![]() ![]() ![]() Acid felt natural to use for mixing and in no time I had good working mixes of the material. Version 7 of the software comes with a dedicated mixer, which in previous versions the user had to create from scratch and it took some time. The mixing process was already familiar since I've worked in Acid before. wav tracks of unmixed material, lined it up in the software and gave it a spin. The bundled software includes the Garritan Aria player sample library which alone retails for about $250, an iZotope Effects Rack with plugins such as flanger, phaser, analog delay and dynamics, Native Instruments guitar emulation software valued at about $100, and Submersible Music KitCore drums for beat creation. The package comes with vast assortment of loop content, MIDI samples with over 3,000 ACIDized music loops, over 1000 MIDI files, 90 DLS instruments and 25 DLS-based projects. There has also been some improvement to the Plug-In management window, allowing for customizable categories, also displaying by brand and a few other views, thus making it easier to navigate.Īcid Pro 7 has added support for additional file formats such as FLAC, AAC, AC-3 Studio and MPEG-2.Īcid 7 is Windows Vista certified so it is guaranteed to work on Vista. A much needed Mixer window has been added with customizable views. On the audio side Sony have added the much needed signal level meters missing from previous versions, track/clip/event switches including Normalize, Invert Phase, Mute and Lock. As earlier Acid Pro users were complaining of the lack of metronome, Sony has added a robust metronome feature in version 7, with multiple configurations and countoff settings. These features are controlled by fade types. The Beatmapper also has some new enhanced features which allow users to edit clip properties and Beatmap songs with varying tempos and time signatures.Īcid has also introduced a new feature called Tempo Curves which allows users to set the type of transition between two tempo changes, for example slow buildup to the new tempo. They come with some new enhanced capabilities such as elastique time stretching and pitch shifting, which adds some extra level of detail and quality to tracks that require that treatment. The standard Acid layout is still there, the looping portions are also still there with Beatmapper and the Chopper. Sony has kept the standard features of the older versions, so right away it feels familiar. Overall the installation was pretty forward and streamlined, no surprises there and I was good to go in almost no time. ![]() The software plugins take a bit longer to load, especially the Garritan Aria for Acid since it has quite a few sample files. Fairly straightforward and after registering I got my codes and was good to go in under 5 minutes. There are also a few features under the hood that enhance the user experience as well and we'll get into these details later.Īcid Pro 7 requires the user to register online and to obtain a key code via a challenge and response system. Sony have added an audio and midi mixing console, input busses, real time rendering and midi track freeze, features that a lot of users were hoping to see in version 6. Acid's time stretching and looping tools have always been flawless and in version 6 Sony added multi-tracking capabilities, thus making Acid Pro 6 a recording workstation.Īccording to Sony, version Acid Pro 7 offers improvement of the midi and tracking sections of the software as well as some welcome additions in terms of plugins such as Garritan Aria, Acid Pro Effects Rack by iZotope, Native Instruments Guitar Combos and Submersible Music KitCore. 2) I was very interested to see what the software had in terms of updates and improvements. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |