ACID Pro 3.0

by Sonic Foundry

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005NZDD
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 8, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,676 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

ACID PRO 3.0 is a loop-based music creation tool that allows you to produce original, royalty-free music. Use ACID PRO to create songs, remix tracks, develop music beds, score videos, and develop music for Web sites and Flash animations. This 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.com. It even has built-in support for MIDI and video scoring, and can save to a number of audio and video file formats, including WAV, WMA, RM, AVI, and MP3.

With ACID PRO, you can create original, royalty-free music in minutes. It's as simple as pick, paint, and play. Simply pick the loops you like, paint them on a track, play your results, and enjoy the music. Use as many loops as you like with unlimited tracks. Adjust the volume and panning for each track. Alter effects over time using volume and track envelopes. Apply fades and transitions and create drum fills. Combine music loops with existing songs. Even apply effects on tracks, busses, or in assignable effects chains.

ACID PRO includes 18 DirectX audio plug-ins from Sonic Foundry's XFX 1, XFX 2 and XFX 3. This package of effects includes amplitude modulation, chorus, delay, distortion, flange, noise gate, reverb, and more. ACID PRO also includes three EQs--graphic, parametric, and paragraphic--and supports third-party DirectX plug-ins. The program also includes a music content CD containing more than 600 music loops and dozens of projects from Sonic Foundry's Loops for ACID collection. This 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.

Create a music bed and score original music alongside your video to add to your own video productions. With ACID PRO's ability to match pitch and tempo, scoring your video is made easier. Combine MIDI files with your audio tracks in ACID PRO. MIDI files can be played using external or internal MIDI sound sources, including DLS (Downloadable Sounds) Sound Files, through the DirectX Soft Synth. MIDI tracks time stretch perfectly to any tempo, and can be rendered with effects just like audio tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For ALL levels of ability, March 28, 2002

By 

P. Gunderson (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ACID Pro 3.0 (CD-ROM)

Rather than repeat the praise that has been heaped on this product by other reviewers, I thought I would point out that Acid Pro 3.0 is an extraordinarily elastic piece of software; true, if you have no musical background, you can simply paste loops into your song and let Acid do the rest; but if you want to get into the microscopic details of music production, you can do that as well. Aside from global key and tempo changes, you can change the key of individual loops; you can change the pitch of individual notes within individual loops; add global effects or effects envelopes to just parts of tracks. Harmonize loops. Create multiple busses. There's even a way to simulate granular synthesis (read Sam's Teach Yourself Acid to learn how). Use the Chopper to create drum fills and stutters.

In short, the single most daunting thing about Acid is not the learning curve, but the absurd number of things you can do with it--where does one start?

P.S., As if Acid Pro 3.0 were not powerful enough, it comes with a basic version of Sound Forge, Sonic Foundry's sound file editor.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The end-all program for laptop DJs, March 13, 2002

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Ryan Hennessy (Albany, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ACID Pro 3.0 (CD-ROM)

What could be easier? If you want to make beat-driven music, Acid is the only way to go. Just click and drag. Simplest interface ever, as long as you have loops ready. Sure, you could use all of the royalty free samples they give you, but if you want something really original, you can get a sound recorder, sample MP3 songs on your computer, make those into loops, and viola! Instant muzak! Ever wish you had the talent to be like the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, or any other nameless electronica acts? Well, it turns out, you don't have to know anything at all! Acid allows for endless experimentation. Mix different sounds together, you eventually come up with something good.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Awesome!, January 27, 2003

By 

"kurtmaxine" (La Quinta, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ACID Pro 3.0 (CD-ROM)

A couple of years ago, I was interested in recording music at home, and I didn't know where to start. I ended up getting a SoundBlaster Audigy card and Acid 2.0. Acid is so easy to use! At first, I was using the loops that were provided and playing guitar and singing, then I got a synthesizer keyboard to simulate other instruments. Now I have Acid 3.0 and I record with a full band and have had other local bands pay me to record and engineer their demo CD's.

It's incredible how easy it is. You can record anything and then manipulate it, add virtually any effect, cut and paste sections, create loops, the list goes on and on.

Oh, and by the way, you can record unlimited tracks. Let's say you want a cymbal crash here, a whistle there, you want to overdub 3 guitars, you want a track with shakers or finger snaps, maybe bongos?....no problem.

Bottom line: If you want to create professional sounding music at home, this program flat out rocks.