Sony Music Studio 8 (PC)

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2.5 x 20.3 cm ; 27 g
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• ASIN: B003L51CSA
• Release Date: 15 Jun 2010
  

By : Sony Creative Software

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
ACID Music Studio is the best way to bring your music to life and share it with others. Multitrack audio and MIDI recording, pro-quality editing and effects, and over 3,000 genre-spanning, studio-quality loops to use in remixes, mash-ups, and original music creations.
Studio Multitrack recording: Music Studio gives you complete freedom ; flexibility to record your music. Record track by track or capture the entire band at once with each instrument on a different track. This gives you total control over volume, panning and effects on each instrument or vocal track for the perfect mix.
New Audio ; MIDI Mixing Console: The new Mixing Console provides an integrated view of all tracks and busses in your project with the appearance of a traditional hardware-based mixer. The look can be customised to provide you with the best view of even the most complex session. The new audio and MIDI Mixing Console has additional routing options, allowing for a more flexible and efficient studio recording environment.
New Metronome countoff: Perform more accurate recording with Music Studio 8. Use the metronome countoff to play a determined number of bars prior to recording or playback for greater timing and accuracy when recording a performance.
New Enchanced remixing tools: For remixing your favorite songs, only Music Studio software has the Beatmapper tool. This tool automatically finds the tempo of a complete song, making it easy to remix. New markers in Music Studio 8 allow you to Beatmap songs with varying tempos and time signatures.
New Tempo curves: Easily create gradual transitions from one tempo to another over the duration of an Music Studio project. Transition types include Linear, Fast, Slow, Smooth, Sharp, and Hold.
Powerful MIDI production: Perform complete MIDI editing, recording and sequencing. Manipulate MIDI data directly on the Music Studio timeline with a piano roll or a drum grid interface. Apply VST instruments to your MIDI files for a wide variety of sound options.
Studio-quality audio effects: Apply professional-quality audio effects and processes including EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phase, distortion, and echo. Music Studio includes DirectX and VST audio effects support, as well as support for VST instruments so you can play back your MIDI tracks through virtual synthesizers, filters, and effects.
New Zplane élastique timestretching: With élastique Pro technology, you can perform dramatic time stretches and pitch-shifts of Beatmapped tracks while retaining maximum sound quality.
New Exclusive guitar and piano software bundle: Music Studio 8 includes Studio Devil British Valve Custom guitar amp and TruePianos Amber Lite piano plug-in – a set of powerful studio-quality software packages.
Music Studio includes over 3,000 studio-quality music loops in a variety of genres so you have unlimited possibilities when creating your mix
CD layout and burning: Music Studio software makes it easy to create your own CDs in minutes. CD layout and burning is fully integrated into the software so you can conveniently create your music and produce professional-sounding CDs all within one application.
New AAC and FLAC format support allowing for more options with media and hardware devices including the PSP, iPod and iPhone.
Box Contains

1. DVD
2. Install guide with serial number

 

Sony Music Studio 8 (PC)

 

Product Features

• Record edit and mix live vocals instruments and MIDI
• Create songs with over 3000 music loops and produce DJ style remixes
• Share music any way you want CD, PSP, iPod, iPhone, MP3 and online
• Dedicated audio and MIDI mixing console
• Elastique audio time stretching and pitch shifting
• Interactive Show Me How Tutorials
• Enhanced Beatmapping for tracks with tempo changes

Customer Reviews

This looks a very good piece of software for the price. It isn't too difficult to understand; it's quite intuitive, even though I hadn't used anything like it before - editing, effects, all great. What it won't do is recognise any of the input ports on my PC! I have a USB guitar jack, and a USB keyboard that audacity can find straight away (so it's obviously not a problem with the ports themselves), but Acid can't. I can't configure anything to input as a midi controller - it doesn't give me an option to search; and doesn't show them in the 'preferences' set up. So I now have the rather silly position of having to record stuf in audacity, save it, then copy it into Acid to work on it. There must be a way round this! But i't not obvious. Hence the three star review. I'm sure I'll be very happy with it once I can get it to work!

When I first loaded this up and started playing with it, I couldn't quite believe that it was really this cheap. I kept discovering layers and layers of things it could do - a month later and I still haven't really found its limits, not for the kind of music I write anyway. It's completely addictive, and I can easily lose an evening in exchange for a pretty compelling dance track or two. If you're a budding DJ without the benefit of a deck, this is a pretty fine alternative.

 

Sony Music Studio 8 (PC)