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Subject:vegas vs. acid Posted by: marcarotsky Date:12/1/2003 5:11:56 PM ok, of course im sticking with acid for my production needs...BUT, i was just hired to do a syndicated mix show on a radio station and i need a software program that will allow me to "beat mix" songs into each other. is VEGAS capable of doing this??? i know acid cand, but it is very tedious on how you go about doing it, and when tracks are stretched, they lose too much of their audio quality. is VEGAS better at this that acid?? i know i heard somebody talking about vegas and they said they used it to make "mix cd's" (beat mixing songs into each other) anyone got some ideas??? it would be greatly appreciated.
Subject:RE: vegas vs. acid Reply by: Jessariah Date:12/1/2003 9:51:58 PM 1) By "Beat Mix" do you mean "crossfade?" If so, then, yes, Vegas is your app. Unlike Acid, Vegas does not restrict it's events to a specific BPM, nor does it restrict its tracks to a specific event or wave file. 2) If you want to see for yourself, you can download the demo of Vegas and see if it meets your needs...
Subject:RE: vegas vs. acid Reply by: marcarotsky Date:12/1/2003 11:34:04 PM ok, what i need to do is adjust songs beats per minute so that they "blend into each other" meaning....ya know, like you hear in a nightclub, one song playing over the other song at the same tempos. 2 songs playing at once at the same speed. so that you cant hear the transition between them. not just a crossfade. can i adjust one song in vegas to say 130, beats per minute and adjust another song (whose original BPM is128) adjust that one to 130?? i guess, what i need to know, how do you adjust BPM of songs in vegas? thanks for your help. --marc
Subject:RE: vegas vs. acid Reply by: Chienworks Date:12/2/2003 6:20:40 AM Vegas really doesn't know what the tempo of a song is. If you do know the tempo, then Vegas has time stretch capabilities that can be used to change from one tempo to another, but you have to identify the tempo yourself. You can also just stretch or squish the song manually until it sounds right. If your seque is only a couple of measures long then accuracy isn't terribly important. Overall, Vegas is for editing recordings and as such is rather musically "unware". ACID is for creating music and understands tempo, but isn't as easy to use for editing already recorded material.
Subject:RE: vegas vs. acid Reply by: waynegee Date:12/2/2003 7:10:22 AM Dood, get yourself a copy of Traktor DJ from Native Instruments...It;ll do EXACTLY what your are asking!! HTH.
Subject:RE: vegas vs. acid Reply by: Iacobus Date:12/2/2003 10:03:49 AM Adding to what everyone's already said, do you have Sound Forge? It has tools that ACID and Vegas don't have, like the ACID Loop Creation Tools (its Tempo tool would come in handy in gauging a tempo) in addition to its crossfading ability (which can be more adjustable) and timestretching function. All three apps also have the ability to read markers/regions that were created in the authoring app (Sound Forge's markers can be read by Vegas which can be read by ACID, etc.), which may come in handy too. HTH, Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page

Subject:vegas vs. acid

Posted by: marcarotsky

Date:12/1/2003 5:11:56 PM

ok, of course im sticking with acid for my production needs...BUT, i was just hired to do a syndicated mix show on a radio station and i need a software program that will allow me to "beat mix" songs into each other. is VEGAS capable of doing this??? i know acid cand, but it is very tedious on how you go about doing it, and when tracks are stretched, they lose too much of their audio quality. is VEGAS better at this that acid?? i know i heard somebody talking about vegas and they said they used it to make "mix cd's" (beat mixing songs into each other) anyone got some ideas??? it would be greatly appreciated.