1. Are you happy using Acid Pro 5?
2. What's the controversy surrounding Media Manager?
3. Are Sony Digital practicing censorship on their own customers (Read: Banning anyone giving negative comments about Sony Digital Products...even if it's the truth or lie)?
4. Is there still life for Acid Pro (considering the rivals: Live, Project5, Sonar & Sonar Home Studio)?
Controversial Questions For All Happy Acid Pro Users
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- KVRAF
- 2336 posts since 13 Oct, 2002 from Terra Firma
I use ACID for all my music now. I own Sonar and Ableton Live but never use them. I don't use media manager because the explorer suits my needs. I don't bother with their forum. Support have always acknowledged my emails and have fixed any issues I had with VST/i implimentation. IMO there's still a lot of life left in ACID. I don't care if there is never another upgrade it suits my way of working. I prefer it's simplicity over Sonar and other more complex hosts.
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- KVRist
- 493 posts since 9 Mar, 2003
I for one dropped it after v2- I believe The sun has set on Acid...Too little, too late & no longer even relevant.TVD wrote:Damn! I take it that almost all of KVR members have drop this host and never looked
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- KVRAF
- 1530 posts since 20 Feb, 2003
1) I got burned by the buggy 4 update. tried v5 and it was again too buggy for me. also it is concentrating on 'amateur home dj' features rather than pro features imho.
2) media manager is giant and buggy and useful only to those who use canned loops. search for more on this - complaints are everywhere
3) sony now vigorously censor their forums. long-time users and beta testers had dozens of threads deleted, some users were banned. see this 'sony refugee forum' here for more:
http://www.crossfade-forums.net/
4) sony has very deliberately taken acidpro 'downmarket'. it is pitched toward non-musical loop-buying newbies. sure it can do more, but that's because of legacy features, not its current direction.
i think acidpro is definitely finished.
2) media manager is giant and buggy and useful only to those who use canned loops. search for more on this - complaints are everywhere
3) sony now vigorously censor their forums. long-time users and beta testers had dozens of threads deleted, some users were banned. see this 'sony refugee forum' here for more:
http://www.crossfade-forums.net/
4) sony has very deliberately taken acidpro 'downmarket'. it is pitched toward non-musical loop-buying newbies. sure it can do more, but that's because of legacy features, not its current direction.
i think acidpro is definitely finished.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1411 posts since 25 Sep, 2003 from The Dirty South, USA
Thanks Munchkin. And BTW, I knew you were still using Acid Pro as mention in a pervious thread.munchkin wrote:I use ACID for all my music now. I own Sonar and Ableton Live but never use them. I don't use media manager because the explorer suits my needs. I don't bother with their forum. Support have always acknowledged my emails and have fixed any issues I had with VST/i implimentation. IMO there's still a lot of life left in ACID. I don't care if there is never another upgrade it suits my way of working. I prefer it's simplicity over Sonar and other more complex hosts.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1411 posts since 25 Sep, 2003 from The Dirty South, USA
Damn!!!Cabinfever wrote:1) I got burned by the buggy 4 update. tried v5 and it was again too buggy for me. also it is concentrating on 'amateur home dj' features rather than pro features imho.
2) media manager is giant and buggy and useful only to those who use canned loops. search for more on this - complaints are everywhere
3) sony now vigorously censor their forums. long-time users and beta testers had dozens of threads deleted, some users were banned. see this 'sony refugee forum' here for more:
http://www.crossfade-forums.net/
4) sony has very deliberately taken acidpro 'downmarket'. it is pitched toward non-musical loop-buying newbies. sure it can do more, but that's because of legacy features, not its current direction.
i think acidpro is definitely finished.
That's a lot of people being piss with Sony! -
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- KVRAF
- 4968 posts since 23 Sep, 2003 from Glasgow
1. Are you happy using Acid Pro 5? Very much so.
2. What's the controversy surrounding Media Manager? That i don't see any use for, so i disable it and unistall it.
3. Are Sony Digital practicing censorship on their own customers (Read: Banning anyone giving negative comments about Sony Digital Products...even if it's the truth or lie)? I have no idea, i've never visited their forums.
4. Is there still life for Acid Pro (considering the rivals: Live, Project5, Sonar & Sonar Home Studio)? I believe so. It may be because i'm used to it now and found all the shortcuts, but i have tried other apps and not liked any off them much at all. They don't allow me to do anything i can't in acid. They may make certain things easier, but because it makes automation less of a hassle for example doesn't mean everything is an improvement. I really do rate acid highly, and it does have a lot of bugs that hopefully will be ironed out, but even then (if they aren't) they don't cause me enough problems to make me want something else.
2. What's the controversy surrounding Media Manager? That i don't see any use for, so i disable it and unistall it.
3. Are Sony Digital practicing censorship on their own customers (Read: Banning anyone giving negative comments about Sony Digital Products...even if it's the truth or lie)? I have no idea, i've never visited their forums.
4. Is there still life for Acid Pro (considering the rivals: Live, Project5, Sonar & Sonar Home Studio)? I believe so. It may be because i'm used to it now and found all the shortcuts, but i have tried other apps and not liked any off them much at all. They don't allow me to do anything i can't in acid. They may make certain things easier, but because it makes automation less of a hassle for example doesn't mean everything is an improvement. I really do rate acid highly, and it does have a lot of bugs that hopefully will be ironed out, but even then (if they aren't) they don't cause me enough problems to make me want something else.