Edit Tools: Sony Creative Software

Now compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista. Price: $399

As Sony Creative Software's Acid Pro matures, the software is straddling an interesting performance- and post-oriented approach, which is useful for those who do both. New features include an improved audio and MIDI mixing console; MIDI track freeze; timestretch and pitch shifting; tempo curves; improved Beatmapping; and additional format support including AAC, FLAC, and MPEG-2. The new look to the mixing console offers a pro touch with its integrated approach to presenting all tracks and buses in an Acid project by making them appear like read outs of a traditional hardware-based mixer. These useful capabilities add to the app's multitrack recording, 5.1 surround-sound mixing, MIDI sequencing, and loop-based music production.
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