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ACID PRO 3.0

ACID™ PRO 3.0 is an award-winning loop-based music creation tool that allows you to produce original, royalty-free music. Use ACID to create songs, remix tracks, develop music beds, score videos, and develop music for Web sites and Flash™ animations. This revolutionary tool is intuitive and easy to use. Work with hundreds of loops in multiple genres. Use unlimited tracks of audio. Import complete songs, even MP3s. And when you're done, publish your music to ACIDplanet.comSM. It even has built-in support for MIDI, video scoring, and can save to a number of audio and video file formats, including WAV, WMA, RM, AVI, and MP3.

What You Can Do With ACID™ PRO

General Features:

• Create music using an efficient 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)
• Use an unlimited number of loops with automatic tempo and pitch matching
• Audition loops with your project before adding them
• Import entire MP3 files and songs
• Record music or vocals directly into a project

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™
• Produce amazing drum fills, stutters, and DJ-style effects with the Chopper™
• Create the ultimate music bed for video scoring
• Synchronize audio and video files
• Restore projects to any previous state 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
• Insert volume and pan envelopes
• Mix several tracks into a new one (track bouncing)

Effects Processing:

• Use 18 real-time DirectX audio plug-ins from XFX™ 1, XFX™ 2 and XFX™ 3
• Process effects in any order — in any combination
• Audition effects in real-time and tweak the results during playback
• Apply effects on tracks, busses, or as assignable effects chains

CD Features:

• Rip audio tracks from CDs directly into ACID
• Burn audio projects to CD with track-at-once CD burning

MIDI:

• Combine MIDI files with audio tracks
• Record MIDI files directly into the timeline
• Generate MIDI Time Code and synchronize with external devices
• Play MIDI files using external or internal MIDI sound sources
• Use DLS Sound Files
• Time stretch MIDI tracks

Other Features:

• Publish your music to the online community at ACIDplanet.comSM
• Expand your editing power with Sound Forge® XP Studio and create, record and edit your own audio loops
• Turn your PC into a complete multitrack recording studio with Vegas® Audio LE
• 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
• Use any DirectX Plug-In, whether from Sonic Foundry or a third party vendor

New Features In ACID PRO 3.0

If you liked ACID PRO 2.0, you won't want to miss this incredible upgrade. If you've never tried ACID before, there's no other product like it. ACID PRO 3.0, our multi-award winning music creation tool now includes these new features:

• Beatmapper™ remixing tool
• Video scoring track
• Chopper™ editing tool
• Powerful new effects model
• 32 effects per track
• 32 effect chains / 26 busses
• Sample rates up to 192khz
• 12 New DirectX Audio Plug-Ins from XFX2 and XFX3
• MIDI Record and Playback
• MIDI File Support
• DLS Sound File Support
• CD Ripping / CD Extraction
• Master, track and assignable audio effects
• Attack, Sustain, and Release (ASR) envelopes
• Track envelopes lock to events
• Vegas® Audio LE Multitrack Editing software
• Sound Forge® XP Studio 5.0
• "Get Media" Option
• ACID News Page
• New User Interface Enhancements

New Import Formats:

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

New Export Formats:

• Quicktime (MOV)
• Windows Video (AVI)
• RealVideo 8 (RM)
• RealAudio 8 (RM)
• OGG Vorbis (OGG)
• Perfect Clarity Audio (PCA)

ACID PRO also includes 60 Days of FREE Technical Support with product registration

Features:

• Create original, royalty-free music
• Arrange and edit audio loops
• Pick, paint, and play interface
• Hundreds of multi-genre loops
• Real-time pitch and tempo matching
• Unlimited tracks
• XFX™ 1, XFX™ 2 and XFX™ 3 DirectX audio effects
• Real-time effects
• Tempo and Key mapping
• Locking Volume, Pan, and Effects envelopes
• 16-bit and 24-bit audio support
• Sample rates up to 192khz
• Multiple file format support in the same project
• MP3 import
• One-click music publishing to ACIDPlanet.comSM
• "Get Media" option to locate media from the web
• Audio Recording
• Multi-processor support
• Dual-monitor support
• Export/Save as WAV, MP3, WMA, RA, RV, WAV, AIF, and PCA
• Beatmapper™ remixing tool
• Chopper™ editing tool
• Video scoring track (AVI, MOV)
• Audio and video sync
• Ripple editing for editing across multiple tracks
• Attack, Sustain, and Release (ASR) envelopes
• Volume and pan adjustments
• Track bouncing
• Unlimited undo / redo history
• Track envelopes lock to events
• Project pitch and tempo adjust
• Ripple editing
• Real-time placement of markers during playback
• Tempo and key change markers
• Volume and pan envelops
• Metadata command markers
• Tempo and key mapping
• Multiple time-stretching algorithms
• Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC)
• MIDI record and playback
• MIDI file support
• DLS 1 & 2 sound file support
• MIDI Time Code (MTC) generation to synchronize with external devices
• MIDI time stretching
• CD ripping
• CD burning
• DirectX Plug-In support
• 32 effects per track
• 32 assignable effect chains
• 26 busses
• Compression
• Pitch Shift
• Chorus
• Delay/Echo
• Noise Gate
• Multiband Dynamics
• Graphic Dynamics
• Parametric EQ
• Paragraphic EQ
• Graphic EQ
• Amplitude Modulation
• Flange / Wah-Wah
• Smooth / Enhance
• Gapper / Snipper
• Vibrato
• Distortion

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)