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ACID Pro 7 (Academic Edition)
Professional digital audio workstation
Overview
Your New Creative Partner
ACID Pro 7 is a DAW powerhouse that combines full multitrack recording and mixing, MIDI sequencing, and our legendary ACID looping functionality for a seamless music-creation and post-production environment. More creative partner than production tool, ACID Pro 7 software inspires like nothing else. With its Transparent Technology design, ACID Pro 7 software removes typical barriers to the creative workflow so you can effortlessly transform ideas into real results.
Professional multitrack recording
For uncompromising 24-bit, 192 kHz sound quality production live or in the studio, ACID Pro 7 software has an expanded set of features for maximum audio performance. Whether you're recording your band or creating MIDI-based compositions, ACID Pro 7 software is the optimal platform for reliable multitrack recording and production.
Innovative loop-based music creation
ACID Pro software is the leader in loop-based music creation. Version 7 retains all the classic ACID Pro features including real-time pitch/tempo transposition during playback and preview, unlimited tracks, and our signature pick/paint/play interface. ACID Pro 7 software also includes more than 3,000 Sony Sound Series loops and 90 virtual instruments so you can start creating music right out of the box
Comprehensive MIDI support
Experience unparalleled MIDI sequencing in ACID Pro 7 software, with real time MIDI processing and precise control over MIDI events. Use track envelopes to automate and modify modulation, expression, or other types of MIDI controller data. Simultaneously record MIDI on multiple tracks, apply real time quantization, perform filtering and processing, create and edit drum patterns, and more.
Professional effects and soft synth support
Expand your palette with native support for VST instruments and plug-ins. Create resonant sweeps, EQ changes, and add effects with parameter automation. ReWire and ASIO support help you smoothly integrate ACID Pro 7 software with your existing studio.
More about Audio Control
Professional workflow features
Maximize efficiency with folder tracks and cluster editing to drag, pitch-shift, cut, copy, and paste whole sections of your arrangements. Use the Clip Pool to choose and arrange events to use in your compositions. Create dramatic or subtle tempo changes using tempo curves. Deliver projects in nearly any format without leaving the ACID Pro 7 environment.
Included with ACID Pro 7 software
ACID Pro 7 includes software for professional music production and editing, including ACID Pro Effects Rack powered by iZotope, Garritan Aria for ACID Pro Player, Sonoma Wire Works KitCore, and Native Instruments Guitar Combos.
Superior mixing and editing
ACID Pro 7 software has a dedicated mixing console for a flexible and efficient recording environment. Specify routing, assign audio effects, and use external effects processors with tracks and busses. ACID Pro 7 software also supports control surface automation and channel tracking for devices such as the Mackie Control and Frontier Design TranzPort. Its unique Beatmapper tool makes remixing easy, and the Chopper tool helps you create impressive drum fills, stutters, and DJ effects.
General features
ACID Pro 7 software includes a powerful set of real time features for composing original songs. Its revolutionary and intuitive pick, paint, and play interface lets you focus on the immediacy of music creation. Inside ACID Pro 7 software's comprehensive editing environment, you'll become immersed in a new world with infinite creative possibilities.
Microsoft Windows 7 compatible
ACID Pro 7 software is fully compatible with the Microsoft Windows 7 platform.
Pristine audio quality
ACID Pro 7 software employs the shortest possible path from your audio interface to your hard disk without floating-point conversions that can increase latency and dropout potential. Its optimized 24-bit, 192 kHz recording architecture includes dual and multicore processor support and dynamic playback optimization for maximum audio performance.
Interactive tutorials
ACID Pro 7 software includes built-in interactive tutorials for step-by-step help. Work along with the tutorials from within your project so you can learn and create at the same time.
Exclusive Media Manager technology
Use the Media Manager to tag, organize, and search your collection of sounds so you can quickly find just the right media for your ACID Pro 7 compositions. The Media Manager maintains a database of your content, including file attributes, ACID metadata, and tags that you can assign to classify your media. Install the Media Reference Library to automatically tag existing Sony Sound Series loops and samples on your hard drive.
Dynamic playback optimization
Gain increased performance on single and multicore processor machines with audio track buffering. ACID Pro 7 software uses a separate processing thread to render audio from tracks. On multiprocessor or multicore computers, processing is distributed evenly across all CPUs to increase playback performance.
More than 3,000 loops
ACID Pro 7 software includes more than 3,000 Sony Sound Series loops and 90 virtual instruments for instant music creation. Sound Series loops are ACIDized with our revolutionary pitch-shifting and time-stretching metadata for the smoothest possible performance. Get more free loops through the ACID Pro Get Media feature and at ACIDplanet.com. Further expand your media collection by purchasing titles from our award-winning collection of royalty-free sample libraries.
Exclusive free content
Get Media contains a wide assortment of free and fresh content that can't be found anywhere else. Enjoy instant access to folders full of great sounding royalty-free loops that you can use right away in all your projects. Get Media content adds significantly to the Sony Sound Series catalog by providing folders packed full of sounds that expand every new Sound Series library's potential.
Recording, mixing, and editing
ACID Pro 7 software addresses even the most complex audio production tasks with ease. With ACID Pro 7, you get the advantages of full-on DAW functionality paired with the built-in time stretching and pitch shifting features that changed music and shook the industry. Ease of use is still paramount, even as the ACID Pro feature set has expanded to encompass the entire spectrum of modern DAW features, and our exclusive support options and third party additions help make ACID Pro hands down one of the most fun and inspiring music creation software tools on the market.
MIDI Functionality
ACID Pro 7 software is a complete DAW environment. Complex editing is a snap using our piano roll and drum grid editing environments. Create and edit drum maps and use templates to label patch and drum names for hardware and software-based MIDI instruments. Ease the strain on your CPU by freezing MIDI tracks that are routed to soft synths.
Flexible Routing
Our new mixing console has the appearance of a traditional mixer --customize it to get the view you need. Expanded routing options now allow for a more flexible studio recording environment. Record hardware instruments with plug-in effects, mix external sources into your projects, use external effects processors on tracks and busses, create complex submixes with bus-to-bus routing, and monitor it all in real time. Set up and mix surround projects, and use the surround panner for precise control over channel positions.
Envelope Control
Use Tempo Curves to create smooth tempo variations in your projects. Draw envelopes using a mouse or external control surface and then tidy them up with automatic post-record keyframe thinning. Automate your 5.1 mix on the timeline using keyframes, and use envelopes and keyframes to implement MIDI continuous controller data and program changes. In ACID Pro 7 software you can easily modify pitch, modulation, expression, or change MIDI controller data, including project-wide changes.
Format Friendly
Place multiple media types on a single track, and add samples to your project as it plays back. Create your own loops in the Chopper and fly them in during playback via keyboard commands.
Control Surface Support
ACID Pro 7 software supports Mackie Control Universal and Frontier Design TranzPort, allows custom mapping of up to five user-defined control surfaces, and helps you stay organized by indicating all channels dedicated to external control.
Slice, Dice, and Groove
The Chopper creates amazing rhythmic variations. Use it to 'clone' loops, create chopped events, tweak your loops and create your own customized samples. Chopped events will play in sync with your ACID Pro 7 projects, and you can even use keyboard commands to drop events from the Chopper onto the timeline in real time.
Tighten up!
ACID Pro 7 software features our patent-pending Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning quantization technology. Morph existing material into fresh new sounds. Apply grooves to a track, extract a groove from one file and apply it to another, or create and export custom grooves.
Premier Remixing Tools
Use our Beatmapper tool to add tempo information to song-length files, including MP3s. New enhancements in ACID Pro 7 software make it easier to edit clip properties and Beatmap songs with varying tempos and time signatures, providing you with more flexibility when composing songs and performing remixes.
Arrange Tools
Divide your project into logical sections that can be freely arranged directly on the timeline. Organize your tracks by placing them into Track Folders and then use cluster editing to drag, pitch-shift, cut, copy, and paste entire sections of an arrangement
MIDI and audio control
ACID Pro 7 software is a comprehensive DAW environment that offers high-precision MIDI editing using ergonomically satisfying controls. Edit more MIDI data faster and enjoy longer, fatigue-free production sessions with our user-friendly tools.
Inline Editing
Manipulate MIDI data directly on the ACID timeline in piano roll and drum grid interfaces. Edit note positions, velocities, pitch bends, and controller information in the main multitrack interface.
Drum grid mode
ACID Pro 7 Drum Grid Mode provides you with an easy and intuitive way to create and edit drum patterns directly on the timeline.
MIDI track freeze
Freeze MIDI tracks that are routed to soft synths. Once frozen, the tracks are streamed and played back as audio files, conserving valuable CPU processing power.
Drum and patch map editors
efficiently create and edit drum maps. Use templates to label patch and drum names for hardware or software-based MIDI synthesizers and drum machines. Save your templates and share them with other ACID Pro 7 users.
Envelope Automation Recording
Record track envelope and keyframe parameters in real time using a mouse or external control surfaces with touch and latch record modes and automatic post-record keyframe thinning. Automation parameter control is available for both stereo and 5.1 tracks and busses.
ReWire mixer and device support
ACID Pro software works as both a ReWire host and a device. Use ACID software as part of your synchronized workflow with compatible applications such as Sonar, Nuendo, Cubase, Live, or Pro Tools.
Audio plug-in manager
The Plug-In Manager lets you quickly add effects to a track, bus, assignable effects chain, or soft synth bus. You can also easily rename and organize plug-ins.
VSTi parameter automation
Increase your mixing flexibility by incorporating automation envelopes to control VST instruments in your ACID Pro 7 projects.
VST effects support
ACID Pro 7 software natively supports VST effects, including automation of effects parameters, giving you the creative edge.
MIDI filtering and processing
Process MIDI data directly on the ACID Pro 7 timeline, including quantization and global editing of velocity values, event duration changes, and more.
MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
Use track envelopes and keyframes to implement continuous controller and program changes. ACID Pro 7 software has an intuitive interface so you can efficiently modify pitch, modulation, expression, or change MIDI controller data, including project-wide changes.
Groove quantization tools
ACID Pro 7 software features our patent-pending Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning quantization technology. With these tools, you can significantly expand your loop collection by morphing existing loops into fresh, new sounds. Apply different grooves to a track, extract a groove from one file and apply it to another, or create and export custom grooves.
New! Zplane lastique audio
timestretching and pitch shifting
Now featuring Zplane lastique Pro technology, ACID Pro 7 allows time stretching and pitch-shifting of Beatmapped tracks while retaining maximum sound quality.
Included with ACID Pro 7
ACID Pro 7 includes software for professional music production and editing, including ACID Pro Effects Rack, powered by iZotope, Garritan Aria for ACID Pro Player, Sonoma Wire Works KitCore, and Native Instruments Guitar Combos - a US $500 value.
Garritan Aria for ACID Pro Player
A 180.00 value
From Garritan, the worldwide leader and pioneer in sample libraries, developed in conjunction with Plogue Art et Technologie Inc., Garritan's ARIA for Pro Player has a focus on exceptional sample playback with simplicity and playability. Includes a complete suite of orchestral, big band, and General MIDI samples.
ACID Pro Effects Rack, powered by iZotope
A 70.00 value
The ACID Pro Effects Rack bundle is a suite of audio effects powered by iZotope DSP technology. The effects include high quality algorithms featuring the exceptional sound quality for which iZotope is known. The ACID Pro Effects Rack bundle includes Flanger, Phaser, Analog Delay, and Dynamics effects.
Native Instruments Guitar Combos Bundle
A 70.00 value
This Native Instruments bundle recreates three classic guitar combos. The package includes AC Box Combo, Plexi Combo, and Twang Combo with over 100 professional presets. The precisely emulated tube combos have an absolutely authentic, warm and dynamic sound, producing the purest of tones.
Sonoma Wire Works KitCore Drums
A 40.00 value
The new KitCore offers great drum sound with minimal CPU load. KitCore version 2 includes one Matt Sorum (Velvet Revolver) and two Ben Smith (Heart) rock/pop kits, a Jon Bishop (Ernie Watts) jazz kit, a set of Luis Conte latin percussion sounds, a brushed drumkit and two subwoofer-slammin' urban/electronic kits. KitCore has over 4000 MIDI drum files and includes MIDI grooves from the DrumCore library
CD burning, import, and export
With ACID Pro 7 software you can open a wide variety of file types, including WAV, Windows Media, and MP3. Burn your own disc-at-once CDs directly from the timeline, or export completed songs as WAV, MP3, and more. Upload your music to ACIDplanet.com, a top site for independent music.
Integrated CD burning
ACID Pro 7 software has integrated track-at-once and disc-at-once CD burning, so you can burn audio CDs directly from the timeline at any point in the production process.
Gracenote MusicID CD album identification
ACID Pro 7 supports Gracenote MusicID, so you can view information about a CD track including, title, artist, and song name, and also submit data.
Easy audio encoding
Powerful encoding functionality lets you save your songs to popular streaming formats for the Web and all your favorite portable players. Supported formats include MP3, WMA, WMV, AAC, FLAC, Dolby Digital AC-3 (for surround) and more.
New! FLAC, AAC, ACE, & MPEG-2 Format Support
ACID Pro 7 software offers increased format support, allowing for more options with media and hardware devices including the PSP , iPod , and iPhone . ACID Pro 7 software also includes the Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio plug-in to export mixes in surround format.
Publish your songs to the Web
Want to get heard? ACIDplanet.com is a premier destination for independent musicians. Join ACIDplanet.com to upload and share compositions, remix songs from major label artists, and collaborate with other members on a wide range of music and multimedia projects.
ACID Pro 7 Features Overview
General
- New! External control surface channel tracking
- New! Custom labels for ASIO devices and ports
- New! Interactive tutorials
- External control surface support including the Mackie Control and Frontier Design Tranzport
- Dynamic playback optimization maximizes audio performance
- Dual/multi-core processor support
- ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless support
- Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI
- Real-time pitch and tempo matching
- Over 3,000 music loops in multiple genres
- Alternate time signature support
- 24-bit, 192 kHz audio support
- ASIO driver support
- Master, auxiliary, soft synth, and effects bus tracks
- Multiple file format support
- Live audio recording
- Media Manager technology
- Customizable UI and keyboard mapping
- Flash (.swf) file format import
- Autosave crash recovery
- Dual/external monitor support
- Metronome for playback and record
- Unlimited undo/redo history
- Get Media option to download media from the Web
Export and CD Burning
- New! Native FLAC, AAC, AC-3 Studio, and MPEG-2, format support
- Gracenote CD album identification
- Integrated disc-at-once CD burning
- CD audio extraction
- Export: WAV, MP3, WMA, WMV, RM, WAV, AIF, PCA, and AC3
- One-click music publishing to ACIDplanet.com
Mixing and Editing
- New! Audio and MIDI mixing console
- New! Audio, MIDI, and Bus Track meters
- New! Input busses
- New! Real-time rendering
- New! Tempo curves
- New! Cross-track event drag and drop
- New! Enhanced Beatmapping for tracks with tempo changes
- New! Enhanced timestretch and pitch-shifting with lastique Pro
- New! Metronome count-off
- New! Switches including Normalize, Invert Phase, and Lock
- Multitrack recording for audio and MIDI
- Unlimited media clips per track
- On-the-fly punch-in recording
- Record input monitoring
- Clip Pool management
- ACID Project sections
- Envelope automation recording
- Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline
- Film-style panning mode for 5.1 surround projects
- Nestable folder tracks
- Real-time event reverse
- Bus-to-bus routing
- Downmix monitoring
- Drop one-shots in real time
- Customizable project media folders
- 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
MIDI and Effects
- New! MIDI track freeze
- New! Enhanced plug-in management
- New! Optimized plug-in scanning with Plug-in Manager
- Inline MIDI editing
- MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
- Drum grid editing mode with drum key maps
- MIDI filtering and processing
- VSTi parameter automation
- Program Map Editor
- MIDI file export
- MIDI piano roll snap-to-scale filtering
- MIDI event list editing and step recording
- ReWire support (mixer and device)
- VST effects support with automation and tempo sync
- Tempo-based DirectX effects
- Groove quantization tools
- Audio Plug-in Manager
- Bypass all effects command
- Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC)
- Direct links to audio/MIDI editors
- DLS 1 & 2 soft synth 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
Included with ACID Pro 7
- ACID Pro Effects Rack powered by iZotope
- Garritan Aria Player
- Sonoma Wire Works KitCore
- Native Instruments Guitar Combos
DirectX Effects
Automated DirectX Effects
Tempo Based 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
- Track EQ
- Resonance Filter
- Flange/Wah/Phase
- Simple Delay
- Flange / Wah / Phase
- Amplitude Modulation
- Chorus