ACID® PRO 4.0 is the latest version of Sonic Foundry's award-winning loop-based music creation tool that allows professionals to produce original, royalty-free music. Use ACID to create songs, remix tracks, produce 5.1 surround audio mixes, develop music beds, score videos and create music for web sites and Flash™ animations. While this revolutionary tool is intuitive and easy to use, its powerful enough for professional production. Work with a huge assortment of loops in multiple genres. ACID lets users compose using unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI, import and Beatmap complete songs. ACID PRO saves to a variety of formats such as WAV, WMA, RM, AVI, and MP3.

Extended information

Why ACID PRO?
Powerful features — Use as many loops and MIDI tracks as you like with unlimited tracks. Apply VSTi soft synths, create amazing 5.1 surround mixes, and perform video scoring.

Amazing audio effects — Create resonant sweeps, dramatic fades, EQ changes, and effects by utilizing new automation parameters and envelope control. ACID 4.0 includes new Sonic Foundry automated effects such as Resonant Filters, Track EQ, and Flange/Wah Wah/Phase. ACID PRO also includes over 20 DirectX® audio Plug-Ins such as Amplitude Modulation, Chorus, Delay, Distortion, Flange, Noise Gate, Reverb and more.

Enhanced MIDI functionality — ACID 4.0 allows you to display and edit MIDI files in a piano roll format, just like a sequencer. The new MIDI piano roll editor allows you to draw new notes, and makes it easier to graphically edit MIDI parameters. Record MIDI tracks into your ACID project using external MIDI devices, or add events using MIDI step recording. MIDI tracks time stretch perfectly to any tempo, and can be rendered with effects just like audio tracks!

Includes hundreds of music loops — ACID PRO includes a content CD containing more than 350 multi-genre music loops and dozens of projects from Sonic Foundry's Loops for ACID® collection. Genres include: Dance, Hip-Hop, Techno, Industrial, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Ambient, Orchestral and more. Plus, get 5.1 surround projects and alternate time signature loops.

Technical specifications

General
Create original, royalty free music

Hundreds of multi-genre loops

Preview loops in real time with your project

Real-time pitch and tempo matching

VSTi support

5.1 surround mixing

ASIO driver support

Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI

MIDI recording, editing, and playback

Alternate time signatures

Over 20 real time DirectX® audio effects

Plug-In effects automation

Real-time effects

Tempo and Key mapping

Master, auxiliary, and effects bus tracks

New audio panning model

Locking Volume, Pan, and Effects envelopes

Optimized DLS and VSTi soft synth model

16-bit and 24-bit audio support

Sample rates up to 192khz

Yamaha OPT (Open Plug-In Technology) support

Multiple file format support

MP3 import

Hotkey commands for track Muting and Soloing

One-click music publishing to ACIDPlanet.com

"Get Media" option to locate media from the web

Audio Recording

Autosave crash recovery

Multi-processor support

Dual-monitor support

Windows Media™ Audio and Video import

Export/Save as WAV, MP3, WMA, WMV, RA, RV, WAV, AIF, and PCA



Editing
Chopper™ editing tool

Loop Cloning: Chop to new in Chopper™

Beatmapper™ remixing tool

Enhanced time stretching for Beatmapped tracks

Video scoring track (AVI, MOV, WMV)

Audio and video synchronization

Ripple editing across multiple tracks

Attack, Sustain, and Release (ASR) envelopes

New envelope fade types

Track bouncing

Unlimited undo / redo history

Track envelopes lock to events

Project pitch and tempo adjust

Real-time placement of markers during playback

Tempo, time signature, and key change markers

Volume and pan envelops

Metadata command markers

Tempo and key mapping

Multiple time-stretching algorithms



MIDI
MIDI piano roll editing

MIDI event list editing and step recording

Unlimited tracks of MIDI

MIDI time stretching

Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC)

MIDI record and playback

Direct links to audio/MIDI editors

DLS 1 & 2 soft synth support



CD
CD ripping

Track-at-once CD burning



Effects
DirectX® Plug-In support

Plug-In effects automation

32 effects per track

32 assignable effect chains

26 effect busses

Effects bus tracks

Automated DirectX® Effects

Track EQ
Resonance Filter
Flange/Wah/Phase

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
Smooth / Enhance
Gapper / Snipper
Vibrato
Distortion

Video

Perform video scoring
Import WMV and AVI formats
Synchronize audio with video
External monitor support
Advanced video rendering options
Video frame rate resampling and deinterlacing
Multiple pixel aspect ratio support for videos