sequenceing in acid

[da hound]

had been sequencieng in cubase sx for months but recently have been using acid 4.0 find it much easier and faster still use cubase to finish it i import the finished track wich i break into4 parts kick and bass hats percusion and synths have four buses which i use 2 eq and compress the 4 parts just curious how u guys do it i have found acid 4.0 2 be great fun and it has made me enjoy makeing tunes cause it less stressful should i be just makeing my tracks in cubase or should i continue doing it in acid as it is more comfortable also on more thing any off you guys know of any good direct- x filters

[steelgrooves]

Antares Filter is good. There is a direct x version and a vst version.

[MARKEG]

is that ohm boyz fromage direct x? that's quite good.

[audioinjection]

I think TC electronic has a direct-x filter, I forgot what its called, but its in the native bundle ( :?: )

[slavestudios]

ive tryed Reason, Orion, &Cubase to sequence trax & it pisses me off. Acid is my main tool in the studio & even Ableton hasnt tore me away from it.

i'm not saying its the best, but stick to what you feel comfy with, then when it wont do all you ask, think about moving on.

i hope thats of some use

[dirty_bass]

ive tryed Reason, Orion, &Cubase to sequence trax & it pisses me off. Acid is my main tool in the studio & even Ableton hasnt tore me away from it.

i'm not saying its the best, but stick to what you feel comfy with, then when it wont do all you ask, think about moving on.

i hope thats of some use

Spot on mate.

Whatever tool you use, master it. If you keep hopping around on a holy grail for the best equipment/software, you`ll never get adept at anything.

Only when you reach the limitations of your environment (which is when you get really clever with your prodiution) do you need to think about moving on.

[rounser]

It's refreshing to see folks choosing their tools based on results rather than hype and what they've heard is "pro"...Acid's reputation isn't exactly stellar, but from what I've seen it's hard to beat for sample manipulation. Even if you don't use it as the main app, it's good for timestretching vocals to a different bpm and then sampling it - nothing I've found is more convenient in that respect.

Alongside Acid, another good one for throwing around samples with ease is Renoise....all the bread and butter of making dance music (sample browsing, sample editing, hermite envelopes with looping and LFOs, keymapping, effects, sequencing with sample offset, automation) on three tab windows. It is, however, a tracker, and as such lacks a piano roll (which is a mixed blessing and ups the initial learning curve), but it has the standard sequencer stuff that trackers were missing, such as MIDI in/out, VST support, 96k/32 bit sound quality etc. Definitely worth a look if you're primarily about throwing samples around...

[xfive]

Man Acid is sooooo 1999 :lol:

Live is where it's at.

[DJZeMigL]

Renoise Will Hit 1.5 next week!! :)

I do believe in using what U feel better with, I use cubase since it's very early stages, in fact only recently I found out that I used the main software that inspired cubase , that wave voyetra's sequencer pro!!

I think my first copy of cubase was 1.03 and it runned smooth .. midi was it's game!

So that's were I feel at home. But I also Use fruity a lot and have donne countless tracks in it...

Then with time u start explorin' a bit ... logic, pro tools, nuendo, renoise, acid, live, etc...

In the end they all do more or less the same, it's yer knowledge and yer knowledge of the program that allows u 2 maximize it's use...

A good musician can make track with 2 stones and a piece of string, ... people make music, machines/ software are just tools that can b handled better or worst!

Z

[FILTERZ]

i didnt really rate acid i thought their time stretching was a bit pants and tended to ruin audio , ableton is a better option for this i reckon

[hiroprotagonist]

ive used acid as my main tool since 2.0
personally i dont think it could be an easier tool for people just getting into song writing and sequencing. i think ive finally gotten to the point where i think i need to move on. for my cinematic pieces i find it a bit lacking and a little constrained with only loop based programming.
i really havent fiddled with any of the FX as i mainly use soundforge to edit my samples.
anyways ive been looking to move to live as soon as possible.

[rounser]

In the end they all do more or less the same, it's yer knowledge and yer knowledge of the program that allows u 2 maximize it's use...

Exactly man, although they do specialise in making different things convenient, and sort of offer a selective filter over what you can be bothered to do based on that.

I do believe in using what U feel better with

Yeah...the program you feel most comfortable working with is almost by definition going to produce the best results. Unless the bastard crashes and you lose lots of work...