Can I "acidize" regular WAV files in Acid? -ACID Product Family

Subject:Can I "acidize" regular WAV files in Acid? Posted by: jbow Date:5/3/2005 7:23:42 PM I am currently using Acid Music 3.whatever and am considering buying either pro 4.0 or 5.0. I have a lot of wavs that are not set up as Acid loops but are rather just short wavs. Can I acidize them using either of these products and if I can...how do I do it? I also have Sonar 4 PE which I am sure will do it for me but I find Acid to be so much easier to use...much friendlier and really Acid seems to work better than Sonar's loop explorer. Thanks, Julien
Subject:RE: Can I "acidize" regular WAV files in Acid? Reply by: way out west Date:5/4/2005 12:27:41 AM Actually you can using Beatmapper. I use this alot for commercials, mixes, etc. When you load say an mp3 into Acid it will ask if you want to beatmap it. then you can determine how accurate the file is. Once the wizard is done it will ask you if you want to save acid data. If you say yes, then there will be an additional metadata file for that wav or mp3. Once done with that, I take sections of a song to remix them to ensure that they are locked to the groove as tight as possible. I've been using acid since day one and must say I would have had a hard time producing commercials for the radio station I work at without it. It has proven to be invalueable for almost every aspect of my studio and now with the implimentation of ReWire device, it allows me to sync it with Sonar with no problem. Hope that helps.
Subject:RE: Can I "acidize" regular WAV files in Acid? Reply by: jbow Date:5/4/2005 7:39:13 AM Hey WOW, Thanks, it does help and I tried it with a short drum clip that is just a wav file however it still didn't seem to sync up. I finally was able to pull a short section out of it where the downbeats were in sync. I tried to adjust it in the beatmapper but I found that if I synced one section that another went out. Is that the best I can expect? Does the tool in Sonar do a better job? I have not used it enough to be able to do anything much with it but I did notice that i can move markers where ever I want them. Is a groove clip as good as an acid clip? Thank you again for your help. J
Subject:RE: Can I "acidize" regular WAV files in Acid? Reply by: Iacobus Date:5/4/2005 10:53:19 AM You can certainly use ACID to ACIDize media that hasn't been ACIDized. If you bring in media that hasn't been ACIDized, ACID will try and determine the correct number of beats (but will not assign a key). A lot of the time it guesses correctly, but sometimes not. If you know the number of beats, the tempo and the key (if applicable) the sample best fits into, you can go into the track's properties and apply those changes and then click the "Save" or "Save As" buttons to properly ACIDize the sample. Material that's very short (like snare hits) fit best as One-shots; anything around between 2 to 30 seconds would probably best fit as Loops, and anything longer than that would best fit as a Beatmapped track. (These are just guidelines, of course. Use your own judgment.) Remember not to apply a root note (key) to percussion samples, as elements such as snares, kicks, etc. do not have a definite pitch. Just adjust the number of beats of those samples. In the Pro versions of ACID, there are what's called stretch markers, which can really help make a sample sound that much better when stretching to other tempos. These markers can be accessed via the same track properties. Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid Buy Instant ACID by JohnnyRoy and mD! mD at ACIDplanet

Subject:Can I "acidize" regular WAV files in Acid?

Posted by: jbow

Date:5/3/2005 7:23:42 PM

I am currently using Acid Music 3.whatever and am considering buying either pro 4.0 or 5.0.
I have a lot of wavs that are not set up as Acid loops but are rather just short wavs. Can I acidize them using either of these products and if I can...how do I do it? I also have Sonar 4 PE which I am sure will do it for me but I find Acid to be so much easier to use...much friendlier and really Acid seems to work better than Sonar's loop explorer.
Thanks,
Julien

Subject:RE: Can I "acidize" regular WAV files in Acid?

Reply by: way out west

Date:5/4/2005 12:27:41 AM

Actually you can using Beatmapper. I use this alot for commercials, mixes, etc. When you load say an mp3 into Acid it will ask if you want to beatmap it. then you can determine how accurate the file is. Once the wizard is done it will ask you if you want to save acid data. If you say yes, then there will be an additional metadata file for that wav or mp3.

Once done with that, I take sections of a song to remix them to ensure that they are locked to the groove as tight as possible.

I've been using acid since day one and must say I would have had a hard time producing commercials for the radio station I work at without it. It has proven to be invalueable for almost every aspect of my studio and now with the implimentation of ReWire device, it allows me to sync it with Sonar with no problem.

Hope that helps.

Subject:RE: Can I "acidize" regular WAV files in Acid?

Reply by: jbow

Date:5/4/2005 7:39:13 AM

Hey WOW,
Thanks, it does help and I tried it with a short drum clip that is just a wav file however it still didn't seem to sync up. I finally was able to pull a short section out of it where the downbeats were in sync. I tried to adjust it in the beatmapper but I found that if I synced one section that another went out. Is that the best I can expect? Does the tool in Sonar do a better job? I have not used it enough to be able to do anything much with it but I did notice that i can move markers where ever I want them. Is a groove clip as good as an acid clip?
Thank you again for your help.
J

Subject:RE: Can I "acidize" regular WAV files in Acid?

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:5/4/2005 10:53:19 AM

You can certainly use ACID to ACIDize media that hasn't been ACIDized.

If you bring in media that hasn't been ACIDized, ACID will try and determine the correct number of beats (but will not assign a key). A lot of the time it guesses correctly, but sometimes not.

If you know the number of beats, the tempo and the key (if applicable) the sample best fits into, you can go into the track's properties and apply those changes and then click the "Save" or "Save As" buttons to properly ACIDize the sample.

Material that's very short (like snare hits) fit best as One-shots; anything around between 2 to 30 seconds would probably best fit as Loops, and anything longer than that would best fit as a Beatmapped track. (These are just guidelines, of course. Use your own judgment.)

Remember not to apply a root note (key) to percussion samples, as elements such as snares, kicks, etc. do not have a definite pitch. Just adjust the number of beats of those samples.

In the Pro versions of ACID, there are what's called stretch markers, which can really help make a sample sound that much better when stretching to other tempos. These markers can be accessed via the same track properties.

Iacobus
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