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Subject:Newbie ??????s Posted by: anon Date:4/25/2002 3:18:01 PM I've been playing around with Acid Music 3 for the past three months and I have encountered a few problems that I have been unable to fix through my own means. #1. The time counter goes out on me after only a few minutes if I'm using the Time setting. If I change it to Time & Frames it will go for a few more minutes and then it disappears. If I change it to Seconds, it will go for about a half hour before it disappears. After this, none of them will keep time, so I have to find how many seconds are in one measure and then multiply by how many measures are in the project. This is really annoying when I'm trying to arrange and mix multiple tracks to burn onto CD. If there are tempo changes then it's nearly impossible to get an accurate time estimate. I end up having to break out a stop-watch to keep time. #2. Sometimes when I play back a project, it will just stop at a certain point in the middle of it. And then I'll try to replay it again and it stops at the same point again. The only way I have been able to fix this is to Save, Exit, and reopen the project and then it plays back fine. #3. My third problem has been happening with a greater and greater frequency. Out of nowhere my project will change views so it condenses down, so the whole project is viewable on that one screen. Again, I have to Save, Exit and then reopen the project and it goes back to normal. I've tried playing with the View menu in the toolbar, but nothing works except closing and reopening. I'm running an out of the box Gateway with Win98, 256MB, 20GB and the stock soundblaster card. Is it the program, the computer, or me? Oh yeah, one more thing. I'm having serious troubles getting my volume levels right. If a project I'm doing has a decent amount of loops in it, I have to set the master levels to close to -20db to avoid clipping when I burn onto CD. The thing is when I do this, the volume is way too low and only clearly audible when played back at near full volume on my stereo, in my car, walkman, etc... Thanks for any help
Subject:RE: Newbie ??????s Reply by: Chienworks Date:4/25/2002 3:40:41 PM I haven't seen #2 or #3, but i'll ditto your #1. I seem to get to about 2:30 or so and it just stops running every time.
Subject:RE: Newbie ??????s Reply by: Iacobus Date:4/26/2002 2:04:09 PM Have you tried updating your video card and/or soundcard drivers (for all three problems)? Couldn't hurt to check out. Do you also have the same video card/soundcard as Chienworks? I've tried replicating this problem and haven't had any "success". Ah, mixing. You can try to tweak the individual volumes of the tracks as well as panning so that it gets everything just right in the mix. (Maybe adding some EQ to the individual tracks will certainly help out.) Also think of all the instrumentation on a 3D plane. You'll want to try and make sure that the instruments don't occupy the same space along this plane frequency-wise and stereo image-wise, as any mix that has all the tracks dead center and along the same frequency will not only usually clip but also make the mix sound too cluttered and messy. If you're having problems with individual volumes, consider using volume envelopes or event envelopes during a passage, or cut the event out altogether. Iacobus

I've been playing around with Acid Music 3 for the past three months and I have encountered a few problems that I have been unable to fix through my own means.

#1. The time counter goes out on me after only a few minutes if I'm using the Time setting. If I change it to Time & Frames it will go for a few more minutes and then it disappears. If I change it to Seconds, it will go for about a half hour before it disappears. After this, none of them will keep time, so I have to find how many seconds are in one measure and then multiply by how many measures are in the project. This is really annoying when I'm trying to arrange and mix multiple tracks to burn onto CD. If there are tempo changes then it's nearly impossible to get an accurate time estimate. I end up having to break out a stop-watch to keep time.

#2. Sometimes when I play back a project, it will just stop at a certain point in the middle of it. And then I'll try to replay it again and it stops at the same point again. The only way I have been able to fix this is to Save, Exit, and reopen the project and then it plays back fine.

#3. My third problem has been happening with a greater and greater frequency. Out of nowhere my project will change views so it condenses down, so the whole project is viewable on that one screen. Again, I have to Save, Exit and then reopen the project and it goes back to normal. I've tried playing with the View menu in the toolbar, but nothing works except closing and reopening.

I'm running an out of the box Gateway with Win98, 256MB, 20GB and the stock soundblaster card. Is it the program, the computer, or me?

Oh yeah, one more thing. I'm having serious troubles getting my volume levels right. If a project I'm doing has a decent amount of loops in it, I have to set the master levels to close to -20db to avoid clipping when I burn onto CD. The thing is when I do this, the volume is way too low and only clearly audible when played back at near full volume on my stereo, in my car, walkman, etc...

Thanks for any help