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Posted by lucas ss on Mar-13-2005 23:34:

acid 4.0 for producing??

so i've done some dabbling in producing, and now i want to get serious. i do have acid 4.0, but nobody seems to talk about it here.....it's all about reason, cubase and fl studio. what do you guys think about acid?

like i said, i'm getting serious and i want to use the right prog...

Posted by TXHARP on Mar-13-2005 23:37:

I switched from using Cubase SL to Acid Pro 4 as my main PC DAW. Since then, I have upgraded to version 5. I love Acid's layout. It's so easy to understand and navigate.

Ted

Posted by tonkproject on Mar-13-2005 23:43:

that's a great piece of software...i used ACID for quite a long time but i discover a few bugs in the soft that even SONIC FOUNDRY coudnt give me some answers.i never test 100% the new version made by SONY but i'm sure that it is much improved

Posted by lucas ss on Mar-14-2005 23:57:

yeah, the layout is great, but i'm wondering if it is good enough to publish tracks with (with the assistance of soundforge of course)

Posted by tonkproject on Mar-15-2005 01:12:

of course .... theres a lot of producers that use only acid+sound forge .if people over here speak only about cubase,fl,reason,logic or ableton doesnt mean that acid or any other software are crap.you just need to look at the features and you will see that acctually there isnt such a big difference.

Posted by TXHARP on Mar-15-2005 01:15:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Lucas
yeah, the layout is great, but i'm wondering if it is good enough to publish tracks with (with the assistance of soundforge of course)

Acid Pro is most definately good enough to publish tracks as your DAW. The question is whether or not Acid Pro is the DAW that's suitable for your needs. Some folks like Cubase, others prefer Live; but still some, like me, enjoy Acid Pro. It's more of a preference decision.

Ted

Posted by mef on Mar-15-2005 19:08:

ACID is awesome. All i use

Posted by websley on Mar-16-2005 12:48:

It's easy, the effects are cool and it's perfect for making Jungle, mix sets & Techno

Posted by DJ Twenty on Mar-16-2005 13:13:

I used to use ACID years ago to make wicked little bootlegs (ahh the old days of dropping acapella's over tunes) it was pretty good for that.

How is acid nowadays? does it have support for MIDI instruments and VSTI's? its been years since i used it.

Posted by TXHARP on Mar-16-2005 13:27:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Twenty
How is acid nowadays? does it have support for MIDI instruments and VSTI's? its been years since i used it.

Yes. MIDI recording was included in version 3. It was quite limited, but greatly improved upon in versions 4 and 5. VSTi and DXi support was added in version 4. VST effect support was added in version 5. Prior to version 5, most people used DX effects with Acid Pro.

Ted

Posted by el.maestro on Mar-16-2005 15:01:

I've used Acid extensively for remixes and beat-matching. But when it comes to using your own bass lines, leads, etc, I find myself using other programs for that. As you know, other programs such as P5 can be slaved to Acid. The end product works out nicely.

Posted by DJ Twenty on Mar-18-2005 09:12:

quote:
Originally posted by mef
ACID is awesome. All i use

We still talking about software here? or something else ....

Posted by mef on Mar-18-2005 14:25:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Twenty
We still talking about software here? or something else ....

HAHAHA just spotted that

Posted by Sirocco on Mar-18-2005 18:10:

i only used acid to change the tempo of my samples ..i use it with rewire with cubase sx2

amazing!

Posted by alanzo on Mar-18-2005 18:44:

I used ACID to produce for 3 years.. did some great tracks with it. But I used it in conjunction with a hardware keyboard. So I basically just mixed processed .wav files with it (I processed them in Sound Forge).

Once I started using VSTs a bit more, using ACID wasn't practicle anymore because it is not CPU efficient at all.

Posted by 531.am on Mar-18-2005 23:40:

I still use acid 4.0 for some stuff but not that much. I really like the way acid pro 5.0 looks.

Posted by DJ Twenty on Mar-20-2005 13:18:

Just tried out 5.0 with a bunch of wav samples i like the way it all fits together, will try it out with midi instruments later, im guessing it will fall down in this area....

Posted by pnutz409 on Mar-21-2005 19:17:

quote:
Originally posted by TXHARP
Acid Pro is most definately good enough to publish tracks as your DAW. The question is whether or not Acid Pro is the DAW that's suitable for your needs. Some folks like Cubase, others prefer Live; but still some, like me, enjoy Acid Pro. It's more of a preference decision.

Ted

Does anyone here use Pro Tools?? I purchased the M-Box for my vocal tracks and other live insturments but am totally lost on how to use Pro Tools. I purchased the CSI Starter tutorial and it helped a lot but I was wondering: Is it a good program for trance/breaks/ or any other styles that use a lot of loops? I used to use Acid 5.0 but my cracking days are over heh. Mr. Legit Producer man here.