ACID Pro 6 software is the ideal environment for composition, recording, mixing, and production. Its unique fusion of professional power and exceptional ease of use sets ACID Pro 6 software apart from all other digital audio workstations. With
multitrack audio technologies, comprehensive MIDI sequencing, and legendary ACID looping functionality, ACID Pro 6 software will redefine the way you make music.

Extended information

The standard for loop-based music - ACID Pro 6 software is the ideal music composition and production tool for original music creation. With features such as unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI events, real-time pitch and tempo matching, automatic loop preview and real-time event reverse, ACID Pro 6 software has the features you need for truly professional results.

Includes over 1,000 loops - ACID Pro 6 software includes over 1,000 royalty-free Sony® Sound Series™ loops in many genres, each embedded with our signature pitch-shifting and time-stretching metadata for the smoothest possible performance. This huge assortment of professionally recorded samples will have you creating your own original music in minutes.

Work smarter with Media Ma nager - The ACID Pro Media Manager tool is a powerful way to tag, organize, and search your collection of media so you can quickly find loops on your hard-drive or even within the entire Sony Sound Series collection of loops and samples. The Media Manager feature maintains a database of your media, including file attributes, ACID metadata, and tags that you can assign to classify your media.

Patent-pending quantization technology - Transform loops and MIDI tracks into fresh, new sounds with our exclusive Groove Mapping™ and Groove Cloning™ quantization tools. Change the groove of a track, apply different grooves to the same track, extract a groove from one file and apply it to another, or even create custom grooves.

Other features:
- Professional multitrack recording
- Superior mixing and editing
- Effects and soft synths
- 5.1 surround mixing
- External control surface support
- ACID project sections
- Comprehensive MIDI support
- Inline MIDI editing
- MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
- MIDI filtering and processing
- Drum Grid MODE
- Drum and patch map editors

Technical specifications

Fundamentals:
• Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI
• Unlimited media clips per track
• Over 1,000 music loops
• 24-bit/192 kHz audio support
• Support for control surfaces including the Mackie® Control Universal
• Dual/Multi-core processor support
• Alternate time signature support
• ASIO™ driver support
• Master, auxiliary, soft synth, and effects bus tracks
• External monitor support
• Gracenote® CD album identification
• Integrated disc-at-once CD burning
• CD audio extraction

Mixing and Editing:
• Multitrack audio and MIDI recording
• On-the-fly punch-in recording
• Automatic crossfades
• Beatmapper™ remixing tool
• 5.1 surround mixing including film-style panning mode
• Video scoring track
• Record input monitoring
• Nestable folder tracks
• Project sections for easy arranging
• Envelope automation recording
• Bus-to-bus routing
• Ripple editing across multiple tracks
• Volume and pan envelopes
• Tempo, time signature, key change markers

MIDI:
• Inline MIDI editing
• MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
• Drum grid editing mode with drum key maps
• MIDI Piano Roll snap-to-scale filtering
• MIDI filtering and processing
• MIDI file export
• MIDI Piano Roll editing
• MIDI event list editing and step recording
• MIDI patch map editor
• Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC)
• Direct links to audio/MIDI editors

Audio Effects:
• ReWire support (mixer and device)
• VST effects support with automation and tempo sync
• VSTi soft synth support
• VSTi parameter automation
• Groove quantization tools
• Audio Plug-In Manager
• DLS 1 & 2 soft synth support
• Over 20 DirectX audio effects including automated and tempobased effects
• DirectX plug-in support
• Plug-in effect automation
• 32 assignable effect chains
• 26 effect busses
• Effects bus tracks