Subject:Combining Tracks

Posted by: spinweb

Date:3/7/2005 6:49:55 AM

Hi..

If I have 10 vocal tracks that together comprise one vocal line, should I render them as a new track? Is there a loss of quality? What are the pros/cons of doing this. Sure would make things tidier in ACID.

Thx,

Eric

Subject:RE: Combining Tracks

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:3/7/2005 8:00:45 AM

I use to render to new track before ACID pro 5. There is no loss in quality if you are going to the same target format as the source. If you have ACID Pro 5, just place them in a Folder track and collapse it. This gives you the added flexibility of re-recording one of the parts easily again. This is what I find myself doing more of now.

~jr

Subject:RE: Combining Tracks

Reply by: spinweb

Date:3/7/2005 8:25:02 AM

I guess the reason I'm thinking I should render these down to one track has to do with the VERY annoying skipping and choking that I'm experiencing in ACID 5. There have been many threads about it.

Let me rephrase myself. If I render my 10 vocal tracks down to one, will there be less demand on my CPU and whatever is causing ACID to choke and delay?

:)

Eric

Subject:RE: Combining Tracks

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:3/7/2005 10:36:18 AM

Let me rephrase myself. If I render my 10 vocal tracks down to one, will there be less demand on my CPU and whatever is causing ACID to choke and delay?

Yes.

It might not be your CPU (I can't tell; you didn't post your system specs in your profile); stutters and such are most likely caused by disk-based tracks (Beatmapped and One-shot tracks) getting bottlenecked during playback. The performance and configuration of your hard disk(s) and overall system would determine how well ACID plays back such tracks.

In an IDE configuration, for example, it'd be ideal if one hard drive was configured as master on the primary IDE channel to take care of the system, while another hard drive is configured as master on the secondary IDE channel for media. You'd get better performance in this config than daisy-chaining both drives together on one channel.

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Subject:RE: Combining Tracks

Reply by: spinweb

Date:3/7/2005 12:34:23 PM

mD,

I went into my profile and listed my system stats. On my T30, I have two hard discs. I believe ACID v5 is installed on C:\, and I'm saving all my recorded tracks, along with the .ACD files on my D:\ swappable bay drive. Not sure if that's a problem, but I think I pretty much had to move off of C:\, as the beefy files were filling my C: drive up mighty fast.

Subject:RE: Combining Tracks

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:3/7/2005 6:18:30 PM

Also go into OPTIONS>PREFERENCES>FOLDERS
Make sure the Record folder is not set to your C: drive. Also make sure your the temporary files folder is not on the C: drive. Infact make sure all of those default locations are moved off of your C: drive while you're there.

You didn't mention the specs of your hard drive that the media files are on. Make sure it's at least a 7200RPM drive EIDE66 minimum.

Another eccential system setting for your hard drives is to ensure they are all have DMA enabled.
Goto Control Panel>System>Device Manager>Hardware Devices. Click on the Primary and secondary IDE controlers, selecte PROPERTIES>ADVANCED for each and see if the DMA is enabled. If it's not, enable it for all your hard drives.