ACID PRO

What is Acid Pro?

- Acid Pro 8 is a professional digital audio workstation (DAW) software program
developed by MAGIX Software GmbH. It was originally called "Acid pH1" and
published by Sonic Foundry, which was later merged into Sony to create Sony
Creative Software. On May 20, 2016 it was announced that MAGIX acquired the
bulk of Sony's creative software suite, including ACID Pro. ACID Pro 8, the first
version of Acid Pro since MAGIX's acquisition of Sony's Creative Software line,
was released in spring 2018. The update came with new modern features
including an enhanced interface, support for 64bit, added samples, VST3 support,
and more.
- ACID Loops is a technology used with the music making software originally
from Sonic Foundry called ACID. Created in 1998, it refers to the repetition, and
transposition of sound clips, to form a song. The ACID Pro program is now
owned and distributed by Sony, and is on version 7. Sony also now sells a line of
Acidized loop sample CDs to be used with ACID, as do many third party
companies.
- Similar technology was added to Cakewalk's Sonar (calling it Groove Clips)
and Cubase (calling it Audio Warp). Although the phrase "ACID loops"
technically is only associated with Sonic Foundry, some people use the term to
refer to the technique even when used with other software packages.
- Acidized loops contain tempo and key information, so that ACID can properly
time stretch them when pitch shifted.
- A website for budding musicians using Acid technology was set up, named ACID
Planet
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History
- Acid was first launched in 1998 as its own entity prior to its purchase by Sony, its
home base at that time being in Madison, Wisconsin. It was a loop-based music
sequencer, where Acid loop files could be simply dragged and dropped and
automatically adjust itself to the tempo and key of a song with virtually no sonic
degradation.
- It became very popular with composers, producers, and DJs, in the late 1990s and
early 2000s, interested in quickly creating beats, music textures, or complete
compositions and orchestrations, that would work with virtually any tempo or key
signature, and these loops would adjust automatically. To be able to do this,
Sony's Acid Pro uses specially prepared or "Acidized" music wave files that can
be prepared using an audio editing tool such as Sound Forge. (For more
information on audio editing, see sound effect techniques).
- Since then, this looping technique has been adopted by the majority of other
digital audio workstations on the market, which can also use these acidized loop
files. Acid Pro runs on PCs with all versions of Microsoft Windows
 since Windows 2000. It currently includes over 20 DirectX audio effects, employs
the new Media Manager technology, the Beatmapper tool, and the Chopper tool,
as well the ability to mix in 5.1 channel surround.
- With Acid Pro 6 (released in Q3-2006), Sony introduced a full digital audio
workstation that also includes MIDI and multitrack audio recording with full
support for ASIO, VST, and VSTI audio, plugins, and music synthesizer
standards.
- Sonic Foundry sold the Vegas, Acid, Sound Forge, CD Architect, Siren,
VideoFactory, ScreenBlast, and Batch Converter product lines to Sony Pictures
Digital in July 2003.
- In 2016 it was announced that the German software company MAGIX had
acquired the majority of products in the Sony Creative Software portfolio. These
include Vegas Pro, Movie Studio, Sound Forge Pro and ACID Pro.
- January 21st 2018, MAGIX officially announced their first version of ACID Pro
(Acid Pro 8) to be released in Spring of 2018.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Pro