I may still use Acid and Sound Forge every now and then to create some custom loops, but my main DAW is now Reaper. I never could get Addictive Drums to work worth a damn in Acid, but it works flawlessly in Reaper. One thing I like more about Reaper is how VST's function more reliably (at least for me). I've found I'm able to do everything (and then some) in Reaper that I was able to do in Acid with only a few minor exceptions. While Acid still feels like a "warm and comfy blanket", it's merely because of the time I spent with it in the trenches. Pulling it to the right stretches audio left of it and squeezes audio right of it and vice versa. Clicking on an item while holding ctrl-alt down inserts a stretch marker. There you can even set, whether the envelope snaps to semitones or not.įurthermore, since version 4.40 or so, you can stretch/squeeze parts of items using stretch markers. The range defaults to +/- 4 semitones, but you can set the limits to your needs in "Options -> Preferences -> Editing Behavior -> Envelope Display".
These envelopes allow to change the pitch within the item's take, will say, if you have more than one take in an item, you can define an envelope for eache of its takes. Try the action "Take: Toggle take pitch envelope". There is also a pitch envelope for item takes. Each of these actions can be assigned to a keyboard shortcut or a button of a toolbar or you can even create menu-items for them. "Item properties: Pitch item down one semitone". You'll see a list of actions that let you change the pitch of items. To easily change the pitch of items, go to "Actions -> Show action list" (or press '?') and type "pitch" into the filter strip. You can also set the preview up in a way, that the range or the soundfile is played back synchronized when the project plays and passes the start of a bar. You can even mark ranges and put only these into the project. If you choose a soundfile, you see it in the wave display and if "Auto play" is ticked, it will be played immediately.
Yes, you are missing a lot! In fact you can do all the things you miss from Acid (and even more, I think).Īs Lowest Form wrote, you can use the Media Explorer to audition loops before inserting into the project. The ability to set a project key so that acidized loops with melodic/harmonic content are easily transposed. The ability to audition loops before dragging them into the project. I realized that I installed the demo a few months ago.
but I should migrate totally to Reaper really as Cockos could do more that SF does and Acid combined in a much newer updated DAW
Sony acid pro 4.0 audio loop mac#
I use Reaper on a Mac and SF Mac version is poor, but Reaper does more.Īs I mention weekly (and so do others going by the Area Selection votes) if Reaper did Area selection/and did the whole editor thing/processing on waveform I could use on the Mac totally as an all one Acid/SF with extras. Reaper does so much its amazing, BUT it sometimes can be its downfall - It can do so much that i forget all my key actions etc, whereas Acid does what it does, really well.Īlso I use Acid and Sound Forge together as a sequencer and editor which is still very powerful! Reaper is better in every way really BUT it has no Beatmapper, and I still can't get a good Acid Pro 3.0 looking THEME for Reaper either. I came from Acid after years and some of its simplicity is its key and i do still like it just for audio - I have now gone back to Acid Pro 3.0 just for audio and not VST's etc
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