Instant ACID

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Halftitle
3. Title
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. Introduction
   1. Track Area
   2. Beat Rulers and Time Rulers
   3. Multiple Docking Areas
   4. Setting Up ACID the Way YOU Work
7. Fundamentals of Looping
   1. ACID Properties/ACIDization
   2. Loops, Beatmapped Tracks, and One Shots
   3. Our First Project
   4. Drag, Drop, and Paint
   5. Cut, Copy, Paste, and Ripple
   6. Changing Tempo, Time Signatures, and Keys
   7. Markers, Regions, and Commands
   8. Saving a Project with All Its Loops
8. Considerations for Nonlinear Video Editors
   1. Working with a Video Track
   2. Time Markers
   3. Tempo Markers
   4. Adjusting Tempo to Match Marker to Cursor
9. Tips and Tricks
   1. Reverse Parts of Your Loops
   2. Use the Bus Tracks View
   3. Create a Natural Chorus Effect
   4. The “Wall of Sound” Effect
   5. Pitch-Shifting Tracks
   6. Detuning Tracks
   7. Employing Other Creative Tricks
10. Beatmapping Existing Songs
    1. Know Your Copyrights
    2. Extracting Audio from CDs
    3. Matching Tempo
    4. Knowing When to Start
    5. Fixing Tempo Drift Using ACID
11. Advanced Looping
    1. Manipulating Loops
    2. Reversing Events
    3. Pseudo-Granular Synthesis/Stutter Effect
    4. The Paint Tool and One-Shots
    5. Rendering FX with a Track
12. Grooving to the Beat!
    1. Applying Grooves
    2. The Groove Pool
    3. The Groove Editor
    4. The Groove Editor and the Properties of a Loop Track
    5. Groove Cloning
13. Organization Techniques
    1. Using Track Colors to Organize
    2. Using Folders Tracks to Organize and Edit
    3. Customize Media Folders
    4. Media Manager
14. Creating Your Own Loops
    1. Choping to a New Track Using the Chopper
    2. Constructing New Loops Using Different Events
    3. Insert Event at Play Cursor/Paste Event at Play Cursor
    4. MIDI Tracks
    5. Rendering a New Loop
    6. Stretch Markers, Beat Markers, and Beat Anchors
    7. ACIDization of Rendered Loops
    8. ACIDized Track Types
15. Recording Audio
    1. Audio Recording Hardware
    2. Setting Audio Device Preferences
    3. ASIO
    4. Windows Classic Wave
    5. The Record Window
    6. Monitoring While Recording via Hardware
    7. Recording Multiple Takes
    8. Working with Recorded Tracks
    9. Using the Metronome
16. Recording MIDI
    1. MIDI Recording Hardware
    2. Selecting a MIDI Controller
    3. Selecting a MIDI Interface
    4. Selecting a MIDI Output Device
    5. Plugging It All Together
    6. VST Instrument Setup
    7. Multi-Port VST Instruments
    8. Making Your MIDI Recording
    9. Using the Metronome
    10. Selecting the Recording Device
    11. Recording
    12. Working with Track Properties
    13. Heads and Tails and What To Do About Them
    14. Strategy for Recording MIDI Loops
    15. Tracks and MIDI Channels
    16. Routing to MIDI Devices
    17. Addressing Multi-Channel MIDI Devices
17. Syncing ACID with Other Programs
    1. Using ACID as a ReWire Mixer (Host)
    2. Using ACID as a ReWire Device (Client)
    3. Syncing to MIDI Timecode
    4. Syncing to MIDI Clock
    5. View Outgoing Timecode or Clock
18. Applying Effects Plug-Ins
    1. DirectX Effects
    2. Effects Chains
    3. Tempo-Based DirectX Effects
    4. VST Effects Support
    5. Effects as an Insert or Send (Assignable FX)
19. Mixing
    1. Approaching the Mix
    2. Inserts and Sends
    3. Buses
    4. Bus-to-Bus Routing
    5. Automation
    6. 5.1 Surround Mix
20. Mastering
    1. Mastering Effects
21. Burning the Final Project
    1. Track-at-Once CD Burning
    2. Disc-at-Once CD Burning
22. Useful Formulas and Musical Aids
    1. Calculating Tempo and Seconds
    2. Calculating Delay and Decay
    3. Transposition Line
    4. I-IV-V-I Progression Chart
23. Final Thoughts