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Acid was first launched in 1998, as Acid pH1, by Sonic Foundry in Madison, Wisconsin. It was a loop-based music sequencer, in which Acid Loop files could be simply drag-and-dropped then automatically adjust to the tempo and key of a song with virtually no sonic degradation.[1]
A website for budding musicians using Acid technology was set up, named AcidPlanet.com. The software became very popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s among composers, producers, and DJs interested in quickly creating beats, music textures, or complete compositions and orchestrations, that would work with virtually any tempo or key signature.[2]
Sonic Foundry sold its Acid, Vegas, Sound Forge, CD Architect, Siren, VideoFactory, ScreenBlast, and Batch Converter product lines to Sony Pictures Digital in July 2003; the merger resulted in the new Sony Creative Software division.[3] Sony's Acid Pro 6 (released in the third quarter of 2006) introduced a full-digital audio workstation that also included MIDI and multitrack audio recording with full support for ASIO computer-audio and VST synthesizer-plugin standards.
On May 20, 2016, German company Magix Software GmbH announced they had acquired the majority of the products in the Sony Creative Software portfolio. These include Acid Pro, Vegas Pro, Movie Studio, and Sound Forge Pro.[4] Acid Pro 8, the first version since Magix's acquisition, was announced on January 21, 2018 and released in spring 2018. The update came with new modern features including an enhanced interface, support for 64-bit, additional samples, VST3 support, over 20 DirectX audio effects, the ability to mix in 5.1 surround sound, and new features named Media Manager, BeatMapper, and Chopper.[5]
Acid Loop (trademark), also Acidized or Acidified loop (generic terms), refers to a sound clip which can be repeated and transposed to form a song with minimal manual adjustment. Acidized loops contain tempo and key information, so that Acid can properly time-stretch and pitch-shift the clip to fit into an existing track structure. An Acidized loop is a specially prepared WAV audio file, which can be created using an audio-editing tool such as Sound Forge. .mw-parser-output div.crossreferencepadding-left:0.mw-parser-output .hatnotefont-style:italic.mw-parser-output div.hatnotepadding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em.mw-parser-output .hatnote ifont-style:normal.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnotemargin-top:-0.5em(For more information on audio editing, see Sound effect Techniques).[6]
The technology was created in 1998 for Sonic Foundry's original Acid pH1 software. Sony and Magix later sold series of Acidized loop sample CDs to be used with Acid Pro, as have various third-party companies.[7] Since then, this looping technique has been adopted by the majority of other digital audio workstations on the market, sometimes with competing brand names for the feature, such as Cakewalk Sonar (calling it Groove Clips), and Cubase (calling it Audio Warp). Many DAWs can also directly support Acidized loops intended for use in Acid Pro.
I can't remember which version specifically, but I remember it being by Sonic Foundry, so maybe Acid Pro 4. Such a great, innovative piece of software for the time! Back then I used to make mashups; vocals from one track layered over instrumentals of another, so I think my earliest projects probably were mashups!
I think I was about 12 or 13 the first time I found AP. I was using Acid Pro 4 and Sound Forge. In AP4 you couldn't easily split the left and right track or reverse a sample, so you had to use Sound Forge to split the left and right channels and reverse samples.
That's all I ever used Sound Forge for, and quickly stopped using it as soon as AP5 came out where you could split channels with a couple mouse-clicks.
What did other people use Sound Forge for?
2004 I got a tip from an A&R guy at Universal in Sweden when making a party mix for Alcazar(best of tracks megamix)...you can listen to it on Spotify(Dancefloor Deluxe)...he played me some crazy mash-up rnb and hip hop music made with I think Acid 3..and my jaw dropped like woohoo!::)) so the mix was created using both Acid and Magix Music Maker at the time...I have been a fan of Magix since MMM7:)
Later on I made some remixes for Alcazar as well...Stay the night - FL club mix (also on Spotify) and now I'm remixing their new euro pride track for this summer 2018 and hopefully they will like it...made with acid pro 7...and 8!
Acid Music Studio 10. After dragging my feet because of the mostly negative feedback I had heard I finally bought it. In the 3 years since I've added Pro 7 and 8, this time disregarding what I'd read and heard. Never made a better decision in my life.
Acid1! I was going to art school at the time and a friend was going to a local music school for production. He brought it over and put it on my pc. Eventually the rest of the squad got hooked also, lol. Them was the daaaaaayz.
I found the Sonic Foundry site in 1999 and downloaded v 2.0. They were running a Beck Remix contest, so I downloaded the loops, did a remix and tied for third place! Been a dedicated Acid head ever since.
I started right at the beginning. Worked as an intern at Sonic Foundry for a month over break from college. They let me try ACID out before it was released. I was hooked. It definitely lit the spark which has led to over 20 years of producing music.
Whats up I was wondering what new features would you want ACID PRO 12 to have ??..As for me I want a better looking GUI for Acids audio plugins and effects..There still using the same old school Sony look from like 2007 Lol..Come on man..And the Morph Pads was a good idea but the effects just sound bland..They need to updated those sounds..I also would like for the chopper to be real time, when I click "insert selection" or trigger it with a midi controller I want that section to appear immediately on the track with NO LATENCY..The software Beat Cleaver has like no latency and it came out like 10 years ago..Also if I bring a video file into a project I would like the ability to slice and rearrange it around my project like I can with an audio file.. And I would like a fade in video and fade out with video..They don't have to give it all the features they do in Vegas Pro but at least a slice and a fade in and out..
And also just make Acid Pro MORE STABLE! so it doesn't crash all the time..Magix got so many daws sometimes I think its hard for them to just concentrate on one..The have Acid, Vegas, Samplitude, Music Maker, Sound Forge..most other software companies just have one Lol..But those would be my request for ACID PRO 12!!..WHAT WOULD BE YOUR REQUEST ??
They sadly stopped ACID development in 2020. They only released maybe two or three bug fixes since then. I don't think there will be "real" new version from Magix. There might be a new one with new plugins like the release of ACID 11 + Brainworx, which had no new features other than VST plugins.
I don't care if Acid Pro's interface/graphics looks like it came from 1992. I just want Acid Pro to be stable. I would be willing to pay for a stable version even if it looked like Windows 95. Acid Pro crashes all the time if I use any plugins. Even the plugins that came with the Acid bundle (such as Essential FX) crashes the program. The only way to use Acid Pro without crashing is when I use Waves Studio Rack to load all my plugins. Ridiculous. If Acid Pro can just be stable for once, I would use it no matter how ugly it looks.
@GRB you certainly don't mean Acid Pro 11, do you? It's nothing different with the exception of the spash screen. Add 2 or 3 track vst fx and BAM there goes your work. Unless of course, you save after every single keystroke. And if you try and use the "suggested" restored version, you are only restoring what made it crash in the first place. Let Acid die. Finally. I don't say this lightly as I've produced and released at least 5 tracks using it. Those 5 probably would have been 10 or 15 had I spent all that time trying to fix and get my stuff back from acid crashing had I been using that time to finally learn a proper DAW instead of being so lazy and sticking wth Acid bec it was so much easier to use than anything else. Reaper seems to have no problems doing the exact same thing Acid is supposed to do, flawlessly. I will be sorry to see it go, but so long as I can hang on to Sound Forge, I'll be ok. Please Magix, leave Sound Forge alone.
I hope they don't discontinue Acid..Even if they put its features in Vegas Pro I'll be happy.. Like the paint tool, BPM, and the ability to add midi tracks..Vegas does not crash no where near as much as Acid..And I feel you DannyNYC on learning a new daw..I learned Ableton and its pretty cool..Its like 2 daws in one..You have your clip launching workflow that makes it feel more like a MPC style sampler and you have your regular linear daw workflow..So when using it I don't even feel like im on a daw sometimes.
@DyReck411 @GRB @DannyNYC. The very best thing that could happen to AP is for it to be sold to a company that is willing and able to develop & support it. After AP was reworked as a 64 bit program is when ALL these problems started. Sadly, they never put the proper effort into fixing the program. Their only objective was to make as much money off of this program as possible. In all fairness they did invest a considerable amount of money when they acquired Vegas, DVD Arch, Sound Forge, CD Arch & Acid from Sony (who acquired it from Sonic Foundry the original developer). So now we have a program that is a complete mess with no hope of ever being fixed properly. What to do??? Danny, I see you moved on to "a poormans Protools" Reaper. In the end that is what most people will do, move on. I gave up on AP and only use it to retrieve old files. I do follow this forum a bit and when I saw greg was thinking about upgrading to AP11 I really want to speak up and warn you not to waste your money..but alas. Good luck to you all in your creative efforts. Cheers
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