Operation Manual

You'll find a list of category ranges below the Category drop down control. Click on an item to populate the current

library sounds. For example, in the Song Kit category you will find the following items: 12-8 Blues, Acid Techno,

BDiddley, Blues Shuffle, Country Rock, Country Shuffle, Disco, Dub, Electro Groove, Funk Rock, Hip Hop, Music

Beds, Power Ballad, Punk, Reggae One Drop, Sludge Metal, Sound Effects, and Speed Metal just to name a few.

Sounds In Library

fter choosing a category, you will see the sounds that fit into the chosen criteria.

Click the blue Play button next to a sound to audition it. If you are playing back your project, the software will

automatically beat match the auditioning library sound to the current tempo.

dd the sound by clicking the green Add Sound button or drag the sound into the Sound Workspace.

Downloading Sounds

One of the neat features of Mixcraft is that all the loop library sounds are downloaded on demand from our

servers. If you click the play icon or add icon and the sound does not yet exist on your computer, the software will

download it from the Internet. (Of course, to receive any new sounds, you'll need to be connected online.)

Loop Library Details

You can sort the sounds in this view by clicking on any column header. To sort the column in descending order,

click the column again.

Each sound shows the following columns:

z Name

z Tempo

z Number Of Bars (#)

z Time Signature (Sig)

z Key

z Instrument

z Style

z Song Kit

z Mood #1

z Mood #2

z Author

z File Location (Location)

Each column has two black separator bars and if you move the mouse over the black separator bar, it will turn into

a left-right resize cursor which allows you to resize the column. Double clicking the black separator bar resizes

the column to fit the largest text in the column.

Downloading Sounds

If a sound in the library is not on your computer's hard drive and you request the sound, either by playback or by

trying to add it to the project, the software will download it from our servers.

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