![]() ![]() Sony bundles a whole lot of goodies with Acid 7. Of course if you buy any loops from Sony, they come to you pre-tagged for your dining pleasure. As you do, the Media Manager builds a searchable database that works across all three Sony products, so if you’re a Vegas user your library may already be done. Once they’re in the Media Library, you can tag ‘em and bag ‘em, organizing them into folders with useful names (now there’s a concept!). The Media Manager automatically scans your hard drives and finds audio bits, or you can manually add items. Don’t ignore it - it definitely speeds workflow. It’s included with Acid 7 (and with Forge 9 and Vegas 8), but it is a separate install. The Media Manager goes a long way towards making those loops more accessible. The ability to preview Acidized loops in real time means that auditioning a new loop simply involves clicking on a file as you browse your loop collection in the Explorer window - you’ll automatically hear it with its tempo and pitch mapped to those of the project. This makes the mixing and matching of loops so simple that, with the right combination of loops and music that’s somewhat close in tempo, even part-timers can use it to create very impressive results. The other key component of the Acid experience has always been the straightforward organization and ease of use of the interface. The results are generally excellent, and although with any pitch-shifting or tempo-stretching the process only works within certain limits before audio artifacts appear, the new algorithms in Acid 7 allow a much more radical degree of stretch or shrink without artifacts than before. I was definitely able to apply more stretch before I heard glitches, in some cases well over 20%. ![]() Zplane makes three versions of their algorithms available for licensing, and the Pro version in Acid 7 generates the highest quality results, according to the company. Like several other audio editors, Acid uses a resynthesis technique for time-stretching, which has markedly improved since Sony licensed Zplane’s elastique Pro software component. Audio loops can be stored in an ‘Acidized’ format which contains information about the original recording tempo, length (in beats) and root-note pitch. ![]() These can be manipulated together or independently, making it easy, for example, to alter the tempo of a pop song slightly when matching it to other songs in a promo, or even to pitch-shift a VO read to get a specific effect. For creating music promos and beat matching in general, Acid is still a killer app thanks to its adept implementation of time-stretch and -shrink audio files, and its ability to create seamless audio loops. ![]()
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