RE: [microsound] ACID

[mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you can get live for the PC too - the full version will run for 
several days before you have to pay for it so its friendly 
to check out...

mark 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anechoic [mailto:kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 January 2002 16:42
> To: microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [microsound] ACID
> 
> 
> >I suspect that they are expecting fairly tame remixes - Acid is
> >really of the tracker school of music making (although I am 
> sure someone
> >who knows the tool inside out could do wicked things with it - not
> >sure who would bother learning it that well though).
> 
> Acid is an amazing tool for doing tight-deadline music 
> production...I used
> it a couple of years ago to construct half a dozen pieces for 
> a game demo I
> was writing music for...I trawled some hotline servers for 
> some hip-hop
> loops and cool VST plugs, auditioned the loops, made a 
> library of the ones
> I liked, and finished all the music in 2 days...plus by using 
> the VST plugs
> I was able to transform some of the drum loops I found into 
> some really
> abstract rhythmic patterns...
> now that there are more audio seq's integrating "looping" into their
> feature set we have more tools to chose from...but if you're 
> on a PC get a
> copy of ACID and check it out...on the MacOS side of things 
> check out Live
> by Ableton
> http://www.ableton.com
> 
> good luck!
> KIM
> 
> 
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