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Written by members of Sonic Foundry's Consulting and Training Group, Sams Teach Yourself ACID 3.0 in 24 Hours engages the reader with an easy-to-follow and friendly tone. The authors teach you how to apply all the features of ACID 3.0 as you work through dozens of hands-on tasks, step by step. You'll begin by creating a basic song. As the book progresses, you'll learn how to add pitch shifts, key changes, fades, effects, pans, fades, and more. Learn how to split and rearrange loops to expand your loop collection without limits.
You'll also learn how to deliver your content in various ways. Learn how to publish and deliver your music over the Internet, and how to create your own CDs right from the ACID interface.
Introduction.
I. UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS.
Hour 1. Introducing ACID Pro 3.0.Making Music with ACID. Setting Up the Hardware. Installing and Registering ACID. Understanding the Interface. Understanding What's New in Version 3.0. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 2. Getting Started.Opening Your ACID Project. Getting Familiar with Your Project. Task: Understanding the Transport Controls. Previewing Loops. Adding Loops to Your Project. Arranging Loops on the Timeline. Task: Creating an Arrangement. Adjusting the Master Project Settings. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 3. Basic Mixing.Exploring Track Headers. Task: Place Track 9 Between Tracks 2 and. Task: Color-Coding Your Tracks. Resizing Your Tracks. Zooming Horizontally. Task: Adjusting Track Time and Height. Controlling Volume. Panning in the Stereo Field. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 4. Saving Your Work.Saving an ACID Project. Exporting Loops. Rendering Your Project. Publishing Your Songs to the Internet. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
II. MOVING BEYOND THE BASICS
Hour 5. Additional Editing Techniques.Duplicating a Track. Task: Duplicating a Track. Changing the Pitch of a Track. Task: Creating a Harmony Track. Adjusting the Start Offset of an Event. Task: Creating Effects with Offset. Changing the Pitch of an Event. Task: Shifting the Pitch of an Event to Create Harmony. Automating Your Mix with Envelopes. Task: Customizing a Track Volume Envelope. Task: Applying a Pan Envelope. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 6. Shaping Your Project.Making Selections on the Timeline. Trimming Edges. Working with Snapping. Task: Editing Edges with and Without Snapping Enabled. Splitting Events. Task: Splitting Events. Working with Beat Markers. Using Undo/Redo History. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 7. Constructing Your Musical Arrangement.Using Key-Change Markers. Task: Combining Key Changes with Event Pitch Shift. Adding Tempo Changes. Task: Experiment with Tempo Changes. Rearranging Events. Task: Copying and Pasting an Envelope with the Event. Using Region Markers. Task: Creating Regions. Task: Copying and Pasting Regions. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
III. ADDING ADDITIONAL TRACK TYPES.
Hour 8. Working with MIDI Tracks.Understanding MIDI. Adding a MIDI file. Considering Three Different MIDI Scenarios. Assigning a Track to the Desired DLS. Using the MIDI Filter. Task: Adding a MIDI Track. Recording MIDI Tracks. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 9. Incorporating One-Shot and Beatmapper Tracks.Adding Longer Files to Your Project. Extracting Audio from a CD. Choosing Between Beatmapper and One-Shot Tracks. Why Would I Do Such a Thing? Creating a Beatmapper Track. Task: Using the Beatmapper Wizard. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 10. Scoring to a Video.Adding Video to the Timeline. Video Editing Features. Task: Trimming the Video Event. Using the Timeline Video Display. Working with the Video Window. Using an External Monitor. Using Time Markers. Task: Using Time Markers. Rendering the Final Product. Task: Rendering to an .avi File. A Word About Codecs. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
IV. USING THE SPECIAL CONSTRUCTION TOOLS.
Hour 11. Editing with the Chopper.Working with the Chopper. Using Markers and Regions in the Chopper. Using the Chopper Arrow. Three Ways to Insert Chopper Selections. Getting Creative. Task: Creating a Melody. Task: Creating a Drum Fill. Task: Creating a DJ-Style Crossfade Mix. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 12. Using Audio FX.An Introduction to FX. Track FX. Preinstalled FX. Constructing FX Chains. Creating and Using FX Presets. Task: Experimenting with Your First Track FX Plug-In. Working with the Plug-In Chooser. Task: Working with an FX Chain. Using DirectX Plug-In Effects. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 13. Using the Mixer.Preview Control. Using the Master Control. Creating Multiple Buses. Routing Your Project with Buses. Mixing Scenarios. Task: Creating Your First Submix. Accessing Buses Through the Multipurpose Fader. Task: Switching Between Pre-Volume and Post-Volume Faders. Multiple Buses: Putting It All Together. Assignable FX. Task: Adding an Assignable FX. FX Strategies. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 14. Uncovering Tips and Techniques.Using Duplicate Tracks. Task: Replacing the File in a Duplicate Track. Task: Creating Effects. Using the Split Command to Create a Drum Fill. Task: Creating a Drum Fill. Masking Drum Fills. Task: Masking a Drum Fill. More Fun with Offsets. Task: Changing Percussion Track Rhythms Using Offsets. Using Markers as a Rhythm-Mapping Tool. Task: Creating a New Sax Part. Creating Custom Loops. Changing Properties Settings. Exporting Individual Tracks and Loops. Adding the Contents of a Long File. Customizing Track Icons. Making a Great Composition. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
V. RECORDING.
Hour 15. Recording and Creating Your Own Loops.Configuring Your Equipment. Preparing ACID for Recording. Setting Recording and Monitoring Levels. Using the Record Dialog Box. Creating and ACIDizing Loops. Advanced ACIDizing. Task: ACIDizing a Bass Loop. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 16. Adding Vocals.Choosing the Optimal Track Type. Task: Creating a Rhythm Track for the Vocals. Recording Vocals. Task: Adding the Vocals. Recording Multiple Takes in ACID. Task: Recording Multiple Takes. Adding Harmony Tracks and Mixing. Task: Creating Harmony Background Vocals. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
VI. DELIVERING YOUR CREATIONS.
Hour 17. Creating Mixed Audio and Video Files.Saving Mixed AIFF or WAV Files. Comparing Bit Depths and Sampling Rates. Considering the Major Video Formats. Creating Compressed Audio Formats. Task: Encoding an MP3 Version of a Song. Encoding for Streaming Over the Internet. Task: Rendering a Streaming Media File with Embedded Metadata. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 18. Burning to a CD.Creating CDs. Setting Preferences for CD Recording. Burning a Track to a CD. Task: Adding a Track to a CD-R Disc. Closing the CD. Task: Closing Your CD Project. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 19. Publishing to ACIDplanet.com.Introducing ACIDplanet.com. Becoming an ACIDplanet Citizen. Task: Registering for ACIDplanet.com Citizenship. Posting Your Songs to ACIDplanet.com. Publishing Multiple File Formats. The ACIDplanet.com Community Area. Task: Posting a Message to the Newbies Conference. Receiving and Giving Ratings and Reviews. Task: Reviewing a Song. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 20. Creating Music for Flash Movies.Adding Audio to Flash. Scoring Audio to Your Flash Movie. Creating Submixes. Creating a Family of Compatible Loops. Reassembling Your Song in Flash. Task: Adding the Loops to the Timeline. Using a Combination Approach. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
VII. USING THE COMPANION SOFTWARE.
Hour 21. Introducing Sound Forge XP Studio.Sound Forge XP Studio Interface. Editing an Audio File. Combining Information from Multiple Files. Task: Copying and Pasting Audio Between Files. Creating ACID Loops Recording in Sound Forge XP Studio. Task: Recording. Using the ACID Looping Tools. ACIDizing Your Loops in Sound Forge XP Studio. Task: Finishing and Using Your ACIDized Loop. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 22. Improving and Editing Recordings.Using Fades. Task: Creating a Graphical Fade. Using Sound Forge XP Studio to Rearrange Audio. Task: Creating a New File from Regions. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 23. Vegas Audio LE Basics.Comparing Vegas Audio LE to ACID. Exploring the Interface. Task: Adding Multiple Files on One Track. Editing Audio Events. Playback and Navigation. Recording. Saving and Rendering. Task: Building a Project Using ACID and Vegas Audio LE. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Hour 24. Using the Sonic Foundry Virtual MIDI Router.Understanding MIDI Synchronization. The Sonic Foundry Virtual MIDI Router. Configuring Your Sync Preferences. Establishing the Master/Slave Relationship. Task: Use the Virtual MIDI Router to Sync Two Applications. Summary. Q&A. Workshop.
Glossary.