Little bug/suggestion/question list -ACID Product Family

Subject:Little bug/suggestion/question list Posted by: ibliss Date:8/23/2002 5:52:31 PM Hey all, been playing with the Acid 4 Demo - largely impressed. Here's a few bugs that appear on my system. I know some have been listed before, but it doesn't hurt to confirm that they are happening on another system, does it? BTW, should bug reports be posted using the product suggestion section...? (all of the following was done using the supplied demo track) 1) When playing back the track, undo/re-doing causes a momentary pause in playback, and you can see the time display briefly reset to zero in the period of silence. This is not so much a bug, but it is irritating. 2) with the demo playing, do the following: a) mute all three DLS synth BUSSES. b) solo one of the DLS busses c) un-solo the DLS d) un-mute the other DLS busses - they don't unmute (you have to hit Solo button twice on the busses stuck in mute mode) [and I though you only got sticky mute buttons on hardware mixers!:) On the subject of soloing - it doesn't work properly. The point of soloing (as I'm sure you all know) is primarily to hear a single source. Soloing a DLS synth buss doesn't mute the audio tracks. Now, I realise you can solo the MIDI track that is feeding the DLS synth to hear it in isolation, but given that you can have muliple MIDI tracks feeding a single DLS, the DLS buss solo should (IMO) work as a normal solo. Please ask questions if this doesn't make sense :) This is also important for setting up plugin FX on the DLS synths. 3) Open up MIDI or Audio in the chopper, or open up a Track Properties box for and audio track. Click on one of the time selection boxes as if you were going to type in a new value. Hit return, or click outside of the box and Acid crashes. 4) It is a personal gripe that when a track/buss is muted, it's plugins are hidden from view (this is the same in Vegas). Also if another track is solo'd, the remaining tracks have their plugs hidden. Can you explain the reasoning behind this to me? 5) There seems to be no way to adjust all of the 5.1 faders at the same time. I know that you can use the Surround Master track with a Volume envelope, but I would have thought there would be a way to adjust the faders together directly. 6) Can we not have plug-ins on the 5.1 bus?? :( Thinking in terms of limiting/comps/eq. 7) Plugin controls that are automated move when the project is playing back, but the surround pans do not. I'm not talking about the little panners in the track view, but the main surround pan window. 8) Automation - please could we have touch automation in the future. Vector Automation is a good thing, but it's nice to click and drag a plugin control and have it recorded. Ok, I'm done for now. Mike K System tested on: Windows ME, 256MB ram, AthlonXP 1700, ECSmobo, M-Audio Dio2448 (Not AISO drivers).

Hey all, been playing with the Acid 4 Demo - largely impressed. Here's a few bugs that appear on my system. I know some have been listed before, but it doesn't hurt to confirm that they are happening on another system, does it? BTW, should bug reports be posted using the product suggestion section...?

(all of the following was done using the supplied demo track)
1) When playing back the track, undo/re-doing causes a momentary pause in playback, and you can see the time display briefly reset to zero in the period of silence. This is not so much a bug, but it is irritating.

2) with the demo playing, do the following:

a) mute all three DLS synth BUSSES.
b) solo one of the DLS busses
c) un-solo the DLS
d) un-mute the other DLS busses - they don't unmute (you have to hit Solo button twice on the busses stuck in mute mode) [and I though you only got sticky mute buttons on hardware mixers!:)

On the subject of soloing - it doesn't work properly. The point of soloing (as I'm sure you all know) is primarily to hear a single source. Soloing a DLS synth buss doesn't mute the audio tracks. Now, I realise you can solo the MIDI track that is feeding the DLS synth to hear it in isolation, but given that you can have muliple MIDI tracks feeding a single DLS, the DLS buss solo should (IMO) work as a normal solo.
Please ask questions if this doesn't make sense :)
This is also important for setting up plugin FX on the DLS synths.

3) Open up MIDI or Audio in the chopper, or open up a Track Properties box for and audio track. Click on one of the time selection boxes as if you were going to type in a new value. Hit return, or click outside of the box and Acid crashes.

4) It is a personal gripe that when a track/buss is muted, it's plugins are hidden from view (this is the same in Vegas). Also if another track is solo'd, the remaining tracks have their plugs hidden. Can you explain the reasoning behind this to me?

5) There seems to be no way to adjust all of the 5.1 faders at the same time. I know that you can use the Surround Master track with a Volume envelope, but I would have thought there would be a way to adjust the faders together directly.

6) Can we not have plug-ins on the 5.1 bus?? :( Thinking in terms of limiting/comps/eq.

7) Plugin controls that are automated move when the project is playing back, but the surround pans do not. I'm not talking about the little panners in the track view, but the main surround pan window.

8) Automation - please could we have touch automation in the future. Vector Automation is a good thing, but it's nice to click and drag a plugin control and have it recorded.

Ok, I'm done for now.

Mike K
System tested on: Windows ME, 256MB ram, AthlonXP 1700, ECSmobo, M-Audio Dio2448 (Not AISO drivers).