Operation Manual

to Adjust To Project Tempo on the Sound Details Tab and add several successive tempo markers to the timeline.
FlexAudio™
FlexAudio™ is Acoustica's trademarked way to visually time stretch a sound clip.
In this example, the sound is around 14 seconds long and we'd like it to be 10 seconds.
While holding the Ctrl key down, click on the right edge and move your mouse left to the 10 second mark on the
time line.
(You will know that you are in FlexAudio™ mode if the cursor turns into the FlexAudio™ cursor .)
The sound will now play in 10 seconds, instead of 14 seconds!
Tips With FlexAudio™
Use FlexAudio™ to create perfect loops. If you have a loop without a detected tempo, set the snap to measure
aligned. Use FlexAudio™ to snap the sound to the nearest measure. Loop the sound first to make sure all loop
points line up. Now it should be in perfect synchronization unless there are tempo changes during the loop, in
which case, you should figure out the actual tempo of the sound.
Once FlexAudio™ helps you figure out how much to time stretch the sound by, you can set the tempo with a
simple calculation. Just find the tempo of the closest tempo marker before the sound's start in this calculation.
Tempo of sound = (Project Tempo) X (Sound's Time Stretch Percentage) / 100.0 . Switch the sound to Adjust To
Project Tempo and then type in your new tempo.
If you have made a commercial and it needs to fit in exactly 30 or 60 seconds and you are over by a few seconds,
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ust time stretch it with FlexAudio™. Have you ever heard one of those legal disclaimers? They are inhumanly fast
and it is due to a sound being time stretched by about 75%. Turn off snapping and FlexAudio™ it to the desired
length.
Time stretching can be set from 25% to 400%. However, in most cases, it will only sound good from around 75%
to 125%
Adjusting The Sound's Tempo
You can change a sound's tempo by clicking the Sound Details Tab on the bottom of the window. Each sound can
be in one of two modes: Adjust To Project Tempo or Time Stretch By. Select the drop down to change the mode to
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djust to Project Tempo if it's in Time Stretch By mode.
Adjust To Project Tempo
If the sound is in Adjust To Project Tempo mode, Mixcraft will time stretch the sound based on the difference
between the project's tempo and the sound's detected tempo. For example, if the project tempo was 120 bpm and
the sound's detected tempo was 60 bpm, it would time stretch the sound to be half as long, because it would be
playing the sound back two times as fast.
However, you can have more than one tempo change in a project. For example, in a transition between two
songs, you could slowly ramp the tempo up with multiple tempo changes.. In this mode, the sound keeps perfect
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