Program like Acid Pro for Macs??

This isn't really about Garage Band, but I figured someone here may be able to help me out. I'm new to macs, just picked up an intel imac and I was wondering if anyone knows of any programs that are very similar to Acid Pro, which is only available on windows. Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Chris

Hey Chris!
Welcome to a Mac!
If I remember correctly Acid is primarily loop based right? Have you tried Garage Band and it's not what you need? Or are you just looking to get something like Acid on your Mac? I'm not sure what would be your specific Acid replacement...but if you haven't tried Garage Band then maybe you can play around a little with it? Garage Band has a large selection of included loops. The next step up would be Logic Express:
http://www.apple.com/logicexpress/
If you have tried Garage Band and it's not what you need then I'm not sure what to recommend right now but maybe someone else help out and make a recommendation?
Reg

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