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Contents This document contains information on the following topics: 1.0 Welcome 2.0 What’s New in Version 3.0 3.0 Known Issues 4.0 System Requirements 5.0 Installation 6.0 ACID User Manual 7.0 Demos 8.0 Contacting Sonic Foundry, Inc. Applicable to boxed products only. If you’ve purchased a downloadable product, Adobe Acrobat (PDF) versions of product documentation and product demos are available at www.sonicfoundry.com/download/.
1.0 Welcome Thank you for trying Sonic Foundry ACID 3.0. This document contains information about installing and using ACID on your computer.
2.0 What’s New in Version 3.0 • • • • • • • • • • •
A Beatmapper that will add tempo information to song-length audio files. A Chopper that allows you to easily cut up loops and patterns to add more variety to your tracks. Support for playing back and recording MIDI tracks using external MIDI gear or the Microsoft DLS-based soft synth. A video track you can use to score videos with ACID. Extracting audio from CD. Support for opening compressed media types. Master and sub busses for more flexible routing. New effects routing options: track, pre- and post-fader assignable, master, and bus effects. Track envelopes that can lock to events. Higher fidelity pitch shift and time stretch algorithms. The Zoom tool has been moved to the lower-right corner of the Track View.
3.0 Known Issues
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If you use an ACID 1.0 or 2.0 project in ACID 3.0, it will be unusable in earlier versions of ACID. Simply save the project with a new name after editing it in ACID 3.0. Do not use time-altering effects (such as Time Stretch, Gapper/Snipper, and Pitch-Shift without preserving duration) with an ACID project. Time-altering effects will cause a track to play out of synchronization with the waveform display in the Track View and with other tracks. These effects can also consume excessive amounts of RAM and may fail. Changes to Track Properties for MIDI tracks are not saved to the MIDI file and will be discarded if the file is edited in another application and reloaded. If you attempt to open a MIDI file from your project using Cakewalk or SONAR, the file will not open if the target application is already running. ACID information (Root note and DLS path) cannot be saved to .rmi files. Projects that include many MIDI tracks may exhibit decreased drawing performance in the Track View. This will not affect rendering. QuickTime files do not support Beatmapper information. Errors can sometimes occur when saving to the QuickTime format. Recording audio with the AudioMedia III card may crash. A driver issue with MIDIMan USB devices may prevent recording. Saving ACID projects with embedded media (.acd-zip) takes longer than saving ACID 2.0 projects with embedded audio. If you uninstall older Sonic Foundry applications after installing ACID, you may lose the ability to load and save some file formats. Reinstall ACID 3.0 to repair. The Registration dialog may freeze if the registration server is unavailable. If you install the Sound Forge demo from the ACID CD, you must uninstall it before installing Sound Forge XP Studio.
4.0 System Requirements The following lists the minimum system requirements for using Sonic Foundry ACID: • • • • • •
Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Me, or Windows 2000 * 300 MHz processor * 64MB RAM Microsoft DirectX 8.0 is required. If you haven’t already installed this module, the installer will prompt you to install prior to installing ACID. (Included on the ACID CD-ROM) CD-ROM drive Internet Explorer 5.0 or later (version 5.0 included on the ACID CD-ROM) * 400 MHz processor and Windows 98SE, Me, or 2000 required for video scoring.
5.0 Installation The install utility, SETUP.EXE, located on the setup CD-ROM, creates any necessary folders and copies all files required by ACID to your computer. If you’re installing ACID with Windows 2000, your user account needs to be a member of the Administrators group to install ACID, and you need to be a member of the Power Users group (or higher) to register ACID. To install ACID, follow these steps: Place the ACID CD-ROM in the drive. AutoPlay displays an installation menu. Note: If you have disabled the CD-ROM AutoPlay feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type D:\setup.exe, where D is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive, and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation. Click Install, and follow the on-screen prompts to install the appropriate version of ACID for your computer.
The installation process may prompt you to restart your computer. If installation does not continue after your computer restarts, please run setup.exe again and installation will resume.
6.0 ACID User Manual Included on the ACID CD is a complete ACID User Manual in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. The Acrobat format allows easy printing of the text, should you need a hard copy. The manual is located in the \Manual\ folder on the CD. Installing Adobe Acrobat Reader In order to view the manual, you will need to install the Adobe Acrobat Reader. It has been included on the CD in the Extras folder for your convenience. To install Acrobat Reader, follow these steps: Place the ACID CD in the drive. AutoPlay launches an installation menu. Note: If you have disabled the CD-ROM AutoPlay feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type D:\Extras\Acrobat Reader 4.0\English\ar40eng.exe, where D is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive, and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation. 2. Choose Browse, and then browse to the D:\Extras\Acrobat Reader 4.0\English\ folder. 3. Double-click the ar40eng.exe icon and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.
7.0 Demos The Sonic Foundry ACID CD-ROM includes demo versions of other select products available from Sonic Foundry. To install a demo, run the main setup program on the root of the CD and choose Product Information from the Install screen. Follow the links for the demo you want to install. If you would like any more information or demos of other products from Sonic Foundry, please visit our Web site (www.sonicfoundry.com). You will always find the latest technical information, demos, and product announcements from Sonic Foundry there. Commercial distribution of the Sonic Foundry demos requires written permission from Sonic Foundry.
8.0 Contacting Sonic Foundry, Inc. Sonic Foundry can be contacted in the following ways: Sonic Foundry, Inc. 1617 Sherman Ave. Madison, Wisconsin 53704 USA Customer Service/Sales: • For a detailed list of Customer Service options, we encourage you to visit www.sonicfoundry.com. • Telephone support during normal office hours: • 1-800-577-6642 (toll-free) in US, Canada, and Virgin Islands.
• +800-000-76642 (toll-free) in Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, UK, Netherlands, and Japan.
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• +608-204-7703 for all other countries. E-mail:
[email protected]. Fax: 1-608-250-1745.
Technical Support: • For a detailed list of Technical Support options, we encourage you to visit www.sonicfoundry.com. • To listen to your support options please call 608-256-5555. • ACID Pro includes 60 days of complimentary phone support. To obtain support, please call 608-204-7704. Your complimentary support begins the day you register your product (registration is required). • Fax: 608-250-1745.
