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Subject:ACID problem - can it do this Posted by: holidayhell Date:12/7/2001 11:21:09 AM Setup - I open up 2 WAV files in ACID. One track is a band instument track , the other of vocals. I copy both tracks and edit them with the chopper and effects so now I have the origianl two tracks and two new ones consisiting of parts of the other two. Problem - When I play back all four tracks the sound stutters and skips. It does not do this when only two tracks are playing , usaully not with three but alot of times with four. I am using a 457MH processor with WIN 98. When I render the file to WAV and open it up in a WAV studio the sound is smooth , but not when playing back in ACID. Can ACID handle four WAV files of 2 - 3 minutes length with effects and chopping all at once.
Subject:RE: ACID problem - can it do this Reply by: Chienworks Date:12/7/2001 3:06:19 PM A lot of it depends on what other programs you have running in the background, how fast your drives are, are they set for DMA or not, etc. Just for fun last night i installed Acid Express 2.0 on my old 133Mhz Celeron with 48MB of RAM and a 5400 non DMA drive. I was able to play back any 8 Pack i loaded with no skips at all. However, i also made sure that the ONLY other things running on the computer were Explorer and Systray. Anything else running can bog Acid down badly. On my 866 PIII i've been able to have over 40 tracks, some of them long disk based .wav files, all play back smoothly. True, there probably was never a time in which all 40 tracks were playing simultaneously, but often more than 12 were. So 4 tracks on your computer shouldn't be a problem.
Subject:RE: ACID problem - can it do this Reply by: Iacobus Date:12/7/2001 3:07:19 PM You might want to check out this article. You can also try switching from a Beatmapped or One-shot type track to a Loop by double-clicking the track icon in the track list for the track and switching the track type via the drop-down menu. PLEASE NOTE: You must have plenty of RAM. You'll get a dialog warning you how much RAM will be used for just that track. Loop type tracks always use RAM. One-shots, if 3 seconds or lower in duration, will also use RAM. If longer than that, your hard disk will be used to stream the playback. Beatmapped tracks are always streamed from the hard disk. Obviously, having a faster hard drive (at least a 7200 RPM model) will help out some in this area. HTH, Iacobus

Subject:ACID problem - can it do this

Posted by: holidayhell

Date:12/7/2001 11:21:09 AM

Setup - I open up 2 WAV files in ACID. One track is a band instument track , the other of vocals.
I copy both tracks and edit them with the chopper and effects so now I have the origianl two tracks
and two new ones consisiting of parts of the other two.

Problem - When I play back all four tracks the sound stutters and skips.
It does not do this when only two tracks are playing , usaully not with three
but alot of times with four. I am using a 457MH processor with WIN 98.
When I render the file to WAV and open it up in a WAV studio the sound
is smooth , but not when playing back in ACID.

Can ACID handle four WAV files of 2 - 3 minutes length with effects and chopping
all at once.

Subject:RE: ACID problem - can it do this

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:12/7/2001 3:06:19 PM

A lot of it depends on what other programs you have running in the
background, how fast your drives are, are they set for DMA or not, etc.

Just for fun last night i installed Acid Express 2.0 on my old 133Mhz
Celeron with 48MB of RAM and a 5400 non DMA drive. I was able to
play back any 8 Pack i loaded with no skips at all. However, i also made
sure that the ONLY other things running on the computer were Explorer
and Systray. Anything else running can bog Acid down badly.

On my 866 PIII i've been able to have over 40 tracks, some of them
long disk based .wav files, all play back smoothly. True, there probably
was never a time in which all 40 tracks were playing simultaneously, but
often more than 12 were. So 4 tracks on your computer shouldn't be a
problem.

Subject:RE: ACID problem - can it do this

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:12/7/2001 3:07:19 PM

You might want to check out this article.

You can also try switching from a Beatmapped or One-shot type track to a Loop by double-clicking the track icon in the track list for the track and switching the track type via the drop-down menu. PLEASE NOTE: You must have plenty of RAM. You'll get a dialog warning you how much RAM will be used for just that track.

Loop type tracks always use RAM. One-shots, if 3 seconds or lower in duration, will also use RAM. If longer than that, your hard disk will be used to stream the playback. Beatmapped tracks are always streamed from the hard disk. Obviously, having a faster hard drive (at least a 7200 RPM model) will help out some in this area.

HTH,
Iacobus