Subject:Using Acid as an 8-track wave mixer

Posted by: Andrew_Amiet

Date:9/8/1999 6:18:00 PM

Hi there, I am doing a bit of recording and want to mix my
music. Basically we've recorded a synth, guitar, vocals,
brass etc as seperate wave files. I wont be including any
loops, just disk based audio files and I dont need any fancy
effects (using Cool edit 96 for that). I also dont want to
spend about $500 on Vegas Pro, Cool Edit Pro, or whatever.
Playing around with the demo version of Acid Style seems to
give me enough tracks and a decent mix - I guess the
question I'm asking is whether Acid Style is up to the job
of mixing 5-6 30MB wave files and saving the mixed wave file
for inclusion onto a demo CD? Is Acid Music any better in
this regard? Or is the only way to cough up the $500 for
professional mixing software? There are a number of
shareware products around that can mix files, but they
haven't got the experience and backup support of Sonic
Foundry and I dont really trust them.

Thanks in advance

Andrew Amiet

Subject:Re: Using Acid as an 8-track wave mixer

Reply by: NotWithStupid

Date:9/9/1999 9:18:00 AM

In short, the answer is NO! Acid is not a multi-track wave mixer.

You have a couple of options. If Vegas is too expensive and you
don't trust the sharewre products, then you might want to look at
Samplitude from Sekd, Cakewalk 8, or SAW. All do a fine job of
mixing 8 tracks and there are inexpensive versions available.

Subject:Re: Using Acid as an 8-track wave mixer

Reply by: tonepad

Date:9/10/1999 4:21:00 PM

Acid Pro will work as a 2 in and whatever out...I use a mixtreme 16
I/O TDIF based card that will do the job, and Acid Pro sees all the
outputs. As a matter of fact since Vegas has a MTC sync bug and Acid
Pro does not have the same problem syncing to TC, I use it for sound
effects design as well, until Vegas gets fixed. You will have to
make sure to turn off the stretch option for tracks that come off the
HD as well as Ram if you use Acid this way.

Andrew Amiet wrote:
>>Hi there, I am doing a bit of recording and want to mix my
>>music. Basically we've recorded a synth, guitar, vocals,
>>brass etc as seperate wave files. I wont be including any
>>loops, just disk based audio files and I dont need any fancy
>>effects (using Cool edit 96 for that). I also dont want to
>>spend about $500 on Vegas Pro, Cool Edit Pro, or whatever.
>>Playing around with the demo version of Acid Style seems to
>>give me enough tracks and a decent mix - I guess the
>>question I'm asking is whether Acid Style is up to the job
>>of mixing 5-6 30MB wave files and saving the mixed wave file
>>for inclusion onto a demo CD? Is Acid Music any better in
>>this regard? Or is the only way to cough up the $500 for
>>professional mixing software? There are a number of
>>shareware products around that can mix files, but they
>>haven't got the experience and backup support of Sonic
>>Foundry and I dont really trust them.
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>Andrew Amiet

Subject:Re: Using Acid as an 8-track wave mixer

Reply by: jess101

Date:9/19/1999 11:59:00 PM

Andrew Amiet wrote:
>>Hi there, I am doing a bit of recording and want to mix my
>>music. Basically we've recorded a synth, guitar, vocals,
>>brass etc as seperate wave files. I wont be including any
>>loops, just disk based audio files and I dont need any fancy
>>effects (using Cool edit 96 for that). I also dont want to
>>spend about $500 on Vegas Pro, Cool Edit Pro, or whatever.
>>Playing around with the demo version of Acid Style seems to
>>give me enough tracks and a decent mix - I guess the
>>question I'm asking is whether Acid Style is up to the job
>>of mixing 5-6 30MB wave files and saving the mixed wave file
>>for inclusion onto a demo CD? Is Acid Music any better in
>>this regard? Or is the only way to cough up the $500 for
>>professional mixing software? There are a number of
>>shareware products around that can mix files, but they
>>haven't got the experience and backup support of Sonic
>>Foundry and I dont really trust them.
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>Andrew Amiet

Subject:Re: Using Acid as an 8-track wave mixer

Reply by: jess101

Date:9/20/1999 12:04:00 AM

Andrew Amiet wrote:
>>Hi there, I am doing a bit of recording and want to mix my
>>music. Basically we've recorded a synth, guitar, vocals,
>>brass etc as seperate wave files. I wont be including any
>>loops, just disk based audio files and I dont need any fancy
>>effects (using Cool edit 96 for that). I also dont want to
>>spend about $500 on Vegas Pro, Cool Edit Pro, or whatever.
>>Playing around with the demo version of Acid Style seems to
>>give me enough tracks and a decent mix - I guess the
>>question I'm asking is whether Acid Style is up to the job
>>of mixing 5-6 30MB wave files and saving the mixed wave file
>>for inclusion onto a demo CD? Is Acid Music any better in
>>this regard? Or is the only way to cough up the $500 for
>>professional mixing software? There are a number of
>>shareware products around that can mix files, but they
>>haven't got the experience and backup support of Sonic
>>Foundry and I dont really trust them.
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>Andrew Amiet
i've never used acid style but i get the feeling it is very similar
to using acid music. i use acid music for all my mixing purposes and
i use goldwave for all my recording purposes and i use an old RP-3
(guitar effects processor) for my effects. i am working on a cd, and
i'm getting a pretty good sound quality doing what im doing with a
fostex 4 track and an $80 program from sonic foundry. i also use
alot more than 5 or 6 tracks on a song- usually about twenty