Subject:Acid Utilities

Posted by: DataCowboy

Date:6/26/2000 10:43:00 PM

Hi everyone,

I've recently taken the time to put a real user interface
on a couple of utility apps I developed for Freeside's
internal use - a Batch Acidizer for wavefiles and an
experimental MIDI "Extractor". I've been using the current
build for about two weeks, and figured its time to put out
a public beta.

You can find it at www.thefreeside.com/utilities

And yes, it's freeware!

Hex
Freeside
www.thefreeside.com

Subject:Great Stuff...a must-have for all ACID users!

Reply by: ATP

Date:6/27/2000 11:11:00 AM

Yeehaw!

Great stuff, Chris! I've been looking for an "Batch Acidifier" ever
since i got the program. Thumbs up!

The MIDI converter sounds great too (haven't tried it yet). I suspect
you can use this to easily convert your ACID song to (for example)
Cubase. If this is the case I'm in heaven! ;)

Also, good UI. Orderly, easy and very user friendly.

Thank you very, very much!
ATP

Chris Haisty wrote:
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I've recently taken the time to put a real user interface
>>on a couple of utility apps I developed for Freeside's
>>internal use - a Batch Acidizer for wavefiles and an
>>experimental MIDI "Extractor". I've been using the current
>>build for about two weeks, and figured its time to put out
>>a public beta.
>>
>>You can find it at www.thefreeside.com/utilities
>>
>>And yes, it's freeware!
>>
>>Hex
>>Freeside
>>www.thefreeside.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

Subject:Re: Acid Utilities

Reply by: MacMoney

Date:6/28/2000 8:08:00 AM

Hi Chris,
Great Job!!!,I've only had it a day now and im using it on a one shot
drum collection CD-Rom.The UI is very clean and seem to keep in the
Acid platform very easy to use. I've only used the Acid batch, but I
like it very much. This is something EVERY Acid user needs. Please
let me know when there are updates!

George Ware
Mac Money Studio


Chris Haisty wrote:
>>Hi everyone,
>>
>>I've recently taken the time to put a real user interface
>>on a couple of utility apps I developed for Freeside's
>>internal use - a Batch Acidizer for wavefiles and an
>>experimental MIDI "Extractor". I've been using the current
>>build for about two weeks, and figured its time to put out
>>a public beta.
>>
>>You can find it at www.thefreeside.com/utilities
>>
>>And yes, it's freeware!
>>
>>Hex
>>Freeside
>>www.thefreeside.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

Subject:Re: Acid Utilities

Reply by: DataCowboy

Date:7/3/2000 12:30:00 AM

Thanks guys! I'll probably release the final 1.0 in the next couple
weeks, though the only changes may be in the MIDI Extractor (found a
bug involving loops that start with offsets and are retriggered in
the same region). I haven't got a single bug report yet on the Batch
Acidizer, and haven't found any myself.

The MIDI Extractor will hopefully make transferring a project over to
a MIDI sequencer easier, if not easy. The transformation has a lot
of little nuances to it, so I've kept it fairly simple so far, but I
would eventually like to have it bring across some more complicated
aspects of the Acid file, such as pan/volume envelopes. For now it
just generates an "exceptions" list to give the user a "to do" list
for things it can't yet do.
We (Freeside) are frequent users of multipoint envelopes and sample
offsets (things that don't translate easily), so it gets us about
halfway to a faithful reproduction of the file.

Any suggestions you have for other nice features/utilities are
welcome, and I'll be adding in a couple more utilities in next few
months for the 2.0.

Hex
www.thefreeside.com