I also have a copy of 7.0 too but as I said they really messed up when SONY updated the DAW. Yeah it's a loop based DAW, but it really is much more if you get into it. For me it is just straight forward as an editor. I have yet to see another DAW that is as easy to use as Acid Pro in the early days, so I still have a copy of 3.0 installed and use it on a daily basis as an editor. They put the name of the track right in the track, which gets in the way of editing.
I LOVE Acid Pro, and it is still my MAIN EDITOR! I kind of feel like Sony ruined the interface layout compared to Sonic Foundry though. Perhaps it's time Acid made a comeback to gain back some of its fame and why not grab some clever feats from other daws like Live and Studio1 etc. Their goal was to bring an Acid like application that could behave and played live like an instrument while being a computer based DAW, and for the most part they succeeded. Ps: For those who have been there, i still remember Ableton v.1.0 devs to admit being ex-Acid users. Bring it on please, i will upgrade, fek i will pre-order I had already managed to use modern 64bit vstis in AP7, using JBridge with enough success and i had described the process in both the Sony and Magix forum much later last year.Īlthough i use Sonar and Cubase for main recording/production, i have high hopes for a new 64bit/VST3 Acid. It's ease of use and seamless workflow is second to none for me. I still use Acid Pro (combined with Sound Forge) for a good part of my remixes, even with all its shortcomings i prefer it in the studio vs Live or Mixcraft.
The people who had spent serious and excruciating time, timestretching audio material to be used in remixing/mixing (such as yours truly) can appreciate the revolution Sonic Foundry's Acid pH brought to the table. At the time (1998) i had 5 samplers, by '99 i 'd sold them all except my MPC and invested the dow in pcs.
I cannot deny it was Acid that made me switch back to computers for my main work as a remixer back in 98-99, after many years of using comps as a secondary resource or not at all for creative purposes.
#When is acid pro 8 coming out upgrade
Add to this the worst possible customer support and upgrade policy from Sony and it's not strange why most of the core user base migrated to other soft as their main daw. The small Acid team did try with AP6 and 7 but even though they took too much time to deliver new versions, Acid Pro was too unstable and lacking major feats other daws had enjoyed for years. When AP7 was released too many had already switched to Live and Sonar and another wave of users went to Reaper and StudioOne later and a smaller had gone to Mixcraft due to an Acid dev being involved in it.įrom the getgo of Sony's acquisition of the SonicFoundry ips, it was clear that the largest part of the budget the mother company gave to Sony Creative (later named Sony Media), would be thrown to Vegas and a little sometime later to the newer Spectralayers. Too many users in the old Sony forum were declaring it dead even 5-6 years ago switching to other platforms. Not updated for almost 9 years, AP was considered abandonware. Fastest workflow ever in a daw, first realtime timestretch/pitchshift algo, first revolutionary use of smart tools like the pencil and brush.
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