HOW TO USE SONY ACID PRO 7 HOW TO
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I spent some time trying out the various instruments. This virtual instrument capability works well in Sony Acid and was part of my initial goal for a suitable GarageBand for Windows product. With a MIDI track, you can change with virtual instrument used to render sound for the MIDI signal.

HOW TO USE SONY ACID PRO 7 HOW TO

This was a bit confusing when I was then trying to figure out how to adjust the instrument that was playing the track. I added an audio track by mistake, armed it for input, and my MIDI keyboard was able to play normal piano audio into an audio track. When adding tracks, you can add normal audio track, or a MIDI track. There are some tricky elements to working with MIDI in Sony Acid.

It has a USB plug connected to a little egg shaped thing that has both a MIDI In and a MIDI Out plug attached. The MIDISport Uno is a USB to MIDI cable. I took the plunge and bought the MIDISport Uno by M-Audio. The first thing you need is a way to work with MIDI signals and your PC. MIDI support is part of GarageBand, but not part of MixCraft. Testing MIDIДЇollowing the loop effort, I decided to give the MIDI a quick try. I liked how you could change the key for a loop pretty easily. Bottom line, not as friendly as MixCraft, but equally, if not more capable. From there, you have numerous edits and changes that you can apply. You paint them onto the track with your mouse. The interface for editing loops is pretty straightforward.

I downloaded a free loop that I found via Google and started testing the controls. The product page at the Sony site claims that Acid comes with 3000 loops. This doesnвЂ™t help someone that downloaded the trial version. The are on a couple of other discs that are included with the purchased product. The answer was that the loops are not automatically installed with the product. I looked on the web for help and found people had similar challenges. I couldnвЂ™t find much in the help or the вЂњshow me howвЂќ tools.

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Click on this thumbnail to see a full view of the interface. You quickly get the impression that you have a many more options to fiddle with as well. The interface is less friendly, less like GarageBand than MixCraft is. Sony Acid gives you the impression that it can do a bit more based on a busy and complex interface. I found a spot on the Sony site to download a 30 day trial of Sony Acid Music Studio 7. Unfortunately, MixCraft doesnвЂ™t support MIDI. My first few tests with MixCraft 3.0 were very positive. My search for a suitable GarageBand for Windows product is in the testing phase now.

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