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Christal Rasband
Acid Pro 8, 9 and 10 were a disaster and I had removed them all some time ago from my system except for version 7. Since I simply cannot work in any other DAW as well as Acid Pro, version 7 has been working without a hitch. I was able to switch many plugins back to 32 bit. Final mixing gets done in another DAW but it helps. I just wish I had never upgraded. I could have used that money for something else.
So, for new potential users, if you still have an older version, stick to it until Magix seriously fixes Acid Pro in the next update (not sure if there even will be an update). This is a great DAW, Magix. You can still make good money off of it, at least interact with the current loyal users and tell us something to look forward to.
I couldn't disagree more. AP7 was horrendous for me, primarily because it wasn't 64bit. Constant crashes on anything but the smallest projects. It's great it is working for your projects, but it really didn't for me. The last project I worked on was 6 hours long, and would crash on opening most of the time. And in the end had to be split in to 4 separate projects and then bring together 4 separately rendered layers. It was a genuine nightmare. The First 64bit version magix released was able to open and edit a combined project without issue.
I was always more of a fan of Vegas Pro over Acid Pro where my hope after audio was pretty much done being at the forefront of Vegas Pro's development Acid would have swiftly packed all the audio feature of Vegas into it and then continue to grow within the DAW development market. Aside from the troubles which are present in Acid, it's just been a major disappointment to me that Acid never really even caught up to Vegas Pro's audio features.
It actually throws me off quite a bit since I do more audio work in Vegas Pro when I go to use Acid Pro. Things like Vegas has way more audio editing capabilities than Acid and even what should be simple things like when I right click on an audio event and select "switches" and only see "Lock and Mute" available in Acid where in Vegas you not only have Lock and mute, but Loop, Invert Phase, and Normalize. Then the additional channel switches when working with Stereo/Mono events which are in Vegas of "Both, Left only, Right only, Combine, and Swap".
I've made my decision where I'm moving to Reaper. Initially, I really didn't like Reaper's user interface but since then I've invested a lot of efforts into getting to know it's customization possibilities. I've spent a good part of the last month creating a Vegas/Acid theme in Reaper where I feel once I get done, it will be the Vegas Pro + Acid Pro I've been wishing for since AP6 and on top of that, it runs very smooth and everything just works.
The ironic thing is that by the time I'm finished customizing Reaper, it will functionally be much closer to Vegas Pro than Acid Pro. Justin Frankel the developer of Reaper was originally a Vegas Pro user, where he seemed to make sure Reaper got all the features of Vegas Pro and a whole lot more. He's recently added Video editing capabilities to Reaper. I'm anticipating it won't be long before I'm ditching Vegas as well on that front.
I'm still trying to get comfortable with Reaper's loop sequencing workflow compared to Acid's. It seems very similar but some things throw me off. I don't do loop sequencing often, so if I don't get comfortable with Reaper's method, I'll just keep Acid Pro around for that purpose and Rewire it to Reaper just to use Acid's loop sequencing. No need for me to update Acid any longer as long as it runs on the current OS I'm using.
You may be interested in following my developments of a Vegas/Acid Pro Reaper theme and customization discussion thread. Would love to hear from others more familiar with Acid to make sure I include all the good stuff. ?
Thank you, RednRoll for the recommendation. Will look into that. There are 3 things that are still un-matched and I am not sure why no other DAW has them implemented yet. Pick/Paint, Browser on the bottom and double clicking a sound which creates a track automatically. Hoping that Reaper will have similar if not same. I have never used that DAW but lets see. I still have my hopes that Acid will be continued and Magix is taking forever because maybe, just maybe it is being worked on. Thank you, kind sir.
Yes, the pick and paint is definitely on my list and is the the thing I like most when working with loops in Acid. I haven't tried working with loops much in Reaper but what I noticed when I did, was that you can click on an audio event in the track view and when you do that, it becomes your picked paint option, as if you just dipped your paint brush into a can of paint. Then when you place your mouse anywhere in an empty track view area, the mouse automatically turns into a pencil just like Acid and then you paint away. You just need to remember which can you last dipped your paint brush into...LOL!
Therefore, Reaper is actually better in this area IMHO since it's not locked into Acid's one loop per track paradigm but if you prefer that one loop per track then no reason you can't just click on one of the events in the same track and paint away later down the timeline on that same track.
I actually prefer the double click on file in explorer Acid/Vegas preference loads the file into the trimmer in Vegas or chopper in Acid but since Reaper has the trimmer/chopper built right into the explorer view it eliminates the need for that extra step and opens up the door for the behavior you like. So I'll be sure to add that, thanks for the suggestion.
BTW, Reaper has a non expiring demo mode where I believe the only limitation in demo is that it gives you a nag screen reminding you to purchase a license on launch. So you can try out my theme as I progress at no cost. A personal use license is $60 and can be installed on as many PCs as you want, to get rid of that nag screen. You're just not suppose to run more than 2 instances at a time with personal license but it's more of an honor system license system where many pay it to help fund the continuous development. Commercial license is $260 which is intended for Pro recording Studio houses where multiple installs with multiple people will be running the program. No difference in functionality in any of the demo, personal or commercial licenses.
I'll also add, what originally threw me off when trying to do pick and paint in Reaper was I dragged and dropped an Acid loop from the explorer to a track. Then clicked on an empty area in that track. The cursor pencil tool was displayed, so I then went to paint away but it kept drawing empty audio events and it was starting to frustrate me. However, now that I better understand how it works, I guess that makes total sense. Since I clicked my mouse on an empty area in the track view, that now meant my paint brush pencil tool was now empty also. I actually, can see how that can be more useful. In Vegas and Acid there's an insert empty audio event for punch in recording purposes which Reaper has also, but you can also not even have go to the menus and use the pencil tool instead to draw in that empty event. It makes total sense and once you get more comfortable it actually seems like a better way to do things.
Hey Red, once again, thank you for your suggestions. I tried Reaper and just couldn't get used to it. It seems as if they tried copying what Acid does but it still doesn't pull it off for me. I tried the customization but I guess I am really fluid with the whole "double click a sound, and just start painting away on the arrangment without any other clicking/dragging business". I am the rare breed who never got used to the Drag n Drop stuff. Many times I wish I was never introduced to Acid Pro in the first place. I used it for way too long that I just don't like to work in any other environment. In reaper, the grid doesn't change automatically when zoomed in or out. The pencil tool does sort of work but not quite like Acid so I couldn't use it. I just gave up after that.
And it is simply bad luck that acid pro was thrown around within developers who just don't care about it enough. I have S1, Live and Cubase, but they all work under the same principal. Oh well, I guess I will continue using the version that works best for me and maybe someone other than Magix will take over and actually do something with it. But thanks again.
I understand how you feel. I've been using Acid and Vegas since each of their v1.0 initial releases. Vegas even before 1.0 since I was on the initial Vegas beta team. As I stated, keep an eye on my thread....it's currently a work in progress. I'm nowhere even close to being done making changes. That's the great thing about Reaper. If it doesn't do what you want, most everything can be customized. Some of those customizations take more effort than others. As outlined in my discussion, I'm putting in those efforts so others like us won't have to....but you are also welcome to wait and keep complaining on these forums about Acid and see which option ends up being more productive for you. ;)
I actually returned to the forum to read your posts as yours were the only ones interesting to read. I got tired of the ones who didn't actually have a solution but came here to either argue or to aggrevate the "whats left" of the other users. Just like the guy replying to me initially in this post. I mean its a dead product and these people would come here to push away a small clientele Magix has left.
Anyway, I continue to read your posts. Maybe you will crack the code and make Reaper behave just like Acid. If I can find a DAW that does these 3 things in exact same way as Acid, Browser on the bottom, double click a sound and it creates an empty track and you can paint anywhere in the arrangement, I would burn my original Acid Pro CD and say goodbye forever. I would even join you and spread the word that Acid Pro can now be buried.
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