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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2008 at 08:45
Originally posted by weetabix weetabix wrote:

Well to further whine about this ACID sh*te,It sounds like a tin speaker, and fuzzy at times and it's constantly out of sync. I need to know what I am doing wrong (if anyone has one of these things) and maybe, I hope not, I should buy a better piece of sh*te? Sony doesn't answer my E-s.
          
 
That sounds like driver issues - are you using the ASIO driver for your soundcard (and what is your soundcard, out of interest)?
 
ACID only reproduces what goes into it. I assume that by "sync" you mean audio latency - or do you mean MIDI clock synch?
 
Neither of those are specific ACID issues (and no, I don't work for SONY Wink).
 
 
Which version of ACID are you using?
 
 
 
 
 
Hopefully the answers to these questions will fix your issues.


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Points: 170 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2008 at 23:36
  Eh! Thank you Certif1ed I will follow your advice. It's not looking good. Thanks again.
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just to add my two penn'orth, i have used various ACID programs for years, including ACID 4 -  i have never had any latency issues, though it doesnt need a particularly fast PC to run, i recommend the use of good quality soundcard (M-Audio Audiophile 2496) .
 
Acid 4 is a brilliant programme - quality and useability is top notch, includes time-stretch and speed change without altering the pitch, and key change which are very useful, and has live input which Reason doesn't have, but the two can be linked together. Since Sony bought the Acid program their customer service has become non-existent, you can't even register the thing anymore, but as i publish the results out to wav/mp3 on another program no problems.  the simpler you keep your setup the better i always say.
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 I have another item to discuss, when you are traveling and you encounter 220v  vs. 110 v  or vice versa there is a weakness in recording results even with a step-down i still have to plug in my 110 amp to my 220 computer there is no other way to address this lose in quality of sound?

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don't know, but i have step-up adaptors for a couple of my units and haven't found any loss in quality..Confused
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Originally posted by weetabix weetabix wrote:

 I have another item to discuss, when you are traveling and you encounter 220v  vs. 110 v  or vice versa there is a weakness in recording results even with a step-down i still have to plug in my 110 amp to my 220 computer there is no other way to address this lose in quality of sound?
The supply voltage should have no bearing on the audio signals - the step-down is a passive device (ie it's just a transformer)
 
What you are probably experiencing is an earthing issue caused by the step-down - could you describe the loss in quality a little more - is there more background noise? are the levels lower?
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It's as if my sound, at different points into the recording, become weaker and as you asked, Yes, the levels drop drastic like. I really think I should get a new system.
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Originally posted by weetabix weetabix wrote:

It's as if my sound, at different points into the recording, become weaker and as you asked, Yes, the levels drop drastic like. I really think I should get a new system.
It could be that the step-down is not powerfull enough for the amp so the loading is causing the output of the step-down to drop below 110V.
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I want to thank all for the advice. I will try a much better adapter if I can borrow one from a mate, just to test the ground issue. By the way I am in  China right now and all is weird, electically speaking.
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Hi guys,

I have a slightly related problem...much simpler think.  Can sombody tell me where the toggle for "Monitor through Live" is in Ableton Live.  I keep reading in forums that this is in Preferences>Audio...well, not in mine it isn't.  Nor is it mentioned in the manual.   I want to set it to OFF and monitor externally. Tada!...zero latency.
 
For  years I've used Adobe Auditition/ Cool Edit Pro. That had an "External Monitoring" toggle - but I recently switched to AL as I got into loops etc. I love this program but this issue is driving me nuts!
 
FYI my interface is a Yamaha n12 firewire.
 
Cheers in advance,
Terence
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