Sony Vegas Pro and Acid Pro 7

Dexcon wrote on 10/26/2013, 6:19 AM

G'day all
I am very impressed by the flexibility in editing audio - including 5.1 - on Vegas Pro, but I am wondering if Acid Pro 7 provides any extra capabilities over and above Vegas Pro that would make Acid Pro a good additional tool to have for use in creating audio tracks for Vegas Pro.
I know that Acid Pro allows for music loop creation, but that is not essential for me (my music abilities having not advanced since really bad chopsticks on the family piano many decades ago).
But in the realm of 5.1 camera audio / FX / bg music / VO, is there something that Acid Pro can provide that Vegas Pro doesn't?
Any advice from the vast experience in VP-land will be most appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers

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rraud wrote on 10/26/2013, 11:39 AM

IMO, If you're not doing music production loops and such, Acid would not get much use. OTOH, Sound Forge Pro IS an ideal companion to Vegas and essential to me and many other pro sound Vegas users. SpectraLayers Pro is worth consideration as well for 'audio surgery'

Chienworks wrote on 10/26/2013, 8:39 PM

Agreed.

My background is entirely acoustic music production (not a musician myself). For this kind of work ACID is actually less useful than Vegas. All the looping tools get in the way more than they help. Sound Forge is the really useful companion.

Of course, for those in the midi/electronic/looping music field, Vegas probably seems like a joke while ACID is a dream tool.

jmpatrick wrote on 10/27/2013, 8:09 AM

I've been pondering this lately as well. Strictly for audio, do I give up anything switching from Vegas Pro to Acid Pro?

rraud wrote on 10/27/2013, 12:07 PM

do I give up anything switching from Vegas Pro to Acid Pro?
Depends on your workflow. Download the Acid demo and try it out..
As your long as you have Vegas already, your not really 'giving up' anything. Both apps can co-exist on the same machine without issue.. if fact .. different versions of the same SCS software co-exist w/o issue.

jmpatrick wrote on 10/28/2013, 11:59 AM

I don't want to use 2 apps. I want Vegas with MIDI. I can't have that, so I'm wondering if switching over to just Acid will give me all the audio goodness that Vegas does.

Geoff_Wood wrote on 10/29/2013, 5:45 PM

Sorry, it won't. And you'll pretty quickly notice all the nice little touches in Vegas that are absent in Acid (especially, for me, the little event alignment aids).

I've recently been moving projects from Vegas to Acid in order to add VSTi tracks. Once that is done I render those tracks and get back into Vegas asap !

Yes, wish it wasn't necessary. A simple free-form (not beatmapped etc) VSTi record/play function in V would be great. Especially considering Acid appears to have been essentially abandoned since 5 years ago....

geoff

Dexcon wrote on 11/2/2013, 6:05 AM

Thank you all for your advice and comments - it was very helpful and helped me decide to stick with Vegas for audio mixing.
I should have mentioned in my original post that I also use SF Pro (as some posts have recommended). I agree with you completely that it is a great addition to have. I use it to record and then clean up / EQ / etc voice overs before importing them into VP.
I've had some success with SpectraLayers, but I've got a long way to go before getting proficient with it.
Thanks again.
Cheers