Mixcraft 8 Pro -- early days yet, but a nice surprise so far

[jonljacobi]

I like the way everything works in Mixcraft. It just needs sexing up.

[THE INTRANCER]

I like the way everything works in Mixcraft. It just needs sexing up.

I did some sexing up of Studio One's GUI by reskinning it with a third party app, that's beyond the realms of Mixcraft 8 I think to really help. I'll have a look at the files with the installation folder to see if there's a config file to change things. I suspect the graphics for the program are encrypted and compiled within the .exe itself, than openly editable..but it's worth a look to see if anything can be improved by the user to make it nicer.

Edit that:

There is icons and such like one can change openly, so I can fix the things wrong with it that I mentioned, like the silver strips. Not sure about the text elements though. Eeek...it's akin to having to skin for Reaper with all these icons. There's over 1600 gui icons in one folder alone Customising Mixcraft looks like it's not for the faint hearted lol, little wonder they've not done it to the fullest.

[lingyai]

FWIW

http://www.anthonyshomestudio.com/2018/ ... craft.html

[tapper mike]

Can't believe I didn't see this thread before.

Awhile back I decided I needed a new daw. I researched about ten of them. Decided on Mixcraft 7 and have since upgraded to Mixcraft Pro 8.

One small pet peeve

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You can assign multiple instruments to a single channel for stacking... but you can't assign them by midi channel only range/velocity split. While you can record multiple midi tracks simultaneously it's kind of a pain to set up. I like doing midi stacks (like Korg Combi's) with separate instruments on separate channels.


That being said.... I love Mixcraft Pro 8 studio for a wide variety of reasons. Number one... I'm old. You can use it like most of the daw's I have used in the past with little to no learning curve. The extended library is fine for most of my needs and they have acoustica specialized synth type rompler sounds with no fuss no muss. I hate spending hours tweaking synths virtual or hardware trying to dial in a sound. Usually I just try to find a preset and work from there.

Yes they do have freebie plugins. Imho. They are the best of the freeware the marked has to offer. Mixcraft 8 pro includes limited versions of Celemony Melodyne and Izotope mastering essentials. They are perfect for me. You can warp beats and adjust pitch just fine with the limeted version of melodyne. Izotope multi-band compression is great not only as a mastering tool but also to tighten up drum and bass parts.


Mixcraft 8 advances the performance (live session view) with the fact that now you can record inside the live view. That's a time saver as before you would need to record in standard timeline view and then add the loop to the performance panel. I find none of the constant issues I've had in AB Live present in Mixcraft.

Acoustica Mixcraft isn't Abelton Live. My main midi control surface is ... Launchpad Pro. While I can't get the easy every feature I need at a moment from LP Pro in Mixcraft as I can in Live I can still access the major features via going through the setup button and then going back (notes, performance, cues etc)

I was a huge fan of Presonus S1 when it came out as it was streamlined for performance. Much less clunky than other daw's save maybe reaper. But I really hated all the extra work that reaper requires you to perform in order to bring it up to level with other major daw's. This went out the window for me when I was testing Daws and the less expensive S1 would not accept third party plugins and as S1 had progressed over time it wasn't the slick, sleek, smooth workhorse it used to be. On the otherhand Mixcraft continues to impress me with lots of features and still cpu friendly.

Sure there are things I wish Acoustica would do to make mixcraft a better product. Nonetheless I've become very accustomed to the workflow it provides.

I too was a cakewalk software user since windows 3.1 But I left shortly after the first release of sonar as quite frankly there were better daw's on the market. Nonetheless I understand why Cakewalk users have become Mixcraft users enforce after the demise of Cakewalk. It's a comfortable transition.

One of the last daw's I held on to before switching to Acoustica Mixcraft was Samplitute. Mostly because I loved the mastering suite. However even without the version izotope included in Mixcraft 8 pro the mastering software included in Mixcraft was more than sufficient to leave Samplitude behind.

[generaldiomedes]

Does it have cross talk?