ACID cleared the way both for Ableton Live and GarageBand. But the 1998 release of ACID (originally awkwardly dubbed ACID pH1) really heralded the arrival of music production workflows built on audio loops. In fact, it was so influential, that it’d be easy for newcomers to music production to overlook. Big in their dayĪCID wasn’t the first loop-based production tool (Propellerhead and ReCycle deserve a lot of credit there), but it was the tool that made time-stretched, loop-based production into what it is today. There are reasons to reflect on ACID and Sound Forge individually.
Now, languishing alongside their stablemate, video editor Vegas, they’re seeing ownership pass from Sony (via its creative software division) to German software house and holding company MAGIX. Once upon a time, ACID and Sound Forge were each industry-leading software tools, originally developed by Sonic Foundry. It’s the end of an era – but maybe not such a golden era.
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