acid pro 6?

[sgx]

Perhaps midi Yoke would do the trick?

[Jason Brian Merrill]

the splash will show, telling me its initializing VST instruments, then DX stuff, then it just disappears!

typical of ACID. sounds like its still an unstable piece of crap. I have never had a program crap out on me as much as acid. garbage.

[coldmachine]

There seems to be some misunderstanding here. Multiple VSTs can be routed to a single bus, no need for fx on each insert if not required. The resulant mix can be sent to another bus. Normal Aux, Sub Groups and mixes are no problem.

[Reverse Engineer]

I just love the people who installed it, ran it for five minutes then declared it to be a piece of crap Stick to Garageband/ejay and you'll be fine my dears

[ObsoleteAcc99]

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[sgx]

Damn. What are you supposed to do? Put a reverb on every soft synth you have in there? That's a huge oversight. I thought for sure they would improve upon that from Acid 5

You can route a synth to a buss so any number of synths can use the same buss effect.

Yes, but what if I want to use sends to aux busses? I don't want 100% of each sound in the bus going through the same effect. If I could send to a bus like you can in the tracks, I can have a dry signal go through, plus say another 30% going through to a bus with a reverb on it or something. I do things like put distortions, phasers and junk like that on reverbs and delays all the time. It is important that the wet effects be seperate from the dry from the instrument - I want to distort or phase the reverb and delay trails, not the main instrument too. Seems like you can't do this with vsti's. Unless I bounce to track every time and use track sends to do it.

LAME. I had my finger over the order button, but now I don't know.

[tha_man]

Try Senderella plugin, it's free.

[CypherOne]

Given that Sony haven't yet emailed the upgrade link from Pro 5 then is there any other way to get the decent price (esp. given I'm in the UK)??

Go to Sony's ACID Forum and there's a thread with a link in it here.

I paid $173 (£99 - inclusive of VAT) for the downloadable upgrade and the shipping of the content to the UK. Not as cheap as US retail prices but cheap enough IMO. I tried Soundcontrol, Turnkey and Sony Media Shop in central London and none of them have it in stock.

If you want to wait for a better UK deal remember that the demo is fully functional for 30 days so there's no hurry to buy it.

cheers munchkin, ordered, downloaded, looking forward to finishing work now

[sgx]

Oh thanks for that! It is a bit of a hassle rather than having the functionality built in, but it works.

I wonder how well Acid runs with EXT or Bidule.

[mahtazz]

Kontact is in the boxed version or as a free disk for the d/l. Its just down to size, along with the content.

it's kompakt, not kontakt...

[even7]

I just love the people who installed it, ran it for five minutes then declared it to be a piece of crap Stick to Garageband/ejay and you'll be fine my dears

i won't give anything more than 3 minutes worth of demoing when it's glitching on track resize with only one track loaded with a 2 bar audio clip.

i don't want workarounds for smth this basic.

It is a bit of a hassle rather than having the functionality built in

call me whatever you might.

[Cabinfever]

This release seems to be shaping up much, much better than 4 or 5. I'm getting tempted to run the demo

@the 3-minute-testers: thanks for your opinion & goodbye

[Motion]

It was a PITA scanning Vstis 1st time around,bombing out,hangs,etc.

I moved my Vsti folder elsewhere so it was blank and 6 started ok,then did the scan from in Acid.

I must say though...it's a great upgrade all round,that new engine seems silky smooth and noticeably more tighter and efficient even on my single chip machine and most of the other stuff is a welcome addition.

Been hammering away for hours with no real problems otherwise.

[superddman]

just tried the demo and imo the zoom is insanly bad, don't know how anyone can arrange music this way.