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ACID Music Studio 7

Manufacturer : Sony Creative Software
In Stock : 40

List Price:	$69.95
Price:	$21.05
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Features

DirectX and VST audio effect support - Increase your mixing options with DirectX effects, including tempo-based effects, and VST audio plug-ins.
VST instrument support - Play back your MIDI tracks through virtual synthesizers, filters, and effects.
ASIO driver support - Low-latency ASIO driver support provides faster results during playback and recording, plus adds support for additional sound cards.
Customizable project media folders - Set default folders and save locations for projects and other types of media to fit your workflow.
Keyboard command loop composition - Use your computer keyboard to insert loops and one-shots in real time as your project plays back.

Product Description

If you're serious about making your own music, ACID Music Studio software is the perfect tool for original song creation, live recording, and studio-quality mixing and effects processing. Share your songs any way you want ? burn your own CDs, upload to the Web, 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. Create original music by combining the included music loops ? over 1,700 of them ? or record and edit your own live performances Create custom soundtracks for your video projects created in Vegas Movie Studio+DVD software or other applications Show Me How tutorials go beyond the booklets and basic tutorials that other solutions provide. These extraordinary helpers are built right into the software ? just click Show Me How to access simple, interactive help on over 20 topics Create your own CDs in minutes. 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 Want to get heard? ACIDplanet is the premier Internet site for musicians and content developers. 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 video projects New! VST audio effect support New! ASIO driver support New! Edit source project Chopper editing tool to edit and clone loops Beatmapper tool for easy remixing Track-level volume, panning, and effects editing Master bus track for project-wide volume and pan fades

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 3.00 out of 4 reviews

Rating :
Crashed Computer, Poor Support. - K. Bachman, May 10, 2008

This software crashed my computer. The support was rude and they would not accept a return. I am stuck with $70 of useless software and Sony did not care at all. Very poor Customer Support.

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A Great Software! - J. Young, Mar 13, 2008

Awesome, amazing, excellent, flawless. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Acid Music Studio 7 - a software that allows you to produce original, high quality music. What this tool can do for you is simply astonishing, to say the least. You definitely get your money's worth, that's for sure.

Acid Music Studio 7 is ideal for anyone who's ever thought about producing music, regardless of what genre they're into: Techno, Hip Hop, Rock, Country... no problem. In fact, there's no other software I would recommend more than this one. It's flexible, powerful, and quite possibly the most user friendly software of its kind on the market today. As far as I'm concerned, you can't really make this software any more user-friendly than it already is. And although there are other, much more expensive products of this kind on the market, like, Cubase and Pro Tools (which I've taken for a test drive before), why would you want to pay multiple times more for a product that gives you the same results? Unless you're a professional music producer and you fear "looking unprofessional" in front of your peers for working with a software that costs less than a hundred bucks - that's understandable. Otherwise, forget it.

Beginners will be pleased to know that this software comes with a ton of pre-composed music files to get you started and give you some good practice. Most of these music files are "loops" but there are also many samples of snares, kicks, hats, stabs, strings, and other one-shots. This allows you to be as creative as you want. You can also modify each loop through a wide range of options, such as chopping them to bits and pieces, moving them around wherever you want, changing the volumes and pitches, mixing them with other sounds and even adding some effects to them. You can also record your vocals into it for a live session. With this software, the user is always in control. You can produce whatever music you want, at whatever level you want. The quality of the music files, by the way, is top notch CD quality. You can create your own mp3s and export them to your favorite player or burn them onto a CD.

For more advanced users, you can plug in your music keyboard to your computer or use any synthesizer software, such as FL Studio, for example, to compose your own, 100 % original music from scratch. If you have the interest for this kind of stuff, you'll be able to master this software very easily. Don't be fooled by reviewers who give this software anything less than five stars. This product is gold! I've been using Acid 2 for years and recently upgraded to Acid 7 and I'm absolutely thrilled with it. It's fun, it's easy to use, and it's suitable for people of all ages and skill level. Excellent for beginners and excellent for pros.

I highly recommend it!

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Worthless for analog recording - Alec Guinness, Feb 20, 2008

There is a good liklihood that you will problems with this program when recording multiple analog tracks (like when you use the microphone). The program is unable to correctly identify your computer's recording latency and so.... you have to set it manually. Getting the latency just right, so there is no delay between the track you are recording and the one you recorded before it is very time consuming. I've spent over an hour and still haven't gotten it just right. Sony knows about this problem, yet they haven't bothered to write a patch to fix it.

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Great for budding artists! - D. Anthony Hurst, Nov 01, 2007

I am actually a singer and was skeptical at first as to what Sony Acid can do for me. I have been amazed at the amount of effects you can play around with your voice. I am using this with a TASCAM US-144 ($150) and a Samson C15 ($50) and of course an XLR cable to connect the two ($15). You would need a Pop filter for the Mic ($20) and for under $300 (including Acid) you can have your own professional home studio for vocal/instrumental recording. Not to mention the fact that you can get loops of music that you can use if you can't play an instrument. Nothing will stop me now!!! Muahahhahhah! Lol...seriously though, good software!!!

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