Subject:ACid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Posted by: vituprater

Date:8/4/2007 4:08:32 PM

I have the latest Macbook Pro, Parralels 3.0, and Windows Vista. Playback for the audio works but it is 'clicky' - as it plays back it sounds like digital distortion but only for a milisecond. It does this sporadically throughout the track playback. Can anyone give me some advice?

Subject:RE: ACid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Reply by: drbam

Date:8/4/2007 5:34:49 PM

Download bootcamp and install as directed on the Apple site. My Sony apps run flawlessly (so far) on this setup. I recall awhile back one of the Sony support techs posting that Parallels (sp) is not the way to go (it runs Windows as a virtual OS instead of the real thing).

Subject:RE: ACid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Reply by: pwppch

Date:8/5/2007 8:12:37 AM

We do not support running inside of Parallels. Why? Because the audio hardware is emulated and you will get very limited functionality because of this.

You should use BootCamp 1.3. It works very well.

Are you using ACID Pro or ACID Music Studio?

We do not support ACID Pro under Vista. ACID Music Studio 7 is Vista compatible.


Peter

Subject:RE: Acid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Reply by: vituprater

Date:8/5/2007 1:42:22 PM

I have been with Acid since Acid 2 (am running Acid pro 6d now) and I have it up and running on my pc music station just fine. I was wanting a solution that would trim the workflow between Acid Pro in the PC and ProTools in the mac to something closer to a drag and drop solution on the same daw setup . Acid is a great composition tool and with all the loop libraries and spending the past several years with it I find it very hard to do without. My reservation against bootcamp was having to keep rebooting over and over and I would do just as well to keep the pc station running and just use detachable media devices to transfer back and forth. I have a protools hd3 setup so if I could get acid to function in that environment I would be quite happy. Acid is far more intuitive to me than doing loops in ProTools or Logic 7. And even if it wasn't, the acid libraries are far more extensive. But it is starting to sound as though the solution I am looking for is still a few generations away, unless there is something I'm overlooking. How close will bootcamp get me to what I'm wanting to do?

Subject:RE: Acid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Reply by: drbam

Date:8/5/2007 2:11:12 PM

When installing bootcamp if you format your windows partition to Fat32 (not ideal but ok) you have access to all the files in the windows partition when booted to the mac OS. However, there's no way to have both systems up and running so you can go from one to the other without a reboot. Its definitely an either/or situation.

Subject:RE: Acid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Reply by: Kennymusicman

Date:8/5/2007 4:07:17 PM

Unless I'm missing something here - with bootcamp you could then run a)the acid native in win as mentioned, and also run your protools in win too - giving you all the funtionality you require without any effort.

Subject:RE: Acid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Reply by: pwppch

Date:8/5/2007 5:03:21 PM

Why not setup PTools to run under Windows XP in Bootcamp?

Then you can ReWire ACID directly into PTools.

PTools under Windows is not all that different than under a Mac.

Peter

Subject:RE: Acid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Reply by: vituprater

Date:8/21/2007 10:03:18 PM

Update:

2.4 ghz MacBook Pro - Windows xp in bootcamp - magma 7-slot expansion chassis - HD3 - 1 UAD card - Apogee ad16x - Digidesign 96 i/o - ProTools HD - Acid Pro pulls up nicely as a rewire instrument.

I haven't pushed Acid Pro to the limit yet, but so far everything seems to work. So thanks for turning my head in this direction.

Dave

Subject:RE: Acid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Reply by: buckaroo

Date:8/23/2007 12:20:16 AM

>>"2.4 ghz MacBook Pro - Windows xp in bootcamp - magma 7-slot expansion chassis - HD3 - 1 UAD card - Apogee ad16x - Digidesign 96 i/o - ProTools HD - Acid Pro pulls up nicely as a rewire instrument"<<

So Acid becomes a REWIRE slave on a Mac running Bootcamp and Protools?

Wicked! I never knew it could work like that? as PT Master and Acid as Rewire slave plug-in...

Subject:RE: Acid and Parallels for Macbook Pro

Reply by: pwppch

Date:8/23/2007 7:48:33 AM

Please keep us informed as to any issues you may encounter.

I don't use HD, but I have been doing this on my 17" MacBook Pro for a while now with out any issues. Have PTools using both ACID and Reason ReWired is a nice - if not ideal - workflow.

Q: How do you like the Magma expansion box? I have a really old similar PCI only type box. I am needed to update to something for my Mac Pro as it only has PCIe slots and I need something for my older PCI cards.

Peter