Sony has announced the availability of Acid Pro 6 software, a significant upgrade to the company’s award-winning, professional music creation and production application. Acid Pro 6 includes new multitrack recording and MIDI capabilities, transforming the software into a full-featured professional DAW (digital audio workstation). This version provides professionals with new ways to record, produce, mix, and arrange audio. That’s press release speak for, “Oh man, you won’t believe just how awesome this!”
In addition to a significantly expanded feature set and new high-performance multi-threaded audio engine, Acid Pro 6 also benefits from Sony’s ongoing relationship with Native Instruments, creators of state-of-the-art soft synths and samplers. Acid Pro 6 software includes Native Instruments Kompakt, a user-configurable sample playback engine that includes a custom sound library assembled by Native Instruments specifically for Acid Pro 6 users. Other key features include:
- Film-style panning mode for 5.1 surround projects
- Dual/multi-core processor support
- On-the-fly punch-in recording capabilities
- Envelope automation recording
- New track record meters
- MIDI track envelopes for controllers
- MIDI keyframes for patch changes and sysex messages
- MIDI Quantize and Velocity filters
- MIDI file import and export
