Reply by: Iacobus
Date:8/11/2003 12:13:54 PM

Are you trying to archive the loops so that you may access them later if you want them?

Since ACID does not do data CD burning (it does audio CD burning), you will have to burn the loops (and any ACD project files) to CD using the preferred CD burning app of your choice. Choices include Easy CD Creator and Nero.

If you have Windows XP, XP has basic data burning ability as well.

HTH,
Iacobus
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