Magix ACID Pro 10

MADE FOR PRODUCERS WHO CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE
It’s that magic moment again. You hear a song on the radio and you just can’t wait to sample or remix it. True inspiration. With ACID Pro, you will be able to sketch that idea and turn it into a finished track faster than any other DAW. Its unique workflows, innovative features and professional tools were designed specifically for loop- and sample-based music production. Compose, arrange, record, mix and master. But most importantly: be creative. Experience ACID Pro.

NEW: zynaptiq STEM MAKER 2 Separate your song into its components

OPTIMIZED: MIDI Playable Chopper Play samples like an instrument

INNOVATIVE: ACID Morph Pads Create new soundscapes with one swipe

MIDI Playable Chopper
The updated MIDI Playable Chopper in ACID Pro 10 lets you play samples, ACIDized loops or your own recordings with any MIDI keyboard. Experience a truly playful way of rearranging sample chops and lay down patterns faster than ever before.

ACID Morph Pads
Assign audio tracks, instruments or busses and play around with the intuitive controls, inspired by legendary hardware audio effects units and shape truly unique and inventive soundscapes. Get creative with the new ACID Morph Pads!

BOOST YOUR CREATIVITY – THE ACIDIZED WAY
No other DAW has refined loop-based music production workflow more than ACID Pro. Its game-changing technology automatically matches loops to your project’s tempo and key. It also allows you to “paint” loops directly onto your timeline.

ACIDized Loops
“Always in time, always in tune” Process a three-minute song in about 10 minutes? Benefit from an extensive library of loops and samples, and remix or compose with them in your own style. Always perfectly matched to tempo and key, loops can be adapted to a way that feels just right for your song.

Multitrack recording
ACID Pro 10 offers uncompromising 24-bit, 192kHz multitrack audio recording. With an array of pro-level features, it is equally at home being used for the recording an entire band in the studio – as it is for creating loop or MIDI-based compositions on the road or at home. High-fidelity audio ACID Pro 10 has a 64-bit engine and really works with your PC to bring maximum power and efficiency to your music making. Whether you are making 24-bit, 192kHz multitrack recordings, mixing with multiple effects in real time, or composing with the dozens of plug-in instruments, ACID Pro 10 will step up to the plate and offer you all the latency free power you need.

Arrange Tools
ACID Pro10 offers many creative tools for today’s producer. It’s easy to divide your project into logical sections and then arrange them on the timeline. Tracks can be organized by placing them into Track Folders and then cluster editing allows you to drag, pitch-shift, cut, copy, and paste whole sections of an arrangement to help you easily create complete tunes.

MIDI – but without the mess.
Audio control and MIDI in ACID Pro. ACID Pro features some incredibly comprehensive, sophisticated and precise MIDI editing features. These include direct MIDI editing of data within the timeline, track freeze to audio, Keyframe automation and flexible drum editing. You get all the MIDI features you would expect from a high-end DAW – but: With user-friendly tools and clear editing environments. MIDI control in ACID is intuitive, fun and hassle free.

Pick-Paint-Play
Have you ever imagined to simply draw your loops on a multitrack timeline? Pick the right loop or sample and drop it onto your timeline. Then paint a new loop with the selected pen cursor anywhere you want, and hit the Play button. With only a few clicks you can flesh out arrangements on the fly, in seconds.

Inline Editing Inline
Editing allows you alter MIDI data directly in ACID’s timeline within traditional piano roll and drum grid interfaces. You can edit note positions, velocities, pitch bends and controller information all on the main multitrack interface so there’s no need to open another edit window.

Drum grid mode
ACID Pro 10 is easy and intuitive: The Drum Grid Mode is the 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
This 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
Processing of multiple events or tracks of MIDI data can also be done directly on the ACID Pro 10 timeline. You can use quantization and global editing of velocity values, note event duration and more.

MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
ACID Pro 10 utilizes envelope and keyframe automation features. All MIDI continuous controller data are 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.

Drum and patch map editors
Within ACID Pro 10 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.

VST2/VST3 Engine with 32-bit bridge
With both the new VST2/VST3 engine and the 32-bit bridge you can run the latest plug-ins in ACID Pro and even bring your favourite older plug-ins into its sleek 64-bit ACID environment. ARA2 support ACID Pro 10 is now ARA2 compatible – for a more efficient interaction with other ARA2 plug-ins. This enables real-time audio editing, a much faster workflow and an improved user experience.

Celemony Melodyne 5 essential
Melodyne essential 5 is the perfect application for getting into an audio file and making precise edits to correct the pitch and tone. In Melodyne, notes are displayed as ‘blobs’ – the exact pitch is visible as a curve. The individual tools let you alter all the important musical parameters directly on the notes. You simply touch the notes and take control of pitch and timing in an intuitive manner. With its sophisticated algorithms and innovative features, it is ideal to use when you need natural-sounding pitch changes on your vocals. Thanks to the new, fundamentally improved Melodic algorithm makes your vocal edits even better than before.

Professional Loudness-Metering in the Master-Channel
Among the many hi-end features that come with ACID Pro are several functions for mastering music. These include the all-new Loudness-Metering function that allows you to examine your audio in pinpoint detail.

A single click for you.
A quantum leap for your sound. Take complete control over your groove! It’s easy to give your music a completely new feel with ACID Pro 10’s Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning quantization technology. You can apply preset grooves to a clip or track to give it a fresh new 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.

zplane élastique
ACID Pro 10 features zplane e´lastiquePro technology to ensure maximum sound quality and flexibility when dealing with pitch- and time-shifting of clips. It also ensures real-time, artifact-free time-stretching and pitch-shifting of Beatmapped tracks.

Groove Mapping
ACID Pro 10 allows you to choose your own groove from many genres. This means that you can completely change the feel of your loops and MIDI files or simply add a more human or soulful feel to your music. Simply choose your groove and apply it to loops or entire tracks.

Groove Cloning
If you like the feel or rhythm of a loop you can extract its groove using ACID Pro 10’s Groove Cloning feature. ACID analyses the groove in a clip’s audio and extracts it so you can apply it to your own loops and MIDI files.

Audio plug-in manager
ACID Pro 10’s Plug-In Manager gives you complete control over all of your audio plug-ins. You can quickly and easily add effects to a track, bus, assignable effects chain or soft synth bus. You can also easily rename and organize plug-ins so creating a customized plug-in environment that helps your workflow.

ReWire support
ReWire technology allows compatible music packages to work with one another so you can route audio and MIDI data between them. ACID Pro 10 works as both a ReWire host and a device so you can set it up with other ReWire applications such as Sonar, Reason, Cubase, Live, or Pro Tools. You could then use Reason, for example, as a virtual instrument routed into ACID Pro 10 or route ACID Pro’s output directly into Pro Tools.

Envelope Control
ACID Pro 10 uses envelopes to help you automate global parameters or modify pitch, modulation, expression or other MIDI data within a track. Envelopes can also be used to automate the controls on a plug-in instrument or create Tempo Curves for smooth tempo variations across a project. All envelopes can be drawn using a mouse or external control surface and then tidied up with keyframes or envelope thinners that help smooth them out. You can also use keyframes to help automate your 5.1 mixes on the timeline, and use envelopes and keyframes to implement MIDI continuous controller data and program changes.