Sony ACID Music Studio 10 Production Platform, Site-License, Boxed Physical Media

A total music production platform
Get in the producer's chair and take control. ACID Music Studio is the ideal gateway to total music production. It's easy-drop a beat on the timeline and dig in. Put the software to work and take advantage of all the production tools you need to make the music you've always wanted to hear. Keep it simple or go deep-ACID Music Studio has everything you need when you're ready to take it to the next level. With built-in tutorials to guide you, you'll be composing, editing and mixing like a pro in no time-even if you're a newcomer to the world of computer music.

· Free Sony Sound Series loop library title
· Floating docking windows
· Enhanced Show Me How tutorials
· Includes 3,000 Sound Series music loops
· New! Updated Sound Series loop sampler pack
· Multicore processor support
· Intuitive pick, paint and play interface
· Unlimited tracks for audio and MIDI
· Video scoring track
· Automatic pitch and tempo matching
· Alternate time signature support
· Real-time loop preview
· Support for multiple file formats in the same project/track

Pick your music
Explore 3000 loops and 90 virtual instruments. Download your free Sony Sound Series loop library.

Paint it on
Paint streams of music in the arrange window. Create as many audio and MIDI tracks as you need.

Play it back
Click Play to hear your song. Alter pitch and tempo in real time.

Instant music
Your computer's audio input leads directly to ACID Music Studio-simply plugs in your microphone or instrument and click Record. Import songs and MP3s for remixing and use the Beat mapper tool to create remixes and DJ sets.

Create new music with MIDI
Use powerful MIDI editing and sequencing tools. Record MIDI data from your favorite hardware controllers or compose directly on the ACID Music Studio piano roll and drum grid interfaces. ACID Music Studio supports VSTi and includes 90 instruments for song creation.

Studio-quality audio effects
Apply sophisticated signal and effects processes including elastique time stretching, EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flanging, phase shift and distortion. ACID Music Studio features VST audio effects support, as well as support for VST instruments, so you can play your MIDI tracks back through virtual instruments, filters and effects.

Share your creations
Burn music CDs, save your songs to popular formats and upload songs to sound cloud and indaba music. Export songs to all your favorite portable players.

Learn as you go with easy tutorials
Sony exclusive show me how tutorials guide you through the entire creative process. Whenever you need help, just click the Show Me How button and choose your tutorial topic. Helpful text dialog boxes, pointers and guides will show you what to do and where to click.

One-year Indaba Music Pro membership
Indaba Music is a place for musicians around the world to network and make music together through online collaboration. Your one-year Indaba Pro membership includes 5GB of cloud storage space.

Recording, import and export
Record your own vocals and instruments over loops in ACID music studio. Extract audio from CDs and import MP3 files for beat mapping and remixing. ACID music studio gives you the flexibility to record from virtually any source to produce amazing results. Burn music CDs, save songs for uploading to your favorite Web sites including sound cloud and indaba music and convert to MP3 for playback on all your favorite portable players.

Studio multitrack recording
Live tracking and overdubbing is easy in ACID Music studio. Record everything on separate tracks and take complete control of the mix.

Over 3,000 music loops
ACID Music Studio includes 3,000 Sony Sound Series loops in a wide variety of genres so you can get started making music right away. Pick the loops you like, paint them into ACID Music Studio and get great results fast - even if you're a newcomer to the world of computer music.

Publish your songs
ACID Music Studio includes free one-year indaba music Pro membership. Remix major artists, get placements and exposure, find gigs, enter contests and more. Indaba Music opens a wealth of opportunities for members. It Includes 5GB of cloud storage space.

Input monitoring
Now you can hear your recording signal with real-time track effects, like the included Studio Devil British Valve Custom guitar amp.

CD layout and burning
CD layout and burning is fully integrated into ACID Music Studio. Make music and burn it to CD, all within one application.

File format support
Import and export a wide variety of file formats, allowing for greater flexibility in music production as well as generating all the right files Web streaming and portable players.

Mixing, editing and MIDI
ACID Music Studio is a complete package for tracking, routing, processing, mixing, rendering and sharing your own original music. Take full advantage of the spontaneous time and pitch controls that made ACID famous while digging in and accessing all the audio and MIDI features you'd expect in a great DAW.

Enhanced remixing tools
For remixing your favorite songs, only ACID Music Studio has the Beatmapper tool. This tool automatically finds the tempo of an entire song, making it easy to remix. You can even Beatmap songs with changing tempos and time signatures.

Effects and instruments
ACID Music Studio is packed with built-in signal and effects processing tools, including elastique time stretching, EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phase, distortion and echo. VST plug-in support opens the door to a massive world of signal and effects processing options, as well as all the best in today's virtual instrument offerings.

Inline MIDI editing
Enter and edit MIDI data quickly on good-looking piano roll and drum grid timelines. MIDI notes and envelope automation points are easy to draw, grab and reposition in ACID Music Studio. Snappy performance and a responsive, highly functional interface will encourage you to explore more options in less time and conserve creative energy in the process.

Exclusive guitar and piano software bundle
ACID Music Studio 10 includes studio devil British valve custom guitar amp and True Pianos Amber Lite piano plug-in a set of powerful studio-quality software packages.

TruePianos Amber Lite piano
TruePianos Amber Lite is a high-quality VST piano plug-in which includes options to control dynamics and reverb for the most realistic piano experience.

Tempo curves
Easily create gradual transitions in tempo over the duration of a project. Transition types include Linear, Fast, Slow, Smooth, Sharp and Hold. Tempo curves are an efficient way to create dramatic or subtle tempo changes in your project.

Zplane elastique time stretching
With elastique Pro technology, you can perform dramatic time stretching and pitch-shifting of Beatmapped tracks while retaining maximum sound quality.

MIDI
· New! MIDI Track Freeze
· New! MIDI Input Filtering
· New! Custom Drum Grid Editor Key Maps
· New! Multiport VSTi soft synth support
· Includes 90 DLS instruments and 26 DLS-based projects
· MIDI editing and sequencing
· Inline MIDI editing with drum grid
· MIDI step recording
· MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
· MIDI import and export
· MIDI input filters for tracks

Mixing and Editing
· New! Event Grouping
· New! Audio Event Effects
· Audio and MIDI Mixing Console
· Four audio busses and assignable effects chains
· Audio, MIDI and bus track meters
· Metronome count-off
· Sub Bus and FX Send support
· Cross-track event drag and drop
· Tempo curves
· Enhanced Beatmapping for tracks with tempo changes
· Multitrack audio and MIDI recording
· Multiple events per track with automatic crossfades
· Studio-quality effects including EQ, reverb, delay and more
· Chopper editing tool and loop cloning
· Beatmapper remix tool
· Track-level volume, panning and effects editing
· Master bus track for project-wide volume and pan fades
· Real-time audio effects preview during playback
· Event reverse
· CD audio extraction
· Metronome

Audio Control
· Zplane elastique audio time stretching and pitch shifting
· Switches including Normalize, Invert Phase and Lock
· Custom labels for ASIO devices and ports
· Enhanced plug-in management
· Optimized plug-in scanning with Plug-in Manager
· Includes Studio Devil British Valve Custom (BVC) and TruePianos Amber Lite software
· New! 24-bit, 192 kHz audio support; record true high-resolution audio
· DirectX audio plug-in support
· Tempo-based DirectX effects
· VST instrument support
· VST audio effect support
· ASIO driver support

Export and Sharing
· New! Publish directly to SoundCloud
· AAC and FLAC format support
· ACIDPlanet.com profile link
· Gracenote MusicID CD album
· Disc-at-once (DAO) CD burning
· Track-at-once (TAO) CD burning
· Unlimited MP3 export