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Multitracked drums are also a bit of a problem etc.īut when I have to prepare an intro for a gig, or some backing tracks, it is lighting fast. For example first bitwig if I remember correctly didn't even have fade in/outs.įor sure Acid right now is not a program for huge orchestral work. But for me it's still the fastest way to create some things. Of course Acid is behing many DAWs in funcionality. I may be wrong but I'm giving them a chance. I think that Magix is seriuos about going forward with Acid. If it wasn't this way Sony probably would do it 10 years ago. I think it was really a lot of work to make it 64bit. I actually find myself the last days still going for my dear AP7 when making beats and pieces and have made the decision to go and look for the new stuff, creative stuff in other DAW's. I know other DAW's do this by recognize transients and in the end somehow stretch the track altogether to a clean constant tempo.ĭetecting the key of a track/ loop and messing around with loops in new interesting ways should have been implemented after 10 years of looping evolution but no.

Tracks with a constant bpm work fine as always but tracks with drifting bpm is where beatmapper come off grid so to speak.

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I was hoping for a fresh update in Beatmapping mode!Ī organic way of stretching each segment individually right from the start.not manually adjusting them would be great for the workflow:) I totally agree.I was very happy when I found AP8 was on it's way but now after one week.I can't find anything new I can do with the AP8.loops and instruments I already have them. And I can tell you the best program to do it in: Acid 4. It used to be really cool to render a rough mix of a track, port it into Acid, and then using Acid's superior loop browser and synchronization capabilities, build some awesome percussion tracks on top, then export out and back into the project in the DAW (or use rewire for I/O). But Acid still is the best at auditioning loops on the fly, a critical function for building loop based percussion. No other app, including Ableton, makes adding loop based percussion as easy. I bought it for my children as a fun toy to play with.īut there was a time when Acid had pro audio applications. Now it's black and dark gray, like every other audio app these days.Ĭlearly, the business model here is to try and trick people into thinking there's something new here when, under the hood, it's Acid 4 with a few new effects and low budget virtual instruments.ĭon't get me wrong. What is their big new innovation? They changed the color of the UI.

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Now, Magix, a consumer software company that now owns formerly pro software, has bought it. It exactly the same as it was in, at least, ver. You still can't tell it what scale it should be. It still can't pitch shift audio very well.

It still can't accurately detect hit points in non-Acidized audio. It hasn't.Īs far as I can see, Acid's looping technology hasn't been improved in more than 10 years.

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Every time a new version comes out, I run through a series of tests to see if Acid has improved even slightly at rendering audio in sync. Acid will never compete with Logic, Pro Tools, Cubase, or other DAW apps.īut what's really sad, is now, Acid doesn't really even compete with other loop based editors.

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So, they decided to steer Acid away from being a monster loop based app to a full fledged DAW. A breakthrough product that could take recorded audio and synchronize it to any tempo and even change it pitch to fit any key (all within reason).īut then people in offices took over the development of Acid and they didn't have a cussing clue what made the program valuable, special even.

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