Quote Originally Posted by MARK EG
you know what i think guys and gals (jingle jangle)? give it chance. i used to use acid all the time. sort of fell by the wayside when ableton came out. but like with everything, don't knock itbefore you've tried it!
Nah. I'm gonna support the anti-sony comment. Every Sonic Foundry product that I used, once it became the sony version, got plagued with numerous bugs that came up during my use with very few new features in the software. A good friend of mine works at the department in Sony which deals with all the Sonic Foundry acquired tech and, when Acid 5 Pro was coming out, specifically told me not to waste my time with it due to the bugs. This is a kid who doesn't even do anything all the crazy with the software and managed to crash it out. Vegas has been shit ever since it went Sony. They've actually downgraded features in it. With the latest version of Vegas, I can no longer open and edit VOB files that I create with ****ing Sony DVD Architect. Makes perfect sense, right? I've never gotten their "import VOB" function to work. As soon as I open it, it crashes the program. ****ing brilliant. Adds an entire separate render process for me to do if I want to view and edit something that was given to me on an
unprotected DVD.

Anyways, rant aside, I don't see anything special about version 6 of Acid. I was joking with a friend about it and said they should have called it "Clonar." There is absolutely nothing in Acid 6 that can't be done with Sonar. In the end, it just looks like Sony tried copying all the features of the latest version of Sonar into Acid. Fair enough I guess since Cakewalk only became "Sonar" after they incorporated Acid style looping and some DXi features. But, given Sony's history, I'm really skeptical that it will be anything but a clunky piece of shit.