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Subject:Thankful for Acid 6 Posted by: JMacBand Date:7/18/2008 9:45:41 PM I have been using Acid since 3.0 and admit that I also am frequently looking for the new release of 7.0 or at least an update. I have been music teacher in public and private schools over 35 years and use acid to edit, transpose, compose, and arrange lyrics / music for the students. I print music with Sonar home studio and buy sheetmusic that I print from the internet. Individual song examples I download from Itunes etc.This is all done at my little computer studio at home. It beats the old reeI to reel recording and the many 20 mile trips I used to take to the music stores in Providence. I realize this isn't the way most users work with ACID but it works great for me. I would be interested in how some of you use Acid in your different situations.
Subject:Also thankful for Acid 6 Reply by: feign Date:7/18/2008 11:03:35 PM Nice idea for a discussion. I hope all the Sony-bashers will keep their negative feelings out of this thread. I suspect there are a lot of people using Acid in unexpected ways. I too am an enthusiastic user of Acid Pro 6. I am an animation producer/director. I use Acid to compose and produce musical soundtracks for animation projects: e-cards, short animated episodes, and so on, mainly created in Flash. It has revolutionized the way I work. My budget rarely enables me to hire an actual composer/musician, so in the past I had to rely on canned background music, and found very little that was suitable for comedy. Now I not only compose theme tunes, but can come up with all sorts of amusing little stings and transitional melodies which make my simple Flash animations come alive. All my clients have praised my work for standing out largely due to the quality of my soundtracks. I'm now putting Acid Pro 6 to use to compose the soundtrack for a full-length TV show (animated, of course) I'm directing. I've come up with full original pop songs with vocals, and am even recording the voice-overs in Acid. I often tell people that one of my favorite parts of the whole animation process is the audio! Since I've gotten into it, I've been studying the work of Carl Stalling and other greats of animation music, and reading up on sound design (a great book by David Sonnenschein is my Bible). I let assistants and subcontractors do the grunt work in the animation (all those drawings!), but I reserve the audio work for myself. It's a lot of fun. For now I only use loops and one-shots, but that's okay for someone like me, with musical sensibilities, but only able to play one instrument (violin). One day I'll invest in a MIDI keyboard and some VST plugins and go all the way into original music production. By the way, I've tried other DAWs for what I do, including Cinescore (sorry, Sony, it doesn't come anywhere close to satisfying my needs for soundtracks) Live and Reaper. Acid is far and away the most suitable for my work. My one wish item for Acid 7: ability to import CURRENT Flash SWF files into the program (currently it only enables import of Flash 5 files, but we're soon about to be up to Flash version 10). Message last edited on7/18/2008 11:09:10 PM byfeign.
Subject:RE: Also thankful for Acid 6 Reply by: drbam Date:7/19/2008 7:25:15 AM I use Acid 6 for creating my own loops (nothing is better or faster), recording basic tracks, and developing arrangements and for basic composition and construction. Mixing is where it all bogs down for me though. I tried unsuccessfully to complete my last 2 projects in Acid 6 and ended having to move everything into Vegas. For mixing, Acid is just too slow and clunky compared to Vegas and this is also where it becomes unstable for me - if I work too fast, Acid will eventually freeze/crash. Next project, I'll plan accordingly and not even start to mix in Acid because I have to recreate it in Vegas anyway - lots of wasted time. I don't use midi so I can't comment on that component. Message last edited on7/19/2008 4:04:14 PM bydrbam.
Subject:RE: Also thankful for Acid 6 Reply by: DKeenum Date:7/19/2008 3:18:03 PM Acid Pro is my only DAW. I deleted everything else. It does all I need, and it is rock solid for me. ...just saying....

Subject:Thankful for Acid 6

Posted by: JMacBand

Date:7/18/2008 9:45:41 PM

I have been using Acid since 3.0 and admit that I also am frequently looking for the new release of 7.0 or at least an update. I have been music teacher in public and private schools over 35 years and use acid to edit, transpose, compose, and arrange lyrics / music for the students. I print music with Sonar home studio and buy sheetmusic that I print from the internet. Individual song examples I download from Itunes etc.This is all done at my little computer studio at home. It beats the old reeI to reel recording and the many 20 mile trips I used to take to the music stores in Providence. I realize this isn't the way most users work with ACID but it works great for me. I would be interested in how some of you use Acid in your different situations.

Subject:Also thankful for Acid 6

Reply by: feign

Date:7/18/2008 11:03:35 PM

Nice idea for a discussion. I hope all the Sony-bashers will keep their negative feelings out of this thread. I suspect there are a lot of people using Acid in unexpected ways.

I too am an enthusiastic user of Acid Pro 6. I am an animation producer/director. I use Acid to compose and produce musical soundtracks for animation projects: e-cards, short animated episodes, and so on, mainly created in Flash. It has revolutionized the way I work. My budget rarely enables me to hire an actual composer/musician, so in the past I had to rely on canned background music, and found very little that was suitable for comedy. Now I not only compose theme tunes, but can come up with all sorts of amusing little stings and transitional melodies which make my simple Flash animations come alive. All my clients have praised my work for standing out largely due to the quality of my soundtracks.

I'm now putting Acid Pro 6 to use to compose the soundtrack for a full-length TV show (animated, of course) I'm directing. I've come up with full original pop songs with vocals, and am even recording the voice-overs in Acid.

I often tell people that one of my favorite parts of the whole animation process is the audio! Since I've gotten into it, I've been studying the work of Carl Stalling and other greats of animation music, and reading up on sound design (a great book by David Sonnenschein is my Bible). I let assistants and subcontractors do the grunt work in the animation (all those drawings!), but I reserve the audio work for myself. It's a lot of fun.

For now I only use loops and one-shots, but that's okay for someone like me, with musical sensibilities, but only able to play one instrument (violin). One day I'll invest in a MIDI keyboard and some VST plugins and go all the way into original music production.

By the way, I've tried other DAWs for what I do, including Cinescore (sorry, Sony, it doesn't come anywhere close to satisfying my needs for soundtracks) Live and Reaper. Acid is far and away the most suitable for my work.

My one wish item for Acid 7: ability to import CURRENT Flash SWF files into the program (currently it only enables import of Flash 5 files, but we're soon about to be up to Flash version 10).

Message last edited on7/18/2008 11:09:10 PM byfeign.

Subject:RE: Also thankful for Acid 6

Reply by: drbam

Date:7/19/2008 7:25:15 AM

I use Acid 6 for creating my own loops (nothing is better or faster), recording basic tracks, and developing arrangements and for basic composition and construction. Mixing is where it all bogs down for me though. I tried unsuccessfully to complete my last 2 projects in Acid 6 and ended having to move everything into Vegas. For mixing, Acid is just too slow and clunky compared to Vegas and this is also where it becomes unstable for me - if I work too fast, Acid will eventually freeze/crash. Next project, I'll plan accordingly and not even start to mix in Acid because I have to recreate it in Vegas anyway - lots of wasted time. I don't use midi so I can't comment on that component.

Message last edited on7/19/2008 4:04:14 PM bydrbam.

Subject:RE: Also thankful for Acid 6

Reply by: DKeenum

Date:7/19/2008 3:18:03 PM

Acid Pro is my only DAW. I deleted everything else. It does all I need, and it is rock solid for me. ...just saying....