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Sony | Acid Pro 7 copying – compression ratios are typically with no quality loss – and the other formats occasionally appear in broadcast. There’s no support for professional file or EDL formats like AES , OpenTL, or OMF, but there is a single video import window that you can use for cueing and syncing. It’s worth pointing out that Acid is very much a Windows product. Amp simulation built in. On a large monitor Acid can sprawl out for speed, showing loops, tracks, mix settings, There is no Mac version, and after and the arrangement at the same time. seven updates, it’s unlikely that there will ever be a Mac version. It’s also worth quick working tool for working up demos and find yourself putting together ideas you wouldn’t knowing that Acid still has a rather literal minded sketches which can then be duplicated in a more have had otherwise – and the price is hard to approach to plug-in management. The new professional mixing environment. Sound designers argue with too. If you’re looking to move out of plug-in manager is an improvement, but some may also be interested – putting together a Apple’s garage, or are in need of a quick sketch VSTs still seem to cause problems and occasionally collage from unstretched samples and adding FX pad for loop assembly with extra power in for crashes. Start up times aren’t speedy because to each line feels easier and quicker than in any creative sound design, Acid is well worth some all plug-ins are rescanned – quickly – on start- other environment. It would be excellent if there serious attention. ∫ up, every time. Considering that a budget were an industry standard for loopers, so that application like Xlutop’s Chainer (a limited but projects sketched in one environment could be useful VST stacker) doesn’t do this, there’s still transferred easily to another. Unfortunately there room for improvement here. The initial start-up isn’t, so if you want to reconstruct an Acid mix in I N F O R MAT I O N after installation takes much, much longer – you’ll another DAW for better sound quality you’ll have have time for tea and possibly lunch - because all to do it by hand. But when time stretching isn’t £ US$314.95 (Packaged) plug-ins are scanned in detail and added to used the sound quality remains very good, and US$299.95 (Download Version) an internal list. If you only have a few plug-ins the automation is powerful and comprehensive. this won’t be a problem, but install Waves, a TC A Sony Creative Software Powercore or a Universal Audio collection and H igh-Level Ph-un T +1 800 577 6642 you’ll be in for an extended wait. Even so, in spite More than anything, Acid is unadulterated fun W www.sonycreativesoftware.com of its limitations, Acid Pro has a lot to offer. as a creative sketchbook – like Garageband on AdShotGun(186x129mm)AudioMedia.qxd:Mise en page 1 18/12/08 15:25 Page 1 UK Tel: +44 (0) 800 028 1475 It’s not quite a true DAW replacement, but it is a steroids, with none of the limitations. It’s easy to Keeping The Window Closed Audio-Technica shotgun microphones, BP4027 BP4029 great for Games but not for kids. Did you know that no fewer than 960 Audio-Technica shotgun microphones were in use during the recent Summer Games? Would you like to know how it was done? Olympic sound designer, Dennis Baxter, is our very special guest at the Broadcast Video Expo 2009. Visit Audio-Technica on stand F44 to learn more. Register here: www.broadcastvideoexpo.co.uk/audio-technica AUDIO MEDIA JANUARY 2009 21 http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com http://www.broadcastvideoexpo.co.uk/audio-technica http://www.broadcastvideoexpo.co.uk/audio-technica http://www.broadcastvideoexpo.co.uk/audio-technica

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