My full featured midi solution -ACID Product Family

Subject:My full featured midi solution Posted by: Rednroll Date:3/6/2005 11:17:09 AM I use Studio Vision, as my midi sequencer. Studio Vision was the top kid on the block as far as midi sequencers 5 years ago. I still use Vision with Acid through MTC sync, just because something better has not yet come along. And I've tried most all of them, and still find them lacking in midi sequencing features compared to Vision. Check out these features and tell me if this isn't the type of midi features you're looking for in Acid. Opcode Feature links: http://www.opcode.com/products/visiondsp/ http://www.opcode.com/products/visiondsp/f_001.shtml Input quantization record/playback? Yes Notation View/Editor? Yes List Editor? Yes Midi Bulk dump Record/Playback? Yes Record and Send Program Changes? Yes Change Parameters on external hardware though midi parameter adjustments? Yes Simple intuitive yet powerful piano roll editor? Yes Record overdub, add to previous performance? Yes Record replace previous performance? Yes Wait note Record or count off record? Yes Trigger multiple sound modules through a single note? Yes Nested Timeline sequences? Yes Song Arrangment features, ie Step Record function? Yes Keyboard Patch editor/selector? Yes Rewire? Yes (Mac Version) Vsti? Yes (Mac Version) Which brings me to the point of my post. In 1999 Gibson Guitars purchased Opcode the creators of Studio Vision because they where getting ready to release a multimedia guitar and wanted to bring Opcode's advanced music creation Software technology along with it. Gibson announced the release of it's new revolutionary Guitar, and then it fell through, too many problems or what have ya. In 2000, Gibson fired all the Opcode programmers and development stopped. So here we are 5 years later and here's the latest Gibson announcement: Hey didn't they just annouce the release of this 5 years prior? Hmmm...probably a good example of why Sony/Sonic Foundry doesn't release features ahead of time...huh? http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/01/24/gibson/index.php The digital Guitar!!!! Yeah it's great, it's a digital guitar with no digital output. It has 1/4" analog out and an Eithernet port connection. Obviously no software to interface with it because they fired those opcode guys 5 years ago and destroyed that marriage of technology. If you read the article Gibson boasts it's been working on the development on this for the past 11 years. So this is what I got in exchange for my full featured midi sequencer? Ahhhh...thanks Gibson. I found this article through a couple forums of Vision users who have a similar viewpoint as me. They are addicted to the Studio Vision Interface and are continually looking for a replacement sequencer, but just haven't found one. I found one post that pretty much sums everyone's opionion of Gibson and their new guitar as quoted from their VP in the above link. "a great technology enhances your life [<--StudioVisionPro] and our design philosophy was to make it invisible [<--Gibson make it disappear] I also found this to be an interesting quote from a Studio Vision user support site: http://www.fm-music.com/v/ In five years we will probably all use something much better than Vision, Logic, Cubase, and DP put together. Till then many of us will continue to use Vision..." Another point I'ld like to mention, because I always see this in these forums of users complaining, "Ever since Sony took over, Acid sucks...etc." You know, you should be grateful, because at least you still have someone to complain too for a piece of software that you feel passionate about. Look I have Opcode's Studio Vision which I feel pretty passionate about for my midi sequencing needs, and there's no one to even complain too, yet alone ask for feature suggestions. My viewpoint is that the Sonic Foundry to Sony transisition has gone wonderfully, and all the engineers from SoFo kept their jobs and we still have a forum to come to and complain. You know what I got on the Opcode side after Gibson purchased them? I got about 650 plus current users, who use a 3rd party forum services and websites to support each other because they are similar to me and just haven't found something better although our quest has not stopped. http://lists.topica.com/lists/opcode-users/read http://vision.agektmr.com/ I also got a Digital Guitar, what I have no idea I'm going to do with to fill my midi sequencing requirements. How would you like to wake up one day to find your loop arrangement tool just turned into a Sony Microwave? It didn't so be thankful for that. I just wish someone at Sony could pick up a phone and call those guys at Gibson. Gibson has a fully functional midi sequencer with a reputable name on it, which it's not using, and Sony needs a fully functional midi sequencer. What could be more perfect? Message last edited on3/6/2005 3:12:51 PM byRednroll.

I use Studio Vision, as my midi sequencer. Studio Vision was the top kid on the block as far as midi sequencers 5 years ago. I still use Vision with Acid through MTC sync, just because something better has not yet come along. And I've tried most all of them, and still find them lacking in midi sequencing features compared to Vision.

Check out these features and tell me if this isn't the type of midi features you're looking for in Acid.
Opcode Feature links:
http://www.opcode.com/products/visiondsp/
http://www.opcode.com/products/visiondsp/f_001.shtml

Input quantization record/playback? Yes
Notation View/Editor? Yes
List Editor? Yes
Midi Bulk dump Record/Playback? Yes
Record and Send Program Changes? Yes
Change Parameters on external hardware though midi parameter adjustments? Yes
Simple intuitive yet powerful piano roll editor? Yes
Record overdub, add to previous performance? Yes
Record replace previous performance? Yes
Wait note Record or count off record? Yes
Trigger multiple sound modules through a single note? Yes
Nested Timeline sequences? Yes
Song Arrangment features, ie Step Record function? Yes
Keyboard Patch editor/selector? Yes
Rewire? Yes (Mac Version)
Vsti? Yes (Mac Version)

Which brings me to the point of my post. In 1999 Gibson Guitars purchased Opcode the creators of Studio Vision because they where getting ready to release a multimedia guitar and wanted to bring Opcode's advanced music creation Software technology along with it. Gibson announced the release of it's new revolutionary Guitar, and then it fell through, too many problems or what have ya. In 2000, Gibson fired all the Opcode programmers and development stopped. So here we are 5 years later and here's the latest Gibson announcement: Hey didn't they just annouce the release of this 5 years prior? Hmmm...probably a good example of why Sony/Sonic Foundry doesn't release features ahead of time...huh?
http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/01/24/gibson/index.php

The digital Guitar!!!! Yeah it's great, it's a digital guitar with no digital output. It has 1/4" analog out and an Eithernet port connection. Obviously no software to interface with it because they fired those opcode guys 5 years ago and destroyed that marriage of technology. If you read the article Gibson boasts it's been working on the development on this for the past 11 years. So this is what I got in exchange for my full featured midi sequencer? Ahhhh...thanks Gibson.

I found this article through a couple forums of Vision users who have a similar viewpoint as me. They are addicted to the Studio Vision Interface and are continually looking for a replacement sequencer, but just haven't found one. I found one post that pretty much sums everyone's opionion of Gibson and their new guitar as quoted from their VP in the above link.

"a great technology enhances your life [<--StudioVisionPro] and our
design philosophy was to make it invisible [<--Gibson make it disappear]

I also found this to be an interesting quote from a Studio Vision user support site: http://www.fm-music.com/v/
In five years we will probably all use something much better than Vision, Logic, Cubase, and DP put together. Till then many of us will continue to use Vision..."

Another point I'ld like to mention, because I always see this in these forums of users complaining, "Ever since Sony took over, Acid sucks...etc." You know, you should be grateful, because at least you still have someone to complain too for a piece of software that you feel passionate about. Look I have Opcode's Studio Vision which I feel pretty passionate about for my midi sequencing needs, and there's no one to even complain too, yet alone ask for feature suggestions. My viewpoint is that the Sonic Foundry to Sony transisition has gone wonderfully, and all the engineers from SoFo kept their jobs and we still have a forum to come to and complain. You know what I got on the Opcode side after Gibson purchased them? I got about 650 plus current users, who use a 3rd party forum services and websites to support each other because they are similar to me and just haven't found something better although our quest has not stopped.
http://lists.topica.com/lists/opcode-users/read
http://vision.agektmr.com/
I also got a Digital Guitar, what I have no idea I'm going to do with to fill my midi sequencing requirements. How would you like to wake up one day to find your loop arrangement tool just turned into a Sony Microwave? It didn't so be thankful for that.

I just wish someone at Sony could pick up a phone and call those guys at Gibson. Gibson has a fully functional midi sequencer with a reputable name on it, which it's not using, and Sony needs a fully functional midi sequencer. What could be more perfect?