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Acoustica Mixcraft 4 | 
| From: Acoustica
Category: Software
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 3811
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
UPC: 649241837053
EAN: 0649241837053
ASIN: B000OU4ENA
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| Features:
| • | Clear, colorful, and intelligently designed interface to streamline your work | | • | Custom loop library includes hundreds of royalty-free sounds and loops | | • | Works with Acid and Apple Garage Band Loops | | • | Add unlimited tracks and effects (including VST and DirectX effects) | | • | Record multiple tracks simultaneously |
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Product Description
Acoustica Mixcraft 4 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
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Not as user friendly as advertised January 7, 2010
Get Real, Butthead (Way-out, MT United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm old school, as in trained on mutlitrack tape recording live classical & acoustic performances. While this software is great for the techno-geek with electronica in every corner of the studio, this is not user friendly, has poor edit functions, and has a built-in "auto-shutdown" mechanisim that's a real pain in the you-know-what.
When trying to edit pre-recorded performances -ie, from analog tape or digital sources, I cannot find any instructions on mixing, editing, and combining tracks into a seamless finished recording. The instructions are written for metered, digital loops, not continuous playing tracks.
So, in all, if you record and mix/master "loops" and little songs, this software is excellent. But, if you're working with a piano concerto, I'd rethink purchasing this product.
 Mixcraft 4 - excellent value January 6, 2010
Graham Smith
Very easy to learn and use. I was able to get great results straight away. For the price it beats the more expensive software packages hands down. If I was professional I might consider the expensive ones, but for the home musician this is perfect.
 Satisfied December 31, 2009
Cartoonist Kid (Salt Lake City, UT USA)
The product arrived in excellent condition and in a timely manner and served it's purpose well.
Updated Review: Mixcraft Upgrade gets additional stars December 9, 2009
Melissa Conway (Washington)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm upping my estimation of the product (from two stars for Mixcraft 4, to four stars for the latest version) because even though the software is buggy (in my experience, what software isn't?), it's got so much potential if you stick with it and accept its limitations (whatever they happen to be with your OS and computer capabilities).
There were two problems I experienced:
1.) Even after upgrading to Windows 7 and then Mixcraft 5 with all its cool new features, I still could not use Mixcraft's piano roll editor (see original review, below) without eventually crashing, corrupting my entire file and wasting many hours. However, I'd already invested so much money and effort into the software I decided to continue on with the usable features (which really ARE cool and user-friendly).
2.) I had to buy a microphone other than the Logitech that made me sound like I was singing into a tin can, so I got a Q1U USB Dynamic Recording Mic. I will not go deeply into the enormous frustration I experienced trying to find the right combination of Mixcraft driver/latency/buffer preferences in order to prevent the popping/breaking/lagging I got when I tried to add vocals to my instrumentals with the Samson. Suffice it to say, I spent hours attempting just about everything Acoustica, Dell, Microsoft and Samson advised and it was still a no go. There are just too many things to take into consideration when using products not specifically made to work with each other, and I felt like only an expert in both computers and mixing software could possibly understand it. The conceptual learning curve, if you're a novice like me, is steep.
(I did come up with an acceptable work-around, the details of which are at whimsilly on blogger, as is the song I made, in case you'd like to hear what a novice can do with this software and a little persistence!)
Despite the problems I experienced, I really enjoyed playing with all the loops, and my final product (the song) is more than satisfactory. If you are looking for software to create royalty-free background music for your project (that's why I got it), this is the product for you.
Original review for Mixcraft version 4
All of the rave reviews about Mixcraft are true. The product is easy to use and does a lot for the money. My OS was Vista 32-bit, however, and whenever I tried to use the instrument track to create a piano tune, my computer crashed. I contacted Mixcraft support and they were perfectly patient and tried to be helpful, but after weeks of back and forth with "does it do this when you do this?" and "try doing this and let us know what happens" I started to feel like a beta-tester, and got highly frustrated at losing all of my musical creations as they became corrupt after each crash. Nothing solved the problem, so in desperation, I upgraded to Windows 7. Now Mixcraft crashes at random. I would rate it much higher if not for the fact that the software obviously isn't fully compatible with Vista or W7.
This Program Is Unbelievable..!!!!!!! November 10, 2009
George Martin
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Out of all the programs I have used over the past ten years for ease of use and veriety of intraments and loops, at the price they are asking. This program out shines them all. I am blown away with what this program has to offer. I am currently using pro-tools 8 and I paid $299.00 for it. this offers just as much at a fraction of the cost. And you can almost operate it blind folded with both hands tied behind your back. It's just that simple.....Increadible.!!!!!!!!
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