Audio Production Features:  

You would expect a lot of features in a professional music mixing product, and ACID Pro certainly has enough to keep you busy. The features are layered throughout the program, with a nice visual interface that allows you to see all the tracks you’re mixing and the changes you’ve made to them.

ACID Pro has long been known for its loop-based music production, and version 7 carries on the tradition with automatic pitch and tempo matching, unlimited tracks and real-time loop previewing. The program is capable of producing 24-bit, 192 kHz sound from live or studio performances, along with a wide variety of standard loops and other media files available.

In fact, one of the major advantages of using Sony’s professional digital audio workstation is access to the Get Media download center. Get Media is a library of sounds and music that you can use in your audio mixing. The tracks in the Get Media center are all royalty-free loops, and they are all only available to registered ACID Pro users.

There are several new features that have been added in version 7, including tempo curves, MIDI track freeze, input busses and better beatmapping. The MIDI track freeze is particularly useful if you have tracks in a multitrack project that you want to isolate. The MIDI freeze turns the track into a WAV file and plays it back like any other file. The new MIDI mixing console also makes a lot of tasks easier.

Input/ Output:  

ACID Pro allows you to use external control surfaces, including the Mackie Control and the Frontier Design Tranzport. You can also get your music files from CDs and other file sources (including the useful Get Media download area we mentioned above).

The exporting options have also been expanded in the most recent version. Now there is support for exporting files in FLAC, AAC, AC-3 Studio, and MPEG-2 formats, which is very useful these days.