I friend of mine has become a very notable hip-hop producer. I run a studio these days and we have the opportunity to work together. The catch is that he's only ever worked in Acid. So, after some headaches dealing with this issue while trying to use the trial license, I bought a perpetual license; hoping that would somehow solve the issue. Unfortunately, it hasn't. I've now been dealing with this issue for 2 weeks, including 3 sessions where we accomplished nothing but chit-chat and troubleshooting. Has anybody experienced this? Anybody found a solution or at least determined some probable causes to attempt solving?
I've been in contact with Magix Support. Aside from having to wait a day or 2 (which I really can't afford to waste), they've been good about trying to help and sent a patch and the MagixSysemCheck link to comb for possible causes when they get the file, but this isn't a situation where effort counts for anything. We need a solution.
My working theory is that maybe there a "Y2K" type of issue. Maybe the "unlimited" channels are actually coded as some arbitrary high number that they assumed nobody would ever reach. If they, for instance, set a maximum number of inputs and outputs of 99x99, we would exceed that. If they assumed a pair of MADI cards at 64x64 totaling 128x128 would be the maximum number possible, we would exceed that. If they set a maximum total input + output channel count of 999, we would also exceed that because our system runs on 1,024 (512x512) channel Dante AVoIP PCIe cards; which is probably not something Sony nor Magix would have anticipated.
HOWEVER, we also have a UA Apollo connected to this PC. It also has drivers for Dante Virtual Soundcard, the PC motherboard has its own soundcard built-in, and the main display even has it own stereo output channels. So, if the issue is that it doesn't understand what to do with a 1,024 channel audio-system, it should just choose one of the other drivers, or just let us choose for ourselves (like most other DAWs).
Here's some specs and software installed on the main Dolby Atmos mastering room PC, where we're trying to install Acid Pro.
OS: Windows 11 Pro
Motherboard: ASUS ProArt X570
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM: 64GB DDR4
GPU: Red Dragon/Nvidia 6800
Main Drive: 1TB Samsung 980 M2 NvMe (plus 5 1TB drive including 2 more Samsung 980 in M2 slots, and 3 SCSI SSDs
Soundcard: Marian Clara E PCIe card
Software:
Digital Audio Denmark DADMan, Focusrite Pro RedNet Control, Steinberg Nuendo, Steinberg WaveLab Pro, Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro, Reason, MixBus 32C, Reaper, Waves (entire catalog), UAD2 Complete, Neve Recall software, SSL Nucleus Remote, OBS, Dolby Atmos Renderer Remote, Adobe Creative Cloud, Dante Virtual Soundcard, UA Control Panel, Microsoft 360, iLok, eLicenser, some random Plugin Alliance plugins.