Sony ACID Music Studio (Windows)

Built on Our Industry-Standard Pro Product
Our award-winning ACID® Pro software is the industry standard for professional music creation on the PC. Built on the same technology, ACID Music Studio™ software provides the power, flexibility, and reliability of ACID Pro, with a streamlined set of features that make it perfect for home music creation and mixing. See what's new in ACID Music Studio 5.

Make Your Own Music, Mixes, Mash-Ups, And More
It's easy to create songs instantly from prerecorded audio samples called loops. ACID Music Studio software includes more than 1,000 studio-quality loops to get you started. Just pick some loops, paint them into the tracks, and click Play.

To record your own tracks, just plug a microphone or instrument into your computer and click Record to add live vocals, guitar, keyboard, or other sounds to your creation. ACID Music Studio software automatically matches the tempo and musical elements so everything plays back together and sounds great.

Customize your project using studio-quality effects such as EQ, reverb, delay, and more. If you want to make your own music or remixes, add soundtracks to videos, or burn your own songs to CD, ACID Music Studio software is all you need.

More Ways To Share
No other home music-creation program gives you more options for exporting and sharing your songs such as built-in CD burning. And only ACID Music Studio software provides one-click publishing to ACIDplanet.com — the world's premier Internet site for musicians and content developers. You can also export songs to Sony® Net MD™ players and Sony CLIə handheld devices, or save your music in MP3, RealMedia™, and Windows Media® 9 formats.

Overview


Easy To Learn And Use
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.

Add Your Own Music To The Mix
Plug a microphone or instrument into your PC to record live music directly into your ACID Music Studio project. Powerful yet easy-to-use tools let you quickly edit your recording and add impressive audio effects for professional results. Get additional music for your projects from your own files. ACID Music Studio can import audio from: CD, MP3, and WAV files.

Add Soundtracks To Videos
Easily create soundtracks to your home videos — from extreme sports to family vacations. ACID Music Studio software lets you easily synchronize audio with video and customize your project with sound effects, music loops, complete songs, and narration.

Includes Over 1,000 Loops
ACID® Music Studio™ software includes more than 1,000 professionally recorded loops in many genres including dance, techno, hip-hop, rock, and electronica — combine them any way you want and define your own music style.

Professional Mixing And Editing
ACID Music Studio software lets you create pro sounding music by controlling the volume, panning and effects on each track. Or, perform project-wide volume and pan fades using the new bus tracks.

Customize your music using professional audio effects such as EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phaser, distortion, and echo. You can also add pan and volume envelopes, reverse audio, and change pitch and tempo — all in real-time.

For remixing your favorite songs, only ACID Music Studio software has the Beatmapper™ tool. If you remix a complete song, the Beatmapper wizard appears. Beatmapper automatically finds the tempo of the song, making it easy to remix.

Built-In CD Burning
ACID Music Studio software makes it easy to create your own CDs in minutes. New in version 5.0, ACID Music Studio software now features disc-at-once CD burning so you can create professional-quality CDs suitable for duplication. Just lay out your mix, drop in your track markers, and burn your entire CD at once. It's that simple!

One-Click Publishing To Acidplanet.com
Want to get heard? Upload your music to ACIDplanet.com. A thriving community of over 100,000 musicians and content developers, ACIDplanet.com is the place to share and promote your work, enter remix contests, and collaborate with other ACIDplanet citizens. Remix songs from major-label artists, create videos, and more

New Features In Version 5.0:

• Includes 1,000 music loops in multiple genres including rock, pop, electronic, dance, hip-hop, and more.
• MIDI piano roll editing
• DLS software synthesizer support
• Event reverse to alter music and loops in real-time.
• Metronome for precise timing of events during record and playback.
• Disc-at-once CD burning to create continuous mixes of music without breaks, suitable for duplication.
• Chopper editing tool to select loop portions and perform loop cloning.
• Alternate time signature support to create projects in time signatures other than basic 4/4.
• Master bus track to perform project-wide volume and pan fades.
• Flash (.swf) format import

• Intuitive pick, paint, and play interface
• Arrange and edit audio loops
• Automatic pitch and tempo matching
• Over 1,000 music loops
• Alternate time signature support
• Real-time loop preview
• Includes enhanced tutorials
• Unlimited audio tracks
• Easy live recording
• Supports multiple file formats in the same project
• CD extraction and burning
• Import support for AIFF, MP3, OGG, PCA, MIDI, SFA, W64, WAV, WMA, AVI, BMP, GIF, JPG, SWF, TGA, TIF, and Windows Media® 9
• 16-bit/48kHz audio support

• 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
• Studio-quality effects including EQ, Reverb, Delay, and more
• Event reverse
• Metronome
• Remix your favorite songs and MP3s
• Combine MIDI tracks with audio tracks
• Preview effects in real-time during playback
• Create the ultimate music bed for video scoring

• Disc-at-once CD burning
• Export to Sony® Net MD™ players
• Save in MP3, RealMedia™, and Windows Media 9 formats
• One-click publishing to ACIDplanet.com*

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
• 500 MHz processor
• 150 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 128 MB RAM
• Windows-compatible sound card
• CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on CD-ROM)