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New Kronos X88 owner here from Arizona. I am a relative noob with Kronos (just picked it up last week) and am running through a pair of powered M-Audio BX8's. My computer is running Windows 7. My DAW runs Sony Acid software. I also have a Line6 tone port that I use to interface guitar with the computer. What's the best manner for having the Kronos send a stereo signal to the PC so that Acid will recognize it? USB? I apologize if this is a redundant question.

It's out of the box running V2.0.7 at the moment and I'd also like to be able to upgrade it to the newest version and potentially download some of the amazing libraries I've seen on here in the last week or so.

Thanks in advance for any advice or help you all can offer. I don't want to screw up.l

Good post. I am curious about this as well...

Any advice? Thanks!

Carabidus - I've figured it out. Sending the audio L/R outs from Kronos to my Line6 Toneport's line inputs 1&2. I set Sony to recognize the line signal from the Toneport and the Kronos now sends a nice stereo signal. I've recorded a few test tunes using this method. So far so good.

Interesting.... I used to really enjoy working with Sony ACID Pro, but I've practically given up on the product at this point because I just can't get the sound quality out of it that I expect.

Am I just being overly sensitive or picky, or is there some trick to making it play back better than what I'm getting from it, or what?

I've just noticed an over-all "muddiness" to the sound when you have more than a few tracks going at once in ACID Pro, and despite 44Khz samples, they often sound a bit distorted -- like the audio "artifacts" you can hear in low bit-rate samples or even XM satellite radio on a good set of speakers. (Lots of audio compression going on with satellite radio.)

I don't mean it sounds awful.... Lots of people probably would never know the difference. But the general consumer is also satisfied with $15 earbud headphones and so on. I guess I'm just saying ACID Pro produces results that I consider less than "pro" quality audio whenever I use it.

I'm using 5.0 which is 10 years old at this point. I've never had any issue with sound quality, even with multiple track mixing. I cannot speak to the newer versions however. That being said, I've not had much experience with other DAW's. Are there other relatively inexpensive options that I could explore down the road?

Here's a sample (not mastered or seriously mixed) of the Kronos through Sony Acid Pro 5.0. Exported to mp3 256 Kbps, 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12762134

Here's another example of just piano - think it was the Int B002 Stereo Boesy Piano. No post production added. Same exportation parameters: mp3 @ 256 Kbps, 44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo

http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=12758793

Kingtj, that sounds more like a problem with your interface/soundcard than one with Acid Pro.