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{{Short description|Digital audio workstation}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Acid Pro 11
| logo = Acid Pro Logo.svg
| screenshot = File:Acid-pro-11-audio-editing-loudness-metering-screenshot-int.webp
| caption = A screenshot of Acid Pro 11
| developer = [[Sonic Foundry]] (1998),<br>[[Sony Creative Software]] (2003),<br>[[Magix Software]] (2016)
| latest_release_version = 11.0.2
| operating_system = [[Windows 10]] or [[Windows 11|11]] (64-bit only)
| genre = [[Digital audio workstation]]
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website = https://www.magix.com/us/music-editing/acid/
}}
'''Acid Pro''' (often stylized '''ACID''') is a professional [[digital audio workstation]] (DAW) software program currently developed by [[Magix Software]]. It was originally called '''Acid pH1''' and published by [[Sonic Foundry]], later by [[Sony Creative Software]] as Acid Pro, and since spring 2018 by Magix as both Acid Pro and a simplified version, '''Acid Music Studio'''. Acid Pro 11 supports 64-bit architectures, and has [[MIDI]], [[Audio Stream Input/Output|ASIO]], [[Virtual Studio Technology|VST]], VST3, [[DirectX]] Audio, and [[5.1 surround sound]] support.

== History ==
Acid was first launched in 1998, as Acid pH1, by [[Sonic Foundry]] in [[Madison, Wisconsin]]. It was a [[Music loop|loop]]-based [[music sequencer]], in which [[#Acid Loops|Acid Loop]] files could be simply drag-and-dropped then automatically adjust to the tempo and key of a song with virtually no sonic degradation.<ref>{{cite web |title=上位版のNEXTも登場進化する、伝説の作曲ソフト「ACID Pro」シリーズ 8月21日（水）新発売 発売記念割引フェア「The Chance ACID」も開催 |url=https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000166.000035169.html |website=プレスリリース・ニュースリリース配信シェアNo.1｜PR TIMES |language=ja-JP |date=21 August 2019 |access-date=30 December 2023 |archive-date=17 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717024430/https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000166.000035169.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

A website for budding musicians using Acid technology was set up, named AcidPlanet.com. The software became very popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s among composers, producers, and [[Disc jockey|DJs]] interested in quickly creating beats, music textures, or complete compositions and orchestrations, that would work with virtually any tempo or key signature.<ref>{{cite web |title=プロ用・音楽ソフト、待望の新バージョンを発売「ACID Pro 8」「SOUND FORGE Pro 12」ほか全4タイトル {{!}} ソースネクスト企業サイト |url=https://sourcenext.co.jp/pressrelease_html/JS/2018/2018051501/ |website=sourcenext.co.jp}}</ref>

Sonic Foundry sold its Acid, Vegas, Sound Forge, CD Architect, Siren, VideoFactory, ScreenBlast, and Batch Converter product lines to [[Sony Pictures Digital]] in July 2003; the merger resulted in the new [[Sony Creative Software]] division.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.pcworld.com/article/110570/sony_buys_sonic_foundry_products.html
 |title       = Sony Buys Sonic Foundry Products
 |author      = Marc Ferranti, [[International Data Group|IDG News Service]]
 |date        = May 3, 2003
 |publisher   = [[pcworld.com]]
 |access-date  = December 17, 2009
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090126055646/http://www.pcworld.com/article/110570/sony_buys_sonic_foundry_products.html
 |archive-date = January 26, 2009
}}</ref>  Sony's Acid Pro 6 (released in the third quarter of 2006) introduced a full-digital audio workstation that also included [[MIDI]] and multitrack audio recording with full support for [[Audio Stream Input/Output|ASIO]] computer-audio and [[Virtual Studio Technology|VST]] synthesizer-plugin standards.

On May 20, 2016, German company [[Magix Software]] GmbH announced they had acquired the majority of the products in the Sony Creative Software portfolio. These include Acid Pro, Vegas Pro, Movie Studio, and Sound Forge Pro.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.videomaker.com/videonews/2016/05/magix-acquires-sonys-vegas-pro-plus-majority-of-sony-creative-software-offerings|title=MAGIX Acquires Sony's Vegas Pro Plus Majority of Sony Creative Software Offerings|first=Nicole|last=LaJeunesse|date=May 24, 2016}}</ref>  Acid Pro 8, the first version since Magix's acquisition, was announced on January 21, 2018 and released in spring 2018. The update came with new modern features including an enhanced interface, support for 64-bit, additional samples, [[Virtual Studio Technology|VST3]] support, over 20 [[DirectX]] audio effects, the ability to mix in [[5.1 surround sound]], and new features named Media Manager, BeatMapper, and Chopper.<ref>{{cite news |title=Vegas ProやACID Proなどソニー子会社の映像音楽制作ソフトを独MAGIXが取得 |url=https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/759391.html |work=AV Watch |date=27 May 2016 |language=ja |archive-date=15 August 2024 |access-date=30 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240815152709/https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/759391.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Acid Pro 11 runs on 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows 10 or 11. Versions do not exist for [[macOS]] or [[Linux]].

== Acid Loops ==
''Acid Loop'' (trademark), also ''Acidized'' or ''Acidified loop'' (generic terms), refers to "[[Loop (music)|loops]]", sound clips which can be repeated and transposed to form a song with minimal manual adjustment. Acidized loops contain [[tempo]] and [[Key (music)|key]] information, so that Acid can properly [[Audio time stretching and pitch scaling|time-stretch and pitch-shift]] the clip to fit into an existing track structure. An Acidized loop is a specially prepared [[WAV]] audio file, which can be created using [[audio editing software]] such as [[Sound Forge]]. {{crossref|(For more information on audio editing, see {{section link|Sound effect#Techniques}}).}}<ref>{{cite news |title=株式会社フックアップ ACID Pro6 の紹介 |url=http://www.hookup.co.jp/software/acidpro/ |work=hookup.co.jp |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016060533/http://www.hookup.co.jp/software/acidpro/ |archivedate=16 October 2007}}</ref>

The technology was created in 1998 for [[Sonic Foundry]]'s original Acid pH1 software. Sony and Magix later sold series of Acidized loop sample CDs to be used with Acid Pro, as have various third-party companies.<ref>{{cite web |title=米ソニー子会社，米Sonic Foundryのソフトウエア事業を買収 |url=https://xtech.nikkei.com/it/free/ITPro/USNEWS/20030801/11/ |website=日経クロステック（xTECH） |language=ja |date=2 August 2003}}</ref> Since then, this looping technique has been adopted by the majority of other digital audio workstations on the market, sometimes with competing brand names for the feature, such as [[Cakewalk Sonar]] (calling it Groove Clips), and [[Cubase]] (calling it Audio Warp). Many DAWs can also directly support Acidized loops intended for use in Acid Pro.

==Notable users==
* Halley Labs<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://heckscaper.com/faq/index.html |title=EMMA ESSEX F.A.Q. for D.O.S. |access-date=2022-11-06 |archive-date=2020-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207094151/https://heckscaper.com/faq/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* DJ Arana <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CtX_Pi4tBXx/ |title=DJ ARANA Instagram Post}}</ref>
* YoYo Honey Singh <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://youtube.com/LP1gfUFP4go?si=9A28C6cH--Rl2B8g |title=Yoyo Honey Singh Lallantop Interview}}</ref>

==Other versions==
* Acid Music Studio is a simplified, lower-cost version of Acid Pro. The latest version {{as of|lc=y|2023}} is Acid Music Studio 11.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.magix.com/us/music/acid/acid-music-studio/|title=ACID Music Studio 11: Kick-start your music production|website=www.magix.com|access-date=2019-04-09|archive-date=2019-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406104346/https://www.magix.com/us/music/acid/acid-music-studio/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Music|Record production}}
* [[Digital audio workstation#List of notable commercial DAWs|List of digital audio workstation software]]
* [[Comparison of digital audio editors]]
* [[List of music software]]
* [[Magix Music Maker]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.magix.com/us/music-editing/acid/acid-pro Official website]
* [https://www.magix.com/us/music-editing/acid/ Official website since 2016]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225223218/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep01/articles/acidloops.asp ACID Tutorial (archive.org)]
* [https://www.magix.com/us/support/know-how/tutorial-videos/acid-music-studio-pro/ ACID Tutorial (magix.com)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081120032515/http://www.digitalmusicdoctor.com/loopinvasion.htm Comparison of implementations]

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