Acid Music Studio is a powerful music program with lots of scope for integration into your music program. This session will look at effective ways of creating your own tracks with existing loops whilst focusing on effective arranging techniques such as layering, texture and form to create interest. We’ll look at manipulating pitch and tempo, importing and editing audio, and recording your voice. Use the Chopper to create new loops or record your own original material with a MIDI keyboard. We’ll also look at ways you can expand your audio library by discovering online copyright-free and cost-free sources loops, sound effects and audio tracks.
Basic Acid skills covered:
- learn how to organise and find loops in the Explorer
- add loops to a project
- using different tools: pencil, selection, eraser
- all about snapping
- add new tracks
- using multiple loops on one track
- adding software synths and recording from a MIDI keyboard
- learn tips for recording voice, guitar or sound effects
- importing audio
- edit audio tracks
- transpose loops
- stretching loops
- creating fade-ins and fade-outs
- using volume envelopes
- using panning envelopes
- add effects
- using the Chopper
- importing video
- edit and mix your song
- ways to organise shared loops on the school network
- saving and rendering work
- working with different file formats
