Recently I put together a simple loop based tune in ACID 8 and it came together pretty quickly. Out of curiosity I wondered whether I could do the same composition in Samplitude Pro X4. The answer is YES.

Nothing professional here but I succeeded converting it and the results are here if you wish:

But… there were a couple of Acid features that made things a lot easier and I wish they were in Samplitude, so maybe this can serve as a feature request:

1.    Pitch Shifting Clips Using the Keyboard. 
In Acid you can change the pitch of a selected clip using the plus and minus keys on your keyboard. It’s superfast, handy and perfect. You can do similar in Samplitude by opening the object editor, selecting the Time/Pitch tab, then while holding the mouse over the Pitch text field and holding down CTRL, rolling the mouse wheel up or down. This is actually faster than the other Samplitude technique of selecting the “Pitch Shift/Times Stretch” Mouse Mode then dragging the objects pitch widget up or down. That unfortunately moves the pitch in fractional amounts (making it almost impossible to accurately shift in semi-tones).
Additionally the Mouse Mode only allows a change of ± 6 semitones, which for loop-based compositions is simply not enough. Samplitude's techniques are slow... compared to Acid.

2.   Sliding the Audio around within a Clip.

In Acid, like Vegas, you can do a “Slip EdIT”, sliding the contents within a clip by holding the Alt key while click-dragging within the clip. This is particularly handy when you’ve shortened the length of the clip and you need to reposition the contents of the clip within your new boundaries. In Samplitude if you want to move the middle audio to the beginning of your clip/object say, you need to go through the cumbersome process of re-crafting the clip boundaries, often moving it to a spare track to work things out and then reposition it back in place.

3.  Pitch shifted clips show the amount of pitch change in the clip itself.

If you shift the pitch of the clip in Acid, the amount of pitch change, in semitones, is shown in the lower left corner. -1 or +8 for example. This makes it easy to change other clips that need to be shifted by the same amount. Additionally you can drag-copy clips from those you’ve already created without auditioning since you can see their pitch change numbers instantly which allows for a quick copy-drag workflow.

4.  Multi-select pitch change.

In Acid you can select multiple clips and Pitch Change all of them at once. Selected clips don’t have to have the same initial pitch either. Acid will step them up or down one semitone regardless of what their initial pitch was. Samplitude has nothing like this.

I will say, after struggling with these shortcomings, the sound quality coming out of Samplitude seemed much better than the same
composition in Acid, which is part of the reason I’m asking for these features.

If I missed something and there’s a way to do what I’m asking for please let me know. Thank you very much

Don