Acoustica Mixcraft
Acoustica MixcraftWith Mixcraft Virtual Instrument support and unbelievable professional instrument collection, you can turn your computer into an entire music production facility with the addition of a simple, inexpensive USB music keyboard or MIDI keyboard.

Mixcraft is deceptively simple. It will appeal to the novice who requires easy-to-use software and at the same time meets the criteria for the seasoned professional that wants an elegant but powerful interface.

Clear, colorful, and intelligently designed interface to streamline your work, Custom loop library includes hundreds of royalty-free sounds in dozens of musical styles, Works with Acid™ and Apple Garage Band™ loops, Record multiple MIDI and audio tracks simultaneously, Piano roll to view and edit MIDI, Includes a General MIDI library, two sampled grand pianos, Hammond B-3™ emulator, MiniMoog™ emulator and a polyphonic synthesizer, Includes 18 high quality effects, Create mega presets that layer and split multiple virtual synthesizers and effects, Add unlimited VSTi™ instruments, VST™ and DirectX™effects, Mix down to MP3, WAV and other audio file types, Burn CDs of your mix with just one click and more.

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Mixcraft™ allows you to record and mix like the best producers and DJs at just a fraction of the price. It’s designed to be fast and ‘user manual-agnostic’.

Focus on your creativity and not on technical details! Many users have found that they rarely need to use the help file. Cut, paste, edit and shape your sounds the way you want! Use built in effects like reverb, flanger or EQ or install a variety of DirectX or VST effects to add tremelo, distortion, chorus or even remove the vocals from a song!

This flexible software can be used in many ways, from recording your first solo album, remixing a song mash-up, pod-casting, editing commercials or even making a production for your daughter’s dance or gymnastic recital! You can even export your mix to MP3, WMA, OGG or WAV, or simply burn it on a CD!

Mixcraft video overview

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Main Features

  • Clear, colorful, and intelligently designed interface to streamline your work.
  • Custom loop library includes hundreds of royalty-free sounds in dozens of musical styles.
  • Works with Acid™ and Apple Garage Band™ loops.
  • Record multiple MIDI and audio tracks simultaneously.
  • Piano roll to view and edit MIDI.
  • Includes a General MIDI library, two sampled grand pianos, Hammond B-3™ emulator, MiniMoog™ emulator and a polyphonic synthesizer.
  • Includes 18 high quality effects.
  • Create mega presets that layer and split multiple virtual synthesizers and effects.
  • Add unlimited VSTi™ instruments, VST™ and DirectX™ effects.
  • Mix down to MP3, WAV and other audio file types.
  • Burn CDs of your mix with just one click.

Sound Engine

  • Wave (WDM), ASIO™ and Vista's WaveRT low latency audio support.
  • MIDI input and output support. Will work with any USB MIDI keyboard or any keyboard connected to a MIDI interface.
  • Support for VSTi ™ virtual instruments. Bundled virtual instruments include:
    • MinimogueVA classic analog synthesizer recreation.
    • VB3 Organ virtual tonewheel organ with rotary speaker emulator.
    • Impulse polyphonic analog synthesizer.
    • Acoustica Instruments, a large collection of high quality multi-sampled instruments organized in General MIDI format.
    • Acoustica Grand Piano and Acoustica Classical Piano, ultra-professional 250 Megabyte quadruple-strike sampled grand pianos.
  • 32 bit sound engine supports recording and playback of broadcast quality audio up to 192 kHz and 32 bits.
  • Time stretch any sound from 25% to 400% with FlexAudio™ without affecting the pitch! No chipmunks!
  • Pitch shift sounds from -24 to +12 semitones!
  • Use an unlimited number of tracks and effects.
  • Automatically detects beats points, keys and tempos of imported songs.
  • Import WAV, AIF, OGG, WMA, and MP3 files!
  • 18 powerful, built-in, effects including reverb, delay, EQ, compressor, flanger, chorus, distortion, auto filter, master limiter, phaser and a guitar amp simulator.
  • Shape each sound's volume, pan and resonant filters with unlimited envelope points.
  • Support for DirectX™ & VST™ effects, including plug-in delay compensation.

Interface

  • Edit any sound to make a loop. Pick sections of prerecorded songs and extract and perfect loops for remixing. Adjust loop points to visual beat marks.
  • Edit MIDI data in the piano roll editor. Perfect MIDI loops by adjusting the loop points. Edit notes and controller information.
  • Create mega presets which combine multiple virtual instruments and effects. Set the key range, velocity sensitivity, transposition, pan and volume for each instrument.
  • Load in standard MIDI files.
  • Add your own photos or images to each track header.
  • Edit each track's color, size and position in a variety of ways.
  • Intuitive design and keyboard controls for quick work flow.
  • Work in beats / measures mode or in time mode.
  • Adjust the snap to grid setting which allows you to work and edit in whole notes, quarter notes, etc.
  • Split, cut, copy, delete and paste sounds with ease.
  • Easily move sounds around with drag and drop or via the keyboard.
  • Cross fade sounds automatically by visually overlapping them.
  • Create precise, custom loops extracted from existing songs.

System Requirements

  • Windows XP, or Vista.
  • 512 MB Ram (2 GB RAM recommended).
  • 1.0 Ghz CPU ( 2 Ghz Dual Core recommended).
  • Sound card or sound device.
  • Display resolution @ 800 x 600 (1024 x 768 or greater recommended).
  • Optional MIDI keyboard.

Interface

 

Mixcraft is extremely versatile and can be used as DJ remix loop software or as a stand alone multi track audio recording program for your band. It's designed to be easy to use and allows you to work fast so you can get the job done!

 

Mixcraft supports full undo and redo, so if you make a mistake, just undo it!

 

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Loop & Sound Library

 

Mixcraft comes includes dozens of styles and hundreds of built-in loops and sound effects. All loops automatically beat match for effortless song creation! All sounds and loops can be used royalty free!

 

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Loop Editor


Create loops from any sound or song. View detected beats and tempos for any song over 30 seconds!

Mixcraft Sound-tab

Virtual Instruments


Choose from hundreds of presets and patches made up of virtual instruments that model the sounds of classic synthesizers or General MIDI pianos, trumpets, or strings. Create powerful mega-presets that combine multiple virtual synthesizers and effects! Plug in a MIDI keyboard and start playing!

Mixcraft Effects and Instruments

MIDI Piano Roll Editor


Edit your MIDI recordings with your mouse. Trim, resize and fix notes and controller information!

Mixcraft Midi Piano roll editor

Custom Tracks

 

Each track in Mixcraft is highly customizable! Include your own images or choose from stock images bundled with Mixcraft. Pick a color and name for each track and resize tracks for improved editing!


Mixcraft Custom Tracks

Editing Sounds

 

Shape the individual volume, pan, low and high pass filters for each sound. Split, trim, time stretch, beat match, or pitch shift any sound. Copy, paste and loop your audio to your heart's content.


Mixcraft Sound Editing

Effects

 

In addition to the 16 bundled effects, Mixcraft supports VST and DirectX sound effects. Mixcraft's effects include delay, reverb, compressor, limiter, phaser, auto-filter and master limiter. If we don't have the effect you are looking for, search the web for free sound effects!


Vst Directx Effects

Burn and Audio CD

 

When you are done, burn a CD or mix it down to MP3 to pod cast it or send it to friends! So, what are you waiting for? Download a free trial of Acoustica Mixcraft or purchase it today!


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Reviews from Amazon



So, you have to choose between modern Midi /Sequencing software and the landscape is strewn with heavy-weight contenders. What to do?

If you are not going to need scoring features and are actually on a budget- and more importantly - don't want to spend 2 months and 934 curses to try to learn a "totally new concept in software", then Acoustica's Mixcraft 4 is the EASY best choice. You know when you work with good musicians, they are good because they are "musical"..not robotic? Mixcraft is musical. It is chock-full of amazingly musical sample loops in dozens of styles. It has incredibly deep and satisfying virtual instruments..tons of them. It handles VST instruments -free all over the web. It does midi real easy and records off of USB audio streams from a synth or USB audio digitizer. It has lots of internal effects too.

You will literally be making killer songs the first night. They can be all yours, or all theirs. This package is exactly what the normal home musician needs. It replaces thousands of dollars worth of hardware. My 16 track Akai HD recorder is now totally superfluous. You will need at least a Dual-Core processor and 1GB ram. I am running it on my Acer Netbook and it actually still does just fine. With a better PC, you can layer Canyon-deep sounds..and create beautiful music.

Look at the price. It is a joke for what you receive. If I had ripped this software, I would have bought the downloaded version in two days. These guys have created a spot-on masterpiece and priced it as a bargain-basement deal.

Get it..and be making music..not beating your head against some 300 page manual.


"I am a professional pianist/keyboardist of over 29 years. Mixcraft is awesome. I wanted software that was of great quality, and very easy to use. I have tried Cakewalk Sonar Producer Edition 5, and 6, but their software got in the way of the creative process by being to complicated. Mixcraft has all the others beat for being able to lay down tracks quickly and easily with just the right editing tools to make a professional recording. Keep it up Mixcraft, ROCK ON!"
Tony Stanley

"I have used Mixcraft and Beatcraft in hundreds of lessons over the past few months. First off, I have had no down time or funky/unexplained crashes since I initially set it up. That reliability is SO important! As a Music Instructor at Streetwise Music in Indian Trail NC, I find the included 'Jam Tracks' alone have added value to my work. I can load a jam track, plug my student into another track and we ROCK! At the end of the lesson, they can load their recorded MP3 onto a CD or a memory stick and judge their progress for themselves. I have had several of my students download the trial and just rave about the product whenever we are in a lesson...in fact, I just looked, and some of my students are on your MySpace page! Thank you for making such an awesome and reliable solution for a busy music instructor and an easy to use, inexpensive program for anyone who would like to experience computer recording. Best Regards, Jim Hickey."
Jim Hickey
Charlotte/Indian Trail, NC

"Mixcraft is a great piece of software; the best you'll ever get for the price, and probably better than a lot of more expensive "professional" programs. I'm basically a one girl band; singing, guitars, piano...so I needed software that could overlay several recordings. I stumbled upon Mixcraft and I love it, all I need now is Beatcraft to put the finishing touches to my recordings. Mixcraft is powerful but simple to use, gives you good effects options and once again...it's cheap! If I'm ever famous for my music it's down to you."
Raven
NW England


Mixcraft is very easy to use, and it is so much fun. Very simple interface, MIDI, multiple tracks, effects, loops, etc. This is the easiest program for beginners, in my opinion, and has such a full feature set that it is worth the money and then some. I would go with this over Ableton, Sony Acid, or any of the other programs, for beginners and moderate experienced users.


Although I'm fairly inexperienced when it comes to recording (I've only been using Audacity and Sony Acid Xpress for about 2 years), this software seems like an incredible deal for the price. I've used it a bit since I purchased it a few weeks ago and I am very impressed. Definitely worth you money.
 

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Acoustica Mixcraft 5 is an affordable multi-track audio and MIDI recording studio that enables you to compose original music, record your band, create a podcast, or remix a song. Use it as a multi-track recorder or as a music loop remix program. As a multi-track audio recording program, Mixcraft allows you to record and play multiple tracks of audio and MIDI virtual instruments at the same time.

Add effect processing such as reverb, delay, guitar amp simulator, flanger or any 3rd party VST or DirectX effects. Hook up a MIDI keyboard and you can play a whole studio full of virtual synthesizers! As remix software, it supports Apple Loops, Acid Loops and custom loop format. Mixcraft's Song Kits allow you to create your own song in dozens of styles to sing along or rap to. Creating your own loop or extracting a loop from a well known song is a few clicks away.

With Mixcraft, you can always be on the beat! New V4 features include: MIDI editing, Virtual instruments, and Support for WaveRT low latency audio on Vista. When you've finished your project, mix down your music to CD or MP3 directly in Mixcraft! Even with all this power, Acoustica engineers have kept the design easy-to-use and clean. Visually time stretch sounds with FlexAudio Includes 16 ultra-high quality effects Mix down to MP3, WAV, and other audio file types Burn CDs of your mix with just one click


Creating professional recordings of live performances had required a studio with large mixing equipment. Acoustica Mixcraft 5 is the latest edition of the popular Mixcraft software series that brings the professional studio power to your home computer. Mixcraft 5 is a powerful yet easy-to-use multitrack recording studio that enables you to record audio, arrange loops, remix tracks, compose with virtual instruments, score and edit video, and add effects to create stunningly professional compositions. Easy enough for everyone and powerful enough for the pros. Get a studio for a song with Mixcraft 5!



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Acoustica Mixcraft Printed Manual provides all instructions you will need to master Acoustica Mixcraft, from Important Sound Setup Information and Quick Start to many How Tos.

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Acoustica Musician's Bundle combines multi-track audio recording, sampling and drum kit tools into a full-featured music production suite. With these tools you can mix, record & edit music, create pod casts, add effects & more! Lay down great beats and give your songs the power & energy that makes hits. Create your own loop or extract a loop from a well known song, in just a few clicks. The Acoustica Musician's Bundle does it all!

  • Mixcraft enables you to record your band, create a podcast, create mash-ups or remix a song. Add effect processing such as reverb, delay, flanger or any 3rd party VST or DirectX effects. Mix down your recording to CD or MP3 directly in Mixcraft. No need to dust off your old four track recorder! With Mixcraft, you can always be on the beat!
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