Acoustica Mixcraft 5 Audio MIDI Music Recording Software

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Mixcraft 5 is a powerful yet easy-to-use multi-track 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!

Features

• Record and create an unlimited number of audio and MIDI tracks
• Arrange and score video files, adding music, sound effects, and voice-overs with ease
• Includes over 3000 professionally produced music loops and sound effects in dozens of popular styles
• Includes a large collection of virtual instruments, ranging from modelled vintage synths to high-quality sampled acoustic instruments
• Includes 22 high-quality effects, ranging from studio standards such as reverb, chorus and EQ, to high-end guitar amp simulators vintage tube EQs, and more

Highlights

3000+ music loops, sound effects, and music beds. View larger.

Loops & Sound Effects

Mixcraft includes over 3000 music loops, sound effects, and music beds that can be easily drag-and-dropped into your project. Combine drum, bass, and guitar loops with synth, organ, pianos, vocals, orchestral and percussion loops to create your own custom arrangement. Set the tempo and key of your choice, and the loops will automatically adjust. Mixcraft supports Acid and Garage Band loops too.

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Virtual Instruments & Effects

Mixcraft 5 offers 8 powerful virtual instruments, including the Acoustica Instruments General MIDI sample library, Acoustica Expanded Instruments sample library, Lounge Lizard Session vintage electric piano, VB3 tonewheel organ, MiniMogueVA monophonic analog synthesizer, Messiah polyphonic analog synthesizer, Alien303 Bass Synthesizer, and Impulse polyphonic analog synthesizer.

Mixcraft 5 includes 22 high-quality effects, including the Pultronic Tube EQ, which models the classic tube equalizer found in studios throughout the world, and the Shred Amp Simulator, a complete suite of 5 classic amp heads, 17 cabinet models, and 6 powerful effects.

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Video Scoring & Editing

Load and edit video files with ease. Easily cross-fade from one video clip to another. Remix the audio, add a soundtrack, and effortlessly render your video project to popular formats for creating your own DVDs or uploading to YouTube and other popular internet video sites.

Detailed Information

Main Features

• Improved graphics and visual effects give Mixcraft 5 a sharp, polished and professional look.
• Custom loop library includes over 3000 royalty-free sounds in dozens of musical styles. Over 1000 new loops, including the following song kits: 70's Funk, Cool Jazz, Surf Rock, Reggae, and Vegas Rock.
• Works with Acid and Apple Garage Band loops.
• Record multiple MIDI and audio tracks simultaneously.
• Piano roll to view and edit MIDI.
• Notation tools allow you to create, edit, and print your MIDI data in familiar music notation format.
• 8 powerful virtual instruments, including the Acoustica Instruments General MIDI sample library, Acoustica Expanded Instruments sample library, Lounge Lizard Session vintage electric piano, VB3 tonewheel organ, MiniMogueVA monophonic analog synthesizer, Messiah polyphonic analog synthesizer, Alien303 Bass Synthesizer, and Impulse polyphonic analog synthesizer.
• 22 high quality effects, including the Pultronic Tube EQ, which models the classic tube equalizer found in studios throughout the world, and the Shred Amp Simulator, a complete suite of 5 classic amp heads, 17 cabinet models, and 6 powerful effects.
• Create mega presets that layer and split multiple virtual synthesizers and effects.
• Add unlimited VSTi instruments, VST and DirectX effects.

Sound Engine

• Wave (WDM), ASIO, WaveRT, and WaveRT Exclusive Mode low latency audio support.
• WaveRT Exclusive Mode (available in Windows 7) provides ultra-low-latency, solid audio performance on most audio hardware without any special sound card drivers. With WaveRT Exclusive Mode, Mixcraft can now interface directly with the audio hardware, bypassing the operating system for truly stunning audio performance.
• MIDI input and output support. Will work with any USB MIDI keyboard or any keyboard connected to a MIDI interface.
• 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.
• Pitch shift sounds from -24 to +12 semitones!.
• Use an unlimited number of tracks, instruments, and effects.
• Automatically detects beat locations, keys and tempos of imported songs.
• Import WAV, AIF, OGG, WMA, and MP3 files!
• Every sound clip now features noise reduction technology. Mixcraft 5 will automatically find and analyze a section of noise, and you can reduce the noise level or eliminate it entirely.

Interface

• New Automation features provide automated control of all parameters in any VST effect, VSTi instrument, or Acoustica effect. All tracks can contain an unlimited number of automation curves on an unlimited number of effects and instruments. In addition, you can even automate the track volume & panning, and more.
• The Master Track allows you to smoothly automate the global effects parameters and master volume, for smooth and easy fade-ins and fade-outs for your mixes.
• Send Tracks (aka Auxiliary Busses) let you route audio from multiple Audio Tracks and Virtual Instrument Tracks to a single set of audio effects. For example, use one reverb effect on multiple tracks. Audio can be routed both pre-fader and post-fader to the Send Tracks, and effects on the Send Tracks can all be easily automated.
• Powerful Mixer Interface provides a convenient and familiar interface for mixing a project. Complete with easy access to volume, pan, mute, and solo controls, as well as effects and instrument dialogs, our Mixer Interface also includes a 3-band EQ on every track, so you can get every instrument fitting perfectly into the mix.
• Recording Count-In feature, which can be turned on and off in Mixcraft's time display, tells Mixcraft's metronome to count for several measures before recording begins. The length of the count-in is user-adjustable, between 1 and 32 measures.
• The new Mix To New Audio Track (aka Bouncing) feature allows you to mix down an Audio Track or Virtual Instrument Track, complete with all effects and automation, to a new audio track. This is a great one-click method to save CPU or "lock in" the edits and effects that have been applied to a track.
• Undock the details tabs and move them around the screen, or onto a second monitor. Maximize the details tabs window for full-screen MIDI editing, mixing, access to the loop library, and more!
• Edit any sound to make a loop. Pick sections of prerecorded songs and extract loops for remixing.
• Adjust loop points to visual beat marks.
• Link audio, MIDI, and video clips together so they'll select and move as a group.

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Additional Screenshots

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Bass Synthesizer. View larger.

Pultronic Tube EQ. View larger.

Lounge Lizard Session. View larger.

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