Sony ACID Pro 7 Recording Software, 5-99 Tier Site-Licenses, Educational, Boxed

Your New Creative Partner
The legendary application that started loop-based music creation, ACID Pro 7 is a DAW powerhouse that combines full multitrack recording and mixing, MIDI sequencing and looping functionality for a seamless studio production environment. More creative partner than production tool, ACID Pro 7 software inspires like nothing else. With its transparent technology design, ACID Pro 7 software removes typical barriers to the creative workflow so you can effortlessly transform ideas into real results.

• New! External control surface channel tracking
• New! Custom labels for ASIO devices and ports
• New! Interactive tutorials
• External control surface support including the Mackie Control and Frontier Design Tranzport
• Dynamic playback optimization maximizes audio performance
• Dual/multi-core processor support
• ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus and ATRAC Advanced Lossless support
• Unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI
• Real-time pitch and tempo matching
• Over 3,000 music loops in multiple genres
• Alternate time signature support
• 24-bit, 192 kHz audio support
• ASIO driver support
• Master, auxiliary, soft synth and effects bus tracks
• Multiple file format support
• Live audio recording
• Media Manager technology
• Customizable UI and keyboard mapping
• Flash (.swf) file format import
• Autosave crash recovery
• Dual/external monitor support
• Metronome for playback and record
• Unlimited undo/redo history
• Get Media option to download media from the Web

Professional multitrack recording
For uncompromising 24-bit, 192 kHz sound quality production live or in the studio, ACID Pro 7 software has an expanded set of features for maximum audio performance. Whether you're recording your band or creating MIDI-based compositions, ACID Pro 7 software is the optimal platform for reliable multitrack recording and production.

Innovative loop-based music creation
ACID Pro software is the leader in loop-based music creation. Version 7 retains all the classic ACID Pro features including real-time pitch/tempo transposition during playback and preview, unlimited tracks and their signature pick/paint/play interface. ACID Pro 7 software also includes more than 3,000 sonny sound series loops and 90 virtual instruments so you can start creating music right out of the box.

Comprehensive MIDI support
Experience unparalleled MIDI sequencing in ACID Pro 7 software, with real time MIDI processing and precise control over MIDI events. Use track envelopes to automate and modify modulation, expression or other types of MIDI controller data. Simultaneously record MIDI on multiple tracks, apply real time quantization, perform filtering and processing, create and edit drum patterns and more.

Professional effects and soft synth support
Expand your palette with native support for VST instruments and plug-ins. Create resonant sweeps, EQ changes and add effects with parameter automation. ReWire and ASIO support help you smoothly integrate ACID Pro 7 software with your existing studio.

Professional workflow features
Maximize efficiency with folder tracks and cluster editing to drag, pitch-shift, cut, copy and paste whole sections of your arrangements. Use the Clip Pool to choose and arrange events to use in your compositions. Create dramatic or subtle tempo changes using tempo curves. Deliver projects in nearly any format without leaving the ACID Pro 7 environment.

Included with ACID Pro 7 software
ACID Pro 7 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.

General Features
ACID Pro 7 software includes a powerful set of real time features for composing original songs. Its revolutionary and intuitive pick, paint and play interface lets you focus on the immediacy of music creation. Inside ACID Pro 7 software's comprehensive editing environment, you'll become immersed in a new world with infinite creative possibilities.

Microsoft Windows 7 compatible
ACID Pro 7 software is fully compatible with the Microsoft Windows 7 platform.

Pristine audio quality
ACID Pro 7 software employs the shortest possible path from your audio interface to your hard disk without floating-point conversions that can increase latency and dropout potential. Its optimized 24-bit, 192 kHz recording architecture includes dual and multicore processor support and dynamic playback optimization for maximum audio performance.

Interactive tutorials
ACID Pro 7 software includes built-in interactive tutorials for step-by-step help. Work along with the tutorials from within your project so you can learn and create at the same time.

Exclusive Media Manager technology
Use the Media Manager to tag, organize and search your collection of sounds so you can quickly find just the right media for your ACID Pro 7 compositions. The Media Manager maintains a database of your content, including file attributes, ACID metadata and tags that you can assign to classify your media. Install the Media Reference Library to automatically tag existing Sony Sound Series loops and samples on your hard drive.

Dynamic playback optimization
Gain increased performance on single and multicore processor machines with audio track buffering. ACID Pro 7 software uses a separate processing thread to render audio from tracks. On multiprocessor or multicore computers, processing is distributed evenly across all CPUs to increase playback performance.

More than 3,000 loops
ACID Pro 7 software includes more than 3,000 Sony Sound Series loops and 90 virtual instruments for instant music creation. Sound Series loops are ACIDized with their revolutionary pitch-shifting and time-stretching metadata for the smoothest possible performance. Get more free loops through the ACID Pro Get Media feature and at ACIDplanet.com. Further expand your media collection by purchasing titles from their award-winning collection of royalty-free sample libraries.

Exclusive free content
Get Media contains a wide assortment of free and fresh content that can't be found anywhere else. Enjoy instant access to folders full of great sounding royalty-free loops that you can use right away in all your projects. Get Media content adds significantly to the Sony Sound Series catalog by providing folders packed full of sounds that expand every new Sound Series library's potential.

Mixing and Editing
• New! Audio and MIDI mixing console
• New! Audio, MIDI and Bus Track meters
• New! Input busses
• New! Real-time rendering
• New! Tempo curves
• New! Cross-track event drag and drop
• New! Enhanced Beatmapping for tracks with tempo changes
• New! Enhanced time stretch and pitch-shifting with ½lastique Pro
• New! Metronome count-off
• New! Switches including Normalize, Invert Phase and Lock
• Multitrack recording for audio and MIDI
• Unlimited media clips per track
• On-the-fly punch-in recording
• Record input monitoring
• Clip Pool management
• ACID Project sections
• Envelope automation recording
• Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline
• Film-style panning mode for 5.1 surround projects
• Nestable folder tracks
• Real-time event reverse
• Bus-to-bus routing
• Downmix monitoring
• Drop one-shots in real time
• Customizable project media folders
• Envelope changes applied to multiple selected events
• 5.1 surround mixing
• Beatmapper remixing tool
• Chopper editing tool with loop cloning
• Hotkey commands for track muting and soloing
• Video scoring track (AVI, MOV, WMV)
• Ripple editing across multiple tracks
• Attack, Sustain and Release (ASR) envelopes
• Tempo, time signature and key change markers
• Metadata command markers
• Real-time placement of markers during playback
• Volume and pan envelopes
• Tempo and key mapping

Export and CD Burning
• New! Native FLAC, AAC, AC-3 Studio and MPEG-2, format support
• Gracenote CD album identification
• Integrated disc-at-once CD burning
• CD audio extraction
• Export: WAV, MP3, WMA, WMV, RM, WAV, AIF, PCA and AC3
• One-click music publishing to ACIDplanet.com

MIDI and Effects
• New! MIDI track freeze
• New! Enhanced plug-in management
• New! Optimized plug-in scanning with Plug-in Manager
• Inline MIDI editing
• MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
• Drum grid editing mode with drum key maps
• MIDI filtering and processing
• VSTi parameter automation
• Program Map Editor
• MIDI file export
• MIDI piano roll snap-to-scale filtering
• MIDI event list editing and step recording
• ReWire support (mixer and device)
• VST effects support with automation and tempo sync
• Tempo-based DirectX effects
• Groove quantization tools
• Audio Plug-in Manager
• Bypass all effects command
• Generate and trigger from MIDI Time Code (MTC)
• Direct links to audio/MIDI editors
• DLS 1 & 2 soft synth support
• DirectX plug-in support
• Plug-in effect automation
• Over 20 real-time DirectX audio effects
• 32 assignable effect