Sony Acid 7 Manual

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Using ACID with ReWire panel applications
ACID can act as a ReWire mixer application. After you enable a ReWire panel application to work within 
ACID, you can insert it as a soft synth control in the mixer, and the soft synth bus connects ACID and the 
ReWire device and carries the data back and forth between them. The applications share timeline and 
cursor position data. ACID can mix or apply effects to your panel application’s audio data output and then 
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Deleting soft synth controls
Just as you can add soft synth controls to a project at any time, you can also delete superfluous soft synth 
controls. When you delete a soft synth control from a project, tracks assigned to it are reassigned to the first 
soft synth control in the Mixer window.
To delete a soft synth control, right-click the control in the mixer and choose 
Delete from the shortcut 
menu, or select the control and press  .
Routing MIDI tracks to soft synth...

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Muting mixer controls
Clicking the Mute button ( ) on a mixer control temporarily suspends playback of the control. When a 
mixer control is muted, it appears grayed out and the word 
Muted appears at the bottom of the meter. 
Clicking the 
Mute button a second time returns the mixer control to normal playback.
You can also press   to mute a mixer control or group of controls.
Tip: Press   and click the Mute button to mute only the 
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Adding plug-in chains
1.
Click the FX button ( ) on the mixer control. The Plug-In Chooser dialog appears.
2.Select the plug-ins that you want to add. The selected plug-ins appear in the chain area. There are three 
ways to add a plug-in to the chain:
Double-click the plug-in.
Drag the plug-in to the chain area.
Select the plug-in and click 
Add.
Tip: If you have saved any plug-in chain packages, double-
click the 
Packaged Chains folder to view those packages. For 
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Arranging plug-ins on plug-in chains
The effect of plug-ins placed on a chain is cumulative. For example, when a signal passes through a plug-in, 
it carries those settings through the next plug-in, and carries both settings through the next plug-in, and so 
on. Because of this cumulative effect, you may need to rearrange the plug-ins on the chain so that one plug-
in’s processing does not adversely affect the next one in the chain. 
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Removing or bypassing all effects on a mixer control
You can clear a mixer control of all effects by right-clicking the FX button ( ) and choosing Delete All from 
the shortcut menu.
You can bypass the effects on a mixer control without removing them by right-clicking the 
FX button ( ) 
and choosing 
Bypass All from the shortcut menu. To apply them again, right-click the FX button and choose 
Enable All from the shortcut menu.
Saving plug-in chains as packages
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Working with multiple mixer controls
When you select multiple busses, assignable effect controls, or soft synth controls in the mixer, you can 
simultaneously perform functions on the controls. These functions include the following:
Change bus or hardware routing
Mute/solo bus or control
Delete bus or control
Change fader level
You can select multiple, nonadjacent controls by holding the   key while clicking each control’s name. 
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CHP. 9RECORDING IN ACID
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Recording in ACID
ACID is a loop-based audio-production tool. It is not designed for multi-track recording projects. However, 
the application does allow you to record audio from your system’s sound card. This limited recording 
capability makes it possible for you to record audio or MIDI from an external source and place it in your 
project.
This feature actually makes ACID an excellent tool for recording song demos. You can build a backing track 
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7.Click Start to begin recording. ACID creates a new track in the project and begins to record the incoming 
audio signal into it.
8.Click Stop to end recording. 
The recorded audio is placed on its track as a Beatmapped file and can now be manipulated at the track or 
event level, like any other file in the project. 
ACID adds regions to mark each measure in the recording. You can view the regions in the Track Properties 
window. These regions can be useful when creating...