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We´re extremely excited to announce the release of 574 new loops for Mixcraft! These loops are absolutely free to all Mixcraft customers, and they´re really outstanding. They include 13 exciting new Song Kits: Breakbeat, Crunk, Drum N Bass, Electro House, Film Score, House DJ, Jungle Drum N Bass, Progressive Euro, Southern Hip Hop, Synth House, Tribal House, Underground Hip Hop, and Urban Street Mix!
For Mixcraft 3 Users: Run Mixcraft and click the Help menu, followed by Check for Updates. You must have an active internet connection to receive the loop database. For Mixcraft 4 Users: Download the latest build of Mixcraft 4, build 96. Build 96 includes several minor bug fixes, and is now more stable than ever! | ||||||
We´ve made it even easier to learn Mixcraft. Go online and watch video tutorials by HowAudio´s Jeff Dykhouse. Click here to view the Mixcraft tutorials.  |
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 After many months of hard work, we´re very excited to announce the launch of our brand new Acoustica website! The new website is easier than ever to navigate, packed full of useful information, and it's beautiful (if we do say so ourselves)! Check it out at www.acoustica.com and let us know what you think! Download the PDF of the website press release.  |
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Installing Mixcraft 4 will not interfere with Mixcraft 3. You can safely install Mixcraft 4 without affecting Mixcraft 3. Download Mixcraft 4 here. UPGRADE INFORMATIONYou can upgrade from any version of Mixcraft, MP3 Audio Mixer, Gold Bundle, Musician´s Bundle, Power Pack, Power Pack Pro, Nerd Bundle or the Insanity Pack. (Upgrade pricing depends on your previous purchase and may even be free.) Learn more on upgrading to Mixcraft 4 here. 
Mixcraft 4 is available from our website for the ridiculously low price of $64.95. Existing Mixcraft 3 users can upgrade to Mixcraft 4 for $14.95. The purchase also includes two high quality sampled quadruple strike pianos. Purchase Mixcraft 4. HELP & SUPPORTRead the manual as a PDF or browse our help online. Check out the FAQ or BBS discussion boards. |
Acoustica Newsletter, edition 46 |
In this Issue |
 We received many great entries for our patch contest, but one entry stood out as the unanimous winner. Luis Acuña of Costa Rica put together a virtual electric guitar that just screams Carlos Santana!  Q: Luis, tell us about your musical background. A: I started studying music with my grandfather, a musician and composer who taught me violin, piano and music theory since I was about 7. At 11 I entered my school´s band, and at 13 I entered Costa Rica´s Youth Symphony Orchestra. Around 1978 I got my hands on a Micromoog synthesizer. I worked with it and read about sound synthesis quite a bit. During my college years I wrote a few songs and a couple classical pieces, played keyboards with a handful of pop / rock / prog groups, and continued to study Chopin and other piano classics at home. After about 15 years doing little musically, last October I discovered Beatcraft and Mixcraft and retook composing and recording. And a couple of months ago I joined an old guys´ rock group (average age 49), where we play classic rock covers. My "studio" is simply my home office, with a simple midi keyboard plugged to my computer. I usually program the percussion with Beatcraft, record the other instruments with Mixcraft through the midi keyboard, and then touch-up the midi clips with the editing facilities in Mixcraft. Q: How did you come up with your Santana-style guitar patch? A: I wanted to make a latin-rock version of Silent Night, so I started playing with Mixcraft´s latin rock loops, to make sketches, to get ideas.. I studied Santana for several weeks, rented videos, listened to his music while taking notes. When I realized that there was no sound in Mixcraft even close to Santana´s guitar, I decided to make it myself. I began with a clean guitar sound, but couldn´d decide between jazz guitar and funk guitar, so after trying each I decided to mix them both. I also went to Santana´s web site to learn about his gear, and settled on the Voxengo amp simulator, a distortion box and a compressor. While polishing up the patch I realized it was more logical to put the distortion first, the compressor second and the amp last, and got a better sound that way. --- Luis´s guitar patch is now part of Mixcraft 4! Download Build 96, and you´ll find the patch under Distorted Guitar, called Black Magic Guitar. Thanks Luis, and enjoy your new M-Audio Oxygen 61! |
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