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Subject:Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Posted by: RedStone
Date:9/28/2006 9:07:54 AM

What version of rewire does acid 6 support in rewire slave mode?
I thought I read v1.0 in the manual ... but wanted to make sure

Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: pwppch
Date:9/28/2006 12:33:14 PM

ACID 6 as a rewire device supports audio routing only, so technically it uses the ReWire 1.0 spec.

ReWire 2.0 provides a mechanism to send MIDI data between the host and the clien. ACID 6 does not support MIDI communication between itself and the ReWire Mixer.

What does this mean?

- ACID can be hosted in any ReWire host - Nuendo/Cubase, SONAR, etc, etc.
- You cannot trigger ACID's softsynths from the host using MIDI.

Peter






Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: RedStone
Date:9/28/2006 3:50:24 PM

thanks for the response ...

hmmm

When rewired to something like pro tools, should I be able to make edits in Acid? It seems that the cursor becomes "locked" when in rewire slave mode

Is this an anomoly, or is it suppose to be like that?

thanks
R

Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: pwppch
Date:9/28/2006 6:11:51 PM

You should be able to edit all you want when ACID is ReWired to PTools.

PTools is the owner of the time line when ACID is ReWired. The cursor, playback, everything on the time line transport is owned by PTools.

What do you mean by locked?

What can't you do? Be specific.

Peter




Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: RedStone
Date:9/28/2006 8:14:50 PM

Ahh .. sorry ...
When I try move the cursor in Acid, it automatically just jumps back to the beginning of the timeline.

So, I'm actually using reaper v1.21 as the rewire host (Pro Tools was just an example of an app that should work with Acid rewired - but I wasn't sure if I *should* be able to edit in acid when it was slave to another program. Though I do have PT M-powered, I don't actually like it or use it hehe) -

Anyway, reaper as the rewire host worked fine with Reason, and melodyne uno/studio, but it only worked to a point with Acid 6 (i.e. if I press play in reaper, it plays in Acid and I can hear it). I am just not able to edit anything in Acid when it is rewired to reaper.

Could this be a problem with the way Reaper implements rewire? Though I can't understand/imagine why it would work with Melodyne studio and not Acid since they are both sending multitrack audio data.

Thanks again,
Ryan

Message last edited on9/28/2006 8:23:23 PM byRedStone.
Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: pwppch
Date:9/28/2006 8:21:15 PM

I don't have the Reaper with ReWire host support, so I can't tell you what it is or is not doing.

I would talk to Justin as this does not happen with any other ReWire host - i.e. PTools, Nuendo, Live, Cubase, SONAR, etc. etc.

Peter

Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: RedStone
Date:9/28/2006 8:24:59 PM

ok I'll chat with him about it some more ...
thanks Peter

Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: pwppch
Date:9/28/2006 9:29:16 PM

I just tried Reaper. There is definitely something wrong here.

I cannot get Reason, Live, Project5, or any of my other ReWire devices - including ACID 5 or 6 - to play when hosted by Reaper.

Things like The Grand 2 or Virtual Guitarist work, but these have no transport but are just "synths" that can be played.

Peter

Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: miquel
Date:9/30/2006 7:23:08 AM

Hi Peter,

In Orion Platinum 7 (host) Rewired with Acid Pro 6.0b (client), it sounds clicks and pops.
But, as I'm 3 soundcards in my system, when I switch from one ASIO driver to another then all sounds flawlessly.

Orion rewires as host ok in my other rewire clients (Reason 3, Project 5 v2, Live 5)

Do you guess what's happening?

Thank you.


Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: pwppch
Date:9/30/2006 3:56:07 PM

Since ACID is ReWired to Orion, then this is an Orion issue. We have no control over clicks and pops since ACID is just sending data to Orion.

You say that if you switch to a different audio hardware/ASIO then the clicks and pops stop in Orion? You don't mention what hardware works and which don't.

Peter

Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: miquel
Date:9/30/2006 11:56:48 PM

Peter,

For your records, when configuring Orion with ASIO EMU 0404 it clicks when I switch to ASIO Edirol PCR-1 it sounds ok.

Thank you.

Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: pwppch
Date:10/1/2006 5:30:08 PM

Then it sounds like an issue with the EMU drivers.

Using ASIO?


Peter

Subject:RE: Acid 6 as a Rewire Slave
Reply by: miquel
Date:10/2/2006 12:08:42 AM

Yeah.

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