Mixcraft 4 - Detailed Features

Mixcraft™ 4 Detailed Features

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 95, 98, ME, NT, 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.

Acid is a trademark of Sony Corporation of America. Apple & Garage Band are trademarks of Apple, Inc. VST and ASIO are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies, GmbH. DirectX is a trademark of Microsoft. FlexAudio is a trademark of Acoustica, Inc.