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Subject:sync vegas 6 to acid 5
Posted by: PipelineAudio
Date:6/18/2005 2:49:01 AM

Ive been trying to use Sonic foundry virtual midi router to have acid chase vegas. No luck, acid just waits doesnt see any time code come in ,and eventually crashes after hitting chase on and off a few times.

If I make vegas chase acid it seems to work but not the other way. Any ideas?

Subject:RE: sync vegas 6 to acid 5
Reply by: Jeff Smith
Date:6/18/2005 10:33:29 AM

I did a search for VMR, several years old, hope this helps:

Using VMR to sync ACID and Vegas.

In this case, Vegas is the Master – it generates timecode, ACID is the slave – it receives timecode.

Open Vegas

Go to options>prefs and click on the sync tab.

Generate MIDI Timecode settings:
Output Device: choose Sonic Foundry MIDI Router, frame rate SMPTE Non-drop30fps

Click apply, OK

Go back to options, then timecode, choose generate MIDI timecode. Vegas is now set generate MIDI t/c.

Now open ACID
Go to options>prefs, then click the sync tab

In the trigger from MIDI timecode settings section choose Sonic Foundry MIDI Router from the Input Device drop-down list. Choose SMPTE non-drop 30fps from the frame rate drop down list, click apply, OK.

Choose options, timecode, and choose trigger From MIDI timecode, ACID is now the slave set to chase MIDI t/c from Vegas.

Click play on the on Vegas and Vegas and ACID should be sync’d up, since there is some chasing involved, there may be a delay in ACID catching up with Vegas. You should be able to put the curser anywhere on the timeline, hit play and they will start up from the curser.

This is of course just one example, and there are other things to consider like who is the master or slave and why, specifying offset, using MIDI clock.


Subject:RE: sync vegas 6 to acid 5
Reply by: PipelineAudio
Date:6/18/2005 1:44:20 PM

this is how I did it. If I reverse it and have acid as the master it works fine. If Vegas is the master in the chain above it just will not work.

Subject:RE: sync vegas 6 to acid 5
Reply by: Jeff Smith
Date:6/18/2005 2:02:20 PM

The last time I tried this was with SoFo Vegas 4 and maybe Acid 3 and it worked. I don't have VMR on my machine anymore. Do you have Vegas 4 that you could try it?

Subject:RE: sync vegas 6 to acid 5
Reply by: PipelineAudio
Date:6/18/2005 9:39:04 PM

no but I think Ill try midi ox or midi yoke and see what happens ( midiox did confirm that vegas was sending mtc)

Message last edited on6/18/2005 9:39:26 PM byPipelineAudio.

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