ACID Music Studio 5

by Sony

Product Features

• Advanced MIDI editing, recording and effects for music, instruments and vocals
• Automatic pitch and tempo matching
• Intuitive pick, paint and play interface
• Features more than 1,000 exclusive audio loops, all with provide pristine audio quality for your music creations
• Interactive Show Me tutorials walk beginners through the music creation process, from beginning to end

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002QD2ES
• Item model number: SAMS5000
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 23, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,300 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #20 in Software > Video & Music > Software > MIDI

Product Description

ACID Music Studio 5 helps you design fantastic sounds and master your music. Create original, royalty-free music through a series of pre-recorded loops. The software supports import, editing, transcoding, and export of Windows Media 9 video format, WAV, MP3, and many other popular formats. Create the perfect mix CD to take your music with you -- or publish your music online to ACIDplanet.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I think this thing is AMAZING (But I'm a novice at this)!!!, March 9, 2005

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J. Birch "softwolf4" (Denton, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ACID Music Studio 5 (CD-ROM)

I can't believe there are NO reviews for this thing (as I write this)!
I wanted this in mainly order to re-mix my favorite songs. I got pretty excited reading the box, and more excited when it arrived. I installed it and started running it and all of the sudden I found myself thinking "uh-oh, this is wayyyy over my head." But, like many programs, all you have to do is just start experimenting and playing around with it, and in no time, you will get the idea. The versatility this allows you to have with so many aspects of any track you import is incredible (and NO, I am not on Sony's payroll). The software comes with an honest-to-goodness, spiral-bound, hard-copy MANUAL! How rare these days! So you can be like me and take it to work to read on your breaks and then race home to try out the new techniques you read up on.
The interface also has a "How Do I...?" button that covers a lot of varied functions, and it has a great, integrated, step-by-step approach that actually *teaches* you AS you do it. A great "hands-on" approach. I just can't begin to say how impressed I am at it's comprehensiveness and design. I sat with it for about 2 hours to do my first (serious) 4-minute-song re-mix, but when I was finished, I had a great track - all burned to inkjet-printed disc, and ready to give to my wife (it was one of her favorite songs).
I like any software that actually allows me to *accomplish* something I really want to do, and this software did exactly that! Unless you're a super-techie who would stick his nose up at anything that runs with less than a $500 price tag, I think you'll be happy with this.
I guess I should mention for those that want to *create* music from loops and so forth, it's still just as versatile, although you may not be happy with the 1001 loops included (oh well, buy the upgrade) - I am more than satisfied with them however, and will probably never use even a 3rd of them.
Take Care and May God Bless You!
James

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great. Simple and easy to use., May 6, 2005

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Another Opinion (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ACID Music Studio 5 (CD-ROM)

I wanted a simple full featured recording program that would rival Garageband and this is it. No complaints. Well worth the excellent price.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sony Acid Music Studio 6, January 19, 2006

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R. Ward "Doc P" (Nawlins) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ACID Music Studio 5 (CD-ROM)

All I read about this product gave great reviews, now that I own it I find it's made for Kids age 2 to 6. Absolutely confusing to produce one beat at a time to build a drum kit, the Beatmapping tool is extremely hard find and manipulate. If you want a real working music writting tool for computer this is NOT IT!!!
If you want a toy to play with senseless loops have fun, enjoy.