RE: ReWire and ACID 4.0 -ACID Product Family - MAGIX Community Forums Archive

Subject:RE: ReWire and ACID 4.0 Posted by: stakeoutstudios Date:8/4/2002 2:23:02 AM I can can see myself using rewire in the following context: I've been recording a rock band, using Vegas, multitracking. Suddenly, they want a a Hammond, piano or programmed drums in the mix. Vegas doesn't have midi features, but... I load up ACID, and rewire hooks the two programs up automatically. I just work in ACID, the time signature, song position, everything is instantly recognised. Vegas is in perfect sync. I can make use of ACIDs new virtual instruments, and MIDI editing. I can hook up a sampler to ACID, such as Halion or Gigastudio, which really extends creative possiblilities. and to top it all, get nice low latencies on my soundcard for a realtime snappy response from virtual instruments, because I can use the ASIO drivers that have had tonnes of R & D spent on them to make them the best drivers for the soundcard! I can then jump back into Vegas and tweak a few things coming back in from ACID, until they fit in the mix perfectly. I can then render from Vegas, and both programs work together to render one final master file. Nice. Of course it does put a strain on the computer... but think about running samples on a seperate hard drive and perhaps even dual processors. With any luck there will be a card like the UAD-1 that supports directX so we can take a lot of plugins off the host CPU and onto a dedicated hardware card. I am aware that this may take a while for Sonic Foundry to implement, but fair enough. They've done a hell of a lot of work on this release, and it's gonna be a great program to create with. If they tried to implement everything at once, they wouldn't have the time to think about how BEST to implement each feature. The priority was clearly to create a program that when used stand alone, is amazing. Hooking it up will be complicated, but I'm sure Sonic Foundry will do it in the BEST way. The thing I love about Sonic Foundry is that when a new software release comes out, everything is there, functioning, and easy to use. Any bugs are squashed very quickly. Most of the time it's so intuitive, features just pop out at you as you're working. I am very happy with this release of ACID, and I am sure with all the discussion of ReWire, it will appear in a later software release. Sonic Foundry do listen to their customers! :o) Jason
Subject:RE: ReWire and ACID 4.0 Reply by: Maruuk Date:8/4/2002 1:41:16 PM Jason--Very astute treatise on the huge benefits of ReWire. Yep, they'll be all over it before the Thanksgiving sales weekend.

I can can see myself using rewire in the following context:

I've been recording a rock band, using Vegas, multitracking. Suddenly, they want a a Hammond, piano or programmed drums in the mix.

Vegas doesn't have midi features, but... I load up ACID, and rewire hooks the two programs up automatically. I just work in ACID, the time signature, song position, everything is instantly recognised. Vegas is in perfect sync. I can make use of ACIDs new virtual instruments, and MIDI editing. I can hook up a sampler to ACID, such as Halion or Gigastudio, which really extends creative possiblilities.

and to top it all, get nice low latencies on my soundcard for a realtime snappy response from virtual instruments, because I can use the ASIO drivers that have had tonnes of R & D spent on them to make them the best drivers for the soundcard!

I can then jump back into Vegas and tweak a few things coming back in from ACID, until they fit in the mix perfectly.

I can then render from Vegas, and both programs work together to render one final master file.

Nice.

Of course it does put a strain on the computer... but think about running samples on a seperate hard drive and perhaps even dual processors. With any luck there will be a card like the UAD-1 that supports directX so we can take a lot of plugins off the host CPU and onto a dedicated hardware card.

I am aware that this may take a while for Sonic Foundry to implement, but fair enough. They've done a hell of a lot of work on this release, and it's gonna be a great program to create with. If they tried to implement everything at once, they wouldn't have the time to think about how BEST to implement each feature. The priority was clearly to create a program that when used stand alone, is amazing. Hooking it up will be complicated, but I'm sure Sonic Foundry will do it in the BEST way.

The thing I love about Sonic Foundry is that when a new software release comes out, everything is there, functioning, and easy to use. Any bugs are squashed very quickly. Most of the time it's so intuitive, features just pop out at you as you're working.

I am very happy with this release of ACID, and I am sure with all the discussion of ReWire, it will appear in a later software release. Sonic Foundry do listen to their customers! :o)

Jason