Audio warp in Acido Pro

MauX-65 wrote on 12/19/2024, 2:48 AM

Hello to you of the forum,

I have put my hands on Acid Pro 11 again after not using it for a while and, for now, with the Magix vst basics supplied, it seems to work well.

I would like to ask if any of you know of a way that can allow me to use functions such as audio warp or elastic audio or similar with Acid; the only options I know are oneshot, loop or beatmapped but I do not know of a way within Acid that allows me to quantize the audio manually as is possible in many other daw.

Can you suggest me some techniques? Thanks in advance for your kindness

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SP. wrote on 12/19/2024, 7:57 AM

@MauX-65 Melodyne can edit the timing of audio. Do you have a version of Acid with Melodyne included?

https://helpcenter.celemony.com/M5/doc/melodyneEssential5/en/M5tour_MacroTiming

Technically, Elastic Audio is similar to Zplane Vielklang. The problem is, that Zplane no longer sells this plugin but you can still get it from third party vendors like Thomann.

MauX-65 wrote on 12/19/2024, 2:07 PM

Thanks SP, your help is always precious.

Yes, I have Melodyne Essential installed and I'm actually trying to work on it a bit, even though it works great for intonation correction, it seems a little less effective for time quantization, but I'll do the appropriate tests, I've never used it much.

blake-fast wrote on 3/15/2025, 2:50 PM

hi maux did you find the way to do this ?it is possible i do it on most pieces of audio in acid when its not crashing !

MauX-65 wrote on 3/16/2025, 3:43 AM

hi maux did you find the way to do this ?it is possible i do it on most pieces of audio in acid when its not crashing !

Hi Blake-fast, unfortunately not... The only way to quantize audio I've found on Acid is to use Melodyne and export the editing....

blake-fast wrote on 3/17/2025, 7:57 AM

hi maux you can do it much like manual warping in abelton inside beatmapper what i do is first run the beatmapper wizard on the file (it only works on beatmapped files not loops or single shots ) then while you are still in the clips properties page and click on the stretch tab top left then you should see say for instance its a 4 bar you will see a yellow marker a above the waveform in this case 1-4 (but it could be a whole track) like it to play say its a loop playing straight 16ths but you would like it to play triplets instead set the grid spacing in options to 16triplets then back to your loop if you then click on the yellow marks you will see above it a red one will appear above it do this on every bar 1-4 the red marks beat markers ( warp marks ) now you have added the markers to the start of bar this locks what ever is inside that from being affected by our manual warping then because our grid is set to triplet we can add beat marker or warp point a 16th triplet intervals by double clicking in the same line that the other red markers appeared above yellow markers (zoom in on th clip its easier to see) then pull the marker that is nearest to the note or beat you want to quantize and you will see that the grid moves to where you have moved the marker to so in this case the 16th will move to a triplet so you can go along the clip dropping markers and moving to match the audio that you wish to move note when you first start moving warp point or beat markers everything in that bar with move until you have finished the bar after you have dropped a marker everything behind it stops moving i usually drop makers a beats 1-4 first and the off beats in between as these points are usually straight and it means less moves about when manually warping .

ihope that helps i can send pics if that would be better

MauX-65 wrote on 3/17/2025, 1:09 PM

Thank you very much Blake-fast for your tutorial, very helpful and an interesting way to use warping in Acid 🙏🏻

blake-fast wrote on 3/20/2025, 5:17 AM

i hoped it helped a little

jocker-boy wrote on 3/20/2025, 5:23 AM

I've been using this function in Beatmapper for a very long time. It works well, depending on the music file, if it has a fairly even rhythm. It's a bit worse with music from the older 60s, 70s and a bit 80s. Then you have to try a bit harder. In my case, there were also problems that after warping/beatmapping an audio file, it didn't save the metadata from the edit and after using the same previously warped file again, it didn't work correctly, there was no Beatmapping information in it. I now have better results with warping in Ableton Live and Cubase Pro, which I use.

Best regards
Jocker Boy