On 10/9/2017 8:56 PM, Tom Evans wrote:
What's ACID?
What's a DAW? Acid is a pretty decent DAW as we use the term today.
Because it's 8 or 10 years old and hasn't been updated much, it doesn't
have all of the built-in sounds and signal processing that you get with
a modern program (and those "extra" features are all different), but
Acid's strength when it was a new program is in how it can manipulate
samples and pre-recorded audio streams ("loops") in both pitch and time.
It was, and probably still is, very good at building "remixes" (in the
DJ sense) because you can take a recording, for example, of a drum part,
and adjust it in time to fit the tempo of your song, and tune it,
sometimes way down, or way up, to create a new sound that plays like
that drum part. It does support MIDI so you can also built virtual
tracks using a sample library for the kind and quality of instruments
you want to use. You can also record audio to add vocals and real
instruments, and there's a mixing console for mixing all the tracks.
It's best for creating "assembled" music rather than played or composed
music. If you just want to play piano, guitar, bass, brass, strings, and
drums on a keyboard, it will happily do that and play sounds that you
assign to those tracks. And, as Scott has said over and over again,
those sounds are YOUR choice, and aren't limited to whatever the
software vendor chose to throw in to get you started.
Logic may indeed be more suited to the way you work, but it will (or at
least should be) be a function of how comfortable it is for you to move
from one step to the next. If the sounds that came with it are OK,
that's fine, but there are plenty of other sounds out there, some free,
some fairly costly. Some recorded in ways that suit "lo fi" productions,
some that are very carefully recorded with good microphones in a good
studio, and a drum sample set may include half a dozen different snare
drums, a dozen toms, five or six kicks and more cymbals than you can
stand to listen to. Pick what goes with your songs. That's what you do
with your producer hat on.
Or just have fun.
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