User manual SONIC FOUNDRY ACID PRO 4

[. . . ] After you install ACID and start it for the first time, the registration wizard appears. This wizard offers easy steps that enable you to register ACID online with Sonic Foundry. Alternately, you may register ACID online at www. sonicfoundry. com at any time. Registering your product provides you with exclusive access to a variety of technical support options, notification of product updates, and special promotions exclusive to ACID registered users. [. . . ] The time selection or project is mixed down to a new track and a copy of the file is saved in the folder specified. As the tracks are being mixed down, a status bar appears in the lower-left corner of the ACID window. Tip: You may cancel the rendering process by clicking the Cancel button ( ) on the status bar. Cancel button After ACID mixes down the new track, it appears at the bottom of the track view. If you mixed down the entire project, you may delete or mute the other tracks from the project, as they are all contained on the new track. 5. Use the Draw ( ) tool to paint the waveform on the new track. Exporting loops From the File menu, choose Export Loops to create new loops using the original loop media files in your ACID project. A new loop file is created for every tempo change in the project, which can result in multiple loop files being created from a single loop media file. 1. From the Save in drop-down list, choose the drive or folder to which the new files will be saved. From the Template drop-down list, choose an audio format, or click Custom to create custom rendering settings. 5. ACID includes tempo information in the file name of each loop file created (e. g. , bass 120. 000 BPM. 7 111 CHAPTER Using the Mixer 8 In the Mixer window, you'll manage the project's busses, assignable effects, and soft synth controls. In this chapter, you'll learn how to add each of these controls to the mixer and route individual tracks to them. You'll also learn about working with the mixer controls, including adjusting levels, muting, soloing, and adding effects. This chapter also describes how to automate mixer controls by viewing them in the track view and adding envelopes. Using busses Think of busses as virtual pathways where signals from multiple tracks or effects can be mixed. You can add as many as 26 busses to the Mixer window, which provides you with a great deal of flexibility and mixing power. Busses are the last stage of the ACID signal flow and as such can be used to output audio signals to specific hardware. For more information, see Routing busses to system hardware on page 112. Adding busses to the project Add a bus to a project by clicking the Insert Bus button ( the Insert menu. Adding multiple busses 1. Display the Project Properties dialog using one of the following methods: ) in the Mixer window or by choosing Bus from · Choose Properties from the File menu. The busses are added to the Mixer window. Routing tracks to busses If your project contains multiple busses, you can assign tracks to specific bus outputs. To assign a track to a bus, click the Bus Assignment button ( ) on the track header and choose the desired bus from the menu. Assigning tracks to busses allows you to apply settings to a series of tracks and to route tracks to a particular hardware output. Note: The Bus Assignment button only appears if you have more than one bus in the project. CHP. 8 USING THE MIXER 112 Adjusting the bus send level You can adjust the level of a track sent to a bus with the multipurpose slider in the track list. Tip: Bus sends are prevolume by default. To change to post-volume, click the multipurpose slider label in the track list, choose the appropriate bus from the menu, and choose Post Volume from the submenu. Routing busses to system hardware You can route individual busses to specific system hardware for output. This allows you to configure busses to route output (projects or individual tracks) to sound cards, recording devices, mixing boards, etc. [. . . ] Streaming technologies allow Internet users to receive data as a steady, continuous stream after a brief buffering period. Without streaming, users must download files completely before playback. Tempo is the rhythmic rate of a musical composition, usually specified in beats per minute (BPM). A threshold determines the level at which the signal processor begins acting on the signal. [. . . ]