Success with Syncing ACID Pro 3.0 with Cakewalk Pro Audio 8.0 using the VMR -ACID Product Family

Subject:Success with Syncing ACID Pro 3.0 with Cakewalk Pro Audio 8.0 using the VMR Posted by: buffalosnout Date:7/19/2002 1:20:08 PM After a lot of trial and error and frustration, I have finally got ACID and Cakewalk to sync up. Perhaps this procedure will work with other MIDI sequencers, too. To sync Cakewalk Pro 8.0 with ACID Pro 3.0g In Cakewalk: Load a song in Cakewalk. Set the Tools Project Option (Clock) in Cakewalk to SMPTE 30 frames non-drop. You will have to set this Project setting for each different song that you want to sync with ACID. Be sure the Sonic Foundry VMR is selected as an “input device,” in the Tools “MIDI Devices” menu of Cakewalk. In Acid: Install the Sonic Foundry Virtual MIDI Router in your operating system (Windows 2000, for example). Select Generate MIDI Timecode, not MIDI Clock, as your . Use the VMR (Virtual MIDI Router)as the Timecode generator, as set in the “Sync” preferences area. Also select SMPTE 30 frames non-drop. Make sure that none of the MIDI ports used by Cakewalk are activated (selected) inside the MIDI Preferences of ACID. If they are, you will get an error message that a selected device is being used by another program. Go to Cakewalk hit rewind and play. You’ll get a message about waiting for a sync signal. Go to ACID. Rewind and hit play. Enjoy. You now have LOTS more musical power than before.

After a lot of trial and error and frustration, I have finally got ACID and Cakewalk to sync up. Perhaps this procedure will work with other MIDI sequencers, too.

To sync Cakewalk Pro 8.0 with ACID Pro 3.0g

In Cakewalk: Load a song in Cakewalk. Set the Tools Project Option (Clock) in Cakewalk to SMPTE 30 frames non-drop. You will have to set this Project setting for each different song that you want to sync with ACID. Be sure the Sonic Foundry VMR is selected as an “input device,” in the Tools “MIDI Devices” menu of Cakewalk.

In Acid: Install the Sonic Foundry Virtual MIDI Router in your operating system (Windows 2000, for example). Select Generate MIDI Timecode, not MIDI Clock, as your . Use the VMR (Virtual MIDI Router)as the Timecode generator, as set in the “Sync” preferences area. Also select SMPTE 30 frames non-drop. Make sure that none of the MIDI ports used by Cakewalk are activated (selected) inside the MIDI Preferences of ACID. If they are, you will get an error message that a selected device is being used by another program.

Go to Cakewalk hit rewind and play. You’ll get a message about waiting for a sync signal.

Go to ACID. Rewind and hit play. Enjoy. You now have LOTS more musical power than before.