Workspace timeline

The timeline forms the hulk of the AQD workspace. This is the area where the project is laid out, left to right, in chronological order. The various sounds or loops that are used to create a song are mixed together in tracks from top to bottom. There is no hierarchy to the tracks all loops that overlap vertically are mixed together to form the audio that is played back from ACID. Track order is therefore left entirely up to you and is for your own benefit. The timeline is made up of many separate parts (see Figure 1.3). 

After you ve launched ACID, from the File menu, select New (or press Ctrl + N). In the New Project dialog hox (see Figure 2.7), click the OK hutton. You are presented with the ACID workspace or user interface (UI) with an empty timeline and no tracks. 

After you have started a new project, you are presented with the ACID workspace and a completely empty timeline with no tracks on it Since events are what are mixed into a final song and events are created from media files (loops) on your computer, locating loops is the first step in creating a song. 

TuneUne—This is very similar to the timeline in the main program workspace. You can add markers and regions to a media file that will be saved with the file when you click the Save button at the top of the Track Properties window. See Chapter 3 for more information on using markers and regions in AQD. 

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