Sony ACID Pro Features

The table below include all features of Sony ACID Pro 7 for Windows. Is it your favorite GarageBand equivalent?

General

New! External control surface channel tracking New! Interactive tutorials Over 3,000 music loops in multiple genres External control surface support including the Mackie® Control and Frontier Design Tranzport™ Dynamic playback optimization maximizes audio performance Master, auxiliary, soft synth, and effects bus tracks ATRAC3™, ATRAC3plus™, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless™ support Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI Unlimited undo/redo history Real-time pitch and tempo matching 24-bit, 192 kHz audio support Multiple file format support Live audio recording Customizable UI and keyboard mapping Dual/external monitor support Metronome for playback and record Get Media option to download media from the Web Autosave crash recovery Dual/multi-core processor support

Editing and Mixing

New! Audio and MIDI mixing console New! Audio, MIDI, and Bus Track meters New! Input busses New! Real-time rendering New! Tempo curves New! Cross-track event drag and drop New! Enhanced Beatmapping for tracks with tempo changes New! Enhanced timestretch and pitch-shifting with élastique Pro New! Metronome count-off New! Switches including Normalize, Invert Phase, and Lock Multitrack recording for audio and MIDI Unlimited media clips per track On-the-fly punch-in recording Record input monitoring 5.1 surround mixing Real-time event reverse Bus-to-bus routing Clip Pool management Chopper editing tool with loop cloning Envelope automation recording Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline Film-style panning mode for 5.1 surround projects Ripple editing across multiple tracks Nestable folder tracks Video scoring track (AVI, MOV, WMV) Downmix monitoring Drop one-shots in real time Hotkey commands for track muting and soloing Envelope changes applied to multiple selected events Beatmapper remixing tool Attack, Sustain, and Release (ASR) envelopes Volume and pan envelopes Tempo, time signature, and key change markers Metadata command markers Real-time placement of markers during playback Tempo and key mapping

Effects and MIDI

New! MIDI track freeze New! Enhanced plug-in management New! Optimized plug-in scanning with Plug-in Manager Inline MIDI editing MIDI track envelopes and keyframes Drum grid editing mode with drum key maps MIDI filtering and processing Audio Plug-in Manager Over 20 real-time DirectX audio effects 32 assignable effect chains 26 effect busses VST effects support with automation and tempo sync Tempo-based DirectX® effects MIDI file export MIDI piano roll snap-to-scale filtering MIDI event list editing and step recording ReWire support (mixer and device) Groove quantization tools Program Map Editor DLS 1 & 2 soft synth support DirectX plug-in support VSTi parameter automation Plug-in effect automation Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC) Bypass all effects command Effects bus tracks Direct links to audio/MIDI editors

Exporting and Sharing
New! Native FLAC, AAC, AC-3 Studio, and MPEG-2, format support Built-in CD burning Export: WAV, MP3, WMA, WMV, RM, WAV, AIF, PCA, and AC3 Easily share your music on ACIDplanet.com Gracenote CD album identification CD audio extraction

Recommended System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows® 8.1
• Intel or AMD or compatible processors, 1GHz
• 1GB RAM
• 200 MB hard-disk space for program installation, 600 MB hard-disk space for optional Sony Sound Series Loops & Samples reference library
• QuickTime Player 7.16 or newer
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
• Sound card