See below to get an idea of what type of package you think would fit you. Also the demo songs are a big plus! They will give you ideas. This includes a good variety of effects, samples, loops, and sounds. While individual libraries are cool, I would advise buying one of the packages available. Altogether they are pretty cool, however this is what I would suggest: They also include demo songs using only what is included on the cd.
The Sonic Foundry website offers specific libraries of samples, which are just individual CD's created by one or two people. I currently own the " Producers Pack" library, which you can see listed below. Acid Pro itself is not that complete insofar as sound files go, but on the SonicFoundry website, you can purchas verily myriads of libraries to go with Acid. I am getting my copy of Acid Pro 4.0 soon, but until then I will use Acid Pro 2.0 and 3.0 as my examples. It is possible to damage your songs if you don't know what you're doing, but it is designed to be fairly safe against that sort of thing.Īcid Pro also comes with newer versions of Windows Media Player, and I believe that Acid Pro 4.0 comes with DirectX 8.
Read the manual, and probably by their much more in depth manual before trying anything advanced. Is fairly straightforward to use.unless you want anything extremely fancy. It includes with it Sonic Foundry's sound-editing software, Soundforge, a plethora of loops, and a decent-sized cache of effects, or FX. And it's producer- Sonic Foundry- is definitely the leading company on this type of software.Īcid Pro is the "complete" version of its sound editing library. Acid is probably the most advanced, non-professional sound editing/creation software you can buy. However it is not a childs toy, nor should it be taken lightly.
It is loop-based music creation at it's best. Acid Pro is one of the most remarkable pieces of sound creation software that you will find.