Subject:Upgrade Acid 4 to 6?

Posted by: Moh

Date:10/26/2007 6:37:11 PM

I have ACID PRO 4.o and I want to upgrade to 6.0. I saw a 6.0 upgrade is available. Will it upgrade my 4.0 to 6.0?

Subject:RE: Upgrade Acid 4 to 6?

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:10/26/2007 8:38:08 PM

The upgrades are independant. You'll actually get a fully functional independant license for version 6, and a complete install package that can be used on it's own. You can install it with any previous version, or even with none installed at all. The only thing that makes it an 'upgrade' is that you can a discount on the purchase price because you own a previous version.

Subject:RE: Upgrade Acid 4 to 6?

Reply by: Moh

Date:10/26/2007 9:19:32 PM

Thank you very much. I'll buy it tomorrow.

I am not so good with Acid but I want to create drum beat (not from pre made loops). Is that easy with Acid 6.0?

Subject:RE: Upgrade Acid 4 to 6?

Reply by: PeterWright

Date:10/27/2007 3:14:24 AM

Extremely easy - Insert a Midi Track, choose a drum set and start creating - assuming you have a midi controller/keyboard or similar.

Thinking about it. you don't even need that - you can "paint" your drum pattern by drawing notes in the Piano Roll.

Subject:RE: Upgrade Acid 4 to 6?

Reply by: indeepthought

Date:10/29/2007 3:05:32 PM

there are several ways to create quality drums using Acid 6. I too skipped version 5 and went to 6. Here are sevarl ways I lay down drum tracks using Acid. My method varies depending on genre of music:

1) Softsynth based using midi piano roll or paintin midi notes directly on the track - I sometimes us the included Kompakt VST. The built in drumkits are so-so but not entirely useless (depending on genre). You can import individual sample drum hits (or any other sound) into Kompakt or even a soundfont drumkit for more variation. In addition to the included Kompakt, you can use dedicated drum vst's like Battery or even freebies like Grizzly or SR-202.

2) Softsynth triggered during live recording- Trigger the drum sounds via midi keyboard or drum pad. This offers the advantage of more human feel. You can always edit and quantisize later if it is too off.

3) Using the Chopper to grab individual hits from drum loops- let's say you don't want to use a loop, but you like the kick or snare from that loop. using the chopper, you can isolate that sound and insert it as needed on an audio track. This works best when you have the time markers set to view measures rather than timecode. One advantage of this method is that you can place all kicks, snares etc, on their own seperate track and process them differently.

4) Dropping samples diurectly on timeline - Like above, but based on raw samples you simply drop on the timeline.

You can always combine these methods. i often will tap in my hi-hats and cymbols live to humanize my drums but drop in kicks on the 1 note and snares on the 2 note in genres that require steady timing. Even then you can push or pull the notes. You can also experiment with grooves (not present in Acid 4) to give drums a different feel. This works for midi or audio tracks.

Hope this helps.

Subject:RE: Upgrade Acid 4 to 6?

Reply by: thirdnostril

Date:10/30/2007 2:20:53 PM

About grooves: I'd love to use some. But for the life of me, I can tell no difference between grooved and un-grroved segments.

Could you give me a quick rundown on how to apply the grooves successfully?

Subject:RE: Upgrade Acid 4 to 6?

Reply by: indeepthought

Date:11/7/2007 1:19:50 PM

I will not pretend to be a master of the grooves feature, but it does make a difference. The difference is often subtle. To get an idea of the differences, take a very basic drum loop, paint a few bars of it on the timeline and play in loop mode. Duplicate that track and paint each track with a different groove/ Take turns playing them in solo mode and you will hear the difference. i have not tried creating my own grooves yet. If I do create some, I will post.