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Subject:ACID TUTORIAL DVD Posted by: Costis Date:5/6/2004 4:09:23 AM Does anyone own the Vasst Rudy Sarzo Acid tutorial? Does a beginner realy learn from this? Any section on song construction with Acid? Any other tutorials available? (I own the 2 books only.) Thanks in advance for your help. Monica
Subject:RE: ACID TUTORIAL DVD Reply by: DKeenum Date:5/6/2004 10:09:26 AM acidfanatic has a CDrom. I'd say stick with the book.
Subject:RE: ACID TUTORIAL DVD Reply by: JohnnyRoy Date:5/7/2004 8:54:24 AM Monica, I have the VASST Rudy Sarzo ACID tutorial DVD, “ACID for Non-Linear Editors”. It’s an excellent tutorial for its intended audience and for those wanting to use ACID with existing audio. It gives a good foundation for using ACID with audio loops and is definitely targeted for the beginner because it assumes you are a non-linear editor and have never used ACID or even made music before. It will give you the basics of ACID: what the preferences and toolbars do, how to add loops, add effects to loops, create your own loops, process a loop in Sound Forge, changing keys, transposing loops, and it will teach you how to approach a mix (using buses) the same way we musicians do in a recording studio (this, IMHO is very valuable for non-musicians and musicians who have never worked in a recording studio to know). So it really doesn’t matter if you’re scoring for video or just composing a song, all of the information on this DVD will be relevant. What it does not cover is MIDI or VSTi or even how to record your own audio (other than briefly explaining the options on the record dialog and, even at that it, only explains the audio options not the MIDI options) So its not going to teach you how to punch in and out and record MIDI and audio, use VSTi plugins, etc. But that’s to be expected because this is not a generic “Everything you want to know about ACID” tutorial because of its focus on scoring for video. Honestly, that would have only been a couple of chapters out of this 23-chapter DVD anyway. So if you just plan on using ACID with existing loops, then everything on this DVD will be a benefit to you even though you are not a non-linear editor. I personally think it’s worth the money for everyone because of the insights that Rudy gives you on how to approach a mix. Even though this was information I already knew from working in recording studios myself, it reminded me that everything I learned on a hardware console could be applied to software and to approach the problem the same way. It did not occur to me to do this at first, so the DVD was definitely worth it for me in organizing how I approach my next project. Thanks Rudy! ~jr

Monica,

I have the VASST Rudy Sarzo ACID tutorial DVD, “ACID for Non-Linear Editors”. It’s an excellent tutorial for its intended audience and for those wanting to use ACID with existing audio. It gives a good foundation for using ACID with audio loops and is definitely targeted for the beginner because it assumes you are a non-linear editor and have never used ACID or even made music before.

It will give you the basics of ACID: what the preferences and toolbars do, how to add loops, add effects to loops, create your own loops, process a loop in Sound Forge, changing keys, transposing loops, and it will teach you how to approach a mix (using buses) the same way we musicians do in a recording studio (this, IMHO is very valuable for non-musicians and musicians who have never worked in a recording studio to know). So it really doesn’t matter if you’re scoring for video or just composing a song, all of the information on this DVD will be relevant.

What it does not cover is MIDI or VSTi or even how to record your own audio (other than briefly explaining the options on the record dialog and, even at that it, only explains the audio options not the MIDI options) So its not going to teach you how to punch in and out and record MIDI and audio, use VSTi plugins, etc. But that’s to be expected because this is not a generic “Everything you want to know about ACID” tutorial because of its focus on scoring for video. Honestly, that would have only been a couple of chapters out of this 23-chapter DVD anyway.

So if you just plan on using ACID with existing loops, then everything on this DVD will be a benefit to you even though you are not a non-linear editor. I personally think it’s worth the money for everyone because of the insights that Rudy gives you on how to approach a mix. Even though this was information I already knew from working in recording studios myself, it reminded me that everything I learned on a hardware console could be applied to software and to approach the problem the same way. It did not occur to me to do this at first, so the DVD was definitely worth it for me in organizing how I approach my next project. Thanks Rudy!

~jr