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ACID Music Studio 7 |  | From: Sony Creative Software
Category: Software
List Price: $69.95
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 513
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows
Genre: PRODUCTIVITY
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
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Number Of Items: 13
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
nv:Software Type: Audio/Video Authoring
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MPN: SNYCD26770WI
Model: SAMS7000
UPC: 855309626273
EAN: 0855309626778
ASIN: B000RO7H3W
Publication Date: July 19, 2007
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Product Description
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.
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 Great for budding artists! November 1, 2007
D. Anthony Hurst (Sunny South Florida)
33 out of 37 found this review helpful
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!!!
A Great Software! March 13, 2008
J. Young (Calgary, Canada)
33 out of 37 found this review helpful
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!
As easy as it gets for mixing tracks April 24, 2009
Toonces (Nebraska, USA)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've worked with Acid in it's various forms for quite a long time. Before I was tinkering with the freeware version, Acid Xpress, but I recently upgraded to Music Studio 7 for the added features. Quite honestly, this is about as easy as it gets when it comes to creating and mixing tracks for soundtracks, games, etc.
After reading various amazon reviews on this product, I decided it was time to write one of my own. From what I've read, it seems the biggest complaints are lack of documentation and poor customer support by Sony. I can't really speak about the customer support as I've never had to call them. Missing serial keys is completely inexcusable on Sony's part, but that's why I HIGHLY recommend just ordering Acid Music Studio directly from Sony's website. You can digitally download it, and you are emailed a serial key right away. The program even auto-activates itself over the internet saving you from typing it in yourself. So that solves any hassle involving serial keys.
As for lack of documentation, that is a non-issue in my opinion. If you can't figure out this program, I don't really know what to tell you. It couldn't be any easier unless it automatically did everything for you. You just drag and drop what sound loops you want onto the workspace, and use the paintbrush tool to draw where you want which sound sample to play, at what interval, etc. I really don't know what's non-intuitive about that, as personally, I found it to be the most efficient mixing tool I've tried. I will say that I've never really had a reason to delve into the advanced features, so if you are doing more than just mixing sound loops, I can see how that might be harder due to lack of documentation (such as hooking up your keyboard/synthesizer to your computer and getting it to work in Acid. Never tried it). But if all else fails, there are forums you can post on, and you can always google for whatever documentation or tutorials are available on the internet.
One thing I do like is the ability to purchase and download a wide range of royalty free sound samples and loops from Sony's online store (each disc/download has a ton of samples/loops), but this isn't really a feature of Acid Music Studio itself. You can purchase those separately and use them in whatever sound mixing tool you prefer, but as a non-musician I find these extremely valuable as I need to make sound tracks for my products and I have zero music talent.
Bottomline, most serious projects are going to need more than one tool for the job. For video projects, I use Corel Video Studio, but I create the soundtracks with Acid for instance. If you are making videos, it's just better to get a dedicated video editing program. For sound mixing and looping, Acid does the job.
Amazon has this product for cheaper than the Sony store, but considering the issues people have with missing serial keys apparently, I would just buy it via direct download. You can also pay a little extra to have them ship you out the installation and sample CD (which is what I did, you don't get the samples via digital download itself, so it's worth the price).
For people who found the product too hard or difficult, and not worth the money, they really only have themselves to blame, considering Sony has a free trial on their website. Try it out for yourself. If you like it, buy it and get the extra features that come with the full version.
Two copies and two computers, no problems. August 17, 2009
H. DEHAVEN (Houston, TX USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I guess that I just was lucky. I bought two copies of this software (on separate occasions) and loaded it on two computers (an HP desktop and a Toshiba laptop) and frankly have not had a single problem. I can use the MME drivers for my sound cards or ASIO drivers for my Line6 Studio USB interface with no problem. The sound quality is stunning. The software is self-explanatory and all my plug-ins work just fine with it.
I guess I just got lucky and both of my copies had the activation numbers included and it simply worked. If you have never worked with audio software (recording and/or editing) then I would expect you will have a fair learning curve. However, that is true of ANY audio software. Once you understand the general concepts, they are fairly universal across software packages. ACID however is one of the easier packages to learn with drag and drop music creation. I had a 10-track tune thrown together in about 30 minutes after loading it the first time. Again, if you have never used audio software, expect that you will have to take your time and figure out the concepts.
If you never used a spreasheet program such as Excel before, you would have to do the same thing in order to construct a useable spreadsheet. Granted, if ACID is crashing your computer, I can't really comment. I did not have to deal with tech support so, again, I can not intelligently comment on their abilities or effectiveness.
I CAN tell you that if you have a basic knowledge of audio programs and are lucky enough that you have no issues with running the software on your computer, this is one heck of a program with endless applications including video soundtracks, backing tracks, practice tracks, recording play-along sessions, songwriting ideas, dance tracks, and the list is just endless. If you don't find loops that you like included with the software (they are a bit limited), you can always buy loops in just about any style you might wish.
I have to give it 5 stars and say that my experience with this product has been stellar. Besides being so easy to use, it is inexpensive and just a LOT of fun to tinker with! I LOVE IT!
RHB
Acid Music Studio September 14, 2009
P. Stath
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
New software and it was shipped quickly. I feel that I really got a bargain!
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