Acid Pro back on track-Another solution to avoid crashes

Former user wrote on 2/15/2021, 11:10 PM

Mine finally worked! Again no more crashes. I thought I had it worked out but Acid Pro had started to crash again a week ago for me.
My solution: even though Melodyne never worked within Acid for me, I just removed it completely out of the PC and Acid seems to be back on track. So, according to my own troubleshooting, avoid the following:

Do not use the following: Magix plugins, synths, Melodyne (try uninstalling it completely), side chaining, morph pads, dark GUI theme (use light) & if the crash still persists, try disabling windows firewall.

All my other issues still remain but I can deal with them (No MP3 support and GUI lags when zoomed in).

Hope above will help someone out.

Comments

shkr wrote on 2/16/2021, 1:34 AM

Well, although I don't have some of the problems you are facing I do agree that software should be prepared to work in different hardware/system circumstances and not crash.

Some advice to others having problems: try not to use both x32 and x64 plugins. It causes problems in every system, not only in Acid. Make separate folders for your x32 plugs and for x64 and use only adequate architecture.

Turn off autoloading of projects on start. In fact when you're done working on one project, save it, hit 'new empty project', wait until Acid creates new empty project and only than load your next saved project (or alternatively close Acid and open it again to work on a next project). Use 'save' function often, crashes won't annoy you that much than ;)

Anyway - rewriting Acid for x64 introduced some bugs, because rewriting big project is always a pain. I hope that problems will finally be dealt with. Acid is still not a full DAW, but it never was, it is kind of a groovebox :) And it's great at that.

As for mp3 - you wrote somewhere that you got a lot of mp3s you cannot use anymore in acid - maybe download free audiomove or free pazera audio converter - these free softwares let you batch convert audio files the way you need. 

Former user wrote on 2/16/2021, 2:50 AM

As for mp3 - you wrote somewhere that you got a lot of mp3s you cannot use anymore in acid - maybe download free audiomove or free pazera audio converter - these free softwares let you batch convert audio files the way you need. 

Hey those are good suggestions, too however, different people are having different issues. and You are dead on with "its kind of a groovebox", sort of a scratchpad and they should focus on that. I mean its going to be hard to compete with major DAWs. Leave this as unique tool but fix it. About MP3, I own Wavelab 10 so either thats where I convert sounds into wav or one of the other DAWs I have, could be FL or Studio one. But Acid is very unique in what it can do. When I am making music in Acid, my brain is fluid and before I know it, this DAW takes over. But yes, good suggestions on your part as well.

Former user wrote on 2/16/2021, 9:23 AM

@Amansingh, The crashing problem has gotten better since I only run AP in 'Run as Administrator' mode, NO Magix plugins, try to avoid 32bit plugins and loading projects from the 'open program' folder (ctrl + o). The Melodyne issue is one I've never had. It's has worked flawlessly for me. With that said I purchased a version from Celemory a few years ago (Melodyne 5 Studio) and have never had to use the version that comes with AP. It's to bad it's giving such serious issues to so many people as it's a great program. Cheers

shkr wrote on 2/16/2021, 12:16 PM

regarding mp3 issues - of course there are many many ways to convert files, converters I proposed can do it super fast - whole folders with a mouse click ;) I believe Wavelab can also do batch conversion, but other daws I don't think so.

also 'run as admin' is a good idea if someone is facing issues. I also run Acid in 'high priority' mode. For some other people learning what asio is could also be a good idea ;)

I see nth bad in looking at Acid as a groovebox. I don't see people with Roland's mc's or Akai MPC or Octatracks and so on complaining of not being able to finish projects in them ;) So called 'grown-up' folks don't use Ableton or Pro Tools or Cubase or whatever. They just use tools for the job.

Former user wrote on 2/16/2021, 12:53 PM

Ya I did a lot of batch conversion but I would rather have acid open the files as I double click them from within the browser. Like I mentioned that different people have different issues with AP, in my case, I run two PCs, one main and one laptop, on the laptop, MP3 works fine within AP but no melodyne. I have to run it standalone as I own it. In main studio PC, no MP3 support in AP. There is definitely a demon inside AP thats controlling it all and smart people at Magix should put their heads together and attack the bug.

In my case, I don't have to run it as admin, it works fine. Lets see if something new happens next week where it starts crashing, I will be troubleshooting it further as I need this DAW as its the fastest tool in my shed (when it works).