An affordable step into the world of ACID.

Sony ACID Music Studio 7 software gives you the kind of quality music recording, mixing, and effects processing that you're used to with the ACID series. And there are several new features, especially in the MIDI editing and sequencing area, that make ACID Music Studio a worthwhile investment for budding home studio musicians. Built-in tutorials guide you on how to utilize the powerful composing, mixing and mastering tools. So even if it's your first time using ACID, you'll be an old pro before you know it. With ACID Music Studio, live recording is a snap. Simply plug your microphone or instrument into your PC sound card and click record to capture vocals, guitars, keyboards, MIDI and more. After you've laid down your original ideas, work out the kinks with the included professional mixing tools and audio effects. From volume and panning to auto routing and effects processing, reverb and delay to distortion and echo, there's plenty of ways to play with your song to get the right sound. You can also use VST and DirectX audio effects, and VST instruments or any of the 3,000 ACIDized music loops, 1,000 MIDI files, and other tools to spice things up.

When you're satisfied with the final product, ACID Music Studio 7 provides you the tools to create your own CDs, upload it for a particular website or for podcasting, convert songs to MP3 format, or add your music to the soundtrack of a video. When you're ready to record, ACID Music Studio 7 is an affordable way to take your abstract ideas and make them more concrete.

Sony ACID Music Studio 7 Features:

• Fundamentals
• Over 3,000 ACIDized music loops
• Multicore processor support
• Intuitive pick, paint, and play interface
• Unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI
• Video scoring track
• Automatic pitch and tempo matching
• Alternate time signature support
• Real-time loop preview
• Support for multiple file formats in the same project
  
  Mixing and Editing
• Multitrack audio and MIDI recording
• Multiple events per track with automatic crossfades
• Studio-quality effects including EQ, reverb, delay, and more
• Chopper editing tool and loop cloning
• Beatmapper remix tool
• Track-level volume, panning, and effects editing
• Master bus track for project-wide volume and pan fades
• Real-time audio effects preview during playback
• Event reverse
• CD audio extraction
• Metronome
  
  MIDI
• Over 1,000 MIDI files for song creation
• 90 DLS instruments and 25 DLS-based projects
• MIDI editing and sequencing
• Inline MIDI editing with drum grid
• MIDI step recording
• MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
• MIDI import and export
• MIDI input filters for tracks
• Audio Control
• 16-bit, 48kHz audio support
• DirectX audio plug-in support
• Tempo-based DirectX effects
• VST instrument support
• VST audio effect support
• ASIO driver support
  
  Export and Sharing
• ATRAC editing and encoding
• Gracenote MusicID CD album recognition
• Integrated disc-at-once (DAO) CD burning
• Unlimited MP3 export
• Export to Sony Net MD players
  
  Supported Formats:
• Opens: AIFF, AVI, BMP, GIF, JPG, MIDI, MP3, OGG, PCA, SFA, SWF, TGA, TIF, W64, WAV, WMA
• Saves: AIFF, ATRAC3, AVI, MP3, OGG, QuickTime, RealAudio, RealVideo, W64, WAV, WMA

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Sony ACID Music Studio 7 Specifications:

• System Requirements
• Microsoft Windows XP or Vista
• 800 MHz processor (1 GHz if using video)
• 200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 256 MB RAM
• Windows-compatible sound card
• DVD-ROM drive (for installation)
• Supported CD-Recordable drive (for burning)

Sony ACID Music Studio 7

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Great Program

Posted by Theophilus1978 from Bethany,MO on Nov 5, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Christian, Worship, Fingerstyle

When I first started using this program I didn't think it was going to get the job done. I was wrong. I am very new at the home recording gig and found out that this program is fine, the problem was me. I laid down an acoustic guitar track that I wrote and then tried to lay down a vocal track on top and the vocals were lagging behind the guitar. The problem was very frustrating but easily fixed. You have to manually adjust for what is called "latency". In laymans terms, there is a gap between when you start recording and when the soundcard on your PC starts actually recording. If you don't understand this you will think this program is junk. You just select "options", then "Preferences", then "audio device". Uncheck the box that says "auto detect latency" as this feature apparently does not work very well. Left click on the "adjust manually" slider and use your arrow key to move the slider to the right until the latency gap is closed. The only way to do this is by experimenting as it varies from one PC to the next. On mine, I started at "0" and ended up at "75". Lay down a sample track, and then keep laying down additional tracks, adjusting the latency manually each time, until the recordings' beat/tempo match. Once I got this figured out the program worked great. Recording is soooooo easy with this program but the tutorials are lacking. I even went to the program web site and couldn't find help for this problem.

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Simply The Best

Posted by Joe from Phoenix, AZ on Sep 19, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Country/Blue Grass/Pop

I have used Garage Band, Magix Music Maker, Cake Walk, Cubase, and a few others. Acid pro wins hands down. This absolutely does multi-track recording. I have done four part harmony on four seperate tracks, recorded accoustic guitar, saxophone, and several other things with no problem at all. And it's super easy. You can render the track in any format, apply a plethora of effects to individual tracks, change pitches, pan speakers, change the volume of one tiny spot on a track etc. Super easy. I love it!!!

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Great Software

Posted by Ogg Orbis Records from Leavenworth, Ks on Jul 7, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: indie recording studio manager

Reviewer's Play Style: Everything

I found acid music studio to be simple, straight forward, but extremely useful. Just hit record, listen to it, add the wanted plug-ins, and then hit record again to record the next track. If you need a basic recording software with good plug-ins, this is all you need.

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Very OK for a Home Studio

Posted by Chris Downing from Devizes UK on Apr 15, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Professional Guitar and Bass Teacher and Player

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Classics, Bluegrass, pop

I think this is a great product for Home Studio use. It has pretty much everything you need to produce really good CDs. And I've used it to multitrack, but I'm not too demanding. One thing you do need to realise is that you need to set the options to counter what many here are refereing to as a shortcoming - latency. Latency is caused by the power of your computer - less power more gap between the timing of the first track and how the computer has had to process your second track and put it alongside the first. Thats' hwre all the out of time errors come from (apart from your own bad time). You;ll need to do an Automatically detect and offset to counteract hardware recording latency. It's in the drop down menus of the product. Most software recording packages have this problem and its effect differs in line with the power of your computer system and the hardware you have installed. Select the check box to automatically compensate for offset between the time you initiate recording and when your sound card starts recording. Clear the check box and drag the User recording latency offset slider to specify an offset value to fix it.

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Good for what it does

Posted by healthyappreciationformustangs from Gwinnett County, Ga on Apr 8, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Self-published musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, alternative, Big Band

I've had this software for about a year now, and using it has been quite nice. The interface is very user friendly, and the controls are intuitive (for me at least). Bottom line is, if you want a digital home studio that is easy to use, and produces good sounding work, Music Studio 7, and a Lexicon Omega interface will do just fine. I've recorded music with this setup that sounds better than some of my protools recordings.

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