acid pro 6?

[CypherOne]

I think it's safe to say that existing Acid Pro users will be pleased, and non users will still hate it...

[Cabinfever]

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

Hmmm. Odd. Unless they've radically changed the zoom, that's the one thing Sonar users pine for: Acid's zooming. Zoom controlled by the mousewheel is something I *still* instinctively try to do in Sonar...

[superddman]

i mean the resolution of the zoom, I had to zoom in almost all the way to edit automation and do some tweaking. At this level of zoom, you only see like 2 seconds of the timeline, so I had to constantly zoom back and forth, also, when you zoom in/out (using mouse wheel) during playback, the visible timeline jumps back to the beginning, in other words it doesn't follow the cursor

[filkertom]

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

Word. I skipped Acid 5, so when I started 6, all I could do was boggle at all the lovely tweaks and expansions. This is gonna be great.

But Oh! Heaven forfend! a major overhaul might have some bugs out of the box! Or it might not do things exactly the way I want them done!

Relax. If it's buggy, tell Sony it's buggy. If it doesn't do what you want, find a workaround, or use something else. But don't rag on it just because it didn't change your life in the first few minutes... especially when the attitude seems to be, "Well, I'd love Acid if it didn't suck".

Life's too short, and we've all got too much music.

[imekon]

I think someone asked this earlier...is there anyway to get a full screen view of midi data? Or at least the old floating view/window as was possible in ACID 5?

The only option I can see/access in V.6 is the track level midi editing.

Anyone?

Yes, right click on clip and select "Clip properties...", you'll get the midi editing floating window.

[coldmachine]

Mahatzz, you are indeed correct sir.

[mahtazz]

Mahatzz, you are indeed correct sir.

But we can crossgrade to Kontakt2 for a mere $ 269

[stag]

I was one of the dudes that after five minutes uninstalled it, well i was on the middle of wipe cleaning my boot partition anyway.

I always liked Acid, it's a program that let's us achive great results with speed, the problem was me trying more sophysticated stuff and when i get back to it i miss some of new found tastes.

for instance on the five minutes i mess with ACID i was unable to find the switch to do software monitor alone, maybe it's a preference thing... also the drum maps, i saw references to them but really, has anyone actually saw anything.

Later on i will reinstall it and give it another workout, a longer one, i hope then i'll be able to find and get to work with these functions.

[Reverse Engineer]

One thing i will say about acid is that from the beginning (it was 3 i started at) it had glitches, bugs, incosistencies and things "missing." But i persevered, i found workarounds, i found how to approach things from the point of view you would any problem, and once you start to approach something from that perspective, yes, there are times you feel some frustration, but you accomodate the issues as opposed to fighting them and soon after their impact lessens and lessens to the extant you don't even notice them at all.

One thing i have noticed about acid users is that they seem to be the least likely to make out it's a completely bug free app and that the only people having issues are obviously idiots. Even in the latest i've found a few bugs that i could gripe about, but that will do me no favours at all, i'll just do as i have always done with any piece of software, i'll accomodate them and get on with it.
Autosave for example...i haven't used that since....god only knows It was pure hit or miss whether it worked or not for me. i mean, if it did work it erm...worked, but at times you'd be doing something, autosave would kick in and bang...where the f**k did acid go? it completely unloaded itself and obviously EVERYTHING i was doing was lost. Now i just hit save as often as i feel necessary.

I fell in love, and although we still argue now and again, we're sticking together no matter what, through both good and bad times.

[coldmachine]

Stag, 2 clicks puts you in a fully customisable Drum map. Read the help or d/l the manual. Ita all there baby.

[stag]

Stag, 2 clicks puts you in a fully customisable Drum map. Read the help or d/l the manual. Ita all there baby.

One thing i liked on ACID, was the fact, on version 2 at least, of going on without ever caring to look at the manual... i guess this times are over.
before installing, i'll read the manual... i just read the release notes of ACID, my expectations are growing to the point of thinking that perhaps it's the only thing i'll ever need.

[Dunbar]

My friends used to swear by Acid, i used to just swear at it. The new specs look good - it finally looks like a proper sequencer - i look forward to checking the demo out.

[lavoll]

from my experience with acid 6, it seems like I will do mosy of my composing for film in that app from now on.. but I think i still will do recording and mixing type of work in Sonar instead.

[funkychickendance]

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

[G-Ro124]

THIS MIDI EDITING IS f**king AMAZING