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ACID Pro 4.0 LogoAcid Pro 4.0

ACID PRO is an award-winning loop-based music creation tool that allows you to produce original, royalty-free music. Use ACID to create songs, remix tracks, develop music beds, score videos, and develop music for Web sites and Flash animations. This revolutionary tool is intuitive and easy to use. Work with hundreds of loops in multiple genres. Use unlimited tracks of audio. Import complete songs, even MP3s. And when you're done, publish your music to ACIDplanet.com. It even has built-in support for MIDI, video scoring, and can save to a number of audio and video file formats, including WAV, WMA, RM, AVI, and MP3.

New Features in ACID Pro 4.0

If you liked ACID PRO 3.0, you won't want to miss this incredible upgrade. If you've never tried ACID before, there's no other product like it. ACID PRO 4.0, our multi-award winning music creation tool now includes these new features:

Mixing: 
  • Plug-in effects automation
  • 5.1 surround mixing
  • Alternate time signatures
  • ASIO driver support
  • Loop cloning
  • Master, auxiliary and effects bus tracks
  • Enhanced time stretching for Beatmapped tracks
  • New audio panning options
  • New envelope fade types
MIDI
  • MIDI piano roll editing
  • MIDI step recording
  • MIDI event list editing
  • VSTi support
  • Yamaha OPT (Open Plug-In Technology) support
  • Optimized DLS and VSTi soft synth model
Workspace
  • Multiple media file previewing
  • Hotkey commands for track muting and soloing
  • Optimized ACID playback engine
  • Autosave crash recovery
  • Customizable track properties
Video
  • Windows Media Audio and Video Import
  • Enhanced video handling

 Ordering Information      ACID Loop Libraries      ACID Product Family

Why ACID PRO?

Music creation made easy — With ACID, you can create original, royalty-free music in minutes. This revolutionary tool makes creating music a breeze. It's as simple as pick, paint, and play. Simply pick the loops you like, paint them on a track, play your results and enjoy the music.

Powerful features — Use as many loops as you like with unlimited tracks. The sky's the limit. Adjust the volume and panning for each track. Alter effects over time using volume and track envelopes. Apply fades and transitions. Create amazing drum fills. Combine music loops with existing songs. Even apply effects on tracks, busses or in assignable effects chains.

Amazing effects — ACID PRO includes 18 DirectX Audio Plug-Ins from Sonic Foundry's XFX 1, XFX 2 and XFX 3*. This arsenal of effects includes Amplitude Modulation, Chorus, Delay, Distortion, Flange, Noise Gate, Reverb and more. ACID PRO also includes three EQs—Graphic, Parametric, and Paragraphic and supports third party DirectX Plug-Ins.

Hundreds of loops — ACID PRO includes a music content CD containing more than 600 music loops and dozens of projects from Sonic Foundry's Loops for ACID collection. This huge assortment will get you on your way to creating royalty-free music in minutes. Genres include: Dance, Hip-Hop, Techno, Industrial, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Ambient, Orchestral and more.

An excellent value — ACID PRO includes more than $650 of free software, including Sonic Foundry's XFX 1, XFX 2 and XFX 3*, Sound Forge XP Studio and Vegas Audio LE**. Learn more about these products by clicking the links above.

Video scoring** — Create the perfect music bed. Score original music alongside your video to create the ultimate video production. With ACID's seamless ability to match pitch and tempo, scoring your video has never been easier.

MIDI and DLS Sound File Support — Combine MIDI files with your audio tracks in ACID. MIDI files can be played using external or internal MIDI sound sources, including DLS (Downloadable Sounds) Sound Files, through the DirectX Soft Synth. MIDI tracks time stretch perfectly to any tempo, and can be rendered with effects just like audio tracks!

* XFX 1, XFX 2 and XFX 3 previously sold separately. All components are installed with ACID PRO except Vegas Audio LE and Sound Forge XP Studio, which require a separate installation.

** 400 MHz processor and Windows 98SE, Me, or 2000 for video scoring.
98SE, Me, or 2000 for Vegas Audio LE.

What you can do with ACID PRO  

General Features 

  • Create music using an efficient pick, paint, and play style interface
  • Use unlimited tracks of audio 
  • Work with more than 600 music loops (genres include: Dance, Hip-Hop, Techno, Industrial, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Ambient, Orchestral, and more) 
  • Use an unlimited number of loops with automatic tempo and pitch matching Audition loops with your project before adding them
  • Import entire MP3 files and songs
  • Record music or vocals directly into a project

Editing Features

  • Control the volume, pan and effects on each track
  • Change the pitch or tempo of an entire project in real-time
  • Create custom remixes of your favorite songs using the Beatmapper
  • Produce amazing drum fills, stutters, and DJ-style effects with the Chopper
  • Create the ultimate music bed for video scoring
  • Synchronize audio and video files
  • Restore projects to any previous state using unlimited undo / redo history
  • Drop markers in real-time
  • Edit multiple tracks at once with ripple editing
  • Make tempo and key changes over time
  • Insert volume and pan envelopes
  • Mix several tracks into a new one (track bouncing)

Effects Processing

  • Use 18 real-time DirectX audio plug-ins from XFX 1, XFX 2 and XFX 3
  • Process effects in any order — in any combination
  • Audition effects in real-time and tweak the results during playback
  • Apply effects on tracks, busses, or as assignable effects chains

CD Features

  • Rip audio tracks from CDs directly into ACID
  • Burn audio projects to CD with track-at-once CD burning

MIDI

  • Combine MIDI files with audio tracks
  • Record MIDI files directly into the timeline
  • Generate MIDI Time Code and synchronize with external devices
  • Play MIDI files using external or internal MIDI sound sources
  • Use DLS Sound Files
  • Time stretch MIDI tracks

Sonic FoundryOther Features

  • Publish your music to the online community at ACIDplanet.com
  • Expand your editing power with Sound Forge XP Studio and create, record and edit your own audio loops
  • Turn your PC into a complete multitrack recording studio with Vegas Audio LE
  • Save to a number of audio file formats, including WAV, WMA, RM, and MP3
  • Encode video, insert metadata command markers, launch web sites, display captions, and embed URL flips into your audio and video streams
  • Use any DirectX Plug-In, whether from Sonic Foundry or a third party vendor

 Product Specifications

CD

  • CD ripping
  • CD burning

 

MIDI
  • Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC)
  • MIDI record and playback
  • MIDI file support
  • DLS 1 & 2 sound file support
  • MIDI Time Code (MTC) generation to synchronize with external devices
  • MIDI time stretching
Editing
  • Beatmapper remixing tool
  • Chopper editing tool
  • Video scoring track (AVI, MOV)
  • Audio and video sync
  • Ripple editing for editing across multiple tracks
  • Attack, Sustain, and Release (ASR) envelopes
  • Volume and pan adjustments
  • Track bouncing
  • Unlimited undo / redo history
  • Track envelopes lock to events
  • Project pitch and tempo adjust
  • Ripple editing
  • Real-time placement of markers during playback
  • Tempo and key change markers
  • Volume and pan envelops
  • Metadata command markers
  • Tempo and key mapping
  • Multiple time-stretching algorithms

 

Effects
  • DirectX Plug-In support
  • 32 effects per track
  • 32 assignable effect chains
  • 26 busses
  • Compression
  • Pitch Shift
  • Chorus
  • Delay/Echo
  • Noise Gate
  • Multiband Dynamics
  • Graphic Dynamics
  • Parametric EQ
  • Paragraphic EQ
  • Graphic EQ
  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Flange / Wah-Wah
  • Smooth / Enhance
  • Gapper / Snipper
  • Vibrato
  • Distortion
General
  • Create original, royalty-free music
  • Arrange and edit audio loops
  • Pick, paint, and play interface
  • Hundreds of multi-genre loops
  • Real-time pitch and tempo matching
  • Unlimited tracks
  • XFX 1, XFX 2 and XFX 3 DirectX audio effects
  • Real-time effects
  • Tempo and Key mapping
  • Locking Volume, Pan, and Effects envelopes
  • 16-bit and 24-bit audio support
  • Sample rates up to 192khz
  • Multiple file format support in the same project
  • MP3 import
  • One-click music publishing to ACIDPlanet.com
  • "Get Media" option to locate media from the web
  • Audio Recording
  • Multi-processor support
  • Dual-monitor support
  • Export/Save as WAV, MP3, WMA, RA, RV, WAV, AIF, and PCA

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Ordering Information

Product Code SF-D2023
Platform/OS Win 98SE, Me, 2000, or XP

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ACID Pro 4.0

  
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