If you're serious about making your own music, ACID® Music Studio™ software is the perfect tool for original song creation, live recording, and studio-quality mixing and effects processing. Share your songs any way you want — burn your own CDs, upload to the Web, or export to your MP3 player. With built-in tutorials to guide you, you'll be composing, mixing, and mastering like a pro in no time.

Create, Mix, and Share Your Songs

Loop-based music creation is fun and easy to learn. ACID Music Studio software includes more than 1,700 studio-quality loops in almost every music genre to get you started. Just Pick some loops, Paint them into the tracks, and click Play. With ACID Music Studio software you can:

• Record and edit music from nearly any instrument or MIDI source
• Create royalty-free soundtracks for videos
• Make custom mixes and mashups of your favorite songs

Easy Live Recording

ACID Music Studio software can capture from any instrument or MIDI source that can be plugged into your computer's sound card. You can also extract audio from your own CDs and add MP3 files to your mix. Automatic key and tempo matching syncs it all up so everything plays back together and sounds great.

Powerful Mixing and Effects Processing

Professional mixing tools give you precise control over volume and panning, effects processing, audio routing, and final output. Customize your songs using professional-quality audio effects including EQ, reverb, delay, chorus, flange, phase, distortion, echo, and more. Use VST and DirectX audio effects, and VST instruments. Add pan and volume envelopes, reverse audio, and change the pitch and tempo of your mix in real time.

Learn as You Go with Amazing Tutorials

Sony Show Me How tutorials go beyond the booklets and basic tutorials that other solutions provide. These extraordinary helpers are built right into the software — just click Show Me How to access simple, interactive help on over 20 topics.

More Ways to Share

Create your own CDs in minutes. Disc-at-once 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. Powerful encoding functionality lets you save your songs to popular streaming formats for uploading to the Web, or export them to portable music devices.