guys im sorry but i HAD to post this here. be easy on me.

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guys im trying to do something sooooo simple but i cant seem to get it done. what i want to do is SYNC acid 3.0 with my roland vs880ex. i want to RECORD the vs tracks into acid. i have my sound card set up and im going in DIGITAL. however here is the problem. i want to be able to hit RECORD on acid and have the vs stuff playback. where are the settings that i need to change on ACID to make this possible and what should i set my VS to?


thanx.


czar of bizarre


ps i am bizarre
 
Yo Bizarro:

I think if you answer Bruce, he will answer you, no matter how malapropic your questions are.

Green Hornet
 
This is a midi related issue -- sounds like it anyway. If you are using an older version of acid #1) it does not have midi suport and #2) wav file recording in acid totally sucks, you will never be able to get a hot enough signal. if you do it will be noisy as hell. ACID really sucks at recording. If you have ACID 3.0 read (read on even if you do not)

I would not do it this way. ACID 3.0's midi capabilities blow (yes even for syncing). If you want to sync up your 880 w/ acid and you are using ACID as the slave you should make sure that the beginning of the acid tune does not start for a few measures so each unit can play catch up with each other.

You are better off creating what you want to create in acid, then convert it to a wav file and record the wav into the digital in L on Track 1 and digital L on Track 2. Walla, you have a stereo track. I used to do this all of the time because I use ACID to create my beats (one shots)....then lay down your tracks on the 880.

--What about this------> save your ACID project as 4 different .wav files

Wav 1 = drums and percussion
Wav 2 = synths and whatever
Wav 3 = fx
Wav 4 = basses

How?

1.) create your ACID Project.
2.) mute everything except the drums.
3.) Save that as a wav (titled something like this - "project1drums"
4.) mute everything except the synths.
5.) save that track as a wav (titled something like this-
"project1synths")

repeat as needed

6.) Now import your 4 wav files into Cakewalk/Cubase/N-tracks or whatever program you are using. (they will all be in time with each other. How? Its magic -- all wav's were created in acid. they will all have the exact start and finish times) - trust me they will..

7.) Now you can either tweak these tracks in the editor (Cakewalk, cubase.....) and record directly into your editor

Optional
8.) You have the option of bouncing these 4 tracks to 1 track after your tweaks.


9.) record the wav files into your 880.
10.) lay down your other tracks



Digital and midi are two different beasts.

I hope this helps

Bill
 
hey garg i have acid 3. im sorry to say this but i got a nice hot signal going from the vs digital outs into my pc and acid. no hiss no recording noise. nothin. in fact i did this after i read your reply just to see if i was wasting my time. you said this:

I would not do it this way. ACID 3.0's midi capabilities blow (yes even for syncing). If you want to sync up your 880 w/ acid and you are using ACID as the slave you should make sure that the beginning of the acid tune does not start for a few measures so each unit can play catch up with each other.
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i want to use the vs as slave. all i want to do is hit start on acid and have my tracks play back. actually the tracks are from the XP60 but i need to run em to the vs (not TRACKED to the vs) just so i can get it to the pc because my soundcard only has digital i/o and analog outs. so heres how its set up

XP60---->VS---->ACID.


i wanna press play on acid and have the xp60 tracks playback. if not i can record the tracks to the vs but i still need to hit play on acid and have em sync.


not too long ago i had some music that i did on the pc but the program i used had no sync at all. i did what you said as far as muting everything and i converted it to wav ie bass wav, drum wav, piano wav etc etc. everything lined up but the problem was that the files were HUGE. im trying to stay away from the vs because i dont feel like bouncing and doing all of that. i need to see whats on the screen.


thanx a million bro

czar

ps hornet i asked blue a question i didnt answer him.
 
C.O.B, I think I answered this question for you in another forum but... I'll give you a condensed version of the post. :)

I don't have Acid in front of me at the moment, but in a nutshell, this is what you need to do.

GOTO your TOOLBAR, OPTIONS>PREFERENCES>SYNC tab. Set your Generate MIDI Time Code settings, then set your Generate MIDI Clock settings.

On your VS set it up to receive the MIDI Time Code of the MIDI Clock (I forgot which one it uses, I think it's MIDI Clock).

You should be "ready to roll" ;)

peace...

spin
 
Acid needs to have Midi Machine Control (MMC) ability to do that.

The Roland Website has a step by step guide somehwere as to how todo what you want with a 1680 and Cubase but I doubt that it is much differenent.
 
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