Quote Originally Posted by messyfuture
you could just bounce your midi tracks to wav and process them that way

i dont use acid but you must be able to do that
You can and thats how Ive done it in the past but you loose shed loads of quality when you do, things loose their space and the whole mix becomes muddy. So Ive been trying to avoid rending it to a wav file until the tracks finished and then doing the whole lot as one wav file. Maybe Im going about it the wrong way?!?

Its probably a flaw/limitation of acid 4 and am almost positive that it cant be done with the config I have which is why I think I need to look at a more powerful/flexible host program. But before I go buggering about with new software Id just like to make sure the next thing I learn to use can do what i want it to!!!