Sony Acid 7 Manual

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4.Select the check box for each parameter that you want to control with an envelope. You can use the 
Select All and Select None buttons to quickly change your selections to all or none of the parameters.
5.Click OK to close the FX Automation Chooser. 
Envelopes display on the track for parameters that you selected in the FX Automation Chooser. To 
control which effect parameter envelope displays on the track, click the arrow adjacent to the 
Tr a c k  F X 
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Adjusting individual envelope points
You can set the level of each envelope point by dragging it up or down. As you move an envelope point, a 
tooltip displays both the point’s occurrence on the timeline and its level.
Other ways to set the level include:
Right-click an envelope point and choose a setting from the shortcut menu. 
Choose 
Select All from the shortcut menu to raise or lower all points on the envelope.
Right-click an envelope point and choose 
Set To from...

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Cutting, copying, and pasting envelope points
1.
Select the Envelope tool using one of the following methods:
From the 
Edit menu, choose Editing Tool, and choose Envelope from the submenu.
Click the 
Envelope Tool button ( ) on the toolbar.
2.Click within a track to select it.
3.Drag along the timeline to select envelope points.
4.From the Edit menu, choose Cut or Copy.
5.Position the cursor where you want to paste envelope points across a track.
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Hiding effect automation envelopes on a track
To hide effect parameter envelopes, click the arrow adjacent to the Tr a c k  F X button ( ) and choose Hide All 
FX Automation Envelopes
 from the menu. To display envelopes again, click the arrow adjacent to the Track FX 
button ( ) and choose 
Show All FX Automation Envelopes from the menu.
Tip: Press   to toggle through the display of all effect 
parameter automation envelopes.
Removing track envelopes
You can remove...

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Choosing stereo pan types
When you pan a track using the multipurpose slider or a pan 
envelope, you can choose among several pan types to determine 
how ACID pans the track. 
Note: When applying stereo pan types, ACID interprets a 
monaural track as a stereo track with the same data in both 
channels.
1.Click the multipurpose slider label and choose Pan. The pan slider appears.
2.Click the multipurpose slider label again, choose Pan from the menu, and choose a pan type from...

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3.Click the Play button ( ) to verify the downbeat marker’s position. If the marker is positioned on a 
downbeat, click 
Next. Otherwise, drag the marker to the appropriate location and click Next. The 
Beatmapper draws the file’s waveform and places a region to indicate the length of the first measure.
Tip: The Reset button sets the downbeat marker back to its 
detected position.
4.Click the Play button ( ) to verify the measure’s length. 
Select the 
Metronome check box...

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Understanding stretching properties 
All loops on the ACID 4.0 CD-ROM (as well as all loop library CD-ROMs) contain stretching properties. 
This means that tempo and key information is stored in the loops, allowing the application to accurately 
perform its time stretching/compressing and pitch-shifting functions on these loops when placed in a project.
Keep in mind that you do not need to designate stretching properties for loops that you create for ACID 
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Adjusting time stretching (Beatmapped tracks only)
If you want ACID to preserve the track’s pitch while you adjust the tempo, select the Preserve pitch when 
stretching 
check box. When the check box is cleared, you can still adjust the tempo of the track, but the pitch 
is also affected.
Adjusting pitch shift
Enter a value in the Pitch Shift box (or use the spinner control) to adjust the pitch of all events on the track.
Adjusting stretching properties for loop or...

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Stretching properties for loop tracks
The following table describes the settings on the Stretch tab for loop files.
Stretch markers for loop tracks
On the Stretch tab of the Track Properties window is a graphic of a track’s waveform along with the stretch 
markers that ACID has automatically placed in the file. These markers correspond to detected subdivisions 
of beats in the audio file. Accurately detecting beats is essential to making quality time compression/
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Setting markers
You can use the mouse to add, move, disable, and delete markers from the track’s beat ruler. The following 
table briefly describes each of these actions.
Tip: Right-clicking a marker displays a shortcut menu that 
allows you to perform many of the same functions.
Stretching properties for Beatmapped tracks
The following table describes the settings on the Stretch tab for Beatmapped tracks.
Adjusting track properties for MIDI tracks
You can use the General...