Acid

OhMyGosh wrote on 1/5/2008, 9:26 PM
I was bored the other night, and opened up the Acid XPress 5.0 program to see if it might be something fun to work with. It looked very limited as before with previous versions, and was pretty much of a sales pitch for an upgrade. I wanted to play with the 'Soft Synth Properties' to see what it does. Apparently, it only works with midi files? So, I tried to render my mp3 file to midi, but didn't see that it was possible, so I then went to VMS8P, and I didn't see where I could do it there either. Don't know much about audio, so figured that I must need to know something more than I do :/ Is there really that much more that I can do in it, than in Vegas?

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Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/5/2008, 10:11 PM
Acid is great for working with 'loops' to make your own compositions. Acid 5 express (free) is limited to 10 tracks (while VMS only has 4), and most audio effects are disabled (not so in VMS). So basically, if you're happy with 4 audio tracks, you can do a lot more in Vegas than in Acid express.
As for midi files, it's the other way round, you can load a midi file in Acid express and turn it into a wma file.
OhMyGosh wrote on 1/6/2008, 12:02 AM
Thank you Ivan for the info :) The one thing I must still be confused about is, it seems Acid wants to work with midi files? If I have mp3 files, how do I convert the mp3 files to midi to keep Acid happy? Thanks again. Cin
Ivan Lietaert wrote on 1/6/2008, 12:56 AM
That's weird... In acid's explorer, I can drag midi, mp3 or wma or wav files to the audio tracks.
Chienworks wrote on 1/6/2008, 4:38 AM
A midi file is a collection of note specifications, more like a file of sheet music than a recording. You can't really go from audio to midi, though you can have a midi player convert midi to audio and record that to a .mp3 file.

ACID works very well with all sorts of audio files as well as with midi. The softsynths are what ACID uses to convert midi into audio. Since mp3 (or wav or whatever) are already audio then the softsynths aren't something that can be used with them. Just drag the audio files onto ACID's timeline and paint them where you want them to play.
OhMyGosh wrote on 1/6/2008, 9:36 AM
Thanks Ivan and Kelly for the help and info. Guess you have to be smarter than the software, and I seem to struggle with that :O Oh well, all I can do is keep trying. Thanks again for the help. Cin