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Create professional, royalty-free music with our loop-based production tool.

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Maximize your creativity with our professional sound libraries.

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Use our basic sound libraries to get started with ACID.

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Apply processes, effects, and format conversions across multiple files.

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Restore, repair, and renew your audio recordings.

SIREN™ Jukebox
Manage your digital music collection with our complete jukebox software.

Sound Forge®
Develop professional-quality audio with our industry-standard editing software.

Super Duper Music Looper™
Children's software for creating music using a paintbrush, an erase tool, and a mouse.

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Record and edit your audio with our professional multitrack software.

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Create and edit graphic images, video frames, and web animations.

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1,001 high quality sound clips for enhancing your audio projects.

 

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Loops for ACID are high-quality sound files that have been specially prepared for use with Sonic Foundry's ACID family of products. The loops store special data that optimizes ACID's time stretching/compressing and pitch change features. All the loops contained on these discs are license-free and nonproprietary. Of course, Loops for ACID are standard WAV sound files so you can use them for all your audio content needs!

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The Bill Laswell Collection

Bill Laswell constitutes the ideal pairing of technology and music. It's only natural that Laswell supply fuel for the enormous surge of ACID users who are redefining music just as Laswell himself does continuously ù with total disregard for genre boundary restrictions and obsolete conventions in making, listening to, even conceptualizing, modern music and sound. The Bill Laswell Collection includes three libraries, plus a bonus library only available in the box set ù Covert Diaspora, a 2 CD collection with superior 24-Bit sound ù the first of its kind. Learn more and hear more samples.


SAMPLE LOOPS
acoustic guitar 13 | coral sitar 04 | drum n bass beat 05 | orchestra 01 | scape 04

Fluid Dynamics: Computational Drum 'n' Bass

Rich Mallet is an original drum 'n' bass pioneer who was influential in shaping the genre as he came up through the UK underground music scene. Fluid Dynamics is a perfect, authentic drum 'n' bass excursion that has all the materials you need to realize pure form d 'n' b compositions quickly, easily, and royalty-free , inside the awesome ACID software engine.


SAMPLE LOOPS
cool beat 02 | hammer break 07 | pad 07 | rough beat 01 | warp bass 01

Saturn and Elsewhere: Ethereal Textures and Psychotropic Rhythms

Space Music is characterized by two major features: evolving, intricate soundscapes, and lush, ultra high fidelity sound quality. Composers/Sound Designers Paul Vnuk and Chris Short of Ma Ja Le' invite you to immerse yourself in the pulsating rhythms and swirling textures of Saturn and Elsewhere — a group of tribal ambient sounds that can be utilized as a standalone construction kit, or provide a source of rhythms and atmospheres for electronica, experimental music, world music, and film scores.


SAMPLE LOOPS
fireworks 07 matrix | hoppin lasers 01 | klong ya 07 dancesummoor | static arp 04 | tribal flute beat 01

Crimson, Blue & Fabulous: Horncraft for R&B

Known for over a decade as 'the greatest horn section in the world', Birch 'Crimson Slide' Johnson (trombone), Lou 'Blue Lou' Marini (tenor saxophone), and Alan 'Mr. Fabulous' Rubin (trumpet) have provided brass for the likes of Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, Destiny's Child, Bruce Springsteen, Lauren Hill, Michael Jackson, Sting, and can be heard on countless television shows, commercials and movie soundtracks, including 'Blues Brothers 2000'. In this remarkable collection, they give up dozens of blistering riffs, solos, and sections.


SAMPLE LOOPS
002 Funk Riff (G) har | 024 Shuffle Blues Riff (Ab) unison | 043 R&B Riff (A) unison | 067 Ten Sax Straight (B) 10 | 085 Trump Shuffle (G) 01

designer.dance.tools: ddt

Peace/Love Productions arrive with Designer Dance Tools, their third complete collection of material for Sonic Foundry ACID. With years of experience as a top editor and sound designer for Sonic Foundry, Peace/Love's Jason Donnelly is as skilled as they come, and D.D.T. proves it with a perfect balance of beats, basses, synths, decks, and FX û all the must-haves for making techno, house, tech-house, progressive, trance, jungle, breakbeat, hip-hop, and downtempo tracks. D.D.T. puts five hundred megs of instant DJ and rave culture at your fingertips.


SAMPLE LOOPS
4 on the floor 018 | break 018 | break 046 | synth 002 | synth 060

James Johnson: Spektral Minimalism

Sonic Foundry together with accomplished ambient minimalist composer James Johnson present Spektral Minimalism, a Loops for ACIDÖ library filled with shifting, amorphous atmospheres, long drifting soundscapes, elegant piano passages, and textures that span the entire aural spectrum. Using both software and hardware based synthesis and sampling technologies, the imprints waiting for you within Spektral Minimalism will shift and blur as they live and breathe freely in the world of your imagination.


SAMPLE LOOPS
Arpeggio 03 | Bell 03 | Hi Complex b 02 | Humming Crickets | Low Complex Descender

Joe Vitale / Joe Vitale Jr.: Junkyard Rhythms

Picture two grown men spending countless hours pounding away at a pile of worthless junk. Strange? Maybe at first glance, but everything becomes clear when you discover that the men are superstar percussionist Joe Vitale and producer Joe Vitale Jr. After building Latin Percussion, the Vitales momentarily ran out of things to hit. So off to the junkyard they went, in search of chance metallic objects that yield maximum klang. What they found will amaze you! So, if you need some percussion that'll make people say, "What the heck was that!?" then look no further than Junkyard Percussion.


SAMPLE LOOPS
Assorted Cans 01 | Coffee Can 01 | Medium Bucket 01 | Phased Metal Shaker 01 | Zipper 01

Mac Money R&B 101

This impeccable construction kit contains a wealth of loops conceived and executed in the classic MAC MONEY style — killer beats, super phat basses, funky keyboards and guitars, and all the other ear candy it takes to round out a one-disc hit factory of infinite possibilities.


SAMPLE LOOPS
Bass 42 | Beat 53 | Beat 54 | Combination 03 | Keyboard 14

Electrocution

Sonic Foundry presents Aaron Mellinger's Electrocution, a construction kit that combines the best of electro-hop, darkside, big beat and intelligent industrial music into a powerful collection of sounds that will give you the power to instantly create detailed, fully produced original music.


SAMPLE LOOPS
Combo 08 | 'Cution Bass 02 | 'Cution Beat 03 | 'Cution Synth 03 | 'Cution Synth 04

Vir Unis: Infusion

Infusion is filled with a unique collection of morphing and shapeshifting electronica loops, electro-tribal beats, industrial noisescapes, and deep space atmospherics created by Vir Unis exclusively for Sonic Foundry. Here you will find a myriad of organic and electronic elements for inspiring and creating your own unique and original fractalized rhythms and melting soundscapes.


SAMPLE LOOPS
AtomSmasher | HyperTribe01 | SpyvsSpy | TectonicGroove | TransformerGroove01

BASS-X

A collection of floor shakin' bass loops produced exclusively for Sonic Foundry by Groove Addicts, the world-renowned L.A. music production and sound design house. Groove Addicts knows what you need to make your rhythm section bump, and they prove it here with this collection of intros, choruses, bridges, plucks, clicks, muffs, and song patterns, all presented in the spirit of today's best chart music.


SAMPLE LOOPS
Distorted 26 | Funk 001 | Pop 77 | Rock 007 | Slap 03