I mean, what! Frankly, people, this is all a bit of a palaver and the loops should have been installed simply and automatically. The loop collection installers even demand that you select between a Standard and Custom installation in spite of the fact that no custom installation is actually available (I tried it – it wasn’t there). Having downloaded these (it takes hours on a slow connection like mine) you then have to run no less than seven installation programs, each of which prompts you to click through several dialogs to accept installation settings and licence terms. Finally I discovered that I had to download loops via the Help menu.

But when I did that I just got advertising for other MAGIX products. The help system told me to click a ‘ Get Media from the Web’ button. The only problem was that I couldn’t find them.

According to the ACID web site, the software comes with 9GB of new ACIDized loops. …um, well, actually that was the first problem I encountered. You just pick instruments such as guitars, organs or drums and…

These clips may take the form of pre-recorded ‘loops’ – fragments of music that can be seamlessly joined together to create a score. Essentially, it lets you compose and arrange music on multitrack timelines by adding clips one beneath the other. It falls into a category of software known as a Digital Audio Workstation or ‘DAW’. ACID Pro 8 – the interface has been given a spruce up.

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