Subject:differences between Acid and Vegas?

Posted by: gazercmh

Date:4/14/2004 9:37:44 AM

Strictly on the audio side, what are the differences between Acid and Vegas? Is Vegas just Acid plus video editing?

In short, if you were just making music mixes, what advantages, if any, would Acid have over Vegas?

I ask because I know some people who are using Vegas strictly for audio purposes and it seems a little silly to me to use a video program for audio, but then they say that Vegas and Acid are the same, audio-wise.

Thanks.

Subject:RE: differences between Acid and Vegas?

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:4/14/2004 10:18:24 AM

Acid is more musical than Vegas. Acid has a master tempo and key signature that your audio will change with once you define the Acid properties of root tempo and key signature of the file. Acid allows tempo changes on the timeline. Acid has VSTi and rewire support and also midi. Acid is not a true multitrack recorder. You can only record 1 track at a time, but will allow multiple track playback. You cannot edit different audio clips together in acid with things like slip editing and crossfade between 2 different audio parts.....unless you get creative and put them on seperate tracks. In short Vegas is your multi-track recorder/editing/ and mixing app. Acid and Vegas are very similar for mix functions, but are very different in the recording and editing features, where Vegas is much more powerfuly on the recording and editing features than Acid. Acid is more powerful when it comes to creating the music.

Subject:RE: differences between Acid and Vegas?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:4/14/2004 11:46:15 AM

Adding to what Red said, ACID is primarily a loop sequencing tool, whereas Vegas is an audio and video multitracker.

They are basically meant to complement each other, much like Sound Forge complements both with its digital audio editing features.

I'll have to add to Red's claim that you cannot crossfade between 2 different audio parts. You can do crossfades in ACID by selecting 2 different events that are overlapping on the timeline on 2 different tracks and then press F on your keyboard to crossfade. (You can then change the fade type from there if you'd like.)

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Subject:RE: differences between Acid and Vegas?

Reply by: TorS

Date:4/15/2004 1:02:40 AM

Vegas was born and developed as a multitrack audio program. It has had video functionality added to it, and video has become important to it, but Vegas has never stopped being an audio program. You can record 24 or more audio tracks simultaneously in Vegas (if you have enough inputs). There is nothing silly about that.
Tor

Subject:RE: differences between Acid and Vegas?

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:4/15/2004 8:09:42 AM

The above assertions are all correct. I started with Vegas and bought ACID Pro about two weeks ago after playing with ACID Music for about a month. Think of Vegas as a multitrack recorder. You can record anything you want, but you can’t really "create" music with it. It just records what is hears (and of course has editing and correcting tools that are as good as any other multitrack recorder out there). If you just need to record and edit multitrack audio, get Vegas.

ACID is a music composition tool. You actually make music with it either loop based or MIDI/VSTi based or combination of both (which is what I do). So if you want to compose music on the computer and only need to record one track at a time, get ACID.

~jr

Subject:RE: differences between Acid and Vegas?

Reply by: gazercmh

Date:4/16/2004 1:16:55 PM

thanks for the clarifications everyone. much appreciated.

Subject:RE: differences between Acid and Vegas?

Reply by: pester

Date:4/18/2004 12:45:22 AM

why not merge acid and vegas into one prog?