Sams Teach Yourself Acid 3.0 in 24 Hours [Paperback]

Gary Rebholz (Author), Michael Bryant (Author), David Was (Foreword)

Book Description

Series: Sams Teach Yourself...in 24 Hours | Publication Date: August 14, 2001

Sams Teach Yourself ACID in 24 Hours will teach everyone--from novice to pro--how to create, edit, and save original and royalty free music with Sonic Foundry's revolutionary loop-based music creation tool, ACID. This version covers the differences between the various levels of ACID. Readers learn how to apply all the features of ACID as they work through dozens of hands-on tasks, step by step beginning by creating a basic song. Also includes lessons on how to add pitch shifts, key changes, fades, effects, pans, and more. Learn how to split and rearrange loops to expand your loop collection without limits. Interface ACID with your MIDI hardware and software for additional creativity. Filled with how-to hints, tips, tricks, and more, Sams Teach Yourself ACID in 24 Hours also helps the reader add variety to your songs by stretching, shrinking, and offsetting them in time. Learn how to publish and deliver your music over the Internet, and how to create your own CDs right from the ACID interface. The CD contains the following: A fully-functional timed out version of Acid Pro X which includes Sound Forge XP; Acid Xpress, the limited functionality version of Acid Pro; Hundreds of loops to enable the creation of your own music; all of the songs built in the book.

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From the Back Cover

Written by members of Sonic Foundry's Consulting and Training Group, Sams Teach Yourself ACID 3.0 in 24 Hours engages the reader with an easy-to-follow and friendly tone. The authors teach you how to apply all the features of ACID 3.0 as you work through dozens of hands-on tasks, step by step. You'll begin by creating a basic song. As the book progresses, you'll learn how to add pitch shifts, key changes, fades, effects, pans, fades, and more. Learn how to split and rearrange loops to expand your loop collection without limits.

You'll also learn how to deliver your content in various ways. Learn how to publish and deliver your music over the Internet, and how to create your own CDs right from the ACID interface.

About the Author

Gary Rebholz works as a Training and Development Specialist for Sonic Foundry where, for the past three years, he has created training materials and programs for employees as well as customers. Gary has been involved with training in the graphics and creative arts fields for more than 10 years. He has also been involved with audio production and music since he started a personal vendetta against disco in the late 1970s. This is Gary's third book for Sams Publishing. His other titles are How to Use Flash 5 (with Denise Tyler), and How to Use HTML and XHTML. Gary lives a quiet life in a small rural Wisconsin town when he's not snatching sharp objects out of his toddler's mouth or trying to determine the whereabouts of his teenagers. Currently the Director of Training and Consulting Services at Sonic Foundry in Madison, Wisconsin, Michael Bryant has been helping people unlock the secrets of ACID Pro and other Sonic Foundry products for more than two years. He has been involved in education of one kind or another for more than 25 years. He has taught students at all levels: from sixth grade to college-level classes as well as adult technical education programs. Along with his career in education, he has spent more than 18 years in the audio and video production industry. He first joined the digital audio revolution in the late 80s while operating a recording studio. As soon as he learned about the power and ease with which you can work with audio in the digital domain, he quickly traded in his razor blade for a mouse.

Product Details

• Paperback: 456 pages
• Publisher: Sams (August 14, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672320460
• ISBN-13: 978-0672320460
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,710,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential to fully understanding the "intuitive" interface!, July 6, 2002

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M. Apsey (TAMPA, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Acid 3.0 in 24 Hours (Paperback)

As a Sonar user, a Sound Forge user, a Vegas Video user, I was completely amazed to discover the power hidden within Acid--whose very name unfortunately causes scornful and undeserved ridicule as with the review below.

Many see Acid as a toy, and it is anything but as anyone who digs beneath the surface will quickly discover.

Acid 3.0 is a professional tool used in professional environments to achieve professional results faster than ever before and where time is money, Acid shines.

For anyone wanting to push this tool past it's apparent limits, using it as the ultimate tool with which to bring together tracks from various sources (including Cubase) this book is essential to understanding its hidden strengths, and workarounds for inherent weaknesses found in some extreme BPM and pitch-shifting tasks. "Acid 3.0 in 24 Hours" is essential to understanding track management, bus usage, FX options, video scoring, and timing adjustments to name but a few.

Do not be fooled. Acid is a most powerful non-destructive digital audio construction tool, although its name may draw prejudice. This book is as worthy a companion and reference as exists for it.

Buy this book. Even the Acid experienced will learn from it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Superb Resource, January 3, 2002

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P. Gunderson (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Acid 3.0 in 24 Hours (Paperback)

Teach Yourself Acid 3.0 is an excellent resource. Although Acid comes with a manual on PDF, everybody knows that switching between your software and Adobe Acrobat Reader is tedious and a strain on the eyes--which in turn means that you probably won't learn all about Acid's possibilities. With TYA 3.0, you can have the book open while you work with Acid (this alone vastly improves your learning curve); additionally, every chapter (or "hour") of this text has exercises and activities that you can do with the supplied CD-Rom loops. I really recommend doing the exercises--they WILL give you ideas for your own Acid projects.

While it might initially seem a little pricey, the tips, exercises, and CD-Rom make it invaluable.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL WITH ONLY A TOUCH OF "TROUBLE", September 30, 2001

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Damon Heim - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Acid 3.0 in 24 Hours (Paperback)

This book is terrific! I just recently started experimenting with computer music using the ACID 3 programs, and this book makes an already easy to learn program even easier to understand. It is clearly written with the beginner in mind yet will take you as far up the technical ACID 3.0 learning curve as you wish. There is only one change I would make in the contents of Sam's Teach Yourself ACID 3.0 in 24 Hours, and that would be the inclusion of a comprehensive TROUBLESHOOTING section. The book is carefully written in a fashion, that if you follow the instructions to the letter, you should experience no technical problems. But as most will not have the infallibility to successfully follow the instructions without at least a few mistakes, I would wish there be a simple and quick to reference TROUBLESHOOTING section that helps you to easily go back and correct what you may have missed. But with this aside, the book is terrific. Definitely written for actual human beings. Well done.