MAGIX Entertainment ACID Pro 7 - Academic (Download)

Description

It doesn't matter whether you are new to music editing software or a seasoned professional, there is an ACID solution which is perfect for you.

Magix® ACID™ Pro 7 software is a DAW (digital audio workstation) powerhouse which combines full multi-track recording and mixing, complete MIDI sequencing and legendary loop manipulation for seamless music creation and post production. Get up and running quickly with new interactive tutorials.

Other new features include a dedicated mixing console, MIDI track freeze, input busses, tempo curves and enhanced format support. ACID Pro 7 software includes over 3,000 loops and 1,000 MIDI files for music creation, as well as the Garritan™ ARIA for ACID Pro player, the ACID Pro Effects Rack powered by iZotope™, Native Instruments™ Guitar Combos and Submersible Music KitCore™.

Features

Audio

• Music creation using an efficient pick, paint and play style interface
• Unlimited audio tracks (hardware dependent)
• Virtual mixing console provides an integrated view of all tracks and busses with the appearance of a traditional hardware-based mixer
• Simultaneously record multiple tracks directly into the timeline using punch-in/out on the fly, or via continuous looping
• Input busses can be used to record from external devices with effects, mix external audio sources with projects, use external effects processors with tracks and busses, and for real time input monitoring
• Tempo Curves create smooth tempo variations in projects
• Place multiple media types on a single track, and add samples to the project as it plays back
• The Chopper creates rhythmic variations to "clone" loops, create chopped events, tweak loops and create customized samples
• Includes Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning quantization
• Setting up and mixing of 5.1 channel surround project files for audio and DVD productions with virtual surround panners
• Beatmapper tool ad tempo information to song-length files, including MP3s
• Zplane élastique audio time stretching and pitch shifting
• Divide a project into logical sections that can be freely arranged directly on the timeline

MIDI

• Records MIDI files directly into the timeline
• Time stretch MIDI
• Generates MIDI Time Code and synchronizes with external devices tracks
• Track envelopes and key-frames can be used to implement continuous controller and program changes
• Intuitive interface provides for efficiently modifying MIDI pitch, modulation, expression, or changing MIDI controller data, including project-wide changes
• MIDI data can be processed directly on the timeline, including quantization, editing of velocity values, event duration changes, and more
• Freeze MIDI tracks that are routed to soft synthesizers
• Incorporate automation envelopes to control VST instruments
• Includes Drum Grid mode and the ability to create and edit drum maps

Effects and Instruments

• Over 20 DirectX audio effects such as delay, EQ, compressor, resonant filter, reverb, flange, chorus and distortion
• Tempo sync available where appropriate (time based effects, e.g.)
• Effects can be inserted in any order or in any combination
• The pitch or tempo of an entire project can be changed in real-time
• Includes software for professional music production and editing, including ACID Pro Effects Rack, powered by iZotope, Garritan Aria for ACID Pro Player, and Sonoma Wire Works KitCore Drums
• VST soft synthesizers with multiple output ports and individually mute, solo, effects and volume adjust for each bus
• Software works as both a ReWire mixer/host and a device/instrument
• Plug-In Manager allows for quickly adding effects from its window to a track, bus, assignable effects chain, or soft synthesizer bus

Control

• Track envelope and key-frame parameters can be recorded in real time using a mouse or external control surfaces, with touch and latch record modes and automatic post-record key-frame thinning
• Support for control surfaces including Mackie Control and Frontier Design TranzPort
• Custom mapping of up to five user-defined control surfaces
• Customizable workspace with mapping and the ability to save commonly used keyboard commands
• Multiple windows can be docked together to create different layout configurations for certain editing tasks
• Markers can be dropped in real-time

Media

• Includes over 3,000 loops and 90 virtual instruments
• The included Media Manager provides powerful new ways to tag, organize and search the user's collection of loops, allowing them to quickly find just the right media for any ACID compositions

General

• Built-in interactive tutorials for step-by-step help
• Restores projects to any previous state using unlimited undo/redo history
• CDs tracks can be lifted directly into ACID and audio projects written directly to CD with track-at-once CD burning
• Support for Gracenote MusicID
• Encoding functionality allows for saving songs to popular streaming formats for the Web and portable players
• Encodes video, inserts metadata command markers, launches web sites, displays captions, and embeds URL flips into audio and video streams
• Dual/Multi-core processor support
• Gain increased performance on single and multi-core processor machines with audio track buffering
• FLAC, AAC, ACE, and MPEG-2 format support
• Dolby Digital AC-3 Studio plug-in to export mixes in surround format