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Reviewed By Chipi [all]
May 11th, 2021
Version reviewed: V.10 on Windows
UPDATE: 6/13/23 * Mixcraft Pro Studio V.10 *
- Incredible scaling for superb scalable 4K/8K monitors.
- FULL VST3 support with incredibly robust stability on par with Pro-Tools.
- Excellent mixer with a completely revamped and highly accurate mixer.
- Accurate mixdown of the master that sounds exactly like the original mix (leaving FL Studio and Studio One 6 with their flat and non-dynamic mixdown) Mixcraft exports your work in 24-bits with a professional and unique precision in the market.
- A joke price, I paid $39 for the upgrade from 9 to v10 (Well done Acoustica!!!).
- Professional effects.
- Incredibly robust MIDI board and never leaves a note behind when you Quantize.
- Best DAW on the market with CPU heavy VST like 'Avenger - Vengeance' - I could simultaneously run 41 instances of the synth and it barely scraped 35%, impressive performance.
- Dream automation, any handle you move on the synth will record excellently! You can cut and paste entire tracks including all automation.
- Excellent Samplers included, you drag a loop and it automatically cuts it mapped to the Sampler, crazy.
- TB Barricade the best mid class limiter on the market! Try it, your mix will never be as punchy as with it.
- Instant combination of synth layering and layered effects with instant recall.
- Excellent and robust audio handling and wave elasticity algorithm, whatever you throw at the sequencer it will automatically put it in time, not like Studio One's garbage, you have to manipulate it and it never stays in time, Mixcraft is classy here.
- The recording controls bar detached wherever you want, lightning fast loading of large projects and top notch support make Mixcraft v10 the DAW of your dreams, trust me, it leaves all the others that cost 10 times more by the way!.
Great synth, clean and analog sound if you want it, you can create some nice bass sounds and punchy leads and unique rich sounds. There are no pianos, no drums, no guitars, no acoustic instruments can be created except for some flute or something you can program and you cannot import wave-tables or samples. More than 2,000 sounds included, that's a lot! The effects are a bit disappointing, but Tone2 will surely be able to improve them in future updates, anyway, the clean sound without effects is fantastic and you can run it through the effects you normally use in any DAW. Electra's 2 FX are superior but Electra costs 100 bucks more. It has excellent oscillators material, no more than 84 and not all of them sound good but there are some great ones. There is no FX quantity control for each oscillator [ yet ], nor pan control, but there is the possibility to give it a 'mono' or 'stereo' setting with different configurations that sounds excellent. Analog quality 'sub' oscillators give a lot of body to some sounds and Waldorf/Virus/Moog emulations are possible and even surpass a good analog synth [super punchy fat analog basses and spicy leads]. The sound is 'in - your - face', bright, elegant and loud, and it could be also, dirty and sweet analog but be careful with the volume in some effect combinations can distort some times. There is no sound compressor and no equalization for now. The interface is impeccable, and well laid out. Hopefully it will incorporate 1000 more waves in future updates =).
I recommend it for anyone who wants to incorporate a great, big, fat and punchy sounding synth to their tracks, another awesome hit from Tone2! Impressive Synth! Long live Warlock ♥²
This synthesizer sounds better than synthesizers that cost 5 times more and I can get huge sounds better than from a Yamaha Montage or a Korg Kronos that you can barely visualize the display and navigating between editing pages is terribly difficult. With Electra v2.7 everything is on the plate served in front of me.
Impressive editing menu designed with criteria and knowledge of what the modern musician needs from a great synthesizer.
Version 2.7 has greatly improved the quality and audio of this great synthesizer. The four independent layers that can be grouped together creating warm and analogous sounds is impressive.
Hopefully they can improve somewhat the process of uploading samples and edit it with some window that can be detached from the original interface, and also improve the process of saving sounds as I have lost many that once saved when you 'upload' do not sound, simply dumb/silent/no sound, I think it must be a glitch or bug somewhere in the chain of saving under Windows 10.
Everything is on one page making sound creation simple and fast. It has a taste of analog but also a professional polished sound that makes it unique. Highly recommended.
