Best Audio Mastering Software in Africa
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What is Audio Mastering Software in Africa?
Audio mastering software enables music producers to prepare and enhance music and audio tracks in post production. Audio mastering tools offer features like balancing, equalization, compression, stereo enhancement, and more. Compare and read user reviews of the best Audio Mastering software in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Reaper
Cockos
REAPER's full, flexible feature set and renowned stability have found a home wherever digital audio is used: commercial and home studios, broadcast, location recording, education, science and research, sound design, game development, and more. REAPER's full, flexible feature set and renowned stability have found a home wherever digital audio is used: commercial and home studios, broadcast, location recording, education, science and research, sound design, game development, and more. From mission-critical professional environments to students' laptops, there is a single version of REAPER, fully featured with no artificial limitations. You can evaluate REAPER in full for 60 days. A REAPER license is affordably priced and DRM-free. -
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FL STUDIO
Image-Line Software
FL STUDIO: The DAW powering the world’s best music. Celebrating Lifetime Free Updates for over 20 years. The fastest way from your brain to your speakers. FL Studio is the result of over 20 years of continuous development, to become the fastest way from your brain to your speakers. Many of the world's top DJs and producers started by downloading the FL Studio trial, making their first beats a bedroom studio. Now it's your turn, our trial allows you to make and save projects, then export them to audio formats like MP3 and WAV, ready to share with the world. How far will FL Studio take you? Mix and master music to the highest professional standards. All the features you need to create today's most complex productions including: effects chains, audio sends, sidechain control, advanced automation, plugin delay compensation and more. Our promise: Whatever version you buy, you’ll get all future updates free. Nothing more to pay. Ever.Starting Price: $99 -
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SAWStudio
RM Labs
SAW is the acronym for Software Audio Workshop. SAWStudio combines both high-tech virtual mixing and hard disk editing technologies into one power-packed application. The look and feel of a fully controllable console, coupled with an all new high powered 24-bit hard disk engine make this product one of the most intelligent choices for the serious audio professional. The SAWStudio interface is a tightly woven mesh of a fully developed mixing console interface and a newly designed MultiTrack recording/editing interface. This design is truly aimed at emulating the look and feel of working in a typical hardware based studio environment, replacing the physical mixing console, MultiTrack recorder and outboard rack-effects gear all at the same time. This product represents a revolutionary new approach to mixing and editing audio in a virtual environment, truly replacing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of physical gear needed to perform the same functions.Starting Price: $200 one-time payment -
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PreSonus Studio One
PreSonus Audio Electronics
Record, produce, mix, master, and perform all from a single, intuitive application. Designed with ease of use at its core, Studio One® 5 is your creative partner from studio to stage. The Start Page provides what you need to begin your creative process, including a dashboard with all your songs, projects, and shows, plus a personalized user profile that allows you to add custom metadata to all your creations. Test out remix ideas or just capture a synth riff without affecting your arrangement or creating a new session. Patterns reinvent step sequencing, letting you effortlessly create drums, basslines, and synth leads using variable sequence lengths, unlimited variations, and more. Edit multitrack drums blazingly fast thanks to advanced transient detection, slicing, and time-stretching. -
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Hindenburg PRO
Hindenburg Systems
Hindenburg PRO is a multitrack audio editor designed for podcasters, audio producers and radio journalists. It might look like any other audio editor - but it’s not. The design and features are tailored specifically for spoken-word productions. Work smarter and faster with our easy-to-learn yet robust, field-tested audio editor designed to simplify and automate your spoken-word workflow. Innovative features solve common podcasting & radio challenges: uneven levels, noisy recordings, inconsistent voice sounds, bleeding microphones, distribution to hosts and more. Hindenburg records and edits uncompressed sound to ensure the best audio quality. With video tutorials, live webinars, a vast knowledge base and fast customer support, we’re here when you need us. But more than just support, we offer a thriving community of users who share your love for audio storytelling. Hindenburg’s focus is storytelling. Plug in your microphone and begin telling your story.Starting Price: $8.25/month -
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Nuendo
Steinberg Media Technologies
Ever since its initial release, Nuendo has been a vital tool in creating the soundtrack to many high-profile productions, products and installations. Regular updates with new features, workflow improvements and additional, user-requested functions mean that Nuendo constantly exceeds the expectations of an audio workstation dedicated to audio post, with high end — often unique — capabilities that continue an ongoing revolution in audio and media production software. -
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NoNOISE 3
soundBlade
Used by professional engineers on millions of albums from Classical to Rock, archival and historical recordings, and by forensic scientists at worldwide law enforcement and clandestine surveillance agencies, NoNOISE 3 is now available for the first time as an Audio Units, VST, and AAX plug-in. Eliminates unwanted noise while leaving the underlying audio intact. NoNOISE 3 is a 32/64-bit single-ended, broadband de-noiser. Highly effective with very few or no noticeable artifacts even at extreme user settings. NoNOISE has been recognized with Grammy®, Emmy® and Oscar® awards as well as the Mix Technology Hall Of Fame. NoNOISE is absolutely the most impressive and pristine digital audio restoration software available.Starting Price: $8.99 per month -
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ReMasterMedia
ReMasterMedia
Not to be confused with Mixing where you make the decisions on volume, EQ, reverb, limiting, noise reduction, etc to create a stereo mix; Mastering is the final enhancement to your overall mix. For the same reason major artists, advertisers & TV networks do - to deliver an audio product that meets the technical requirements of the industry, and provides a more immersive audience experience. Upload your media file(s). We accept many audio and video formats. Choose how would you like to optimize your sound by selecting among various remastering profiles. Compare original and remastered sound simply by switching profiles during playback. Select the profile you liked the most, add it to the cart and proceed to checkout. Finally download your remastered media file or zipped folder if you processed multiple files at once. Publish your audio or video clips to the appropriate online or broadcast channels as usual.Starting Price: $6,5 per month -
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iZotope Suite
iZotope
At iZotope, we’re obsessed with great sound. Our intelligent audio technology helps musicians, music producers, and audio post engineers focus on their craft rather than the tech behind it. We design award-winning software, plug-ins, hardware, and mobile apps powered by the highest quality audio processing, machine learning, and strikingly intuitive interfaces. In media production environments, where budgets are tight and timelines are even tighter, sound is often forced to take a backseat to picture. From flawed location sound to prohibitively expensive ADR to loudness requirements in final delivery, sound quality is compromised too often. iZotope products distinguish themselves by solving seemingly unsolvable audio challenges like these and doing so in a way that’s proven to save both time and money.Starting Price: $19.99 per month -
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Sonic Studio Mastering EQ
soundBlade
A Mastering EQ has to be transparent. Your clients have already spent a lot of time and resources to get the right mix; and your processing shouldn’t get in the way of that work – and your EQ should only clarify rather than color sound. And that’s exactly what Sonic Studio Mastering EQ Audio Units plug-in does – it helps you get the most out of any recording without clouding it with ‘…character’. Transparency is especially important when you need to surgically notch out offending frequencies. Sonic Studio Mastering EQ gives you the confidence to know that you’re effecting only the target frequency and nothing more. 14 Filter topologies including 1st – 4th order parametrics, shelving, band pass, notch, RIAA, Emphasis and more Metering & gain control to optimize signal level Integrated dither and word length controls Audio Units compliant.Starting Price: $8.99 per month -
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DeskFX
NCH Software
DeskFX audio enhancer software is designed for you to modify and enhance the music and audio played through your speakers and headphones, to provide you with the best possible sound experience. 1. Audio effects include equalize, amplify, reverb, chorus, wahwah, vibrato, tremolo and more. Boost the bass on your music. 2. Switch between visual, graphic or parametric equalizer modes. Create a sophisticated, customized, audio experience. 3. Suppress unwanted noise with live low and high pass filters. Apply an unlimited number of audio effects. Layer effects to create your own unique sound. 4. Intuitive interface makes it easy to customize effects. Works with Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, YouTube, streaming TV & movies, games and more.Starting Price: $29.99 -
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BounceCast
BounceCast
With BounceCast recorder you can record and trim podcasts easily, and convert any existing podcast into other audio formats. BounceCast is an intelligent digital audio app designed to record, enhance and master podcasts and video audio automatically on desktop and mobile. Based on unique and file specific real-time data analysis, the app’s smart audio processing is able to adapt to every single recording. This way the sound will be optimized for every situation and environment. Use BounceCast to produce the optimal listening experience for your audience in a fast and intuitive way. Record and master all types of speech based content fast and easy. Import and process any pre-recorded files with professional level results every single time. BounceCast is currently available for desktop. System requirements: Mac OS X 10.7 or newer. Windows 7 or newer. Record and instantly master podcasts in the studio and mobile, wherever the story takes you.Starting Price: $99 per year -
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Sequoia
Sequoia
From the recording room to the mastering desk – stability, seamless processing and innovative editing features are key to engineers worldwide. Our partners, which include Europe's most prominent broadcasters, rely on its scalable, flexible network and hardware integration. It's the details that let you work more efficiently. Sequoia 16 is all about perfecting workflows. Your business should have the best tools in audio production – welcome to the new Sequoia. Get the best-sounding algorithm for your resampling tasks right now. Go beyond stereo reverb and experience realistic space in 3D audio. Monitoring section – switch to surround and back: Create different playback routings and switch back and forth inside the box. Tab through different output choices right next to your pan knobs.Starting Price: €200 per year -
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Acoustica
Acon Digital
Acoustica 7.5 is the perfect solution for audio editing, podcast creation, mastering and audio restoration on both Mac and PC. The application is available in a Premium Edition and a lower cost Standard Edition. Both include a powerful and sample accurate clip editor that lets you navigate and edit single track audio with pristine quality. You can also create multitrack sessions where you can import or record audio clips to separate tracks that you can mix and process. The new spectral editing mode in Acoustica Premium Edition 7.5 allows precise restoration work since processing can be limited to isolated regions in time and frequency. Selection tools such as brush, freehand or magic wand are available. The retouch tool removes noise based on a freely selectable reference from the surrounding audio. Mix audio from different tracks in real-time, insert audio effects or create cross-fades easily in multitrack sessions.Starting Price: $61.12 one-time payment -
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T-RackS
Ik Multimedia
Welcome to the ultimate mixing and mastering suite for producers and studio professionals. Powerful processing and effortless mixing and mastering are just a click away. The T-RackS 5 MAX collection for Mac/PC comprises 38 superb modules that range from compressors and limiters to equalizers, channel strips, reverbs and more. All the gear has been modeled after some of the most sought-after production equipment of all time and chosen for its unique sonic character. T-RackS 5 MAX is a must-have set of tools for discerning producers, engineers, and musicians wishing to sculpt single tracks and full mixes with some of the most popular, best-selling plug-ins ever created. Not only is T-RackS MAX the superior choice when it comes to building a serious in-the-box configuration, but it is also the most cost-effective solution on the market — in other words, you get a full-fledged recording studio for a sum that won't break the bank and that is simply unrivaled.Starting Price: $499.99 one-time payment -
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soundBlade
soundBlade
soundBlade HD masses all the power and features of the soundBlade family into one complete workstation for mastering, archiving, mixing, and post-production. Includes 8/16 track production, Sonic Mastering EQ, Sonic Studio Process Batch SRC app, QuickTime interlock, LTC support and much more. All soundBlade systems are based on the renowned Sonic Studio Engine (SSE) that has been used to create millions of grammy winning, smash hit commercial releases worldwideStarting Price: $1,495 one-time payment -
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iZotope Total Balance Control
iZotope
Tonal Balance Control 2 is a plug-in designed to help audio professionals achieve balanced mixes that translate well across different playback systems. It allows users to visualize the tonal balance of their audio and compare it against 12 target curves representing popular music genres. Users can also load an audio file to create a custom reference curve. The plug-in facilitates communication with compatible iZotope plug-ins like Relay, enabling adjustments to tracks without leaving the Tonal Balance Control 2 interface. Additionally, it offers the ability to open and control EQs from Ozone and Neutron for more precise adjustments. The included iZotope Relay allows for adjustments to gain, pan, stereo image, and more, providing a lightweight mixing tool that integrates seamlessly with Tonal Balance Control 2. This integration ensures that users can view the frequencies of any track against their tonal balance target, aiding in the creation of mixes that adhere to genre standards.Starting Price: $19.99 per month -
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iZotope Ozone
iZotope
iZotope's Ozone 11 is a comprehensive mastering suite designed to elevate your audio to professional standards. It introduces new modules like clarity, which enhances definition without harshness, and stem focus, allowing precise adjustments to individual stems within a mix. The transient/sustain mode offers detailed control over the attack and releases characteristics of your audio. Ozone 11 also features an improved master assistant that utilizes AI to provide tailored starting points for your mastering process. The suite includes a range of modules such as maximizer, imager, equalizer, and dynamics, all aimed at refining your sound with precision. With its intuitive interface and advanced processing capabilities, Ozone 11 is suitable for both beginners and seasoned professionals aiming to achieve polished, release-ready tracks. Ozone includes all the tools you need to master with world-class quality.Starting Price: $29 one-time payment -
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Elevate
Newfangled Audio
Elevate is an advanced mastering plugin that combines a multi-band limiter, human-ear EQ, and audio maximizer to enhance the loudness of your mix while preserving or improving its dynamic perception. It utilizes intelligent, adaptive technology that responds in real-time to your music, ensuring not only increased loudness but also superior sound quality. The adaptive limiter analyzes 26 frequency bands, adjusting gain, speed, and transients for each band in real time, resulting in a transparent and natural sound, regardless of the applied gain. Elevate's EQ is modeled on the human ear, with 26 critical filter bands spaced to provide maximum control over how the sound interacts with your eardrum. This design allows for precise manipulation of transient attacks for individual instruments, such as kick or snare drums. The plugin also includes a spectral clipper to overdrive the final output without affecting tonal balance or introducing unwanted artifacts.Starting Price: $79 one-time payment -
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EQuivocate
Newfangled Audio
EQuivocate, developed by Newfangled Audio, is a powerful and precise equalizer designed for mixing and mastering applications. It features 26 linear-phase auditory filters modeled on the human ear's critical bands, ensuring natural and transparent sound shaping. The match EQ function allows users to match the tonal balance of one track to another, facilitating seamless integration of elements within a mix or aligning a final master to a reference track. Additional features include an EQ curve for intuitive curve creation, automatic level compensation to maintain consistent output levels, and the ability to solo individual bands for detailed frequency analysis. EQuivocate comes with artist presets from professionals, providing a solid starting point for various audio tasks. It is compatible with macOS and Windows platforms, supporting AAX, AU, VST, and VST3 formats.Starting Price: $39 one-time payment -
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Mikrotakt
Mikrotakt
Mikrotakt is an AI-powered platform designed to enhance music production and practice by providing tools for audio separation, vocal removal, noise reduction, and mastering. Users can extract vocals, acapella, guitar, piano, bass, drums, and various instruments from song or video files, producing high-quality stems quickly and efficiently. The platform offers a free trial with 20 tokens upon signup, allowing users to experience its capabilities without initial cost. Mikrotakt supports a wide range of audio and video file formats, including MP3, WAV, FLAC, and MP4, ensuring compatibility with most media files. The AI stem splitter enables the precise separation of different musical elements, facilitating remixing, practice, and educational purposes. Additionally, the AI voice cleaner reduces background noise and unwanted sounds, resulting in crystal-clear audio recordings. The AI mastering tool allows users to master their tracks efficiently, enhancing sound quality and readiness.Starting Price: €6.99 per 100 minutes -
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eMastered
eMastered
An online mastering engine that’s fast, easy to use, and sounds incredible. Made by Grammy-winning engineers, powered by AI. Our engine will make your track louder, more crisp and full of life. Upload your MP3, AIFF, or WAV file by clicking the button at the top of the home page. The song will then be sent to our online server and prepared for mastering. Our cutting edge mastering application will analyze your audio, and pick the tools it needs to make your track sound louder, crisper, and more full of life than your original. Compare the eMastered audio master to your original file for free, and download it as a WAV or MP3 with the click of a button. With a subscription plan, you can download unlimited masters per month. The eMastered engine uses machine learning to improve with every song it masters. Just like a human engineer, it builds a custom master tailored to the unique features of each song, from hip hop to EDM.Starting Price: $19 per month -
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Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain
Waves Audio
Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio plugins and signal processors for the professional and consumer electronics audio markets. Heard on hit records, major motion pictures, and popular video games worldwide, Waves’ cutting-edge software and hardware processors are used in every aspect of audio production, from tracking to mixing to mastering, broadcast, live sound, and more. A modular mastering chain plugin modeled after the EMI TG12410 Transfer Console used in all Abbey Road's mastering suites since the early '70s to this day. Use the Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain to create custom processing chains with a flexible flow and the TG magic on the master bus, or on individual tracks/groups in a mixing session. With different processing modes (Stereo/Duo/MS) and monitoring modes (Stereo/Mono/L/R/M/S), the Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain plugin is truly a powerful tool. Use it in the studio or for live sound with a dedicated Live component.Starting Price: $35.99 one-time payment -
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Acon Digital Mastering Suite
Acon Digital
Acon Digital Mastering Suite consists of five plug-ins for audio mastering that were designed for ultimate signal transparency: Dynamics is a combined compressor, expander or gate. The look-ahead can be set anywhere from 0 to 30 milliseconds and the intelligent algorithm ensures a band-limited gain signal which reduces potential distortion to a minimum even with minimal attack and release times. You can use up to 4 times oversampling to further reduce distortion. Multiband Dynamics is the multiband extension of Dynamics which allows dynamic processing in up to four separate bands. You can freely set the cross-over frequencies and even the filter slopes can be set freely in the range 6 and 48 dB per octave. Limit is a transparent limiter with intelligent look-ahead in the range 0 to 30 milliseconds that reduces distortion to a minimum. -
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Eventide Elevate
EventideAudio
Elevate is the most advanced mastering plug-in ever created. This unique multi-band limiter, human-ear EQ, and powerful audio maximizer will increase the loudness of your mix while maintaining or improving its dynamic perception. It uses intelligent, adaptive technology that responds in real-time to your music, creating not only the loudest but the best-sounding master. Developed by Newfangled Audio, Elevate maintains subtle dynamics and improves the tonal balance of your mix. The adaptive limiter analyzes 26 frequency bands and alters the gain, speed, and transients for each band in real-time. The result is a transparent, natural sound, no matter how hard you push it. Elevate utilizes 26 critical filter bands modeled from the human ear. Each of the bands is spaced to give maximum control over how the sound hits your eardrum. Draw curves, solo bands and manipulate the transient attack for each individual band to bring out particular instruments such as kick or snare drums. -
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Slate Digital
Slate Digital
Unlock your full creative potential with the world’s most sonically authentic analog-modeled plugins and microphones for mixing, mastering, music production, and more. Get inspired by thousands of custom presets, hundreds of boutique samples, and scores of creative FX processors. Access a vast collection of award-winning mixing tools. From authoritative recreations of classic analog compressors and vintage EQs to legendary consoles, it’s all here. Take your tracks from mix to streaming-ready master with industry-leading tools like the FG-X 2 plugin and the VIRTU-assisted mastering service. Academy online master classes by industry experts. Sessions and plugins included. Unlock a $100,000 locker of virtual mics (with the purchase of an ML-1 or ML-2 microphone). Academy music production courses are taught by industry legends. Get the full session, mix templates, every plugin, every sample, and every preset, compatible with all leading DAWs. -
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LANDR
MixGenius
Create, we'll do the rest. LANDR is the place to create, master and sell your music. LANDR audio mastering gives you the power of artificial intelligence and data from over 10 million mastered tracks—professional sound that fits the future of music production. Partner with LANDR and get your music on Spotify, Apple Music and every major streaming service. Monetize your music and keep 100% of your rights. Get pro plugins with affordable rent to-own plans. Try the best production tools free for 3 days. Stop or resume your plan anytime. Curated sample packs from top artists to inspire your next productions. Get the right sounds at the right time. Share tracks, leave comments and make better music with your network. Access all your music and feedback anytime, anywhere. Share, promote and grow your music with one simple link for every major streaming platform. Give your fanbase what they want no matter how they listen.Starting Price: $6 per month -
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Sound Forge
MAGIX Software
SOUND FORGE has been setting new standards in the field of digital audio production for over 20 years. The favorite tool of renowned producers worldwide, for instance Grammy award winner Ted Perlman, this legendary audio editor stands for innovation at the highest level. Originating in the USA, SOUND FORGE technology continues to be developed and optimized by MAGIX today and combines the spirit of pioneering ambition with the art of engineering precision. Powerful editing tools, ultra-fast processing and an innovative workflow – it's all offered by the audio editor SOUND FORGE. Discover a new level of audio editing with precise technology, productivity with 64-bit support and crystal-clear audio quality. Simple digitization, cleaning and restoration of audio – SOUND FORGE Audio Cleaning Lab 4 offers dedicated presets and practical 1-click solutions that are specially designed for this area of application. -
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WaveLab
Steinberg Media Technologies
Mastering is one of the most important parts of the music production process. WaveLab is a complete mastering solution, with every tool that you will ever need to cover your workflow from start to finish. With the support of a global network of mastering engineers who all use it, WaveLab is the key to making every aspect of your masters truly professional. -
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ACID Pro
MAGIX
It’s that magic moment again. You hear a song on the radio and you just can’t wait to sample or remix it. True inspiration. With ACID Pro, you will be able to sketch that idea and turn it into a finished track faster than any other DAW. Its unique workflows, innovative features and professional tools were designed specifically for loop- and sample-based music production. Compose, arrange, record, mix and master. But most importantly: be creative. Experience ACID Pro. ACID Pro 11 takes loop-based music production one step further – yet again. Since its historic invention in 1998 leading to today’s industry standard, ACID has continued to offer the most extensive options for arranging, editing and resampling audio. Countless artists have relied on ACID and its workflow to create some of the most famous compositions in IDM and EDM. ACIDized loops let you manipulate audio material and immediately get creative with stems.