Name:
Sony Acid Music Studio 6 SMAS6000
Item#:
J60803102
Price/ea:
$69.95
$68.55
Top 5 New Features
DirectX® and VST audio effect support: Increase your mixing options with DirectX effects, including tempo-based effects, and VST audio plug-ins.
VST instrument support: Play back your MIDI tracks through virtual synthesizers, filters, and effects.
ASIO driver support: Low-latency ASIO driver support provides faster results during playback and recording, plus adds support for additional sound cards.
Customizable project media folders: Set default folders and save locations for projects and other types of media to fit your workflow.
Keyboard command loop composition: Use your computer keyboard to insert loops and one-shots in real time as your project plays back.
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Your Music Studio
If you're serious about making your own music, ACID® Music Studio™ software is the perfect tool for original song creation, live recording, and studio-quality mixing and effects processing. Share your songs any way you want — burn your own CDs, upload to the Web, or export to your MP3 player. With built-in tutorials to guide you, you'll be composing, mixing, and mastering like a pro in no time.
Original Songs in 3 Easy Steps
Pick Your Music
Includes over 1,700 loops in almost every genre
Audition loops in real time with your mix
Paint it On
Simple brush tool paints music into tracks
Unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI
Play it Back
Click Play to preview your song
Hear pitch and tempo changes in real time
Create, Mix, and Share Your Songs
Loop-based music creation is fun and easy to learn. ACID Music Studio software includes more than 1,700 studio-quality loops in almost every music genre to get you started. Just Pick some loops, Paint them into the tracks, and click Play. With ACID Music Studio software you can:
Record and edit music from nearly any instrument or MIDI source
Create royalty-free soundtracks for videos
Make custom mixes and mashups of your favorite songs
More about music creation
Built on Industry-Standard Professional Software
Our award-winning ACID Pro software is the industry standard for professional music creation on the PC. Built on the same technology, ACID Music Studio software provides the power, flexibility, and reliability of ACID Pro software, with a streamlined set of features that make it perfect for home music creation and mixing.
Easy Live Recording
ACID Music Studio software can capture from any instrument or MIDI source that can be plugged into your computer's sound card. You can also extract audio from your own CDs and add MP3 files to your mix. Automatic key and tempo matching syncs it all up so everything plays back together and sounds great.
Powerful Mixing and Effects Processing
Professional mixing tools give you precise control over volume and panning, effects processing, audio routing, and final output. Customize your songs using professional-quality audio effects including EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phase, distortion, echo, and more. Use VST and DirectX audio effects, and VST instruments. Add pan and volume envelopes, reverse audio, and change the pitch and tempo of your mix in real time. More about mixing and editing
Learn as You Go with Amazing Tutorials
Sony Show Me How tutorials go beyond the booklets and basic tutorials that other solutions provide. These extraordinary helpers are built right into the software — just click Show Me How to access simple, interactive help on over 20 topics. More about Show Me How tutorials
More Ways to Share
Create your own CDs in minutes. Disc-at-once CD layout and burning is fully integrated into the software so you can conveniently create your music and produce professional-sounding CDs all within one application. Powerful encoding functionality lets you save your songs to popular streaming formats for uploading to the Web, or export them to portable music devices. More about CD burning and export
Music Creation Made Easy
Create original music by combining the included music loops — over 1,700 of them — or record and edit your own live performances. You can also extract audio from your own CDs and add MP3 files to your mix. Professional mixing tools give you precise control over volume and panning, effects processing, audio routing, and final output.
Unlimited tracks and loops per project
Automatic pitch and tempo matching
Record vocals or instruments into your song
Audition loops in real time with your mix
Import your own music from CDs or MP3s
Apply effects, reverse audio, and more
Easy to Use and Learn
Even if you've never written a song or played an instrument, you can use ACID® Music Studio™ software to create original music, produce DJ-style remixes, add soundtracks to videos, and burn professional-quality CDs.
Our exclusive Show Me How tutorials guide you through the entire creative process. Whenever you need help, just click the Show Me How button and choose your tutorial topic. Helpful text dialogue boxes, pointers, and guides will actually show you what to do and where to click!
Create Video Soundtracks
With ACID Music Studio you can easily create custom soundtracks for your video projects created in Vegas® Movie Studio™+DVD software or other applications. Easily add sound effects, music, or even record your own voiceover track
Professional Mixing Power
ACID Music Studio software provides a complete set of professional-level tools to give you precise control over volume and panning, effects processing, audio routing, and final output.
Create your own music loops with the Chopper™ tool
Add pan and volume envelopes for precise control
Customize your mix with built-in audio effects
Change pitch and tempo, and reverse audio in real time
Unique Tools for Remixing
For remixing your favorite songs, only ACID Music Studio software has the Beatmapper™ tool. If you remix a complete song, the Beatmapper wizard appears. The Beatmapper tool automatically find the tempo of the song, making it easy to remix.
Impressive Audio Effects
Apply professional-quality audio effects and processes including EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phase, distortion, and echo. New in version 6, ACID Music Studio now includes DirectX and VST audio effects support, as well as support for VST instruments so you can play back your MIDI tracks through virtual synthesizers, filters, and effects.
Studio-Quality Content
ACID Music Studio software includes over 1,700 professionally recorded, studio-quality music loops. These loops illustrate the quality and fidelity available in the Sony® Sound Series™: Loops & Samples collection — the world's foremost collection music samples and sound effects.
Sony Sound Series loops and samples are created by star talent, and edited to perfection by veteran musicians, producers, and sound designers. Our loops also contain special meta data that enables ACID software to easily match tempo and key in real time.
Add Your Own Music to the Mix
Plug a microphone or instrument into your PC to record live music directly into your ACID Music Studio project. Powerful yet easy-to-use tools let you quickly edit your recording and add impressive audio effects for professional results. Get additional music for your projects from your own files. ACID Music Studio can import audio from: CD, .mp3, and .wav files.
Integrated CD Layout and Burning
ACID® Music Studio™ software makes it easy to create your own CDs in minutes. CD layout and burning is fully integrated into the software so you can conveniently create your music and produce professional-sounding CDs all within one application.
Easy Encoding
Powerful encoding functionality lets you save your songs to popular streaming formats for uploading to the Web, or export them to portable MP3 devices, Sony® Net MD™ players, and more.
Publish your songs to the Web
Want to get heard? ACIDplanet.com is the premier Internet site for musicians and content developers. Join ACIDplanet.com to upload and share compositions, remix songs from major-label artists, and collaborate with other members on a wide range of music and video projects.
Amazing Tutorials
Show Me How tutorials go beyond the booklets and basic tutorials that other solutions provide. These extraordinary helpers are built right into the software — just click Show Me How to access simple, interactive help on over 20 topics. Show Me How tutorials help you spend less time learning and more time creating
See how they work by watching our video demo of Show Me How tutorials.
ACID Music Studio Software Features
Easy Music Creation
New! Includes over 1,700 music loops
New! Enhanced audio timestretching/beat detection
New! Customizable project media folders
Intuitive pick, paint, and play interface
Arrange and edit audio loops
Automatic pitch and tempo matching
Alternate time signature support
Real-time loop previewing
Includes enhanced tutorials
Unlimited audio tracks
Easy live recording
Supports multiple file formats in the same project
CD extraction and burning
Import support for AIFF, MP3, OGG, PCA, MIDI, SFA, W64, WAV, WMA, AVI, BMP, GIF, JPG, SWF, TGA, TIF, and Windows Media® 9
16-bit/48kHz audio support
Mixing and Editing
New! DirectX audio plug-in support
New! Tempo-based DirectX effects
New! VST instrument support
New! VST audio effect support
New! ASIO driver support
New! Drop loops in real time via keyboard commands
New! Edit source project
Chopper editing tool to edit and clone loops
Beatmapper™ tool for easy remixing
Track-level volume, panning, and effects editing
Master bus track for project-wide volume and pan fades
Studio-quality effects including EQ, Reverb, Delay, and more
Event reverse
Metronome
Remix your favorite songs and MP3s
Combine MIDI tracks with audio tracks
Preview effects in real-time during playback
Create the ultimate music bed for video scoring
Export and Sharing
Disc-at-once CD burning
Export to Sony® Net MD™ players
Save in MP3, RealMedia™, and Windows Media 9 formats
One-click publishing to ACIDplanet.com*
*One-click publishing requires an Internet connection from your PC to the Web.
ACID Family Comparison
FEATURE ACID® Xpress ACID XMC ACID Music Studio™ 6 ACID Pro 6
General
Dual/multi-core processor support*
Support for external control surfaces*
Enhanced paint tools*
Dynamic playback optimization*
Number of tracks 10 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Maximum bit depth/sample rate 16/48kHz 16/48kHz 16/48kHz 24/192kHz
Interactive "Show Me How" tutorials
Media Manager™ technology
Customizable loop searches and tagging
Video scoring track
Live audio recording
Customizable keyboard mapping
Customizable UI, Windows XP theme support
"Get Media" option
Time markers
Tempo markers
Metronome for playback and record
Macromedia Flash™ .swf format import
Mixing and Editing
Multitrack Audio and MIDI recording*
Multiple media events per track with automatic crossfades*
On-the-fly punch-in recording*
Record input monitoring*
Track record meters*
ACID project sections*
Envelope automation recording*
Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline*
Groove Mapping™ quantization with Groove Cloning™
Nestable folder tracks
5.1 surround mixing
Film-style panning mode for 5.1 surround projects*
Beatmapper remixing tool
Real-time event reverse
Volume and pan envelopes
Tempo and key changes
Ripple editing / edits across tracks
Bus-to-bus routing
Drop one-shots in real-time via keyboard commands
Track bouncing
Chopper loop editing tool
Adjustable stretching properties
Alternate time signature support
Effects & MIDI
Inline MIDI editing*
MIDI track envelopes and keyframes*
MIDI filtering and processing*
MIDI file export*
Program Map Editor*
Drum grid editing mode with drum key maps*
MIDI playback
MIDI piano roll editing w/snap-to-scale and note filtering
MIDI recording/event list editing
VSTi support
VSTi parameter automation*
VST effect support with automation and tempo sync Yes/no automation
Multiport VSTi soft synth support
DLS sample file support
Rewire mixer/device support
Track effects Yes/includes ExpressFX
DirectX® Plug-In support
Yes/includes XFX 1,2,3
DirectX plug-in effects automation
Tempo-based DirectX effects
Audio Plug-In Manager
Bypass all effects command
ASIO™ driver support
Generate MIDI Time Code and MIDI clock
Master bus track
CD and Export
Gracenote® CD album identification*
CD extraction
TAO/Disc-at-Once CD burning
Edit source project
Publish to ACIDplanet.com
Export to Sony NetMD™ handheld devices
MP3 open/save 20 free encodes
Windows Media™ support Saves to WMA 48 kbps
ATRAC™ format support*
QuickTime support
MPEG encoding support (with optional plug-in)
* New Feature in ACID Pro 6
System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional
MHz processor (1 GHz if using video) (800 MHz recommended)
200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
256 MB RAM
Windows-compatible sound card
CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
Microsoft DirectX® 9.0c or later (included on CD-ROM)
Internet Explorer 5.1 or later (included on CD-ROM)
Please Note: Some features may require product registration.
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