Sony Acid Pro 6 has become the favorite loop-based music creation tool for millions of musicians world-wide. It provides all of the tools of a full featured professional music workstation: Loop based music creation, multitrack audio and midi recording, mixing and editing, professional effects, Soft Synth / MIDI support, exclusive quantization, professional automation workflow tools and more. Acid Pro 6 includes a custom edition of Native Instruments KOMPAKT. This full featured VSTi sample playback engine ships with over 120 additional instruments. author and Musician - Robert Correll covers all aspects of the Acid Pro software from installation, navigating the interface, music creation, mixing and publishing as well as using the KOMPAKT plug-in. To get started learning Acid Pro 6, click on one of the links below.
Getting Started with ACID Pro 6
ACID Tutorial Overview Preparing To Install ACID Pro Installing ACID Pro Finishing the Installation Importing Loops The ACID Interface
The ACID Pro Workspace The Menus The Toolbar The Track List The Timeline Docking and Floating Windows Quickstart Project
Starting the Project Adding More Loops Finishing Up
Working with Projects
Creating New Projects
Opening / Saving and Closing Projects
Setting Tempo / Time and Key
Acquiring New Media
Finding Missing Files
The Beatmapping Wizard
Exporting Media
Rendering Audio
Publishing
Burning Tracks to CD
Audio CD Project
Rendering Files for CD Audio
Creating the Project
Finalizing and Burning
Using the Track List
Reading the Time Display
Adding Tracks
Setting Track Properties
Resizing Tracks
Working with Track Controls
Moving / Copying and Deleting Tracks
Manipulating Track Envelopes
Using Folder Tracks
Using the Timeline
Reading the Timeline
Zooming and Scrolling
Adding Clips
Painting Clips
Selecting and Moving Clips
Cut / Copy / Paste and Delete Clips
Split / Join and Pitch Shift Clips
Working with Regions and Sections
Play Controls
Using the Grid and Snapping
Changing Key / Time and Tempo
Using the Mixer
Mixer Controls
Using Buses
Bus FX and Envelopes
Using the Media Manager
The Media Manager Interface
Searching for Media
Managing Media Libraries
Media Manager Options
Using the Explorer
Explorer Controls
Accessing Media Information
Chopping Media
Using the Chopper Interface
Chopping Clips
Working with Grooves
Using Grooves
Modifying Grooves
Video Project
Getting Ready
Matching Video to Audio in Vegas
Matching Audio to Video in ACID
Rendering
Manipulating Media Properties
One-Shot Clips Properties
Adjusting Loop Properties
Beatmap Properties
Working with MIDI
Using MIDI
Inline MIDI Editing
Using the Piano Roll Editor
Using the List Editor
Using Kompakt
M-Audio Ozonic Project
Installing Ozonic
ACID Settings
Recording MIDI with Ozonic
Creating Surround Sound
Creating Surround Sound
Rendering Surround Sound
Working with Effects and Automation
Adding and Chaining Effects
Modifying Effects
Using Automation Envelopes
Recording
Single Track Recording
Multitrack Recording
Recording Project
Writing a Commercial
Recording Vocals
Adding Music
Go Superhero Go
Ok Computer
All That
Electro Funk
Waking Dream
Grains Of Sand
Flying High
Journey's End
Go Superhero Go
Rockstar
Your Note Still Rings
Settings and Preferences
Customizing the Toolbar and Keyboard
ACID Options
ACID Preferences
Wrapup
Concluding Remarks
Credits
About this Author