Subject:AP7 bug when dragging clips onto a different track

Posted by: reform

Date:11/3/2008 9:42:56 AM

Every time i drag a existing clip/sample on the timeline onto a track above or below, it shrinks the sample from its original length to a tiny snippet. This means I have to drag it back to its original length, which, as i often import whole tracks and go through snipping bits on the fly, can be a right royal pain in the behind.

This means I usually end up just cutting and pasting like i used to in previous versions, thus wasting AP7's new found ability. Am i missing something? Or is it just a bug?

Subject:RE: AP7 bug when dragging clips onto a different track

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:11/3/2008 11:06:09 AM

I believe it's a documented bug that Sony knows about.

~jr

Subject:RE: AP7 bug when dragging clips onto a differ

Reply by: reform

Date:11/6/2008 3:29:34 PM

Wow. Do any Sony reps have any comment, or rather, excuses to make?

That's an astoundingly obvious bug to miss. Maybe they should release betas to Acid users for preliminary testing, rather than making them pay for beta software. Unbelievable.

Subject:RE: AP7 bug when dragging clips onto a differ

Reply by: randygo

Date:11/6/2008 4:57:00 PM

>That's an astoundingly obvious bug to miss.

It was the first thing I and at least one other person tried with the demo when we first installed it.

At least you can drag events between tracks now - which should really have been a capability of Acid Pro 6.

Randy

Subject:RE: AP7 bug when dragging clips onto a differ

Reply by: reform

Date:11/7/2008 2:41:33 AM

Well, you could always copy and paste to a different track in AP6, which i did alot. But thanks to this bug I'm STILL doing that.

Do Sony actually test their software pre-release? Sonic Foundry were alot more responsive when they were at the helm....

Subject:RE: AP7 bug when dragging clips onto a different track

Reply by: ForumAdmin

Date:11/7/2008 11:05:17 AM

This behavior:

"Every time i drag a existing clip/sample on the timeline onto a track above or below, it shrinks the sample from its original length to a tiny snippet."

is known and is specific to one-shots. This has been resolved for the 7.0a update which should be available soon.

Have you seen this for anything other than one-shots?

Thanks,

--j

Subject:RE: AP7 bug when dragging clips onto a differ

Reply by: PeterWright

Date:11/7/2008 5:56:45 PM

> "Do Sony actually test their software pre-release?"

Strange question - No, they just spew out random zeros and ones and hope it works, wadderyarekkon?.

And surely you have noticed how many responses there have been since the AP7 release - be reasonable if you expect others to be.

Subject:RE: AP7 bug when dragging clips onto a differ

Reply by: reform

Date:11/11/2008 4:15:07 AM

Peter - I've been using Acid Pro since Version 3 and every release has been dogged with bugs from the outset. It's pretty disappointing to spend yet more cash on the program and find that obvious, blatant bugs are still to the fore. That I expect the newest version to be the least buggy, most refined version yet is far from unreasonable.

I haven't noticed it happening with other samples, but i use ALOT of one-shots as my music is almost 100% built from samples.