I can't. But, that's fine. I can't convince Reaper users that their DAW is so much more complicated, and overloaded menu ridden than anything else either.ferez21 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:55 pma VST browser would be nice but not nearly as crucial as anything else. With the longer process of selecting an instrument like you comically describe it (honestly man, this is a 1-2 second difference in reality) , I still find Mixcraft much quicker for me for laying out ideas, how do you explain that?chk071 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:47 pmActually, it's much more than that. In Studio One or Cubase, you click on the VSTi you want to add to a track in the instrument browser, hold the mouse button, drag it onto the timeline, and that's it - instrument track with the VSTi added. In Mixcraft, if you use the mouse, and don't memorize keyboard shortcut (which noone who just looks into the DAW will do), you have to - right click on the track list area, choose insert virtual instrument, then click on the piano symbol, in the popup window click on the menu where you can choose which type of instrument you want to load, click on the instrument you want to add in the menu on the right, and then you're there. That's a blazing 5 clicks, hopping through menus, and through window dialogs. And, that's only one example. I think that pretty much says everything.
Why don't they just add an instrument browser at the bottom? They have a sounds browser there, which I don't give two farts about.
See, if it already struggles with everday tasks, and basic things I need every day there's absolutely no way I will dive into it deeper. If I realize after 15 minutes that it makes life harder for me than it is with other DAW's, then that's it for me. The procedure to load and use a MIDI out plugin is exactly the same in 5 other DAW's I know. It isn't the same in Mixcraft.ferez21 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 12:55 pm also, it's not fair to dismiss all the actually great features that actually save you time, like instrument chaining by default on every channel, including instrument effects, and the effect rack that is visible in the arrangement window, and comping, among many other features. Also Bitwig's like LFO and Audio modulator for every plugin, that was the feature that attracted me to try Mixcraft initially.
It's definitely not perfect and definitely not the prettiest, but it is much much better than you give it credit for, that's what I think.
It's not fair to say "it doesn't have feature X, it sucks" when you didn't bother to even check.