Edit the DXIgnore.ini file that"s in your Acoustica Mixcraft folder and add the word waves to it. Your DXIgnore.ini file is located in C:\Program Files\Acoustica Mixcraft 4\ Be sure to save the file as a plain text file called DXIgnore.ini (don"t change the .ini extension). Now...

The "Classic" effects do not work on sounds that are played back at a sample rate lower than 44,100 Hz. If you are rendering to a very low quality MP3 file and suddenly do not hear the effects, try rendering to a .WAV at 44,100 Hz first. Then load in the .WAV and render to the low quality...

Mixcraft has two files, which you can edit to exclude effects from loading. These files are located in your Mixcraft directory, which defaults to C:\Program Files\Acoustica Mixcraft 4 DXIgnore.ini - DirectX effect ignore list VSTIgnore.ini - VST effect ignore list Simply open or double...

VST effects are actually .DLL files. Download and install your VST file (.DLL) into your VST folder and then restart Mixcraft. Your new VST effect should now be in the effect drop down lists. If you don"t know where your VST folder is, you can create a new one and then add it in the VST...

Some sound cards or USB devices have a way to monitor the live recording independent of Mixcraft. However, if you"d like to hear the effects during recording, you"ll need to disable the sound device"s monitoring and use Mixcraft"s monitoring system. For example, if you are making a weird...

This error indicates that a third-party DirectX plugin is not loading properly. The easiest fix is turning off the loading of DirectX effects: In Mixcraft, click on the File menu and select Preferences. In the Miscellaneous preferences, turn off the "Load DirectX Effects" option. If you...

Some effects plugins don't report the amount of latency they are creating to the host program (Mixcraft, in this case). Voxengo has created a free plugin that can help with this. It's called Latency Delay, and you can download it from one of the following links: http://www.voxengo.com/product...

 There are several different pitch-shifting or vocorder plugins available. The most famous, and perhaps the most widely used by professionals, is Antares Autotune. The unique, slightly robotic singing voice sound you can produce with Autotune first became famous in Cher's hit Believe, in...

A couple of customers have reported that they were unable to load Mixcraft 4 project files into Mixcraft 5 if the projects had certain Waves VST plugins. The workaround is to load the project into Mixcraft 4, remove the plugins, save the project, load it into MIxcraft 5 and load the plugins back...

When an Antares Auto-Tune is initially loaded, it detects the sample rate of the sound on the track. If you change the sample rate, or mix down to a different sample rate, the timing might be off, or the key might change. To avoid this problem, make sure that you mix down using the same sample...