RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7??? -ACID Product Family

Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7??? Posted by: Vocalpoint Date:8/8/2012 11:54:40 AM I think considering AMS9 is 4 years newer than AP7 is more than enough to justify it's better performance. I also think Sony's sole business purpose is to get you to purchase AMS9 instead of worrying about what you don't have in AP7 or to waste any time wondering whether or not AP is ever coming back. My guess is a very strong no. Another observation - to address Peter's cryptic response to my earlier question of whether or not Acid has a future might just be - AMS9. VP
Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7??? Reply by: Iacobus Date:8/8/2012 2:25:07 PM "Dynamic playback optimization Gain increased performance on single and multicore processor machines with audio track buffering. ACID Pro 7 software uses a separate processing thread to render audio from tracks. On multiprocessor or multicore computers, processing is distributed evenly across all CPUs to increase playback performance." Scroll down to around the middle here. Basically, Music Studio 9 gained what Pro 7 had for several years.
Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7??? Reply by: Iacobus Date:8/8/2012 2:31:43 PM Need to also add: If Sony Creative's intention was for Pro 7 users to "upgrade" to Music Studio 9, that's pretty ass backwards, considering Music Studio 9 still doesn't have some features users like me want (as I noted in an earlier post). I couldn't think of a better way of ticking off Pro users if that's the case.
Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7??? Reply by: Vocalpoint Date:8/8/2012 2:50:59 PM If Sony Creative's intention was for Pro 7 users to "upgrade" to Music Studio 9, that's pretty **** backwards, considering Music Studio 9 still doesn't have some features users like me want (as I noted in an earlier post). I couldn't think of a better way of ticking off Pro users if that's the case. Not gonna disagree with you - but it seems that's about as good as it's going to get. No one ever said you were going to get new features (or even get everything you had back with AP7). It is what it is... VP
Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7??? Reply by: Vocalpoint Date:8/8/2012 6:16:36 PM What's the difference and why does this software run so much more stable than AP7 on my system? Newer compilers, newer class libraries, "newer "everything" is the difference. The biggest difference in my opinion is that AP7 was written and designed for XP (and possibly Vista) but most definitely not Windows 7 - especially 64bit.. Actually AP7 never even ran very well on Vista either (for the very short time that I used it) but it always ran great on 32 bit XP. 4 to 5 years in software dev time is like decades in real time. LOTS can happen performance wise in what seems like a short time on the old calendar...:) VP

Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7???

Posted by: Vocalpoint

Date:8/8/2012 11:54:40 AM

I think considering AMS9 is 4 years newer than AP7 is more than enough to justify it's better performance.

I also think Sony's sole business purpose is to get you to purchase AMS9 instead of worrying about what you don't have in AP7 or to waste any time wondering whether or not AP is ever coming back. My guess is a very strong no.

Another observation - to address Peter's cryptic response to my earlier question of whether or not Acid has a future might just be - AMS9.

VP

Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7???

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:8/8/2012 2:25:07 PM

"Dynamic playback optimization

Gain increased performance on single and multicore processor machines with audio track buffering. ACID Pro 7 software uses a separate processing thread to render audio from tracks. On multiprocessor or multicore computers, processing is distributed evenly across all CPUs to increase playback performance."

Scroll down to around the middle here.

Basically, Music Studio 9 gained what Pro 7 had for several years.

Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7???

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:8/8/2012 2:31:43 PM

Need to also add: If Sony Creative's intention was for Pro 7 users to "upgrade" to Music Studio 9, that's pretty ass backwards, considering Music Studio 9 still doesn't have some features users like me want (as I noted in an earlier post). I couldn't think of a better way of ticking off Pro users if that's the case.

Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7???

Reply by: Vocalpoint

Date:8/8/2012 2:50:59 PM

If Sony Creative's intention was for Pro 7 users to "upgrade" to Music Studio 9, that's pretty **** backwards, considering Music Studio 9 still doesn't have some features users like me want (as I noted in an earlier post). I couldn't think of a better way of ticking off Pro users if that's the case.

Not gonna disagree with you - but it seems that's about as good as it's going to get. No one ever said you were going to get new features (or even get everything you had back with AP7). It is what it is...

VP

Subject:RE: Peter - Acid Studio 9 better than Acid Pro 7???

Reply by: Vocalpoint

Date:8/8/2012 6:16:36 PM

What's the difference and why does this software run so much more stable than AP7 on my system?

Newer compilers, newer class libraries, "newer "everything" is the difference.

The biggest difference in my opinion is that AP7 was written and designed for XP (and possibly Vista) but most definitely not Windows 7 - especially 64bit.. Actually AP7 never even ran very well on Vista either (for the very short time that I used it) but it always ran great on 32 bit XP.

4 to 5 years in software dev time is like decades in real time. LOTS can happen performance wise in what seems like a short time on the old calendar...:)

VP