The Sony Acid Production Software Guide

The Sony Acid Production Software Guide is a comprehensive guide to help you with the number one loop based production software on the market and believe us Sony Acid 5 is bringing the noise!

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What Is Sony Acid?

I could say a lot about what Acid is but I will keep it simple. The ACID Pro software is an incredible loop-based music composition and production tool for original music creation. Millions of industry professionals who want to create songs, remix tracks, produce 5.1 surround audio mixes, develop music beds, score videos, and much more they use Sony ACID Pro.

ACID software is ideal for real-time pitch-shifting, time-stretching, and groove quantization of audio and MIDI events. With new technologies and advanced professional features, ACID software provides the most powerful, user-friendly environment for everything from basic song creation to complex video scoring.

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When Was Sony Acid Launched?

In 1998, ACID blew the doors off the loop based software production outfit. ACID revolutionized music creation by offering a straightforward interface and "pick, paint, and play" interactivity, it was the first loop-based music creation application to put professional studio composition and editing power in the hands of producers at nearly every level of expertise. Now Sony has stepped the game up with the ACID Pro 5 software that is nothing less than bananas.

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Sony Acid Pro 5 Features

Fundamentals

• New! Media Manager technology
• New! Metronome for playback and record
• New! Customizable UI and keyboard mapping
• New! Flash™ (.swf ) file format import
• New! Enhanced media previewing
• New! Save project paths in rendered media
• Over 1,000 music loops in multiple genres
• Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI
• Real-time pitch and tempo matching
• Preview loops in real time with your project
• Alternate time signatures
• 24-bit/192 kHz audio support
• ASIO™ driver support
• Master, auxiliary, soft synth, and effects bus tracks
• Multiple file format support
• Live audio Recording
• Autosave crash recovery
• Multi-processor support
• Dual-monitor support
• Unlimited undo / redo history
• External monitor support
• WAV, Windows Media™, and MP3 import
• Get Media option to download media from the web

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Mixing and Editing

• New! Nestable folder tracks for enhanced project organization
• New! Real-time event reverse
• New! Bus-to-bus routing
• New! Downmix monitoring
• New! Improved audio timestretching and beat detection
• New! Drop one-shots in real time
• New! Customizable project media folders
• New! Envelope changes applied to multiple selected events
• 5.1 surround mixing
• Beatmapper™ remixing tool
• Chopper™ editing tool with loop cloning
• Hotkey commands for track Muting and Soloing
• Video scoring track (AVI, MOV, WMV)
• Ripple editing across multiple tracks
• Attack, Sustain, and Release (ASR) envelopes
• Tempo, time signature, and key change markers
• Metadata command markers
• Real-time placement of markers during playback
• Volume and pan envelopes
• Tempo and key mapping

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Effects and MIDI

• New! Groove Mapping quantization tools with Groove Cloning
• New! ReWire support (mixer and device)
• New! VST effects support with automation and tempo sync
• New! Multiport VSTi soft synth support
• New! MIDI Piano Roll snap-to-scale filtering
• New! Tempo-based DirectX effects
• New! Audio Plug-In Manager
• New! Bypass all effects command
• MIDI piano roll editing
• MIDI event list editing and step recording
• MIDI time stretching
• Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC)
• Direct links to audio/MIDI editors
• DLS 1 & 2 soft synth support
• VSTi support
• DirectX plug-in support
• Plug-in effect automation
• Over 20 real-time DirectX audio effects
• 32 assignable effect chains
• 26 effect busses
• Effects bus tracks

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Automated DirectX® Effects

• Track EQ
• Resonance Filter
• Flange/Wah/Phase

Tempo Based DirectX Effects

• Simple Delay
• Flange/Wah/Phase
• Amplitude Modulation
• Chorus

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DirectX Effects

• Compression
• Pitch Shift
• Chorus
• Delay/Echo
• Noise Gate
• Multiband Dynamics
• Graphic Dynamics
• Parametric EQ
• Paragraphic EQ
• Graphic EQ
• Amplitude Modulation
• Flange / Wah-Wah/Phase
• Smooth / Enhance
• Gapper / Snipper
• Vibrato
• Distortion

Export and CD Burning

• New! Integrated disc-at-once CD burning
• CD audio extraction
• Export: WAV, MP3, WMA, WMV, RM, WAV, AIF, and PCA
• Sony® Net MD™ format export
• One-click music publishing to ACIDplanet.com*

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System Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
• 800 MHz processor (1 GHz if using video)
• 200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 600 MB hard-disk space for optional Sony Sound Series Loops & Samples reference library installation
• 256 MB RAM

Windows-Compatible Sound Card

• CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• Microsoft DirectX® 8 or later (included on CD-ROM)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 SP1 (included on CD-ROM)
• Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on CD-ROM)