ACID Music Studio uses the information stored in ACIDized loops to place musical material into a project’s tempo and key. That information describes properties such as pitch, length and transients. Automatic stretching adapts a loop’s timing as it joins the arrangement, allowing loop-based parts to be assembled on audio tracks.
Multitrack recording adds new audio to that arrangement. Recorded parts can sit alongside the loop material, while virtual instruments supply sounds played through MIDI. A project can therefore combine prerecorded phrases, newly recorded audio and note-driven instruments in the same composition.
Editing the notes inside an instrument part
Inline piano and drum-grid editing exposes MIDI notes within the project. The piano view arranges pitched notes, while the drum grid represents the mapped sounds used by a percussion part. MIDI maps connect the part’s note information to the intended instrument or drum sounds, which matters when the same MIDI material is used with different sound sources.
Envelopes and keyframes hold changes over time, so a setting does not have to remain fixed throughout a track. Track freezing renders an instrument part for use during project work, retaining a way to work with that part without asking the instrument to generate its sound at every playback. These operations support an arrangement whose audio and instrument parts are still being edited.
Making existing audio fit the arrangement
Beatmapper supplies tempo-related information for audio that needs to fit the project. Chopper selects portions of audio for use as repeated or rearranged material. Together with the ACIDized loop handling, these tools allow an existing recording to provide musical pieces for the arrangement, rather than requiring all material to begin as a prepared loop.
ACID Music Studio’s mixer combines the tracks and their processing. Effects change the sound of individual parts or the mix, while levels establish how the recorded audio, loops and instruments are heard together.
