Subject:Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Posted by: CDM

Date:8/8/2001 6:10:27 PM

Thanks SF!! Acid 3.0B seems to have increased performance tremendously on both my win98 and win2k systems. Many bug fixes.

I encourage everyone to download it.

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: Rockitglider

Date:8/8/2001 7:07:56 PM

Mines not doing too good anybody else having any probs?

Rockit

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: CDM

Date:8/8/2001 7:22:01 PM

what problems are you having?

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: Rockitglider

Date:8/8/2001 7:38:02 PM

Same as before, Skipping on playback with buffer turned up. And freezes when trying to open Chopper.

Rockit

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: BSM

Date:8/8/2001 7:51:05 PM

Tried to install it on my laptop and it hosed the whole system. Left me with no icons on the desktop at all. No Win Start at the bottom left. Never have I seen, or any of my techs seen anything like that!

I need to reinstall Win 2k and rebuild again.

Anyone else?

Jim

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: Rockitglider

Date:8/8/2001 8:09:41 PM

I've seen that exact thing happen on a Compaq Laptop. when I tried to put a toolbar on the Startbar, The whole desktop and all icons were gone, had to restore the system from CD Recovery disk.

I've managed to get it working a little better I deleted all effects an all tracks in the song and got the CPU down to 96% and played the whole 5Min. song with no skips

BTW: The same song in Acid 2.0 only uses about 65% CPU

Rockit

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: MacMoney

Date:8/8/2001 9:10:04 PM

Hey Charles
Did you get that e-mail from me?
Same here on Win2k and 98se BTW MOTU has released Win2k drivers for Audio and MIDI
George Ware

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: CDM

Date:8/8/2001 9:35:39 PM

about time.

what email?

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:8/8/2001 10:59:15 PM

I still have a project that stutters a bit, but nothing like it was before. Still a work in progress I guess, as is the truncation of a track with reverb at the end of a project. (At least they covered it in the new release notes.)

Noticed the Track View's grid looks a little different. Kinda nice on the eye. I like it.

And I *really* like having the F9 and F9 combos back.

Iacobus

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: spesimen

Date:8/9/2001 11:30:01 AM

wow! it's a huge improvement for me too. little things that were annoying have been polished like crazy - like, screen redraws are about 100x faster, it doesn't gap and skip when i scroll or adjust the loop points anymore, overall the interface feels much more crisp and responsive.

cpu usage seems about the same to me but i haven't had much trouble with that from the other version either. my machine is 1.4ghz too so i'm kinda spoiled that way.

plugins and stuff that used to act a little strange all seem to be in perfect order now..

midi sync also seems to be working properly..i need to test that more though..

overall i'm very impressed..whoo!! great job sonic guys..

Subject:RE: Acid 3.0b is a huge improvement...

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:8/9/2001 11:31:51 AM

Hey I noticed too that rendered projects are now much louder and more accurately reflect their associated project's volume, even the ones with effects and busses. This wasn't mentioned in the release notes though.

Iacobus