I thought a thread where we shared different and perhaps unusual ways of using ACID Pro to be creative would be cool.
Anyone up for that?


Here's mine: I love taking an ambient loop that has a definite tonal center (preferably without polyphony or harmony) and with a melody in your head you play the loop with your hand on the S key.

Now tap the rhythm of the melody that you have composed or improvised on the S key and go back and individually tune each individual split with the + and the - keys (you can, of course, go up
or down two octaves in half steps intervals).

What is cool is that if the ambient .wav is long the change in the timbre of the melody will be relatively random as you 'play' your melody across the length of the loop (or multiple loops).

In fact, you can loop the track in a separate ACID document at a completely different speed from the melody you have in mind for your piece of music.

A groovy way to get a very quirky ambient track to work with in the first place is to use the convolution program in whatever program you are using (I use Cool Edit Pro specifically for convolving sounds)
and convolve say, a single guitar harmonic or note with say, a drum set........................In this what you will get a long and constantly changing .wav that still has a definite tonal center.

Does this make sense? I"m writing it quickly.

Now, what other cool techniques have people stumbled on to use ACID?