Mixcraft 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 Acoustica's own 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. When you've finished your project, mix down your music to CD or MP3 directly in Mixcraft.

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, 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.

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Reviews of USB Audio Interfaces

New in v6.1b201

• Added more compatibility for plugins such as Garritan
• Library fix for importing sound from track.
• Bulletproofing various rare crash cases
• Force correct extension when mixing down to avi or wmv
• Library loops now preview forever (Or at least a long time)
• Added the 31 band presets
• Temporarily removed MIDI routing from FX dialog on Virtual Instrument track
• Default wavert format is now stereo
• No longer add our own FX to VSTIgnore.ini file
• Various other bugfixes

New in v6.0b188

• Fix for automation recording on the Acoustica Effects.
• Made text white on Acoustica Effects for better visibility.
• Bulletproofing based user crash records.
• Installer was setting the wrong library path.
• Mixcraft 6 was not copying Mixcraft 5 settings over on the initial run.

New in v6.0b185

• Bugfix for library crash
• Bugfix for ReWire support.
• Bugfix for trim silence
• Bugfix for buggy VST handling
• Language updates

New in v6

• New interface & artwork.
• ReWire support.
• Submix tracks for grouping tracks together.
• Output busses, can be routed to multiple output devices. Can now add/remove output tracks for multi-out virtual instruments.
• Multiple lanes for tracks (including multiple MIDI channels).
• Loop recording mode with multiple takes.
• Route MIDI track data to audio plug-ins.
• Mixer re-design.
• New virtual instruments (ComboV & ComboF organs, Acoustica Studio Drums).
• Control surface support for transport & plug-in controls.
• Support for VSTs with multiple outputs.
• Video transitions, automation, text & titles, still image importing.
• Improved quantize and other new MIDI processing tools.
• Built-in guitar tuner on every audio track.
• Improvements to loop library including loop importing & search.
• Live automation recording.
• Option to mix down all individual tracks for exporting project to another DAW.
• Drum maps in the piano roll interface.
• Insert/Remove time from project.
• Ability to draw selection in the timeline (to select data in all tracks).
• Improved time signature support.
• Effect chain presets.
• Phase reverse option on audio clips.
• Faders & meters now logarithmic when in dB mode, MX6 now defaults to dB mode.
• Automation creation of new project folder for each project.
• Backup file created every time a project is saved.
• Auto-rewind to playback start preference added (on by default).
• Reverse audio clip feature.
• Major improvements to MIDI editing, piano roll.
• Ability to arm MIDI tracks for a specific MIDI device.

New in v5.2

• Restoring automation for VSTs and VSTis was not working in b151.
• Duplicating a track was duplicating effects in their default state in b151
• Left trim was introducing error ever so slightly.
• Now loading VSTs that do not have a main() and now load plugins that also have a VSTPluginMain()
• Pressing stop at the end of low latency recording no longer pauses audio mixing, causing bad noises
• Fixed mixed sample rate drifting over time
• Added optimization for large amounts of minor automation changes
• Fixed problem with audio suddenly not looping in loop playback mode
• Fixed problem with bouncing tracks when one audio clip is entirely inside another audio clip
• Previewed audio clips now play back at the correct project time
• Frozen tracks no longer processing track automation
• Fix for missing files in ZIP archive
• Repaired saving & loading of audio files using relative file path
• Fixed serious crash when automation pane referenced wrong effect index
• Fix for sounds failing to change tempo properly when over-lapped
• Fix for positioning caret with snap to measure set in some time