Acid pro 8 is available as an upgrade or fresh purchase and Acid pro 365 being available on a subscription basis. These days those same ideas have been incorporated into most DAWS available.īack in 2003 Sonic foundry sold Acid along with other titles to Sony and then in 2016 Acid changed hands once again to its new home with German software company Magix.Īfter what seems a long time in the shadows Acid has been given an a long overdue update with the release of Magix Acid Pro 8 and Magix Acid Pro 365. It was also simple to adjust the key of loops and so quickly create and edit your tracks without prior knowledge of more traditional composition techniques.

The beauty of Acid and its main difference to other music software of the time was that you could simply drag audio loops onto the timeline and they would instantly sync with the tempo of the track. When Acid was first released by Sonic Foundry back in 1998 it revolutionised how producers worked with loops and soon became a very popular alternative to linear alternatives such as cubase and logic.

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