Sony ACID Music Studio 8 - Complete Home Recording Software (Educational Discount)

ACID Music Studio 8 from Sony Creative Software is the perfect tool for original song creation, audio recording, MIDI production, studio-quality mixing, and effects processing. The software allows you to share your songs any way you want - burn CDs, upload to the web, or export to MP3 for playback in portable devices such as the PSP or iPod. Built-in tutorials help guide you through the various processes.

Recording with ACID Music Studio 8 is a breeze. Just plug your microphone or instrument into your computer's sound card and click Record. Capture one track at a time or the whole band at once with each instrument on a different track. Once recorded, you can enhance your music using effects such as EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, and distortion. Change the pitch and tempo of your mix in real time.

A powerful set of studio-quality software packages includes the Studio Devil British Valve Custom guitar amp and TruePianos Amber Lite piano plug-ins. Additionally, the software allows you to perform complete MIDI editing, recording, and sequencing, and to manipulate MIDI data directly on the ACID Music Studio timeline with a piano roll or a drum grid interface. Finally, you can trigger VST instruments from your MIDI files for a wide variety of sound options.