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Re: [microsound] ACID



Just a note, Live is available for both Mac and PC, and for those of you
more interested in the press-record-and-see-what-happens school of track
creation, it beats the pants off of Acid.


----- Original Message -----
From: "anechoic" <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 11:41 AM
Subject: [microsound] ACID


> >I suspect that they are expecting fairly tame remixes - Acid is
> >really of the tracker school of music making (although I am sure someone
> >who knows the tool inside out could do wicked things with it - not
> >sure who would bother learning it that well though).
>
> Acid is an amazing tool for doing tight-deadline music production...I used
> it a couple of years ago to construct half a dozen pieces for a game demo
I
> was writing music for...I trawled some hotline servers for some hip-hop
> loops and cool VST plugs, auditioned the loops, made a library of the ones
> I liked, and finished all the music in 2 days...plus by using the VST
plugs
> I was able to transform some of the drum loops I found into some really
> abstract rhythmic patterns...
> now that there are more audio seq's integrating "looping" into their
> feature set we have more tools to chose from...but if you're on a PC get a
> copy of ACID and check it out...on the MacOS side of things check out Live
> by Ableton
> http://www.ableton.com
>
> good luck!
> KIM
>
>
>
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