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Subject:how stable is acid 5.0 Posted by: ozzborn Date:10/29/2004 4:51:25 AM acid 4 IMHO is not very stable. asio and vsti's complicates acid on my three diffrent computers. so how is acid 5
Subject:RE: how stable is acid 5.0 Reply by: DKeenum Date:10/29/2004 7:08:41 AM I think your going to have to try it on your system. Acid 4 has been stable on my main system. I did load it on the family internet computer (1 year old dell with stock sound card) and it crashed like crazy when I tried recording midi thru an edrol UA-20 usb interface. I think the problem is the sound card drivers or the combination of the usb for midi and the cheap sound card for audio. Incidentally, reason runs fine on this system (with some latency), and acid runs fine as long as I stay away from recording midi. But with my old main system and an echo midimia card, acid 4 is smooth sailing. So try the demo when it is released.
Subject:RE: how stable is acid 5.0 Reply by: Rednroll Date:10/29/2004 9:12:55 AM The obvious answer is that you will have to try it out for yourself and see. One area of confidence for you is that this was one of the largest beta tester groups I've seen and the first beta releases came out in the beginning of June, so it's gotten some time under it's belt for being tested by a wide variety of users. I personally ran into some gremlins near the end, but that seems to be a specific DX plugin related issue. I'm confident the first release won't be perfect, no software ever is, but hopefully it's got minimal problems, and they get addressed quickly.
Subject:RE: how stable is acid 5.0 Reply by: MyST Date:10/30/2004 11:04:28 AM Alot of users can't locate where the problem is in there system that would cause Acid to crash, so it must be Acid. I had AP4 working really well on my old 850Athlon T-Bird. Never a hiccup. Then I bought an M-Audio Duo usb to midi interface for my midi keyboard. Crash after crash after crash. Ends up the M-Audio driver didn't get along with the Via chipset on my motherboard. I unplugged the Duo and never got another crash. *Personal experience only. I'm not trying to discredit your statement. However, I'm sure you realise alot of people will jump on the "Let's blame Acid" bandwagon prematurely. Mario
Subject:RE: how stable is acid 5.0 Reply by: ozzborn Date:10/31/2004 4:51:09 AM im not saying acid is unuseable. but alot of users have issues with acid 4. 4.0 works but acid 1,2,and3 are rocksolid, A4 is not. i can honestly say that i only have had acid crash on me when using vsti's or asio. when i used it like 3.0 i had little or no problems.

Subject:how stable is acid 5.0

Posted by: ozzborn

Date:10/29/2004 4:51:25 AM

acid 4 IMHO is not very stable. asio and vsti's complicates acid on my three diffrent computers.
so how is acid 5

Subject:RE: how stable is acid 5.0

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:10/29/2004 7:08:41 AM

I think your going to have to try it on your system. Acid 4 has been stable on my main system.

I did load it on the family internet computer (1 year old dell with stock sound card) and it crashed like crazy when I tried recording midi thru an edrol UA-20 usb interface. I think the problem is the sound card drivers or the combination of the usb for midi and the cheap sound card for audio. Incidentally, reason runs fine on this system (with some latency), and acid runs fine as long as I stay away from recording midi. But with my old main system and an echo midimia card, acid 4 is smooth sailing.

So try the demo when it is released.

Subject:RE: how stable is acid 5.0

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:10/29/2004 9:12:55 AM

The obvious answer is that you will have to try it out for yourself and see. One area of confidence for you is that this was one of the largest beta tester groups I've seen and the first beta releases came out in the beginning of June, so it's gotten some time under it's belt for being tested by a wide variety of users. I personally ran into some gremlins near the end, but that seems to be a specific DX plugin related issue. I'm confident the first release won't be perfect, no software ever is, but hopefully it's got minimal problems, and they get addressed quickly.

Subject:RE: how stable is acid 5.0

Reply by: MyST

Date:10/30/2004 11:04:28 AM

Alot of users can't locate where the problem is in there system that would cause Acid to crash, so it must be Acid.
I had AP4 working really well on my old 850Athlon T-Bird. Never a hiccup.
Then I bought an M-Audio Duo usb to midi interface for my midi keyboard.
Crash after crash after crash. Ends up the M-Audio driver didn't get along with the Via chipset on my motherboard. I unplugged the Duo and never got another crash.

*Personal experience only. I'm not trying to discredit your statement. However, I'm sure you realise alot of people will jump on the "Let's blame Acid" bandwagon prematurely.

Mario

Subject:RE: how stable is acid 5.0

Reply by: ozzborn

Date:10/31/2004 4:51:09 AM

im not saying acid is unuseable.
but alot of users have issues with acid 4.

4.0 works but acid 1,2,and3 are rocksolid, A4 is not.

i can honestly say that i only have had acid crash on me when using vsti's or asio.
when i used it like 3.0 i had little or no problems.