ACID Pro 6 won't start

[rbet]

Yeah, so I downloaded the demo because I had nothing better to do. And it quits at startup in the middle of scanning for VST stuff. What to do? Uninstall?

[rbet]

Weird... I did nothing different and it started just fine.

[mahtazz]

Please, clear your VST folder and try.

[Cabinfever]

I haven't run v6 but from all reports it remains *very* sensitive to some VSTis - usually the more obscure VSTis, presumably because they weren't beta tested.

[pettinhouse]

hi,
there is a vst crashing when you start ACID.
Save your vst for a moment in another folder then clear your vst folder and start again Acid.
Ciao

Andrea Pettinao

[Colonel Flashback]

actually there are LOTS of vsts crashing Acid...

[lavoll]

none of mine are crashing acid.. which ones do?

[arke]

the z3ta+ demo screwed it up for me.

[grymmjack]

It's the same with Soundforge 8 and there is no smart 'disable' either when it detects a faulty plug it just merrily crashes without adding it to a skip-next-time list. Additionally in SF8 you can't even CHANGE the VST path! It just uses whatever happens to be in the registry and too bad if you want to use your VST's already configured/installed with that path but still want to use SF8 apparently it's not possible. And if it was possible you would obviously think they'd let you CHANGE the most basic thing that would stop the program from launching correctly.

Hopefully the documentation for ACID tells you how to look at a log file and add the offending plugs (which aren't offending in other hosts, hrmmm..) to your own list. Hopefully it logs it somewhere..

What a frustrating joke. This is so basic in VST world, you would think that there are morons at work at Sony (and I wouldn't be surprised). Reaper, the free beta host does this (and very well), T2 does it, FLstudio does it, pretty sure the VST adapter for cakewalk does it.. Sony, a multinational company with millions of dollars behind it and a diverse portfolio of product offerings in almost every important sector in technology, does not.

So instead of taking measures to make your life easier, Sony chose to make your life harder -- YOU move YOUR plugins or OUR program wont start. Oh wait, ahahah, but you can't move the directory you will have to actually move the files on the filesystem. I HOPE ACID doesn't make this same mistake as SF8! What a joke.

You call this professional development? The same bitch goes double for Adobe Audition 2. Which also atleast has an ignore list but still crashes like crazy. T2 never once crashed on scanning plugs, nor FLstudio. And these companies are smaller and less powerful. Sony/Adobe are "world-class" development teams and they can't evade the one thing that is going to lose them sales.

Consider if someone is new and doesn't know about KVR or anything, and the DEMO program crashes, they are going to be like "oh well," and in the process there goes the sale... It cannot possibly be that difficult either if other younger developers products are doing it correctly.

Get with it dumbasses. And yes I am pissed because I own SF6 and SF8 demo cannot load and I have very minimal plugins. I am pissed because I own Cooledit and never upgraded to audition (why bother), and had hopes for Audition 2, but that's a whole different story. The point of this rant is these companies have the funding and backing to do the right things and they do not do the right thing. I'm not ever going to bother with another Sony software -- wtf do you need to install a SQL server on my box idiots? That's not necessary, and it's a pain to uninstall if you can ever manage to do it.

I sincerely hope though for ACID fans, that this improves or has improved from the fiasco of SF8

[riley4reason]

some fixes here.. just a thread away.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 69#1782469