Subject:2 misunderstood ÄP5 icons

Posted by: Zacchino

Date:12/11/2004 12:16:27 AM

Do anybody knows what's the difference between the Green and the Yellow effect icon ?

And, in the VSTi/VSTfx preferences/properties, what is the "lock" for ?

Subject:RE: 2 misunderstood ÄP5 icons

Reply by: billybk

Date:12/11/2004 5:58:19 AM

If you notice, the FX icons (on tracks & buses) will turn colors based on the type of plugins being used. Sorta like status indicator lights. Pretty cool feature.....


Green: means that there is no delay compensation by Acid, none of the FX in the chain introduce a delay

Yellow: means that there is delay compensation by Acid, at least one of the FX in the chain introduce a delay

Red: When ACID is ReWired to another host, the plugin indicator goes red to indicate that the plugins have been bypassed. This is a limitation of ReWire.

ACID will determine whether a given chain of FX has any delay and indicate at that level. It does not know which of the plugins in the chain are introducing the delay, ACID 5.0 just shows a different color to indicate this.

Fortunately, most plugins are in-place and can be used in ACID 5, while being rewired. Any Green colored effect icons can be used in rewire hosts, Yellow icons will turn Red and be disabled.

For instance, I know my UAD-1 plugins, Voxengo & some Sonitus plugins require delay compenation, (Yellow) and will be bypassed if used in ACID, in rewire slave mode.

HTH,


Billy Buck

Subject:RE: 2 misunderstood ÄP5 icons

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:12/11/2004 6:15:10 AM

> And, in the VSTi/VSTfx preferences/properties, what is the "lock" for ?

The lock indicates that ACID has loaded this plug-in at least once during the current session therefore you cannot remove it. (I guess it has no way of unloading the DLL once loaded) You must restart ACID to get all the locks into the open state again. Then you can exclude plug-ins from the list.

~jr

Subject:RE: 2 misunderstood ÄP5 icons

Reply by: pwppch

Date:12/11/2004 6:24:40 AM

A very important reason for this is undo/redo.

If you add a softsynth and then remove it, it is availabe for undo. If you removed the plugin from availablity, then the undo would not function correctly.

Peter

Subject:RE: 2 misunderstood ÄP5 icons

Reply by: Zacchino

Date:12/11/2004 6:23:33 PM

Thanx for these explainations.

I didin't see any of these precision in the manual... Or maybe I missed it.

I know that some of the (great) Voxengo Fx are delay-compensated with Cakewalk VST Adapter. But I didn't know that Acid VSTfx support could do that too. Yo, that's a new great feature thought.

BTW, when are you guys planning to implement multitrack recording in Acid ?

Subject:RE: 2 misunderstood ÄP5 icons

Reply by: Zacchino

Date:12/12/2004 6:58:20 AM

>when are you guys planning to implement multitrack recording in Acid ?

Acid is not meant for multitracking

Regards,
Joel

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