Sony Acid 7 Manual

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Setting up surround projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Routing to hardware in the mixer   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Assigning audio to the LFE channel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Panning audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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Using the Other tab  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
ACID Tips and Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Adding long media files quickly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Playing with duplicate tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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Introducing ACID
Welcome to Sonic Foundry ACID
Congratulations on purchasing a revolutionary software application for Windows. Using Sonic Foundry 
ACID
® you can create great music by simply picking, painting, and playing.
System requirements
In order to use ACID, your computer must satisfy the following minimum specifications:
300 MHz processor (400 MHz processor required for video scoring)
Microsoft Windows 98SE, Me, 2000, or XP
64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended)
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Using online help
You can access two varieties of help within ACID: 
Online help 
What’sThis? help (also referred to as context-sensitive help)
Online help
To access online help, choose Contents and Index from the Help menu or press  . 
Note: To view online help, Internet Explorer 4.0 or later 
must be installed on your system. Internet Explorer 5.0 is 
included on the ACID CD-ROM for your convenience.
The 
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What’sThis? help
What’sThis? help allows you to view pop-up window descriptions for ACID menus, buttons, and dialog 
boxes. Choose 
Whats This? from the Help menu, press  , or click the What’sThis? help button ( ) on 
the toolbar and then click any ACID item. To use What’sThis? help in a dialog box, click the question mark 
button ( ) in the upper-right corner of the dialog box and then click an item in the dialog box.
Help on the Web
Additional ACID help and information is...

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Toolbar
The toolbar allows you to quickly access the most commonly used functions and features in ACID.
Opens a new project. You will be prompted to 
save any changes to the current project.Locks envelope points so they move with an 
event when it is moved along the timeline.
Displays the Open File dialog. From this 
window, you can browse all of the available 
drives to select an ACID project or audio file 
to open.Activates the Draw tool to add and edit events.
Saves any...

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Track list
This list identifies the track order in your project and contains the track’s controls. The following sections 
identify and briefly explain the controls located in the track list. 
View buttons
These buttons control the track’s appearance (size) on the track list and the track view.
Track number and type
This area identifies the type of file (loop, one-shot, MIDI, Beatmapped) contained in the track as well as the 
track’s number in the project. You can quickly change...

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Mute button
Clicking the Mute button ( ) temporarily suspends playback of the corresponding track, allowing you to 
focus on the project’s remaining tracks. A muted track appears grayed out in the track view. For more 
information, see Muting tracks on page 47.
Solo button
Clicking the Solo button ( ) isolates the track during playback by muting the project’s remaining tracks. For 
more information, see Soloing tracks on page 48.
Surround panner
In 5.1 surround projects, the...

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Marker bar
The marker bar runs the length of your project and contains the tags for markers and regions positioned 
along the project’s timeline.
Beat ruler
The beat ruler allows you to place events in reference to the musical time of bars and beats. This ruler is 
fixed and does not update when you change the tempo. This allows the events in the tracks to maintain 
their size when you adjust the tempo.
Time ruler
The time ruler provides a timeline for your project. This ruler...

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Window docking area
This area allows you to keep frequently-used windows available 
while working on a project. Windows can be docked side by side 
or in stacks in the windows docking area. For more information, 
see Docking and floating ACID windows on page 172.
Two windows display in the window docking area when you 
start ACID for the first time: the Explorer and the Mixer. The 
Chopper™, Video, Audio Plug-In, Track Properties, Surround 
Panner, and Soft Synth Properties...