Acid is not a tracker in the classic sense, but it does about the
same thing in a more intuitive format. I'm a huge fan of this program,
and have taken to assembling tracks in it that I might otherwise have
to chop up and dump in the sampler. I actually bought the "Acid Music"
subset version because it was only $70 vs $299 for the full version.
It leaves out some stuff (directx plugins, external sync) but it does
what I want it to.
And I've used it to record live stuff against backing tracks too, and
the non-destructive editing is amazingly good.
And no you don't need MIDI to do anything with acid.
kent williams -- kent@avalon.net
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Nate Harrison [Toshok Laboratories] wrote:
quoted 16 lines Hope y'all don't mind I ask a very niave question I guess, but what>
> Hope y'all don't mind I ask a very niave question I guess, but what
> exactly is tracking? I was under the impression it was sort of sequencing
> little bits/samples/whatever of digital audio on your computers hard
> drive. I have been to some of the tracker sites, and they appear to be in
> some sort of proprietary format...I did D/L those that had mp3's of the
> tracked er, track. It sounded to me like very basic layering and
> sequencing, (nothing wrong with that). To that end, there is really no
> external MIDI stuff involved. Is this right? Tracker apps are primarily PC
> apps, correct? Is that new app ACID considered a tracker? Just curious I
> guess...
>
> peace
>
> Nate
>