acid pro 4.0 cds

nikki-bNikki wrote on 3/28/2021, 6:02 PM

Can I still use my sony acid pro 4.0 cd's? I installed them on my old laptop, but just purchased a new laptop & had to buy an external hard drive, but when I tried to download the set up CD it said I didn't have an app to open the software. I spent over $400 on these cd's years back & I only use them to edit maybe 40 songs a year. I know exactly how to use the software efficiently. What can I do?

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PATIENT-X wrote on 3/28/2021, 6:50 PM

@nikki-bNikki

Hello, Welcome

Acid Pro 4

System requirements: Platform: Windows Me / XP / 98 / 2000

This version is around 18 years old.

What can I do? you cant use them to install.

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SP. wrote on 3/28/2021, 7:36 PM

@nikki-bNikki Do you still have your old laptop? Just use it for old this old software. It should work fine. I have old Windows 98 and Windows XP computers just for some softwares that don't run on modern systems.

Alternatively you could try to install a Windows XP virtual machine with VMware or Virtualbox and try to run ACID 4 inside the virtual machine. But it's possible that you can get audio problems because the audio hardware is just rudimentary implemented.

PATIENT-X wrote on 3/28/2021, 7:48 PM

@nikki-bNikki

As @SP. mentioned just stick with the old laptop.

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Former user wrote on 3/28/2021, 11:02 PM

Or if you can shell out $79, you can upgrade to version 10. The old sample CDs will work anywhere. Or the other cheaper option would be upgrading to Music Studio. It is a bit of watered down version of Pro. Music studio is for about $30 bucks sale at the moment.