Operation Manual

Monitor Your Input (Audio Tracks only)
You can hear yourself with effects by turning monitoring on. More on monitoring.
Recording Problems?
Recordings Are Not In Sync
Recordings Are Drifting Or Getting Out Of Sync Over Time
Monitoring
"Oh, how I love to hear myself louder!" - Some overjoyed musician.
Some sound devices include a feature that allows you to hear what you are recording. Many devices (such as USB
microphones), though, do not allow you to hear what you are recording. And other times, you may wish to monitor
your live performance through Mixcraft's effects - for example, guitar players wishing to play live through Mixcraft's
guitar amp simulators. To hear or 'live monitor' a track, click the arm recording selector button followed by clicking
Monitor Incoming Audio.
We recommend that you use headphones in order to avoid feedback when recording with a microphone.
One caveat to this is that you must set your sound card to mix with a low latency, otherwise it will sound like an echo
chamber and the sound could be delayed by seconds. You can go into the preferences and try ASIO mode, if
available, or reduce the buffer size to 4096 or 2048 and reduce the number of buffers to 2 or 3 in Wave mode. The
down side to reducing your buffers and buffer size is that you may hear gaps in the audio, depending on your sound
card and computer speed.
Hearing Effects In Real Time
If you add effects, you will also hear the effects on a track if monitoring is on. The effects are not recorded and you
can change them or remove them later, without affecting the recording.
Freeze Track
If your computer is slow or audio is starting to gap or stutter because of a lot of effects or time stretching, you can
freeze a track to reduce the amount of processing the track needs. After freezing a track, the software uses a
temporary WAV file that includes all effects and audio.
You cannot edit the effects or sounds on a track until you Unfreeze the track. ( Dragging a new sound on to a track will
unfreeze a track ).
If you want to lock a sound, go here.
To freeze a track, go to the Track Details Tab, select the track you'd like to freeze and then click the Freeze button.
Duplicating Tracks
You can duplicate or copy all settings and sounds on a track. Click the Duplicate button on the Track Details Page to
duplicate the selected track. Alternatively, you can choose Duplicate Track from the Track menu or right click on a
track and select Duplicate Track.
Track Details
Click on an area for more information.