If you're serious about making your own music, ACID Music Studio software is the perfect tool for original song creation, multitrack audio and MIDI recording, and studio-quality mixing, and effects processing. Share your songs any way you want — burn your own CDs, upload to the web, prepare audio for podcasts, or export to your MP3 player. With built-in tutorials to guide you, you'll be composing, mixing, and mastering like a pro in no time.

Your Music Studio

• Easy Live Recording - Record vocals, guitars, keyboards, and other instruments with ACID Music Studio software. It's easy - simply plug your microphone or instrument into your PC sound card and click Record to capture audio and MIDI.
• Powerful Mixing - 3,000 ACIDized music loops, 1,000 MIDI files, built-in effects, and other tools. You can also import your own songs and MP3 files for beat-matching and mixing.
• Share Anywhere - Burn your own music CDs, save the songs you create to popular formats for uploading to websites such as ACIDplanet.com, prepare audio for podcasts, or convert songs to MP3 format for playback on your portable music player.

Easy to Use and Learn - Even if you've never written a song or played an instrument, you can use ACID® Music Studio software to create original music, produce DJ-style remixes, add soundtracks to videos, and burn professional-quality CDs.

Powerful Mixing and Effects Processing - Professional mixing tools give you precise control over volume and panning, effects processing, audio routing, and final output. Customize your songs using professional-quality audio effects including EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phase, distortion, echo, and more. Use VST and DirectX audio effects, and VST instruments. Add pan and volume envelopes, reverse audio, and change the pitch and tempo of your mix in real time.

Record and Edit MIDI - Use ACID Music Studio Software for complete MIDI editing and sequencing. Record and edit MIDI note and controller data on the timeline, and assign to any MIDI instrument. ACID Music Studio software supports VSTi and includes over 1,000 MIDI files and 90 instruments for song creation.

Learn as You Go with Amazing Tutorials - Our exclusive Show Me How tutorials guide you through the entire creative process. Whenever you need help, just click the Show Me How button and choose your tutorial topic. Helpful text dialogue boxes, pointers, and guides will actually show you what to do and where to click.

Share Your Music Anywhere - Create your own CDs in minutes. Disc-at-once CD layout and burning is fully integrated into the software so you can conveniently create your music and produce professional-sounding CDs all within one application. Powerful encoding functionality lets you save your songs to popular streaming formats for uploading to the web, or export them to portable music devices.

Features

• Fundamentals
  • New! Includes over 3,000 ACIDized music loops
  • New! Multicore processor support
  • Intuitive pick, paint, and play interface
  • Unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI
  • Video scoring track
  • Automatic pitch and tempo matching
  • Alternate time signature support
  • Real-time loop preview
  • Support for multiple file formats in the same project
• Mixing and Editing
  • New! Multitrack audio and MIDI recording
  • New! Multiple events per track with automatic crossfades
  • Studio-quality effects including EQ, reverb, delay, and more
  • Chopper editing tool and loop cloning
  • Beatmapper remix tool
  • Track-level volume, panning, and effects editing
  • Master bus track for project-wide volume and pan fades
  • Real-time audio effects preview during playback
  • Event reverse
  • CD audio extraction
  • Metronome
• MIDI
  • New! Includes over 1,000 MIDI files for song creation
  • New! Includes 90 DLS instruments and 25 DLS-based projects
  • New! MIDI editing and sequencing
  • New! Inline MIDI editing with drum grid
  • New! MIDI step recording
  • New! MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
  • New! MIDI import and export
  • New! MIDI input filters for tracks
• Audio Control
  • 16-bit, 48kHz audio support
  • DirectX audio plug-in support
  • Tempo-based DirectX effects
  • VST instrument support
  • VST audio effect support
  • ASIO driver support
• Export and Sharing
  • New! ATRAC editing and encoding
  • New! Gracenote® MusicID™ CD album recognition
  • Integrated disc-at-once (DAO) CD burning
  • Unlimited MP3 export
  • Export to Sony® Net MD™ players
  • One-click publishing to ACIDplanet.com

Supported Formats

• Opens: AIFF, AVI, BMP, GIF, JPG, MIDI, MP3, OGG, PCA, SFA, SWF, TGA, TIF, W64, WAV, WMA
• Saves: AIFF, ATRAC3, AVI, MP3, OGG, QuickTime, RealAudio™, RealVideo™, W64, WAV, WMA

System Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows® XP or Windows Vista™
• 800 MHz processor (1 GHz if using video)
• 200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 256 MB RAM
• Windows-compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive (for installation)
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning)
• Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or later (included on application disc)

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