Subject:ACID Pro 3.0 quality

Posted by: vicorex

Date:7/26/2001 4:21:40 AM

hey all!

i'd like to hear your opinions about ACID3's sound quality!

as i can hear that when using lot of tracks (let's say more than 8 or whatever), the overall sound loses its good quality, dynamic, cleanliness, transparency...
anyone had the same opinion ?

how to solve this problem ?
should i compress my tracks ???

thanks in advance

Subject:RE: ACID Pro 3.0 quality

Reply by: TomBaker

Date:7/26/2001 4:26:04 PM

most likely you are using all you headroom up.
Try turning things down track by track. Each time you add something read adjust.

Subject:RE: ACID Pro 3.0 quality

Reply by: Maruuk

Date:7/26/2001 6:37:31 PM

Acid 3.0 definitely requires more system horsepower than previous revs to run smoothly. This straight from SF techs. You may need to optimize your system over at audioforums.com.

Subject:RE: ACID Pro 3.0 quality

Reply by: a074718

Date:7/30/2001 12:06:24 AM

i have just the same problem with Pro3, when in v2.0, all the tracks were sounding fantastic, even when i used 50 tracks in few songs, sound was still grate, but as soon i brought to Pro3, sound began to crack, lost dinamics and averall sound quality dropped. i dont' know why.
Bob

Subject:RE: ACID Pro 3.0 quality

Reply by: Rahl

Date:7/30/2001 3:24:04 PM

I am just glad I decided to wait before upgrading to Acid 3.0. The public Beta was way too bugy. Besides Acid 2.0 served it's purpose for now. What I suggest most of you do is go back down to version 2 until Sonic Foundry releases a suitable patch for it. I know I will make the upgrade soon. Have there been any positive feedback on Acid 3.0 so far? Was it just released too soon? Anyway, at least Sound Forge 5.0 is not giving me headaches.

Subject:RE: ACID Pro 3.0 quality

Reply by: synthman1128

Date:7/31/2001 12:35:49 AM

I agree with your suggestion that work on 2.0 for now until 3.0a is released. But I think people should at least install 3.0 to get used to the program. There's things to learn in 3.0. Some of the new features I don't know how to use but I kind of get the idea of it from reading from this forum. To be honest with you, I don't know how to work my way around 3.0. When the new 3.0 patch is released, that's when I install my Acid.

Subject:RE: ACID Pro 3.0 quality

Reply by: photon

Date:8/1/2001 4:03:45 AM

With all the posts about problems, I'd just like to say that I'm enjoying 3.0 (running under W2K). It seems to be working well for me with only a few minor glitches (some perhaps due to my misunderstanding?).

Many of the new features are definite boons to my ways of working.

Kudos to the SF folks who I feel are trying to resolve the problems that have been reported. To be fair to them, there are so many possible configurations in the Windows world that incompatibilities are likely to occur with any new complex app.

I hope that people with these problems find workarounds and solutions soon, and get on with the good stuff.

Good luck.

Subject:RE: ACID Pro 3.0 quality

Reply by: spesimen

Date:8/1/2001 10:55:47 AM

i dunno, i think 3.0 is about 100x better than 2.0.

i think a lot of the audio complaints are due to user error - no offense guys, but if you load an acid 2.0 file it is totally gonna sound messed up because the bussing and effects are handled completely differently. that crackling and whatever is because your levels are running too hot, or you have mulitple tracks going through old effects settings, etc.

basically you have to re-tweak your files to get them to sound the same. in fact, in all cases my stuff sounds BETTER now, i think the mixer section has higher resolution or different math or something in the signal chain that is different and allows for a lot more presence in dense mixes. i used to easily be able to tell a mix from 2.0 apart from one done in other high-end progs like nuendo, and now i can get the same quality from either one. that alone is worth it!

sure, there are some bugs (the notorious lack of functional midi-sync is particularly annoying) but overall for me it runs way better, sounds better, and the added new flexibility from the mixing section kicks ass. track inserts are a million times more useful than busses for compression and eq. now, if they would just put sample start edit back in the graphical properties view and fix midi-sync i will be thrilled..