Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13635 in Software
• Model: 724740000693
• Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000
• Number of items: 1

Amazon.com Review
Acid 2.0 rocks: as a music maker, creating music loops with multiple tracks, and as a stereo you can listen to for your own enjoyment. The software includes a huge library of looping sound clips, each of which can be laid out in tracks and whose pitch, beats per minute, pan, and fade can all be adjusted and tweaked. Acid's strength lies not only in the excellent fidelity of the included clips, but also in the richness and variety of them, and the numerous ways in which they can be edited and manipulated. It's also possible to import clips of your own, in WAV format, for adding even more variety to the musical library, or for sound effects or voiceovers.

Because Acid loops can be made from many imported files, and because a user might quickly build a huge library of short loops for use in composing other Acid loops, Sonic Foundry has a unique approach to managing files: a File Explorer built right into a small window within the program. This approach works, since it helps manage files on disk as well as show what's available for use.

Acid can export 44 kHz, 16-bit, stereo MP3 and WAV files, as well as files at digital video's native fidelity of 48 kHz, 16-bit stereo. Acid would win the hearts of many video artists if it could save files in Quicktime format, or (better yet) if it could come out in a Mac version.

Still, Acid 2.0 is reason enough to buy a set of PC multimedia speakers with a subwoofer. And if you happen to be more than a music enthusiast, you'll find Acid 2.0 to be useful as well as fun.--Mike Caputo

Amazon.com Product Description
With Acid DJ 2.0, a click of a mouse and a few strokes of "painted" sound, create professional, digital-quality dance music in minutes. Mix and match to create your own rhythms from hundreds of prerecorded music and sound loops. String them together to create continuous music. Combine a few tracks of loops, and you've created a song. Just pick, paint, and play. You can make changes to tempo and pitch in real time, record your own instrument or voice, and much more.

Manufacturer Description
ACID Style is a family of genre-specific, loop-based production tools that let you create the kind of music you love. The tools in the ACID Style family use loops--clips of sound that can be strung together to sound like continuous music--"painted" into a track. Combine a few tracks of loops, and you've created a song. It's easy--just pick some loops, paint them in, and play them back.