Sony Acid Music Studio 9 Manual

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Playing the project
You have several methods for playing your projects.
Using the transport bar
All buttons required to play your project are located on the transport bar. The transport bar should look somewhat familiar to you, 
as it contains buttons found on most home CD and cassette players. 
For more information, see Transport bar on page 8.
Using playback options
As you build a project, you will likely have different playback needs. For example, you may want to hear the...

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Using the Mixing Console
The Mixing Console window is a dockable window with a default location in the lower-right corner of the ACID workspace. The 
Mixer window contains the following controls:
• A Preview fader, which allows you to adjust the loudness of media files previewed from the Explorer window, Track Properties 
window, Beatmapper, or the Chopper tool. Also, the Preview fader’s volume determines the volume of new tracks added to the 
project, unless you have set a default track...

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Channel List pane
The Channel List pane is displayed on the left side of the Mixing Console window.
To show or hide the pane, click the down arrow next to the Properties and Layout button () and choose Show Channel List 
from the menu (or right-click the Mixing Console window and choose Show Channel List from the shortcut menu).
The top of the Channel List pane displays a listing of all tracks, busses, and assignable effects chains in your project. Select a 
channel’s check box...

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You can use the buttons in this pane to show or hide components in the Mixing Console.
ItemDescription
Show AllClick to show channel strips for all tracks, busses, and assignable effects chains. 
Audio TracksClick to show or hide channel strips for audio tracks.
If your project does not contain any audio tracks, this button is unavailable.
MIDI TracksClick to show or hide channel strips for MIDI tracks.
If your project does not contain any MIDI tracks, this button is unavailable.
Audio...

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Channel strips
Tracks, busses, soft synths, and assignable effects chains are displayed as channel strips in the Mixing Console.
Tips:
• If you want to change the order in which channels are displayed, you can click the channel label and drag a channel strip to a new 
location.
• Hover over a fader and roll your mouse wheel to change its setting.
• To edit a fader value quickly, you can double-click the displayed value to type a new value.
• Hold Ctrl while dragging a fader to...

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Chapter 5Recording
ACID® Music Studio™ software can record audio into multiple mono or stereo audio tracks while simultaneously 
playing back existing audio and MIDI tracks. You are limited only by the performance of your computer system and 
audio hardware. Audio is recorded to a media file on your computer and into an event on the timeline. You may 
record into an empty track, a time selection, an event, or a combination of time and event selection. Audio output 
from your computer...

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4.Start recording by clicking the Record button () on the transport bar.
Depending on the recording selection, a waveform is created along the timeline as you record into the armed track(s).
5.Stop recording by clicking the Record button () again or the Stop button () on the transport bar.
6.A dialog displays the name and location of the file or files that were just created. Click Done to return to the main workspace.
Monitoring audio levels
While you’re recording, a responsive meter is...

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Recording MIDI 
You can use an external MIDI controller (or the keyboard/drum list between the track header and timeline) to record MIDI into your 
ACID Music Studio project.
You can record in real time during project playback or use step recording to build MIDI tracks.
Setting up a MIDI controller for recording into a track
1.Select the MIDI track you want to record into, or press Ctrl+Alt+Q to add a new, blank MIDI track to your project.
2.Choose a MIDI input port by clicking the MIDI...

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7.To stop recording, click the Record button () again or click the Stop button () on the transport bar.
A new clip is created for the recorded MIDI data on each armed track. You can use the Clip Pool tab in the Track Properties 
window to manage clips.
Using MIDI step recording
Click the MIDI Step Record button () to open the MIDI Step Record dialog, where you can record by specifying the interval 
between MIDI messages. Step recording allows you to record notes with very precise timing....