having used both (audacity about 3 years more recently than acid), right now, audacity can't really touch acid by some distance. Yes, it pitch / time only transforms. But in my experience, at least in the Windows version of Audacity, it cant' even loop-play small ( < 1 second) samples accurately (useful when you're trying cut from a larger block of audio). Audacity also doesn't have any of the arrangement stuff that acid has. check out the thread titled "Acid-Gigasampler-Vegas-Audio Mastering" on this list On 1/25/06, Carotinho &lt;carotinobg(a)yahoo.it&gt; wrote:

Frank Barknecht escribe: Using a powerful enough computer running Windows as a guest to QEMU will certainly do the trick. I've tried ReBirth succesfully in the past. Of course this is fairly different from using WINE, this is, you need a Windows license to run it as a QEMU guest. Apart from the ACID license, of course... Nevertheless as far as I know ACID is not available to Mac users as any other Sony/Sound Forge product isn't either. And I find it spectacularly precise but not so creative. Putting loops in a sampler and triggering it using a keyboard is a lot funnier. :) Cordially, Ismael -- Tout fourmille de commentaries, d'auteurs il en est grande chert� http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivalladt/

Jean-Baptiste Mestelan escribe: Can this be done? Cordially, Ismael -- Tout fourmille de commentaries, d'auteurs il en est grande chert� http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivalladt/

On Fri January 27 2006 05:12, Victor Lazzarini wrote: You realize that telling someone who's been composing music using Acid that they should really just learn Csound is like telling a corporate IT guy who's been pressed into VB programming that he should really just learn C, emacs and gdb and write everything from scratch, right? (Actually, since VB users at least have Gambas when they come to Linux, they have it a lot easier than composers do.) As someone who has tried (and failed) making music with Snd, Pd and Csound, I wonder if what's really needed is some kind of templates or presets for some of these systems to provide access to higher-level compositional tasks (like those for which people use Acid, Buzz, Fruityloops, etc.) to get composers' feet wet and entice them to eventually go deeper and exploit the more powerful aspects of these tools. I don't even know how to get Pd or Csound to act as a sequencer, never mind getting an intuitive tracker- or loop-based interface on top of it. I'd do it myself, but I can barely even get ALSA, Jack and my MIDI keyboard talking to each other in the little time slices I can give to composition nowadays, never mind actually learn new languages or low-level tools.... or compose music. Rob

Rob escribe: Not exactly. While not sticking to VB and learning C is very convenient for every programmer or IT guy, I would not tell anybody who feels comfortable creating art with Acid to try and create art with some other tool not so comfortable to him. Creating art has a lot to do with comfortability. I never became a photographer until digicams came to my life. :) Cordially, Ismael -- Tout fourmille de commentaries, d'auteurs il en est grande chert� http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivalladt/

On Friday 27 January 2006 15:59, Rob was like: Victor said 'can' not 'should'. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim