Acid cant find my loops

[cincy_kid]

Ok, maybe this should have went in the newbie section but i thought since it was about Acid I should post it here.

Anyways, when I mess around with a new project, and take my loops from my cd and dbl clcik them to appear as a track in Acid, I can go from cd to cd and it retains all the loops.

When I close the program and reopen it and try to open that acid project to hear it again, it says "cant find xxx file" (refering to the loop).

What am I missing? how to I save this file so I can hear it later and still make changes and add and change loops at a later date?

[AlChuck]

When you put a CD in and tell ACID to load a loop from there, it creates a pointer to the CD drive. When you save the ACD file, that's all that's in there-- a pointer to the data.

So if you remove the CD, then re-open the file, it can't find the file, because it ain't there any more.

You can get around this by saving your ACID file to a the bundled format called ACD-ZIP, I believe: ACID with embedded audio. Then the audio gets copied off the CD into the file. Or you can manage it yourself -- create a folder for your project and copy all the loops you are using in there, then load them from the folder rather than the CD. ALways keep them together in the same folder and the file and all its pieces will be happy together.

[cincy_kid]

Ah, cool. I think I may try the folder way. Just copy the loops from the cd to a folder and use them that way. Thanks again