Sony Acid Pro 7 (SAC7000) Professional Digital Audio Workstation: ACID Pro 7 software is a DAW powerhouse that combines full multitrack recording and mixing, MIDI sequencing, and legendary ACID looping functionality for a seamless music-creation and post-production environment. More creative partner than production tool, ACID Pro 7 software inspires you 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.

Fundamentals:

• 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

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 timestretch and pitch-shifting with élastique 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

System Requirements:

• Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2 or later), Windows Vista™, or Windows 7
• 1.8 GHz processor (2.0 or faster recommended)
• 1 GB RAM (2.0 GB or more recommended)
• 150 MB hard-disk space for program installation (8 GB of hard-disk space for installation of all optional components)
• Windows-compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended)
• DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
• Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only)
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (included on DVD for use with optional Media Manager component)
• Internet connection (for Gracenote MusicID Service)

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 chains
• 26 effect busses
• Effects bus tracks

Automated DirectX Effects:

• Track EQ
• Resonance Filter
• Flange/Wah/Phase

Tempo Based DirectX Effects:

• Simple Delay
• Flange / Wah / Phase
• Amplitude Modulation
• Chorus

DirectX Effects:

• Compression
• Pitch Shift
• Chorus
• Delay / Echo
• Noise Gate
• Multiband Dynamics
• Graphic Dynamics
• Parametric EQ
• Paragraphic EQ
• Graphic EQ
• Amplitude Modulation
• Flange / Wah-Wah / Phase
• Smooth / Enhance
• Gapper / Snipper
• Vibrato
• Distortion

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

Included with ACID Pro 7: