Sony ACID Music Studio Audio Software

Music Creation and Mixing Software

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It's Time to Start Making YOUR Music.

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. CD Burning and Export

Music Creation Made Easy
Create original music by combining the included music loops or record and edit your own live performances. You can also extract audio from your own CDs and add MP3 files to your mix. Professional mixing tools give you precise control over volume and panning, effects processing, audio routing, and final output.

Unlimited tracks and loops per project
Automatic pitch and tempo matching
Record vocals or instruments into your song
Audition loops in real time with your mix
Import your own music from CDs or MP3s
Apply effects, reverse audio, and more

Loop-based Song Creation in 3 Easy Steps

•Pick Your Music
•Includes over 3,000 loops in almost every genre
•Audition loops in real time with your mix

Paint it On
•Simple brush tool paints music into tracks
•Unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI

Play it Back
•Click Play to preview your song
•Hear pitch and tempo changes in real time

Studio Multitrack Recording
Multitrack recording gives you complete freedom and flexibility in how you record your tracks. ACID Music Studio software has unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI, so you can record as many instruments and vocals as you want. Record the entire band all at once with each instrument on a different track. This gives you complete control over volume, panning, and effects on each instrument or vocal for the perfect mix.

Create Video Soundtracks
With ACID Music Studio you can easily create custom soundtracks for your video projects created in Vegas Movie Studio software or other applications. Easily add sound effects, music, or even record your own voiceover track.

Professional Mixing Power
ACID Music Studio software provides a complete set of professional-level tools to give you precise control over volume and panning, effects processing, audio routing, and final output.

Create your own music loops with the Chopper™ tool
Add pan and volume envelopes for precise control Customize your mix with built-in audio effects
Change pitch and tempo, and reverse audio in real time

Unique Tools for Remixing
For remixing your favorite songs, only ACID Music Studio software has the Beatmapper tool. If you remix a complete song, the Beatmapper wizard appears. The Beatmapper tool automatically find the tempo of the song, making it easy to remix.

Impressive Audio Effects
Apply professional-quality audio effects and processes including EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phase, distortion, and echo. New in version 6, ACID Music Studio now includes DirectX and VST audio effects support, as well as support for VST instruments so you can playback your MIDI tracks through virtual synthesizers, filters, and effects.

Studio-Quality Content
ACID Music Studio software includes over 3,000 ACIDized loops in nearly every musical genre. Combine these loops to create original songs. Need more loops? Browse the Sound Series catalog for over 100 loop library CDs to expand your collection of music samples, one-shots, and sound effects.

Add Your Own Music to the Mix
Get additional music for your projects from your own files. ACID Music Studio software can import audio from CD, .mp3, and .wav files for remixing.

Complete MIDI Environment
ACID Music Studio software is has everything you need for MIDI recording, editing, and sequencing. In addition, ACID Music Studio software includes over 1,000 MIDI files and 90 DLS instruments that you can use to create original songs and remixes.

Inline MIDI Editing
Increase your music productivity and flexibility with easy-to-see inline note editing. Inline editing makes MIDI data easier to edit and gives you quicker access to notes. Use envelopes and keyframes for precise control over MIDI data. The drum grid allows you to easily edit MIDI notes for soft synths that have drum maps defined.

MIDI Track Envelopes
MIDI changes can be made across a project using track envelopes. Track envelopes are an easy, visual way to adjust volume, panning, controller parameters, or program changes dynamically over the duration of a track. With new freehand envelope drawing, you can draw envelopes on the timeline using the drawing tool, and further edit the envelope points if necessary.

MIDI Processing and Filtering
ACID Music Studio software includes MIDI processes and filters such as quantize, velocity, and duration for setting MIDI note parameters. With these processes you can apply destructive editing to MIDI events on the timeline, quantize data in events, edit velocity values, change the duration of an event, or transpose MIDI data.