Sams Teach Yourself Acid 3.0 in 24 Hours

by Gary Rebholz and Michael Bryant

Sams Teach Yourself ACID in 24 Hours will teach everyone--from novice to pro--how to create, edit, and save original and royalty free music with Sonic Foundry's revolutionary loop-based music creation... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672320460
• ISBN13: 9780672320460
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Essential to fully understanding the "intuitive" interface!

As a Sonar user, a Sound Forge user, a Vegas Video user, I was completely amazed to discover the power hidden within Acid--whose very name unfortunately causes scornful and undeserved ridicule as with the review below. Many see Acid as a toy, and it is anything but as anyone who digs beneath the surface will quickly discover. Acid 3.0 is a professional tool used in professional environments to achieve professional results faster than ever before and where time is money, Acid shines.For anyone wanting to push this tool past it's apparent limits, using it as the ultimate tool with which to bring together tracks from various sources (including Cubase) this book is essential to understanding its hidden strengths, and workarounds for inherent weaknesses found in some extreme BPM and pitch-shifting tasks. "Acid 3.0 in 24 Hours" is essential to understanding track management, bus usage, FX options, video scoring, and timing adjustments to name but a few.Do not be fooled. Acid is a most powerful non-destructive digital audio construction tool, although its name may draw prejudice. This book is as worthy a companion and reference as exists for it.Buy this book. Even the Acid experienced will learn from it.

Way Better than Owlsley !

This is a carefully-written explanation of a complex piece of computer technology. It takes way more hours than the title promises. But it is a wonderful introduction to the fascinating world of audio recording technology. Super Dooper!

A Superb Resource

Teach Yourself Acid 3.0 is an excellent resource. Although Acid comes with a manual on PDF, everybody knows that switching between your software and Adobe Acrobat Reader is tedious and a strain on the eyes--which in turn means that you probably won't learn all about Acid's possibilities. With TYA 3.0, you can have the book open while you work with Acid (this alone vastly improves your learning curve); additionally, every chapter (or "hour") of this text has exercises and activities that you can do with the supplied CD-Rom loops. I really recommend doing the exercises--they WILL give you ideas for your own Acid projects.While it might initially seem a little pricey, the tips, exercises, and CD-Rom make it invaluable.

This Book Rocks! (Literally)

After reading the on-line manual for Acid 3.0 Pro I wanted to find a more in-depth source of information that would explain how to use this remarkable product in an easy to understand format.With Sams 'Acid 3.0' I found it.This book makes Acid 3.0 easy and has you up and running in no time.As a bonus- the CD that accompanies the book has about 200 loops on it!You know that a Loops CD from Sonic Foundry runs about [...]a pop -so [...]for a book and CD is an absolutely incredible buy!If you want to learn Acid this is THE definitive learning tool which was written by a couple of Sonic Foundry Trainers.As a last note of praise -Sonic Foundry actually put demo versions of all of their major products on the CD as well, so even if you don't own Acid 3.0 yet you can see if you like it by purchasing this book!Kudos to Sams Publishing and Sonic Foundry for releasing a book which is not only easy to understand but informative and complete in every aspect!