It was a loop-based music sequencer, in which Acid Loop files could be simply drag-and-dropped then automatically adjust to the tempo and key of a song with virtually no sonic degradation.Ī website for budding musicians using Acid technology was set up, named. Acid Pro 8 (the current version as of 2019 ) supports 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and has MIDI, ASIO, VST, VST3, DirectX Audio, and 5.1 surround sound support.Īcid was first launched in 1998, as Acid pH1, by Sonic Foundry in Madison, Wisconsin. It was originally called Acid pH1 and published by Sonic Foundry, later by Sony Creative Software as Acid Pro, and since spring 2018 by Magix as both Acid Pro and a simplified version, Acid Music Studio. Check out the Magix website for more details.Acid Pro (often stylized ACID) is a professional digital audio workstation (DAW) software program currently developed by Magix Software.
Magix ACID Pro 8 goes for USD $ 149 (About R1900), Magix also does a version called ACID Pro 365 which allows you to own the software via a subscription service, for USD $8 per month (Around R100) – not bad for beginners or those who want to give the software a spin before diving in.
Hopefully the latest update will help ACID regain the traction it lost, as it is truly great software for beginners or casual music creators. The way most of us look at creating music has evolved vastly, programs like Ableton Live created a much more hands-on approach to music creation, without the need for an engineering degree to operate the software – partly what made ACID so popular in its hay-day. Sony ACID, as it was at the time, was one of the first DAW’s I ever experimented with, the loop warping functionality and easy layout helped me grasp some of the fundamental aspects of song arrangement, I’m glad to see it making a comeback. The ACIDized loops and samples are a host of sounds that have been pre-configured and warped to fit into any BPM.
Magix have packed over $1000 worth of instruments and effects into the ACID Pro 8 bundle, including their DN-e1 virtual analog synth alongside a host of effects, a sampler and over 9GB of “ACIDized” loops and samples.
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