Acid Music 2.0

by Sonic Foundry Acid Music 2.0

Product Features

• When Sonic Foundry's ACID was introduced in 1998, it threw the music production community for a loop-literally. It could seamlessly combine loops (pieces of music that play in a repeating pattern) in almost any tempo, and this ability revolutionized music creation and remixing.
• ACID 2.0 can play back an unlimited number of tracks (independent musical sounds from a piece of music). It includes a CD full of tasty, royalty-free audio files that cover a range of styles, from funk to country. It also lets you record and incorporate your own audio. The DirectX-compatible mixer includes plug-ins that let you customize your mixes with sound effects and synthesizers, and you can export your work to MP3, RM, WAV, and WMA files or burn it directly to CD,
• This powerful, near-professional program is exceptionally easy to learn. Using the efficient interface, you build songs by dragging specially encoded WAV files to the Arrange window. You can record such files on your PC or use those that come with the program. ACID 2.0's ability to match tempos is better than that of most other programs; you really have to stretch a file (extend its length without changing its tempo) for its sound quality to suffer. You can cut loops into individual segments and rearrange their order or change the pitch (nondestructively, without altering the original files). Loops can be positioned freely or snapped to a musical value (such as an eighth note or the beginning of a bar).

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• ASIN: B00002YCBC
• Item model number: 724740000686
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 24, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,921 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #42 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Sound Editing

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Express your musical creativity with ACID Music 2.0. ACID Music is a software solution for creating original, royalty-free music. Create virtually any style of music with its multigenre loop library containing over 600 loops. "Paint" your music without messing with MIDI, complicated sequencers, 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.com. ACID Music 2.0 features a sound library with hundreds of loops in many different instruments and musical styles, including Techno, Rock, Break Beat, Funk, Country, Hip-Hop, Disco, Alternative, House, Industrial, Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer, Drums, Brass, Turntable, Sound Effects, and Ambient.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Songwriter's review, March 16, 2010

By 

Rick Curtis (Yakima, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acid Music 2.0 (CD-ROM)

My stage name is Rick Curtis and I have used Acid 2.0 to write 2,078 songs. It is real music recorded on "loops" which you paste one after another and can change note, speed of play, FX or no. You can purchase further guitar loops, drum loops, horn loops, etc., in many styles from country to jazz to rock, etc. It takes about two months to master it and than you just get better and better. I have had 34 #1 songs on the internet, been called 3 times by a major record company president, invited to Nashville to record, etc. My sister said: "If praise were money, you'd be a millionnaire." Last week the USO said they well be playing my music throughout the world. I owe it all to Acid 2.0. Complaints: No 50's - 60's pop and rock loops. The music plays continuous (computer-like) rather than more realistic ups and downs as a musician would play. I hope Acid Pro 7, which I plan to buy, provides this more natural-like feature.