A new way to
Remix.
The only DAW with audio separation
ACID Pro Next features audio separation technology powered by zynaptiq® STEM MAKER. Split songs into beats, vocals and music, and use the resulting stems in your own tunes and to remix. Truly the next generation of remixing and DAW production.
Hear it in action:
Example 1: Original song | Extracted vocals | Extracted drums | Residual track
Example 2: Original song | Extracted vocals | Extracted drums | Residual track
Example 3: Original song | Extracted vocals | Extracted drums | Residual track

MIDI Playable Chopper
The all-new MIDI Playable Chopper brings MPC-style performance sampling and hip hop beat creation to ACID Pro Next. Play samples from loops, beats from drum kits, perform and record the results as audio events for instant remixing. Play, record, jam – ACID is your new performance instrument!

Beatmapper
Using Beatmapper, you can identify the tempo and time signature of any external song or audio file. When you import it into ACID you can easily add other ACID files which will lock to its timing data automatically. Instant remixing, your way!

Chopper
Chopper is the ultimate remix tool as it enables you to slice a loop into parts, and then reorder them in any way you like to create multiple new samples. All new loops will stay in sync with your ACID Pro Next projects, and you can easily record new audio events onto the timeline.
The creative DAW for
Music production.
ACID Pro Next is the DAW you need for powerful music production: from high-quality multitrack recording and innovative loop-based composition, to advanced remixing and precision mastering.

Recording
ACID Pro Next offers powerful 24-bit, 192 kHz multitrack audio recording.
Record a full band in your studio or your own singing and playing. Create complete arrangements with ease by mixing in gigabytes of ACIDized loops.
Add effects in real time, enhance your tunes with dozens of instruments and your album is made!
Loops.
ACID Pro Next uses ACIDized loops for creative loop-based music production. These contain pitch, length and transient data and can be edited and manipulated in real time and easily mixed together to make complete pieces of music.
Virtual instruments.
Take your music in any direction you like with a whole suite of varied instruments which cover everything from acoustic emulations of a complete orchestra to out-of-this-world synths. Try out a vintage piano, some incredible drums, or play a high quality saxophone. It's your studio, your choice!
Pop Drums
The ideal percussion instrument for a huge variety of music styles. You can play anything from energetic double bass, metal-style beats to massive trap beats and pumping techno grooves. All of the beats were recorded through top-level SSL gear for extra sonic analogue character.
Concert Grand
The sound of a high-class classical piano, intricately sampled in one of the world's greatest concert halls. Bring the power and the detail of this incredible instrument, and the natural environment in which it was recorded, to your modern pop compositions.
Church Organ
This organ instrument was created by meticulously sampling an incredible-sounding instrument in a church near Venice to get a totally authentic and atmospheric sound. With all the drama and emotion captured on the original instrument, it is perfect for classical and modern productions.
Urban Drums
You can play Urban Drums just like a hardware, pad-based beat maker, and its sounds are up there with the best. Ideally suited to hip-hop, dubstep and similar genres, programming stylish and contemporary grooves is easy, and it will really help give your tunes the edge.
Electric Piano
Bring the atmospheric sound of the treated electric piano to your recordings with this wonderfully-evocative instrument. With the ability to really overdrive the sound and use other effects, Electric Piano is ideal for a range of styles including smokey jazz, blues and funk.
Rock Drums
Rock Drums is big, bold and beautiful, as the best rock beats should be. Get everything from driving double bass metal beats to the sound of a live concert kit in full flow in the largest of arenas. Or simply ease back into a dry and clean studio sound, great for any rock style.
Drum Engine
Get hands on with Drum Engine, with an interface similar to the legendary MPC. Program great grooves in a variety of styles, with a fantastic range of on-board sounds – everything from groove box samples to more modern pop beats.
Choir
If you have every dreamed of adding a choir to your compositions, then this is the instrument for you. Choose from female, male or mixed-voice choirs and use them either as up-front lead parts, or as incredibly atmospheric backing tracks.
Cinematic Synth
This is a synth designed to produce driving sequences, delicate arpeggiations or thumping bass parts, and with plenty of on-board effects, you can produce a range of styles to soundtrack any contemporary film or TV show.
Analog Synths
Analogue synthesizers are as popular as ever in all forms of electronic music, and this captures that true, brilliant, classic sound. With enough hands-on controls to tweak, you'll be producing everything from bubbling bass to tearing leads.
Vintage Organ
The organ has played a seminal role in music and has famously been used in sixties rock and more modern funk and RnB. With enough controls to shape its authentic sound, Vintage Organ creates great tones for all of these styles and more.
Electric Bass
If you need deep, vibrant tones for any kind of music, then look no further than Electric Bass. It comes with plenty of ways to shape the sound to make the perfect bass tones for your tunes, supplying the perfect bottom end every time.
Jazz Drums
Jazz percussion can cover a wide range of styles, including laid-back grooves and abstract, more electronic beats. Jazz Drums offers a great range of jazzy beats so you can add this smoother side of percussion to your music.
Pop Brass
Brass has always been a defining part of many different genres: from the sound of the roaring 20s, right through orchestral recordings, to modern Latino and RnB tunes. Pop Brass has all the tones you need, whatever your style.
Orchestral Ensemble
Get the sound of a real orchestra in your recordings. Add brass staccatos, dramatic woodwind, driving percussion and soft, emotive string legatos to your music… without the hassle of a real orchestra!
Analog Synths 2
With the sound of the analogue synth very much back in vogue – from synth wave to dance music – Analog Synths 2 offers perfect vintage synth sounds, covering deep bass thrills and hard, edgy leads.
Lead Synth
Lead Synth produces incredible electronic sounds that will cut through any mix. With its virtual analogue heart, it can produce high-end, high-quality leads for all genres of music.
Concert Guitar
Concert Guitar delivers guitar authenticity and is great for incredible picking techniques, delicate slides or subtle finger sounds. It also caters for different playing styles, offers a huge range of presets and has a selection of effects to deliver fantastic guitar sounds for every occasion.
Power Guitar
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
Create a huge amount of powerful guitar sounds with one instrument. Power Guitar has everything you need – huge power chords, squealing slides and powerful overdrives – backed by different playing techniques and an extensive sound library.
Century Guitar
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
If you need cleaner guitar tones, then Century Guitar offers an unadulterated sound and the highest attention to detail. Melodies and accompaniments help deliver an authentic playing experience without you needing to be a guitar-playing expert.
Soundtrack Percussion
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
Need to add a touch of rhythmic drama to a score? Soundtrack Percussion has a wide range of attacking sounds, including bells, drums, thunder bells, gongs and Taiko drums, so you can create complete percussive tunes or add interest to any soundtrack.
String Ensemble
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
If you need emotive strings, then this instrument delivers the goods. It is perfect for powerful or delicate strings, and ideal for everything from classical recordings to more contemporary scores, laden with effects.
Bass Machine
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
How low can you go? With Bass Machine the answer is: very! Create powerful bottom end, perfect basslines and cone-rattling tones with hands-on filters to shape the sound exactly how you like.
Upright Bass
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
The upright bass is one of the most well-loved instruments, and can add character to everything from classical to jazz recordings. Upright Bass offers a powerful, dynamic and groovy backbone for any track.
Century Keys
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
Century Keys offers a 'best-of' in keyboard sounds, covering classic and modern pianos, so delivers the perfect keyboard sounds for many genres including soul, RnB, pop, jazz, rock and hip hop.
Saxophonia
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
The saxophone offers a dramatic and varied accompaniment to any musical project, and Vita Saxophonia delivers its authentic tones brilliantly, with a powerful timbre and a wide dynamic range.
Space Pad
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
Need something out of this world? Space Pad takes you on incredible sonic journeys, delivering layers of atmosphere, complex sequences and beautiful organic synthesizer textures suited to all sorts of projects.
Cinematic Soundscapes
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next 365 and Suite)
Explore icy, vast expanses of sound and create depth and tension with Cinematic Soundscapes. Most sounds here are encapsulated in a dark, almost oppressive aura, making this instrument the perfect choice for a variety of use cases.
World Percussion
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next 365 and Suite)
Create a barrage of emotion with Bongo sounds, Congas, Cowbells, Guiros, Shakers, Vibra slaps, Tambourines and Timbales - waiting to be customized for exotic new rhythms.
VST2/VST3 Engine with 32-bit bridge
With both the new VST2/VST3 engine and the 32-bit bridge you can run the latest plug-ins in ACID Pro and even bring your favorite older plug-ins into its sleek 64-bit ACID environment.
MIDI
ACID Pro might be one of the easiest DAWs to create great music, but it comes packed with all the latest features, including a comprehensive set of MIDI tools. You can edit MIDI data directly onto the timeline for a speedy workflow, freeze MIDI tracks to audio to save processor power, add Keyframe automation and edit drum beats with ease. It's total MIDI control, but presented in a user-friendly way.
Inline Editing
Now you can make all of your main MIDI edits without opening multiple windows. Inline Editing allows you to make piano-roll note and drum-grid beat edits directly onto the ACID timeline so you can easily adjust notes, velocities, pitch bends and controller information.
Drum grid mode
With Drum Grid Mode you get a familiar grid in which you can place, edit, delete and move beats within a sequence. Make all adjustments directly to ACID's timeline to improve your workflow.
MIDI track freeze
MIDI Track Freeze helps your computer work more efficiently by turning MIDI instrument tracks into audio. Doing this frees up any instruments that are running in real time, so saves processing power.
MIDI filtering and processing
Editing of data on the ACID timeline is not confined to one track or part. Now you can select multiple MIDI parts and adjust everything within them, from velocity values to note duration, all in one go, thus offering the smoothest of workflows.
MIDI track envelopes and keyframes
Envelope and Keyframe features are designed to give users smooth transitions in automation. MIDI continuous controller date – used to control pitch, modulation and more, plus the dials on software plug-ins – can be recorded and then edited with these transitions. They can be applied to individual clips or to larger, project-wide automation.
Drum and patch map editors
Drum Maps can be created and edited in ACID Pro Next so you can have custom templates for hardware or software MIDI instruments, including both synths and drum machines. All templates can easily be saved and recalled.
ARA2 support
With the latest ARA2 (Audio Random Access) interface, ACID Pro Next features real-time, super-fast audio editing which really helps to speed up your workflow. It can exchange information without any time-consuming transfer rates with other ARA2-enabled plug-ins such as Melodyne for a more efficient and faster workflow.

Independence Pro Plus Suite
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
This incredible suite of instruments delivers a massive 12 GB of of top-quality instrument samples and 500 amazing presets.
It is the ultimate instrument set and is equally at home as a studio production tool, live performance device or effect rack for sound design – and comes exclusively with ACID Pro Next Suite!
Audio Editing
and Mixing
ACID Pro comes packed with the latest audio technology. As well as its world-famous real-time pitch- and time-stretching, it comes with Celemony Melodyne essential, so you can get to the heart of your tracks and make precision edits.

Melodyne essential
Melodyne essential is the perfect application for getting into an audio file to make precise edits to correct pitch and tone. With its sophisticated algorithms and innovative features, it is ideal to use when you need natural-sounding pitch changes on any kind of instrument or vocal.
Superior mixing
ACID Pro Next offers the same kind of mixing experience you would expect from a full-blown studio mixer, with incredibly flexible routing, and access to both internal and external effects. The software also supports external hardware control surfaces including Mackie Control and Frontier Design TranzPort, so you can get a tactile hardware experience plus all the advantages of software.
Flexible routing
Even though ACID Pro Next's mixing console resembles a hardware studio mixer, it can be easily customized to the way you like to work. You can choose from an array of routing options, so you could, for example, route external audio through ACID Pro Next's effects, or even apply external effect processors to tracks and busses. It's easy to create complex submixes, bus-to-bus routing and monitor everything in real time, and there are also surround mixing options with a panner offering precise control over channel positions.
Professional Loudness-Metering in the Master-Channel
Among the many hi-end features that come with ACID Pro Next are several functions for mastering music. These include the all-new Loudness-Metering function that allows you to examine your audio in pinpoint detail.
A single click for you.
A quantum leap for your sound.
ACID Pro Next's Groove Mapping and Groove Cloning technologies are among the most sophisticated and fun features to be found in any DAW. You can give your music a completely new feel by applying preset grooves, or even extract a groove from a much-loved song and then use that with your tunes. It's even possible to create grooves from scratch or edit existing ones.
zplane élastique
ACID Pro Next features the ultimate technology when it comes to pitch- and time-stretching. zplane élastiquePro ensures real-time, artifact-free conversion of both pitch and time, and ensures maximum flexibility and quality in the process.
Groove Mapping
Groove Mapping is one of the cleverest features in ACID Pro Next, allowing you to completely change your music groove by applying preset (or your own) Groove Maps to your song. Choose your groove type, and then simply apply it to either specific loops or entire tracks.
Groove Cloning
Groove Cloning takes the Mapping function one step further by allowing you to extract the groove info from any song or sample, and then apply it to your current loops or MIDI files. If you have favourite grooves from songs or samples, simply clone and apply. Easy!
Envelope Control
ACID Pro Next allows you record and automate MIDI data that controls parameters like volume or tempo, or the controls on a plug-in instrument or effect. You can record, say, the volume of a channel or its 5.1 pan position. Using Tempo Curves, keyframes and envelopes means transitions are smooth across all automations.
ReWire support
ReWire support enables DAWs from different developers to communicate and route audio and MIDI information between one another. ACID Pro Next can function as both a ReWire host, where it can have programs like Reason act as a virtual instrument within it, or as a device, where it can route its audio straight into a host like Pro Tools.
Audio plug-in manager
ACID Pro Next includes a comprehensive plug-in manager that allows you to quickly and easily manage effects, adding them to tracks, busses and instruments. You can also create chains, rename and reorganize plug-ins to produce all-new environments and aid workflow.

Analogue Modelling Suite
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next 365 and Suite)
This classic suite of effects consists of all you need for mastering and creative processing, with everything from a tube amp simulator to an analog compressor.

AM|MUNITION
A compressor/limiter that offers more kick. This dynamic mastering tool will deliver punch and also give your mixes more presence and character.

AM|PULSE
A transient designer for detailed envelope editing and background noise reduction.

AM|TRACK
A combination of analog compressor and tape simulator which offers classic analog character.

AM|PHIBIA
A tube amp/channel strip used as a vocal preamp, guitar amp, or to create a warm sound.

essentialFX Suite
essentialFX Suite is a complete collection of all the tools you need for mixing your audio to a professional standard in ACID Pro Next.
eFX Gate
eFX Vocal Strip
eFX Compressor
eFX Tremolo Pan
eFX Chorus Flanger
eFX deEsser
eFX Phaser
eFX Tubestage
eFX Limiter
eFX Reverb
eFX Stereo Delay

coreFX delay effects
This suite of three effects employs different delay techniques to deliver some of the most classic and popular studio effects of all time.

coreFX Delay
This is a simple but widely-used effect, based on original analogue circuitry where time-delayed copies of the original signal are created to produce echoes.

coreFX Chorus
The chorus effect is achieved with a slight delay and modulated pitch to deliver a doubling and beating effect and a much fatter and fuller sound.

coreFX Flanger
Create a classic sound when your original signal is blended with slightly delayed copies to create distinctive sweeping effects, popular in many genres.

Vintage Effects Suite
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
Enjoy the sounds and effects from a classic recording studio with this suite of three vintage effects.

ECOX
The echo effect from analog tape recorders can be recreated using this inspiring plug-in. Ecox is easy to use but brimming with character, and is capable of delivering a variety of vintage tones, from complex delays to grainy background atmosphere.

FILTOX
This stereo filter combines with modulation and overdrive to result in dynamic effects that can add huge attitude to any instrument. Transform a delicate piano into a dark bass sound, a lead synth into a complex pad, or simply add crunch to your percussion loops.

CORVEX
One of the best ways to add depth and layering to any sound is to add modulation, and Corvex can fatten any sound up with a range of effects: from gentle chorusing to more full-on and dramatic tremolo wobble.

VariVerb II
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
A high-quality reverb effect that adds atmosphere and a professional sheen to any instrument or vocal recording.
Sound design for drums, vocals and guitars
By using its various algorithms, you can get far more creative with VariVerb II compared to other reverbs, and take its preset effects into more complex sonic areas. Tweak parameters including depth and texture for exciting experiments in sound design.
Precisely calculated reflection pattern
VariVerb II goes one step further than standard reverbs by utlizing complex reflection patterns and software models, rather than impulse response techniques. It is therefore able to create stunning, complex and realistic reverbs, especially more modulation-based effects.

Vandal
(Exclusively in ACID Pro Next Suite)
Vandal is the ultimate virtual guitar and bass tool, with all the driving sound of a hardware rig, but with total software control and integration. It delivers the power and sound of a complete guitar signal chain – stomp box, amplifier, speaker and microphone – in software.
Master your music
with ease
ACID Pro Next has all the professional tools and features you need to give your music the professional edge, whether it's being mastered for CD or for streaming online.
High-quality mastering tools
from the coreFX suite
coreFX 2-Point Compressor
With two kink points, the coreFX 2-Point Compressor offers more flexibility and freedom than a classic compressor, and delivers different sonic characteristics when applied to dynamic range compression.
coreFX Limiter
With a limiter, you can set a maximum value of the processed signal. This won't be exceeded which can help eliminate volume differences and even out any quiet and loud sections.
coreFX Expander
Using an Expander increases the perceived dynamic range of an audio signal and also helps suppress noise. With more dynamics you get a more natural sound.
coreFX Compressor
With a compressor like this, you can eliminate large volume differences between section of audio to give you a more even and balanced sound.






With a worlds first for any DAW, ACID Pro Next combines cutting edge sampling technology, a fully featured DAW and unique ACIDized loops that lock in time and key with your new compositions.
With a worlds first for any DAW, ACID Pro Next combines cutting edge sampling technology, a fully featured DAW and unique ACIDized loops that lock in time and key with your new compositions.
- C$340 discount