ACID Music Studio 7

I love this product. I am a novice and this product has put a studio at my fingertips. I'm so overwhelmed but everything seems pretty simple with easy to understand help/tutorials. I have already made four quick songs and downloaded them into my mp3 for the gym. Now i need more loops, a keyboard, a microphone, a camera, a video camera and some turntables. So many ideas and so little time.

Awesome, amazing, excellent, flawless. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe Acid Music Studio 7 - a software that allows you to produce original, high quality music. What this tool can do for you is simply astonishing, to say the least. You definitely get your money's worth, that's for sure.

Acid Music Studio 7 is ideal for anyone who's ever thought about producing music, regardless of what genre they're into: Techno, Hip Hop, Rock, Country... no problem. In fact, there's no other software I would recommend more than this one. It's flexible, powerful, and quite possibly the most user friendly software of its kind on the market today. As far as I'm concerned, you can't really make this software any more user-friendly than it already is. And although there are other, much more expensive products of this kind on the market, like, Cubase and Pro Tools (which I've taken for a test drive before), why would you want to pay multiple times more for a product that gives you the same results? Unless you're a professional music producer and you fear "looking unprofessional" in front of your peers for working with a software that costs less than a hundred bucks - that's understandable. Otherwise, forget it.

Beginners will be pleased to know that this software comes with a ton of pre-composed music files to get you started and give you some good practice. Most of these music files are "loops" but there are also many samples of snares, kicks, hats, stabs, strings, and other one-shots. This allows you to be as creative as you want. You can also modify each loop through a wide range of options, such as chopping them to bits and pieces, moving them around wherever you want, changing the volumes and pitches, mixing them with other sounds and even adding some effects to them. You can also record your vocals into it for a live session. With this software, the user is always in control. You can produce whatever music you want, at whatever level you want. The quality of the music files, by the way, is top notch CD quality. You can create your own mp3s and export them to your favorite player or burn them onto a CD.

For more advanced users, you can plug in your music keyboard to your computer or use any synthesizer software, such as FL Studio, for example, to compose your own, 100 % original music from scratch. If you have the interest for this kind of stuff, you'll be able to master this software very easily. Don't be fooled by reviewers who give this software anything less than five stars. This product is gold! I've been using Acid 2 for years and recently upgraded to Acid 7 and I'm absolutely thrilled with it. It's fun, it's easy to use, and it's suitable for people of all ages and skill level. Excellent for beginners and excellent for pros.

I highly recommend it!

I am actually a singer and was skeptical at first as to what Sony Acid can do for me. I have been amazed at the amount of effects you can play around with your voice. I am using this with a TASCAM US-144 ($150) and a Samson C15 ($50) and of course an XLR cable to connect the two ($15). You would need a Pop filter for the Mic ($20) and for under $300 (including Acid) you can have your own professional home studio for vocal/instrumental recording. Not to mention the fact that you can get loops of music that you can use if you can't play an instrument. Nothing will stop me now!!! Muahahhahhah! Lol...seriously though, good software!!!

Loaded this product only to be given a message that the Show Me function would not load. Then when the disk arrived tried loading it again but said the program was already loaded and must be uninstalled. So did that. Then tried to reload. Was then told the product was already installed. Total dead end. No product support without paying.
Rip off product.

Ive had probs with this ever since I got it. For one the instructions are terrable they dont tell you how to do some things thet you have to trouble shoot in order to figure out how to use your midi or any instument
for that matter. Ive spent sleepless nights trying to figure out the program, and the booklet I got with it looked like some xerox copy made by some teenager, and didnt even have that many pages. now I dont have internet service, you wouldnt think you needed it to record right, wrong the program gave me 14 days to register and then it wouldnt allow me to use the program so all the songs I was working on I cant work on now until I get a cd and go to a computer with internet service download the information then drag it back to my computer so I can create again. But dont forget to get some paper and right down all the serial numbers and machine id numbers and activation codes like I did.its too bad because customer service isnt open on saterday so ive wasted a whole day of not creating any music.And on top of that, when i was recording the program would kick me off from time to time when it wants to mess up so just remember to save every time you make an alteration on your songs. Good thing I got magic musics program just in case i'll just use that until I can register onling and get my songs back....

The old one (5) had wav files which were about as easy as pie. The midi's are a pain in the neck because you have to pick an instrument...otherwise you get a drum beat that sounds like someone pounding on a piano.

Sony Media Software ACID Music Studio 7. Music Creation and Mixing Software ACID Music Studio software is the perfect tool for original song creation, multitrack audio and MIDI recording, studio quality mixing, and effects processing. Share your songs any way you want burn your own CDs, upload to the web, prepare audio for podcasts, or export to your MP3 player. With built-in tutorials to guide you, you ll be composing, mixing, and mastering like a pro in no time.