The electronic download of MAGIX Entertainment ACID Pro 9 is a creative DAW that marries an easy-to-use workflow with pro-level features to provide artists and musicians with an inspiring, loop-based environment to compose, remix, record, edit, and mix their songs. The software features a 64-bit engine that utilizes the full power of your Windows computer to handle multitrack recording of high-fidelity audio at up to 24-bit / 192 kHz or compose and mix with dozens of instrument and effects plug-ins running in real-time, all with low latency.
At its heart, ACID Pro 9 uses ACIDized loops, which are at the core of creative loop-based music production. They contain pitch, length, and transient data and can be edited and manipulated in real-time and easily mixed together to make complete pieces of music. Remixing is fast and easy with powerful tools such as Beatmapper, which identifies the tempo and time signature information in external audio files and applies it to your project, and Chopper, which slices and dices audio files to create rhythmic variations of the original audio or new samples from the original loop, all in sync with your project. Also included is zplane élastique for real-time and artifact-free time stretching and pitchshifting of your audio files.
The mixing console looks like a traditional studio mixer but can be customized to match your unique workflow. It provides a flexible recording environment with a variety of routing options that lets you assign plug-in effects, work with external MIDI devices, use external effect processors on tracks and busses, create complex submixes with bus-to-bus routing, while monitoring everything in real-time. The CoreFX Suite provides a collection of essential studio effects including reverb, delay, EQ, compressor, modulation, de-esser, and more. Also available are the am|track SE vintage analog compressor plug-in and the Vandal SE suite of guitar and bass effects racks, which accurately model stompboxes, guitar amps, and speaker cabinets.
When you're ready to share your music, ACID Pro 9 lets you burn audio CDs directly from the timeline, or encode your mixes in all the popular streaming formats used online and in portable media players.
Lead Synth produces electronic sounds that will cut through any mix. With its virtual analog heart, you can produce high-end, high-quality leads for all genres of music.
Drum Grid Mode is ACID Pro 9's easy and intuitive way of editing beats directly on the software's timeline. The grid style edit window shows all the drum parts and you can easily move, add or delete beats.
MIDI Track Freeze allows you to turn MIDI tracks that are being triggered by software instruments into audio. Freezing a track like this means less instruments need to be running in real time so it conserves valuable CPU processing power.
MIDI Filtering and Processing of multiple events or tracks of MIDI data can also be done directly on the ACID Pro 9 timeline. You can use quantization and global editing of velocity values, note event duration and more.
With MIDI Track Envelopes and Keyframes, ACID Pro 9 utilizes envelope and keyframe automation features. All MIDI continuous controller data used to edit parameters like pitch, modulation and expression—or indeed the controls of a soft synth—can be modified with smooth transitions. You can also use envelopes and keyframes on individual clips or make larger, project-wide changes.
Using Drum and Patch Map Editors within ACID Pro 9, you can efficiently create and edit drum maps. This means that you can use templates to label patch and drum names for hardware or software-based MIDI synthesizers and drum machines. Templates can also be easily saved and recalled.
The VST2/VST3 Engine with 32-bit Bridge in both the updated VST2/VST3 engine and the 32-bit bridge, you can run the latest plug-ins in ACID Pro and even bring your favorite older plug-ins into its sleek 64-bit ACID environment.
Take complete control over your groove! Give your music a completely new feel with ACID Pro 9's Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning quantization technology. You can apply preset grooves to a clip or track to give it a fresh sound or extract the groove from one track and apply it to another. You can even create your own custom grooves from scratch or edit existing ones for total groove control.
CoreFX Delay and Reverb Effects allow you to create echoes with the Delay. The simple delay effect is based on analog circuits and produces time-delayed copies of the original input signal to create the echo effect.
CoreFX Chorus give you a fuller sound, Chorus produces a time-delayed duplicate of the audio signal with a slight pitch difference. A perceptible doubling and beating effect is created.
CoreFX Flanger creates a dynamic, colder sound. By superimposing the original signal and its time-delayed copies, sweeping effects are created for the classic 'wandering' sound.