Improvising with loops: Despite recently added features like the ACID Morph Pads, the Chopper, and the revised Beatmapper, which allow MIDI triggering of parts of samples as well as creating new sounds using raw audio as an input, I feel that ACID Pro has a ways to go before they harness the improvisatory power you get with something like Stutter Edit, or the performance features of Ableton Live.Live performance: ACID Pro still doesn't hold a candle to Ableton Live in this department.That being said, I haven't used it but I see they are making strides in this area, with new versions of ACID Pro including third-party licensed effects like Zynpatic STEM MAKER 2 out of the box for free. Built-in effects: ACID Pro has not kept up with competitors like Ableton Live, who licensed Cytomic's Glue Compression for version 9 of their software, an incredible-sounding plugin that would otherwise cost a pretty penny but is now included for free in Live.There are much better piano rolls and software step sequencers out there.
MIDI: I don't think it is great for MIDI sequencing.Still, I prefer ACID Pro for wave-based (rather than MIDI-based) music that makes extensive use of loops. I feel that ACID Pro has a better audio engine for looping, although for many purposes this is not noticeable. To this day, Ableton Live has still not entirely figured out how to prevent clicks and pops at the beginning and end of loops, especially lower frequencies like basslines, without shaving an arbitrary amount of time off each side (.5 ms by default), resulting in lessened attack and audio artifacts during cuts. However, I still prefer time-stretching sound quality in ACID Pro, as well as the lack of audio artifacts in looping. If I were running a lot of hardware synthesizers, or even softsynths using MIDI, I would prefer another DAW since they often have better features, for instance in the shuffle department where Ableton Live has hundreds of shuffles to choose from for MIDI instruments. It is great for audio-forward production, rather than MIDI-forward. Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)ĪCID Pro is great for electronic music, hip hop, and any loop-based music production such as for videogame soundtracks.
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