Hi Friends!
I've just completed setting up my state-of-the-art editing suite for my FS7 UHD footage editing in Vegas Pro 13 (by far the best NLE out there) and color grading in Resolve. My new PC specs I will update right after having finished typing this post :-). Being (due to my health condition) just a "serious hobbyist" now (which means most of my final production is intended for my own use), I'm planning to use my MIDI keyboard for creating music score tracks for my movies - so I reinstalled long unused and almost forgotten DAW applications I have: the Ableton Live and SCS Acid Music studio 8. And to my dismay, I found that the dated 32-bit technology of the "Acid lite" application prevents it from being installed properly on my current PC! I realize this is not the Acid forum, but decided to post here anyway as this forum has been so helpful for me for so many years... So here it goes:
My PC has an SSD drive as the system/application drive, plus 2 sets of WD Black (fast though noisy:-( ) HDDs: RAID 0 Volume 1 with 2x 3TB HDDs (working as the target drive for my renders), plus another RAID 0 Volume 2 with 3x 3TB HDDs (working as the source drive with my huge FS7 footage files. BTW, I found out a 2x HHDs RAID 0 is still to slow for even a single track when it contains 4K 500 Mbs 10 bit 4:2:2 XAVC-I clips at 50p; my PC is only able to play them back at some 35 fps in VP at Full/Best resolution settings; only after adding a 3rd HDD to the said RAID 0 a single track with such clips reaches almost full 50 fps now).
And now back to my problem with Acid Music Studio 8: when I try to configure its folders my usual way (program on the system C: drive, but Temporary and Project Files on one of my stripped volumes), it displays a silly message at launch that my scratch drive is "running out of free space" (while it has some 6 TB of free space actually). The message I could live with - but Acid refuses to load my zipped projects saying it cannot unzip them due to low space in the Temporary folder!
Now - my theory is that this old 32-bit application gets confused by the huge sizes of my RAID 0 volumes, and totally fails in interpreting their actual size. Do you guys think anything can be done about it?
There also is a possibility that some BIOS tweaking could help - but my Asus X99-Pro MoBo's BIOS is so convoluted I'm reluctant to try as I've already managed to spoil my entire configuration playing with it (losing both RAID volumes and rendering my SSD system drive un-bootable). So - unless I am 100% positive which BIOS parameter to change - I'll not even try again :(. Could someone help with that, too?
Of course I realize it's SCS Support who is supposed to help me properly install their old Acid application so that it has no problems with my huge drives's capacities, but... well, I prefer to ask you guys on this great forum of us Vegas Pro users.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions; cheers
Piotr
I've just completed setting up my state-of-the-art editing suite for my FS7 UHD footage editing in Vegas Pro 13 (by far the best NLE out there) and color grading in Resolve. My new PC specs I will update right after having finished typing this post :-). Being (due to my health condition) just a "serious hobbyist" now (which means most of my final production is intended for my own use), I'm planning to use my MIDI keyboard for creating music score tracks for my movies - so I reinstalled long unused and almost forgotten DAW applications I have: the Ableton Live and SCS Acid Music studio 8. And to my dismay, I found that the dated 32-bit technology of the "Acid lite" application prevents it from being installed properly on my current PC! I realize this is not the Acid forum, but decided to post here anyway as this forum has been so helpful for me for so many years... So here it goes:
My PC has an SSD drive as the system/application drive, plus 2 sets of WD Black (fast though noisy:-( ) HDDs: RAID 0 Volume 1 with 2x 3TB HDDs (working as the target drive for my renders), plus another RAID 0 Volume 2 with 3x 3TB HDDs (working as the source drive with my huge FS7 footage files. BTW, I found out a 2x HHDs RAID 0 is still to slow for even a single track when it contains 4K 500 Mbs 10 bit 4:2:2 XAVC-I clips at 50p; my PC is only able to play them back at some 35 fps in VP at Full/Best resolution settings; only after adding a 3rd HDD to the said RAID 0 a single track with such clips reaches almost full 50 fps now).
And now back to my problem with Acid Music Studio 8: when I try to configure its folders my usual way (program on the system C: drive, but Temporary and Project Files on one of my stripped volumes), it displays a silly message at launch that my scratch drive is "running out of free space" (while it has some 6 TB of free space actually). The message I could live with - but Acid refuses to load my zipped projects saying it cannot unzip them due to low space in the Temporary folder!
Now - my theory is that this old 32-bit application gets confused by the huge sizes of my RAID 0 volumes, and totally fails in interpreting their actual size. Do you guys think anything can be done about it?
There also is a possibility that some BIOS tweaking could help - but my Asus X99-Pro MoBo's BIOS is so convoluted I'm reluctant to try as I've already managed to spoil my entire configuration playing with it (losing both RAID volumes and rendering my SSD system drive un-bootable). So - unless I am 100% positive which BIOS parameter to change - I'll not even try again :(. Could someone help with that, too?
Of course I realize it's SCS Support who is supposed to help me properly install their old Acid application so that it has no problems with my huge drives's capacities, but... well, I prefer to ask you guys on this great forum of us Vegas Pro users.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions; cheers
Piotr