ACID® PRO 4.0 is the latest version of Sonic Foundry's award-winning loop-based music creation tool that allows professionals to produce original, royalty-free music.

Specifications and System Requirements

General Features

  • Create original, royalty free music
  • Hundreds of multi-genre loops
  • Preview loops in real time with your project
  • Real-time pitch and tempo matching
  • VSTi support
  • 5.1 surround mixing
  • ASIO driver support
  • Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI
  • MIDI recording, editing, and playback
  • Alternate time signatures
  • Over 20 real time DirectX® audio effects
  • Plug-In effects automation
  • Real-time effects
  • Tempo and Key mapping
  • Master, auxiliary, and effects bus tracks
  • New audio panning model
  • Locking Volume, Pan, and Effects envelopes
  • Optimized DLS and VSTi soft synth model
  • 16-bit and 24-bit audio support
  • Sample rates up to 192khz
  • Yamaha OPT (Open Plug-In Technology) support
  • Multiple file format support
  • MP3 import
  • Hotkey commands for track Muting and Soloing
  • One-click music publishing to ACIDPlanet.com
  • "Get Media" option to locate media from the web
  • Audio Recording
  • Autosave crash recovery
  • Multi-processor support
  • Dual-monitor support
  • Windows Media™ Audio and Video import
  • Export/Save as WAV, MP3, WMA, WMV, RA, RV, WAV, AIF, and PCA

Editing

  • Chopper™ editing tool
  • Loop Cloning: Chop to new in Chopper™
  • Beatmapper™ remixing tool
  • Enhanced time stretching for Beatmapped tracks
  • Video scoring track (AVI, MOV, WMV)
  • Audio and video synchronization
  • Ripple editing across multiple tracks
  • Attack, Sustain, and Release (ASR) envelopes
  • New envelope fade types
  • Track bouncing
  • Unlimited undo / redo history
  • Track envelopes lock to events
  • Project pitch and tempo adjust
  • Real-time placement of markers during playback
  • Tempo, time signature, and key change markers
  • Volume and pan envelops
  • Metadata command markers
  • Tempo and key mapping
  • Multiple time-stretching algorithms

MIDI

  • MIDI piano roll editing
  • MIDI event list editing and step recording
  • Unlimited tracks of MIDI
  • MIDI time stretching
  • Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC)
  • MIDI record and playback
  • Direct links to audio/MIDI editors
  • DLS 1 & 2 soft synth support

CD

  • CD ripping
  • Track-at-once CD burning

Effects

  • DirectX® Plug-In support
  • Plug-In effects automation
  • 32 effects per track
  • 32 assignable effect chains
  • 26 effect busses
  • Effects bus tracks
  • Automated DirectX® Effects
    • Track EQ
    • Resonance Filter
    • Flange/Wah/Phase
  • DirectX® Effects
    • Compression
    • Pitch Shift
    • Chorus
    • Delay/Echo
    • Noise Gate
    • Multiband Dynamics
    • Graphic Dynamics
    • Parametric EQ
    • Paragraphic EQ
    • Graphic EQ
    • Amplitude Modulation
    • Flange / Wah-Wah
    • Smooth / Enhance
    • Gapper / Snipper
    • Vibrato
    • Distortion

Video

  • Perform video scoring
  • Import WMV and AVI formats
  • Synchronize audio with video
  • External monitor support
  • Advanced video rendering options
  • Video frame rate resampling and deinterlacing
  • Multiple pixel aspect ratio support for videos

Supported File Formats

  • AIF Macintosh
  • AIFF (uncompressed)
  • AVI Microsoft Video for Windows
  • MOV Apple QuickTime Movie
  • MP3 MPEG-1 Layer 3 (Audio)
  • MPG* MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Video
  • OGG Ogg Vorbis
  • PCA Sonic Foundry Perfect Clarity Audio™
  • RM RealNetworks RealAudio 8.0
  • RM RealNetworks RealVideo 8.0
  • WAV Microsoft Wave (uncompressed)
  • WMA Microsoft Windows Media Audio
  • WMV Microsoft Windows Media Video

* MPEG-1&2 support requires the purchase of the MainConcept MPEG plug-in.

System Requirements

  • 300 MHz processor
  • Windows-compatible sound card
  • CD-ROM drive
  • Supported CD-Recordable drive (for CD burning only)
  • 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended)
  • 60 MB hard-disk space for program installation
  • Microsoft® Windows® 98SE, Me, 2000, or XP
  • Microsoft DirectX® 8 or later (included on CD-ROM)
  • Internet Explorer 4.0 or later (version 5.0 included on CD-ROM)