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Acid Music 3.0

Express your musical creativity with unprecedented ease and flexibility with ACID Music 3.0. ACID Music is the perfect — and affordable — software solution for creating original, royalty-free music quickly and easily. Create music in any style imaginable with its multi-genre loop library containing over 600 loops. "Paint" your music without messing with complicated sequencers, drum machines or musical instruments. Enhance each individual track with great-sounding effects that are sophisticated yet simple to use. After you're finished with your tune, burn it to CD with ACID Music's Track-at-Once CD burning, export to MP3, or publish online to ACIDplanet.comSM.

What You Can Do With ACID Music

General Features:

• Create music using a simple "pick, paint, and play" style interface
• Use unlimited tracks of audio
• Work with more than 600 music loops (genres include: Dance, Hip-Hop, Techno, Industrial, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Ambient, Orchestral, and more)
• Add MP3 files and songs to your project
• Remix your favorite songs and MP3s
• Record music, instruments, or vocals directly into ACID
• Use an unlimited number of loops with automatic tempo and pitch matching
• Import audio files in over 10 formats including WAV, MP3, and MIDI
• Preview loops in real time before adding them to your mix
• Import videos and create music beds
• Create music for Web sites and Flash™ animations

Editing Features:

• Control the volume, pan, and effects on each track
• Change the pitch or tempo of an entire project in real-time
• Create custom remixes of your favorite songs using the Beatmapper™ remixing tool
• Create the ultimate music bed for video scoring
• Synchronize audio and video files
• Restore projects using unlimited undo / redo history
• Drop markers in real-time
• Edit multiple tracks at once with ripple editing
• Make tempo and key changes over time
• Apply three fade types to a track
• Insert locking volume and pan envelopes
• Mix several tracks into a new one (track bouncing)

Effects Processing:

• Customize your sound with powerful studio effects such as EQ, Reverb, Delay, and more
• Audition effects in real-time and tweak the results during playback

CD Features:

• Rip songs from CDs and combine with music loops
• Create your own CDs in minutes with track-at-once CD burning

MIDI:

• Import and combine MIDI files with loops
• Use DLS Sound Files

Other Features:

• Publish your music to the Web at ACIDplanet.comSM
• Save to a number of audio file formats, including WAV, WMA, RM, and MP3
• Encode video, insert metadata command markers, launch web sites, display captions, and embed URL flips into your audio and video streams

New Features

• Beatmapper™ — Remix existing songs and loops with the Beatmapper™ tool. Just import, add beats, and combine with loops.
• Video scoring track — Enhance your video with a soundtrack you create in ACID™. Score and play back your creation in real time.
• Improved effects — New ACID FX include EQ, Reverb, Delay, Chorus, Flange, Phaser, and Amplitude Modulation.
• New loop content — Choose from more than 600 royalty-free music loops from Sonic Foundry's Loops for ACID™ collection. This huge assortment will get you on your way to creating royalty-free music in minutes. Genres include: Dance, Hip-Hop, Techno, Industrial, Pop, Rock, Jazz, Ambient, Orchestral, and more.
• MIDI playback — Import and combine MIDI files with loops. MIDI tracks time stretch perfectly to any tempo, and can be rendered with effects just like audio tracks.

Plus:

• Track-level effects
• DLS file support
• Improved pitch shifting and time-stretching algorithms
• Better file management
• Attack, Sustain, and Release (ASR) envelopes
• More publishing options
• User Interface enhancements
• "Get Media" option to locate media from the Web

New Import Formats:

• Video for Windows (AVI)
• OGG Vorbis (OGG)
• Perfect Clarity Audio™ (PCA)
• MP3 (MP3)

New Export Formats:

• QuickTime™ (MOV)
• Windows Video (AVI)
• RealVideo® 8 (RM)
• RealAudio® 8 (RA)
• OGG Vorbis (OGG)
• Perfect Clarity Audio™ (PCA)

Features:

• Create original, royalty-free music
• Arrange and edit audio loops
• Pick, paint, and play interface
• Includes hundreds of multi-genre loops
• Automatic pitch and tempo matching
• Unlimited tracks
• ACID FX track effects
• Real-time effects
• Locking volume and pan envelopes
• 16-bit audio support
• Sample rates up to 48kHz
• MP3 open and save
• Multiple file format support in the same project
• One-click publishing to ACIDPlanet.comSM
• "Get Media" option to locate media from the Web
• Audio Recording
• Export/Save as WAV, MP3, WMA, RA, RV, WAV, AIF, and PCA
• Beatmapper™ remixing tool
• Video scoring track (AVI, MOV)
• Audio and video sync
• Volume and pan envelopes
• Track bouncing
• Unlimited undo / redo history
• Track envelopes lock to events
• Project pitch and tempo adjust
• Split events
• Three fade types
• ASR envelopes
• Ripple editing
• Real-time placement of markers during playback
• Tempo and key change markers
• Volume and pan envelopes
• Metadata command markers
• Multiple time-stretching algorithms

System Requirements:

• 300 MHz processor
• Windows-compatible sound card
• CD-ROM drive
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended)
• 60 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• Microsoft® Windows® 98, Me, 2000, or XP
• Microsoft DirectX® 8 or later (included on CD-ROM)
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or later (version 5.0 included on CD-ROM)
• 400 MHz processor and Windows 98SE, Me, or 2000 for video scoring.