Product Description

ACID Pro 6 helps your musical creations stand apart from the crowd. Its automatic time-loop stretching and and tempo-matching technology help you create music that's club-ready, in your home. Its straightforward pick, paint and play functions deliver a new formula for groundbreaking music. Automatic pitch&tempo matching real-time loop previewing, and unlimited tracks combine with powerful new MIDI functions to the three key components in modern music creation: Loops, multitrack editing and MIDI. You'll start creating great music, right out of the box. Expand your sound palette with professional effects, native support for VST instruments and DirectX audio, and Soft Synth support Transform loops&MIDI tracks into fresh, new sounds with exclusive Groove Mapping&Groove Cloning tools; change the groove of a track, apply different grooves to the same track, or extract a groove from one file and apply it to another Powerful Media Manager tools help you tag, organize and search your content, with folder tracks and cluster editing tools Work with multiple media clips on one track - automatic crossfades tie everything together Includes custom edition of KOMPAKT -- the full-featured VSTisample playback engine with over 120 instruments Also includes over 1,000 Sony Sound Series loops

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #720 in Software
• Brand: Sony
• Model: SAC6000
• Released on: 2008-05-06
• Platforms: Windows XP, Windows, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.50 pounds

Features

• Multitrack audio and MIDI recording, for uncompromising 24-bit, 192kHz sound quality production, live or in-studio
• Comprehensive support for MIDI sequencing, real-time MIDI prcoessing and precise control over MIDI events
• Records multiple tracks of MIDI, apply real-time MIDI quantizationm, perform filtering&processing, edit drum patterns
• Beatmapper tool makes remixing easy, while the Chopper tool creates impressive drum fills, stutters and DJ-style effects
• Nondestructive editing on unlimited tracks, with real-time pitch and tempo matching; real-time event reverse, freehand envelope drawing, and support for alternate time signatures

Customer Reviews

Do Acid Pro 6.0
I am very happy with Acid Pro 6.0

Midi Soft GM sounds and VST sampler work well with ASIO drivers.

Recording audio tracks and adding FX is easy

ACID looping of samples are an industry standard

Exports (Renders) to multiple formats

Cons: Media Manager's runs on an MS SQL engine that has problems with VISTA 32 at this time.

Solution: I just did not install the Media Manager or SQL

In All, I moved from Cakewalk-Sonar to Acid Pro 6 and have not looked back. I purchased a DVD Tutorial for ACID Pro 6, and was very familiar with Sound Forge, so the change from Sonar to Acid Pro was easy. I find that ACID Pro 6 has really helped me to be creative compared to the later versions of Cakewalk-Sonar which added a lot of features that started to get in the way of my production. I am not trying to beat up on Sonar for my possible writers block, but it is not happening with Acid Pro 6. I would have given Acid Pro 6 five stars if it had better Vista 32 support at this time.

Phenomenal
It's hard to describe this product without going into detail. Acid Pro 6 is so user-friendly that you can create a song within an hour or two of installing it. You also can create great, detailed compositions with clarity that you have to hear to believe. I was amazed and I am still learning the product. I don't have any musical experience, but that doesn't matter too much. I good book will help to get a minimal understanding, and also will help with creating your own original sound loops. The software comes with enough loops to keep you going for quite a while though, in case you are worried that you aren't able to create your own. It is well worth the cost. Do not hesitate. You will be glued to the computer for hours!!!

Incredible Program
I looked at the Acid program several years ago and dismissed it because it was previously designed for loops only, and it wasn't as intuitive as I needed at that time.

A month ago, I worked through an Acid tutorial from Computer Music Magazine using the Acid Express program that is given free of charge from Sony on their website. Within a half an hour, I KNEW this program was a WINNER and I ordered it immediately.

I'm much more skilled at sequencing now than I was when I first looked at it. I couldn't believe how easy, useful, fast and fun it was to use. Now that Sony has taken some excellent steps toward making it a competitive DAW, I've switched from my linear DAW to Sony Acid Pro 6 for programming and sound design. The workflow in the program beats every single linear DAW by the sheer nature of it's design, and I've tried or used all of the major ones at one time or another.

This is an excellent program for general sequencing. Everything constructed in it can be exported to more complex software for finishing. The beauty of it is how quickly songs can be constructed compared to most DAWS, and how easy it is to learn to use. I've wasted more time editing to perfection in my other DAW, when the same functions take a split second in Acid.

It's a fine program and I highly recommend it. I'm looking forward to version 7 as I write this. This is NOT a full feature program that you can or should use to finish a commercial project. But it will take you to that moment of export faster and with less quirks and flaws than any linear DAW available today.