User Guide

CHP. 1 INTRODUCING ACID
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What’sThis? help
What’sThis? help allows you to view pop-up window descriptions for ACID menus, buttons, and dialog
boxes. Choose
What's This? from the Help menu, press , or click the What’sThis? help button ( ) on
the toolbar and then click any ACID item. To use What’sThis? help in a dialog box, click the question mark
button ( ) in the upper-right corner of the dialog box and then click an item in the dialog box.
Help on the Web
Additional ACID help and information is available on the Sonic Foundry Web site. Choose Sonic Foundry
on the Web
from the Help menu to view a listing of Web pages pertaining to ACID and Sonic Foundry. If
your browser is not already open, ACID will automatically start it for you.
Overview of ACID
ACID is designed to be a powerful and flexible, but easy-to-use music creation application. Many of the
ACID operations, menu items, and shortcut keys are common to other Sonic Foundry applications.
The following sections provide a tour of the ACID work area.
Main interface
The work area includes three main areas: the track list, the track view (or timeline), and the window
docking area. The other parts of the interface are tools and features used while creating and working with
your project. You can resize the track list, track view, and window docking area by dragging the dividers
between them.
Shift +F1
Track list
Window
docking
area
Divider
Track view
Divider