Sony ACID Pro 7 is a very powerful creative tool for doing all sorts of audio work. It's a blast to use and a good example of a product that helps the creativity flow versus getting in the way. ACID Pro 7 builds on an already powerful loop based production tool and improves the quality of the beatmapping, time stretching and pitch shifting. ACID Pro 7 also includes support for FLAC, AAC, AC-3 Studio and MPEG 2 files which allows more elements to be added to a mix fast.
New ACID users will benefit from a live tutorial technology that demonstrates common tasks in real time inside an open session in ACID. It's some of the best tutorial technology we've seen. It's very similar to screen capture tutorials that are captured using a tool like Camtasia. However, the Sony technology follows the user with prompts to open and close menus, select /de-select, and various key strokes and prompts. It's so much better than static help menus or video tutorials because you really learn as you go.
With Sony Acid Pro 7 is easy to lay down voice over tracks and slice them up while adding music and sound effects cut up in a variety of ways to the same timeline. This allows you to reuse the same assets in the same session in one project file. It's a fun and fast way to work. ACID Pro 7 comes with a wide range of effects and it also worked well with third party effects.
MIDI track freeze is new feature in ACID Pro 7. Let's say you have several soft synths running in your multitrack project. MIDI track freeze allows you to render them as a WAV file which can then be streamed and played back like any other audio asset in your project.
ACID Pro 7 is a software program that works the way musicians think. ACID Pro 7 allows you to customize the desktop and move the various components around but it sometimes becomes cumbersome to jump from track levels, to layout, to mixing to exploring and other functions.