Copyrights & Trademarks Mixcraft © 2012 Acoustica. All Rights Reserved. Mixcraft™ and FlexAudio™ are registered trademark s of Acoustica™, Inc. This product utilizes PrimoBurner™ Technology. (c) 2003-2012 Primo Software Corporation http://www.primoburner.com Élastique efficient time stretching by zplane.development Microsoft Windows Media Format © 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Many thank s to the LAME team for their work on the LAME encoder. See their website at mp3dev.
Contents 3 Table of Contents Important Sound Setup ........................................................................................... Information 7 ........................................................................................... Quick Start 10 ........................................................................................... Registration 14 ........................................................................................... Mixcraft Reference 16 Tracks .............
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Merge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Envelopes ........................................................................................ . . . . .And Low . . . High . . . . Pass . . . . .Filters ....................................................................... Audio. Clips ...............................................................
Contents WMV.Render . . . . . . Settings ................................................................................. WMV.Advanced . . . . . . . . Settings . . . . . . . .Dialog ....................................................................... Timeline 5 117 118 ........................................................................................ 121 Snap Settings ........................................................................................ Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Important Sound Setup Information - 7 Important Sound Setup Information When you first start Mixcraft, you should make sure that the audio latency response is set up properly. All sound devices and sound cards are not created equal and some have better performance than others. In addition, your computer's speed will make a difference in audio performance. Adjusting your sound device will be a balancing act between latency versus gapping or breaks in continuous sound.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual This option is available when WaveRT is selected. Audio from other programs and Windows will not work at the same time that you are in this mode. ASIO XP, Vista & Win 7 The best for playback and recording synchronization. Must have a supported ASIO driver for your sound device. WAVE XP, Vista & Win 7 Only use this if absolutely necessary.
Important Sound Setup Information - drivers are out of date already.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Quick Start So you want to get something done in a hurry, eh? Let's follow our favorite musician Sound Warrior (SW) through the paces of using Mixcraft™. Load in sounds or loops SW starts Mixcraft and clicks the Library tab. He selects the style 12-8 Blues and drags in Bass 16 Bars to the start of track 1. Create loop To add looping, SW moves his mouse to the right side of the sound until the cursor turns into the leftright re-size cursor .
Quick Start - 11 Records a Lead Synth Pad SW hooks up his MIDI keyboard and creates a Virtual Instrument Track. He finds a groovy synth lead and records himself. In a few spots, he played the wrong note and so he simply goes to the Piano Roll Editor and moves the notes to the right spots! Records Himself SW writes down some quick lyrics about how square wheels just don't get you rolling. He clicks the Arm button on track 3 and clicks the Rewind button in case the playback indicator is not at time 0.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual CAVE cave LADY lady". He clicks on the FX button on track 3 and selects the effect "Delay" from the list. In a sudden inspiration, he decides that the whole thing needs reverb so that it sounds like it's in a cave. Now it sounds just right and 'cavey'. Mix it down to MP3 Soundwarrior needs to mix it down to a single sound. He clicks the Mix Down button followed by clicking MP3. He selects a file name and clicks save.
Quick Start - (Of course, SW has purchased all Acoustica software because he knows it is smart to support good software!) © 2012 Acoustica, Inc 13
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Registration Normally, Mixcraft has a trial period of 14 days. After the trial period is over, you will need to purchase the software in order to burn audio CDs or mix down. To purchase a registration code, click the "Buy Now!" item from the "Help" menu or the click the Register button on the toolbar. Purchase Methods Once on the website, you should find the following options available. Credit card. Pay Pal - pay via the popular service Pay Pal.
Registration - 15 Type in or copy and paste your "Registration ID" (usually your email address) in the Step 3 edit box and type in or copy and paste the 20 character "Registration Code" (excluding dashes) into the Step 4 edit box. (Make sure to not enter in any extra spaces, as well.) Click the Register! button and you are done! Thank You! Your support and contribution will go towards unlimited use of Mixcraft.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Mixcraft Reference This will help you identify specific sections of the main Mixcraft interface. Menus A menu to access all the awesome power of Mixcraft! Toolbar Access common functions such as saving, loading, undo and redo. Change the clip envelope type and adjust the snap. Track Header Header Its' above the track headers.
Mixcraft Reference - Timeline Add markers, make selections and adjust tempo, key and time signature. Track Headers Add effects, organize your project and arm your tracks. Tip: To quickly scroll the tracks up and down, move the mouse over the track headers and spin or move your mouse wheel. (The mouse wheel is the center button/wheel.) Track Bodies Edit clips and adjust automation Tip: Zoom in and out by spinning your mouse wheel. (Change the mouse wheel's behavior in the preferences.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Transport Control playback, recording, loop mode, punch in/out. View the playback time and adjust the master volume.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 19 Adding Tracks Each new project starts with 8 blank tracks. You can add tracks by clicking the +Track button above the tracks to the left of the time line. You can also click Add Track followed by selecting the type of track from the Track s menu to append a track. Inserting A Track If you would like to add a track at a specific location, select the track before the insertion location and then click Insert Track , followed by selecting the type of track from the Track menu.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Re-size a track by moving the mouse to the bottom of a track and drag up or down. When the mouse is in the right spot to re-size, the cursor will become an up/down cursor . Alternatively, you can click on the Track menu > Properties > Track Height . Choose a size of Small, Normal or Large. Sm all track Resizing All Tracks You can re-size all tracks at once by clicking on the View menu, followed by All Track s Height followed by Small, Medium or Large.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 21 To mix down to a new audio track, choose Track menu > Mix To New Audio Track or right click on a track header and choose Mix To New Audio Track . Duplicate Track You can duplicate or copy all settings and sounds on a track. Choose Duplicate Track from the Track menu or right click on a track and select Duplicate Track .
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Select a new image and click OK. Add Your Own Image Or Photo You can add any image or photo of your band members, your dog or almost anything that is in the one of the following image formats. .JPG .BMP .PNG .GIF Click on Add My Own Image File... and then navigate to the image you'd like to add. Select the image and then click Open. The image will be added to your list of images for use with other projects and put on the track header.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 23 Volume & Pan Adjust the volume and pan for each track. Volume Each track has its own volume which can be adjusted by the slider on the track. Click down on the slider and move it left or right. The volume can be set from 0% to 200%. ( -Inf dB to +6 dB ) Alternatively, you can set the track volume by selecting the menu Track followed by Set Volume followed by a value or Set Exact Value... You can also right click on a track to get the same menu options.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual The handle turns red signifying that you can adjust the recording level from the current input. (This is only for audio tracks.) Mute & Solo Mute and/or solo a track. Mute If you do not wish to hear a track, you can mute it by clicking the Mute button on the track header. Once muted, the button will display highlighted. Alternatively, you can click the Track button followed by clicking Mute (Ctrl+M) or by right clicking on the track header and selecting Mute.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 25 New sounds and recordings are added at the caret position. After adding a new sound, the caret will move to the end of the sound. The caret is also the point at which selected sounds will be split. You can move the caret around by clicking the mouse or by using the keyboard Track Types Mixcraft supports many different track types. Track Type Notes Audio Record audio or remix loops. Virtual Instrument/MIDI Edit or record MIDI data.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual To arm a track, click the Arm button on a track. Once a track is armed, it will highlight in red. Arm Toggle Ctrl+B Choosing Recording Input You can record from multiple sound cards and different inputs at the same time. Some specialty sound devices allow you to record on multiple inputs at a time. On the track header, click the selector arrow on the Arm button. This brings up a list of sound devices, followed by inputs.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 27 To choose an input, click the arm arrow for track 1. Click on "Lexicon" or whatever your device is called and choose "Left Channel". On the second track, we'd like to record the "Right Channel". First click on the arm arrow on track 2, followed by clicking on "Lexicon" or whatever your device is called and choosing "Right Channel". You will see that both tracks are now armed for recording.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual 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 button followed by clicking the speaker icon.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 29 Virtual Instrument Tracks have the extra instrument button to the left of the mute button. Click the instrument button to choose an instrument. You may connect a MIDI keyboard to record and play MIDI. Play an optional MIDI keyboard to trigger notes or use the Musical Typing Keyboard to play music via your computer keyboard. Arm For Recording Arming a track simply means that you are preparing it for recording.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual keyboard to see if this is possible, though. Recording Multiple Tracks Simultaneously You can record multiple Virtual Instrument (MIDI) tracks at the same time. Simply click the arm button for each track that you want to record. If you want to record from multiple sources or MIDI channels, you'll need to click the selector arrow on the Arm button . From there, you can choose the MIDI input device and/or the MIDI channel you'd like the track to record from.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 31 Toggle the tracks you want and click OK. Vid e o The Video Track holds video clips & images or photos. There is only one video track. To toggle the video playback window, click the "Show/Hide Video Window". A video track has an automation lane, as well as an optional child text track to be used for titles, lyrics, credits, etc. Learn more about video in the Video section Text The text track holds text clips. The text track is a child of the video track.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual M a s te r Each project has one Master Track. All tracks are mixed to the Master Track. To view the Master Track, click Track menu > Show Master Track. Alternatively, click the +Track button at the top of the tracks and then click "Show Master Track". All audio is routed and mixed to the Master Track. You can adjust the master volume or add master effects, as well. You can also automate volume or any other effect parameter for the master track.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 33 Add a Send Track to the project. We renamed this one to be called "Reverb (SEND)". Go to the track that you want to route signal to the Send track. Expand the track automation portion of the track by clicking the automation button. This will expand the automation window. On the automation type drop down, click the send track under the Sends section. In this example, a send called "Reverb" is chosen.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual volume adjustments. (PRE-Fader Send) Post Volume Adjustment - The track's audio is sent to the Send Track after applying its own volume adjustments. (POST-Fader Send) To change the Send Volume Type, right click on the Send knob on either the Mixer or the Send knob on the automation pane. Audio Signal Flow To reiterate, the send volume type determines whether audio from the track is routed to the Send Track before or after the track fader and volume automation.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 35 POST-Fader Send * * Depending on the send volume type, the audio from a track will be sent at one of the starred * points in the audio signal flow. Tip: When adding an effect to a Send Track, it is recommended to choose a preset designed for being on a Send Track. Many effects will list this with the word Send in it. When using any effect, make sure to click the Edit... button and adjust the dry mix down to 0% and the wet mix to 100%.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual If you have an audio device with multiple outputs, simply click on the output drop down of an output track and choose the output. The Mixer view also allows you to adjust the routing of tracks to outputs. There are many ways that you can use Output Tracks to enhance your mix, or to take advantage of multiple outputs on your audio device.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 37 mix. That send track's output has been set to the Headphone Out 1 output track, which has been routed to a specific output on the audio device. The Send knobs on each track are then used to create a custom monitor mix for the keyboard player, consisting of lots of drums and keyboards, some vocals, and very little bass and guitars. The sound card's output can be sent to a monitor speaker or headphones.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Re w ire ReWire is a standard created by Propellerhead Software that allows Mixcraft to interface with other popular software. This powerful tool allows Mixcraft to access sounds, virtual instruments, and other features that are unique to these other music programs. Mixcraft acts as a host (also known as a ReWire Mixer) and other applications work as clients or slaves (also known as ReWire Devices).
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 39 Automation You can change the way things sound over time. Automation allows you to add points at specific locations on a track's automation lane. Automation types: Volume Pan Send tracks Any effect or synthesizer parameter Each track has an automation drop down and allows you to view one type of automation at a time. T ra c k Au to m a tio n In addition to adjusting a clip's volume, pan and filters, you can also add volume and pan automation for an entire track.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Click on any point in the automation body to add a point and then drag it to the desired value. Moving Track Automation Points The global snap value will apply when adding and editing automation points. If you are having problems moving an envelope point to a specific location, turn off snap. To move the automation line, hold down the Shift key and the cursor will turn into an up down arrow . Move the line up or down to the desired value.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 41 1. Choose a virtual instrument for the track. 2. Click the automation drop down to show the automation. 3. Now select the virtual instrument. Click on the control titled "Track Volume", followed by clicking the virtual instrument you wish to automate, followed by clicking the parameter you wish to automate. 4. Add automation points at the values you desire. Automating Virtual Instruments Effects To automate a virtual instrument's effects: 1.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual After that, we can draw in automation points to change the feedback over time. Recording Automation You can record automation for effects or virtual instruments by setting up your MIDI device to control a parameter. Once a MIDI knob or slider on your MIDI device has been mapped to a parameter, you can record it. You can even record multiple effect parameters at the same time. After recording, you can view the automation you recorded.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 43 Au to m a tin g W ith A M IDI Co n tro lle r You can set up any MIDI controller or keyboard to control any effect parameter or virtual instrument parameter. Each MIDI keyboard or controller is different. The basic idea is that you are mapping a button, knob or slider to a specific parameter. This allows you to have a whole new level of expressiveness with your virtual instruments, effects and synthesizers.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual How To Map A Knob or Slider To An Effect In order to control various parameters of an effect, there are several ways to do it. Each knob or slider on a MIDI keyboard generates a MIDI CC message. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Click the MIDI Learn button Click on the parameter you wish to automate. (We clicked on Feedback .) Now go to your MIDI controller/keyboard and wiggle the knob or slider. The CC controller number should appear in the CC column.
Mixcraft Reference - Track s 45 Loading And Saving Effect Mappings Click Save or Save As... to save your mapping. Recall it at any time from the Presets. If you wish to get rid of mapping, select it and then click Delete. Effects You can add effects to any track type, besides video and text. Click the fx button on a track to add or edit the effects on a track. Effects let you add echo, delay, chorus, eq, distortion and other audio realtime audio processing.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Deleting Empty Lanes Right click on an empty part of a track and click Lanes followed by Delete Empty Lanes. Delete Lane Alt+K Muting Lanes You can mute or unmute all clips on any track by right clicking on an empty part of a lane and clicking Lanes followed by Mute All or Unmute All. MIDI Channel For Virtual Instrument Tracks, you can assign a lane to a specific MIDI channel. This is especially useful for multitimbral instruments.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 47 Moving To move a clip, select its title bar and drag while holding down the mouse button.. (The title bar is the top area of the clip where the name is displayed.) BEFORE MOVE AFTER MOVE You can also move a clip by using the keyboard. The clip(s) will move based on the snap settings. Linking You can link several clips together so that when you drag them, they move in unison. This can be useful for video clips and their associated audio clips.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Deleting Select a clip or group of clips and then select Delete from the Edit menu. Alternatively, you can push the Delete key on your keyboard to delete them. Deleting Parts Of Clips If you select part of a clip, it will only delete the selected part. For example, if you have recorded a singer and there is an extra audible breath, just select the unwanted area and delete it. Looping/Cropping/Trimming You can crop and trim a sound by resizing.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips a left right re-size cursor 49 . Simply click on the left or right edge of the clip, hold the mouse down and drag left or right. Each loop is represented by a triangle on the top and bottom of the sound. The clip will loop based on the snap settings. (If you cannot change a clip to a specific length it is probably because snap is on and you need to turn it off.) Alternatively, you can click on the +1 Loop button on the top left portion of a clip.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual shortcut Alt Drag Copy and Shift+Alt+drag Preserve Time Offset shortcut (Copy N' Paste makes the world go 'round. Become a fan of "Copy And Paste" on your favorite social networking site.) Selecting Clips A selection is an area that you'd like to edit or work on. Drawing A Selection Click down and drag the cursor to create a selection. Selections show up as transparent rectangles. Selections obey the snap setting.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 51 You can toggle the selection of multiple clips by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking the title bar of the clip. You can select additional clips by holding down Shift key and clicking the title bar of the clip. Selecting A Part Of A Clip You can make a selection by clicking in the clip and dragging. The cursor will change to an I-beam showing you that you can make a selection in the clip.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Sounds There are two types of sounds: Audio clips Virtual Instrument (MIDI) clips Clip tempo and key can be manipulated in the following ways. Tempo/Time Adjustments Time travel may not be possible yet, but you can change the speed of a sound without changing its pitch. :) In the past, changing the speed or playback rate of a sound resulted in changing the pitch, also known as the dreaded "chipmunk" effect. A sound can be in two modes.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 53 You will know that you are in FlexAudio™ mode if the cursor turns into the FlexAudio™ cursor . Learn more about FlexAudio™ here. Key / Pitch Adjustments A sound can be pitch shifted like a chipmunk or made to sound like it is super low. More musical sounds can be in one key and automatically mapped to the project's key. Learn more about key and pitch in the Key/Pitch section. Muting You can mute a sound so that it is inaudible.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual The original detected tempo will show up with an * next to it in case you need to restore it to the original detected tempo. Detecting Tempo ( audio clips only ) The following information is for audio clips only. If Auto Beat Match is on, all sounds longer than 30 seconds will be parsed and analyzed for a tempo. Sounds longer than 30 seconds will show the actual beats in the Loop Editor. This can be extremely useful as each beat will show a tempo at that beat point.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 55 However, you can have more than one key change in a project. A sound in Adjust To Project Key mode will adjust to the correct number of half steps in order to play in the correct key based on the most recent key change. To continue the example, if your sound was in F and you had two key changes to A and then G, it would correspond to shifting the pitch of your sound by four semitones up to A and then by two semitones up to G.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual You will know that you are in FlexAudio™ mode if the cursor turns into the FlexAudio™ cursor . 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.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 57 You have multiple audio clips one track recorded with the same noisy air conditioner in the background and you want to remove the noise in one command. Merging the clips together allows you to remove the noise one time. You have hundreds of clips and your workspace is getting confusing and slow. Merging the clips to one sound will cut down on resources, speed up your mix by cutting down on CPU and de-clutter the interface, as well.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual This shows a clip with two envelope points, each at 100%. Click on the line to create a new volume point and then drag to the desired location. In the image above, the volume of the sound now goes from 100% up to about 170% and then slowly down to 100% again. In this manner, you can add as many points as you'd like to shape the volume of the sound over time. Keyboard Modifiers Add Points: Hold the Ctrl key down and to add points anywhere on the sound.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 59 Pan can be set to values from 100% left to 100% right. Low And High Pass Filters In addition to changing the volume and pan of a sound over time, Mixcraft allows you to change the low pass and high pass filter over time. What Is A Low Pass Filter? A low pass filter is an audio filter that literally allows low frequencies to 'pass' while removing (or 'filtering out') high frequencies.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual To edit a sound's high pass filter cutoff, go to the toolbar and make sure that High Pass Cutoff is selected. By default, all points on this envelope are at 0%, meaning that all sounds above the cutoff (i.e. everything) can be heard. Adding points above 0% will cause low frequencies to be increasingly removed from the audio. To edit a sound's high pass filter resonance, go to the toolbar and make sure that High Pass Resonance is selected.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 61 Double Click A Track When you double click on an audio track body, you set the caret and simultaneously bring up a window letting you choose a sound. The sound will be placed where the caret was. Add A Sound From The Loop Library Click the Library tab on the bottom of the Mixcraft window. Select a sound from the library, position the caret where you'd like the sound to go and then click the + button next to the sound.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Recording Directly To OGG If you find your hard drive filling up with huge WAV files, you can record directly to OGG files. Recording to OGG will take up less space on your hard drive. Go to the Recording Preferences, click Compressed Ogg Vorbis (.OGG) and then choose the desired quality. All new recordings will be in the compressed OGG format.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 63 Edit In External Editor Mixcraft will work in conjunction with an external sound editor in order to apply permanent changes or edits to the sound. For example, if you want to reverse a sound or edit out clicks and pop or some other audio editing, you may want to use an external editor. (This requires that you own or have downloaded a sound editor.) Configure An External Sound Editor Go to the preferences and choose the General tab to select an external sound editor to use.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Edit Name Change the name of a clip. Press the Enter key to make the change. Alternatively, change the name and click anywhere else. Mute/Unmute Click the speaker icon to toggle a sound's muted state. Lock or Unlock Click the lock icon or unlock icon to toggle a sound's locked state. Offset Change the offset of a sound by entering in minutes, seconds and milliseconds or using the spinner controls. If in Beat mode, these edit boxes will be in measure, beats and partial beats.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 65 Click the [<<] Show/Hide Controls button to see more sound data, instead of the controls. This will toggle between showing and hiding the controls. To show the controls again, click the [>>] button. N o is e Re d u c tio n Mixcraft comes with a built in noise reduction feature for audio clips. Definition Of Noise Noise could be background hum, clicks and pops and, generally, any unwanted sound.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual and dragging the Noise Start or Noise End controls. If you want the software to automatically locate the next best noise print, click Next Noise>>. This instructs Mixcraft to look for the next best noise sample based on what it thinks could be noise. Only you know what noise is, though, so you may need to adjust it manually. Finding A Noise Sample The best candidate for noise reduction is a sound that has a snippet of the noise by itself.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 67 This will show the beats in the sound. Each beat point has tempo. The software will not show all the beat points depending on your zoom level. Zoom in to see more detail and beat points. Hover your mouse over a beat point and the tool tip will show you the detect Making The Perfect Loop Tip If the Loop Editor is displaying beat points and you drag one of the loop markers over a beat point, it will snap to the beat point to make a very precise loop.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Double click a Virtual Instrument Track or right click on a Virtual Instrument Track and click Add Instrument Clip to create a blank Virtual Instrument Clip. Record a Virtual Instrument Clip. Arm a Virtual Instrument Track and record. Use your MIDI keyboard to playback notes and click Stop on the Master Bar when you are finished. Learn about recording Virtual Instrument Clips. Import a MIDI file. You can right click on a Virtual Instrument Track and select Add Sound File...
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 69 MIDI Editing There are many ways to edit your MIDI data. Simply right click on a Virtual Instrument clip and select MIDI Editing followed by of the following options. Quantize. Adjust notes to be closer to the beat. .. Humaniz e... Make notes less robotic and more humanized. Transpos Move notes up and down the scale. e... Velocities Adjust the amount notes were played. ... Offsets... Adjust the start times. Durations Adjust the lengths ...
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Note Type Specifies the snap setting to quantize to. Please note that if you have this set to eighth note and you are actually quantizing a whole note, it will not adjust the length of the note to an eighth note, but rather align it to the closest eighth note! If the Start Times box is checked, then the start times of each note will be quantized to this note type. If the Durations box is checked, then the end times of each note will be quantized to this note type.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 71 All or Selection Choose whether to quantize the selected notes or all the notes in the current virtual instrument clip. (This is only an option if the dialog was invoked on the piano roll editor.) Quantize Example Before quantizing After quantizing Start Times and Durations to 1/8 Notes H u m a n ize Humanizing is the process of adding a random and more humanized feel.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Max Distance The maximum note duration to humanize towards. Start Time Specifies if we are humanizing the start time. If checked, you can choose from Early, Late or Random adjustments. Duration Specifies if we are humanizing the duration. If checked, you can choose from Early, Late or Random adjustments. Velocities Allows you to randomize the note velocities. Choose one of the following options: Randomize by - A percentage of the original note value.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 73 Choose Octave(s) or Semitone(s) from the Transpose By. Then enter in the amount and click OK. If you want this to apply to the selected notes only, click the Selection radio button. Ve lo c itie s The Velocities dialog allows you to adjust all the notes or the selected notes velocities. A MIDI velocity indicates how hard the note has been struck. The range is from 1 to 127.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual O ffs e ts Offset Notes dialog allows you to adjust all the notes or the selected notes time offsets. Right click on a MIDI clip or MIDI data in the Piano Roll and select MIDI Editing followed by Offsets... This brings up the Offset Notes window. Offset Direction Choose left or right.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 75 This brings up the Note Duration window. Adjust By Adjust the notes durations by a percentage. Force To Force the notes to a specific note duration. Choose from: Whole notes 1/2 notes 1/4 notes 1/8 notes 1/16 notes 1/32 notes 1/64 notes 1/4 triplet notes 1/8 triplet notes 1/16 triplet notes All or Selection Choose whether to adjust the selected notes or all the notes in the current virtual instrument clip.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual soloizing Sound tab (Piano Roll) The Sound tab allows you to rename a sound, change its length, change its time offset, mute it, lock it, change its tempo, pitch shift or key. Edit Name Change the name of a clip. Type in a new name and press the Enter key on your keyboard. Mute/Unmute Click the speaker icon to toggle a sound's muted state. Lock or Unlock Click the lock icon or unlock icon to toggle a sound's locked state.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 77 Time Stretch / Tempo Set the mode of the time stretching for this sound. Learn more about time stretching and tempo in the Tempo/Time Stretch section. Adjusting Pitch, Key or Transposition Set the mode of the pitch shifting for this sound. Learn more about changing the pitch or key in the Key/Pitch section. Show / Hide Controls Button Click the [<<] Show/Hide Controls button to see more sound data, instead of the controls.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Instrument Clip or right click on a Virtual Instrument Clip and select Edit to bring up the Piano Roll Editor. Each blue box represents a note. The note is determined by how it lines up with the vertical piano, hence, the name 'piano roll'. Click on a piano note to audition how it will sound. Toolbar There are three main editing tools on the piano roll editor. Note selection tool. Add new notes with the pencil. Remove notes with the eraser.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 79 Double click a note on the piano roll keyboard and all notes of that value will become selected. Click anywhere besides a note to deselect it or press the Esc key. Selected notes will appear dark blue. You can also select by duration and velocity. Click the MIDI Editing button on the piano roll toolbar and choose Select By Duration... or Select By Velocity...
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Editing notes in detail You can also edit a note or group of notes by right clicking and selecting "Edit..." The note edit dialog will pop up and allow you to edit the specifics, which include: Start time (Measure, beat and fractional beat) Duration (Measures, beats and fractional beats) Note value (A0-G10) Velocity ON (1-127) MIDI Channel (1-16) Velocity OFF ( 0-127) Erasing/Deleting Notes Make sure that the eraser tool is selected.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips Drag Copy 81 Alt+drag Co n tro lle r In fo rm a tio n You can edit MIDI controller data on the bottom portion of the Piano Roll Editor on the Sound tab. Choose The Controller Type Click the drop down on the left hand side to pick a specific controller. You can choose from the following controller types: Note On Velocity Note Off Velocity Program Change Channel Pressure Pitch Wheel Modulation Alternatively, you can type in a controller number from 0 to 127.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual If you need more room or pixels to edit the controller data, simply click on the bar at the top of the controller area and drag it up or down to re-size the controller area. The selected note's corresponding velocity line appears in red. Editing Velocities Of Selected Notes You can edit the selected note's velocities by holding down the Shift key and drawing over the velocities.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 83 Edit Controller Delete Controller Delete All Controllers For example, if you want an external synthesizer to switch to patch 67, choose the "Program Change" controller, move to the start of the track, right click and select "Add Controller" from the menu. A dialog box will pop up and allow you to type in 67. Click OK and you will now have a program change #67.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Map File - The name of the file you just created, ie: "Big And Dumb Drums.txt" VST GUID - This is a special value uniquely identifying the VSTi. Open up your Log file after having used the plug-in to get its VST GUID. Your log file will be located at %appdata% \Acoustica\Mixcraft . The following example shows how to find the GUID for the Bass Synthesizer VSTi.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 85 Once you are satisfied with the loop, you can extend the clip in the session area to loop it as many times as you'd like. See Looping Clips Sound tab (Notation) Mixcraft allows you to edit, view and print your music in notation or sheet music form. You can also view and edit your Virtual Instrument Clips in the Piano Roll Editor. Edit Name Change the name of a clip. Type in a new name and press the Enter key on your keyboard.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Length Change the length of a sound by entering in minutes, seconds and milliseconds or using the spinner controls. (If the sound is made long enough, this will also cause it to loop.) If in Beat mode, this edit boxes will be in measure, beats and partial beats. (1000 partial beats = 1 beat. ) Time Stretch / Tempo Set the mode of the time stretching for this sound. Learn more about time stretching and tempo in the Tempo/Time Stretch section.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 87 N o ta tio n E d ito r Editing Notes Mixcraft allows you to edit a piano bar on the staff directly. By editing the size and position of the piano bar, you can change the way the notation is displayed. Here is a typical example of a quarter note with its associated piano bar. After clicking on the piano bar, it turns blue. You can now click the note to move it or re-size the left or right hand side of the note to change its duration or starting time.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Note selection tool. Add new notes with the pencil. Remove notes with the eraser. Duration Buttons - Choose a default duration when adding a new note with the pencil tool. Choose from whole note, half note, quarter note, eighth note, sixteenth note and thirty-secondth note. In addition, you can choose from the two modifiers: Dotted Note Modifier and Triplet Note Modifier. Default Velocity - Specifies the velocity for new notes.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips 89 Right click on a clef and choose from the following: Treble & Bass Treble Bass This changes the clef for the entire track. Printing Once a clip is properly selected, click the Print... button on the Notation View toolbar or press Ctrl+P to print it. If you want to print an author and title, make sure to edit the Author Information. L o o p P o in ts You can make a Virtual Instrument clip loop by adjusting the start and end loop points.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual number from 1 to 127 which describes how fast the key was depressed. A velocity of 1 would hardly be heard and a velocity of 127 would be full volume. Each MIDI Note message contains the following information: Note Value (C0 - C10), Key Velocity (1127), MIDI Channel (1-16) Note Value This is the value of the note. There are 128 possible MIDI notes. Note 0 corresponds to 'C0', where 'C' means the note C and '0' means octave 0. Note 127 corresponds to G10.
Mixcraft Reference - Clips Video clips Images Learn more about video in the video section Text Clips A text clip contains text with associated effects. Learn more about text clips in the video section Recording Recording lets you record audio or MIDI data. Click the arm button on a track to prepare the track for recording. Learn more about arming Virtual Instrument (MIDI) tracks or arming audio tracks. Recording Clips Once you have armed a track, you can record clips.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Click the Stop button to stop recording. The recording will be saved in your Project folder. If you want to record multiple tracks at a time, you'll need to arm them simultaneously and have the required inputs and hardware support. Toggle Recording R or Ctrl+R Recording hardware/methods There are two main ways to hook up recording hardware to your computer. Analog Mixer With Soundcard You can take an analog mixer and plug it in the stereo input of your soundcard.
Mixcraft Reference - Recording 93 Recording Mode There are three recording modes. Each track's recording mode can be set by right clicking or by using the Track menu. Track menu > Recording Mode > Takes Overdub Replace You can set up your default recording modes in the Preferences. Takes In this mode, all previous clips are muted and a new recording is made on a new lane. Audio tracks default to Tak es mode. Each new recording or 'take' is placed on a new lane.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual In this mode, the existing audio is replaced. New lanes are not created. Loop Recording Loop recording allows you record multiple takes or overdub without having to stop. To create a loop, click the Loop mode button on the Transport. Alternatively, you can select Mix menu > Loop Playback Mode . Adjust the Loop Start and Loop End handles to create an area to loop. This can be used in conjunction with punch in/out. Learn more about setting the loop area in the Transport section.
Mixcraft Reference - Recording 95 After setting up a punch area, press record and the new recordings will be created inside the punch start and end. Tip: To quickly set the punch in/out area, create a selection and toggle Punch In/Out. Use snap to set very precise punch in and punch out points. Loop Library The loop library contains a number of song kits and sound effects for royalty free use within your own projects! Feel free to mix them, loop them and edit them to your heart's content.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Select All Sounds In View Ctrl+A Library You can choose a specific library or All. If All is selected, sounds from all loaded libraries are chosen, including any imported libraries. There are two built in libraries: Loops Sound Effects If you are just concerned about sound effects, you can choose the Sound Effects library. From there, you can choose a category to sort by. Any searching will be based on the selected library and category.
Mixcraft Reference - Loop Library 97 After a search is performed, Mixcraft will display how many items matched the search query. Sorting & Columns You can sort sounds by clicking on any column header. To sort the column in descending order, click the column again.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual If you want to get access to the sound on the hard drive, simply right click on the sound and choose Open Containing Folder. Now you have access to the physical location of the audio file and may do what you want with it. Importing You can import sounds from your hard drive, network locations or loop CDs. You can also import sounds from the workspace. Currently, this is limited to audio files in the format of AIF, MP3, OGG, WMA or WAV.
Mixcraft Reference - Loop Library 99 Default Song Kit - Select or type in a name for the song kit you want the imported sounds to be associated with. (You can always edit it later.) Guess (when importing if not built into file type.) Style - If a keyword is found in the file called "lib-styles-for-import.txt" this will be considered its style. For example, if a file has the word "Rock" in it, Mixcraft will set the sound's style to Rock.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Key - If a key is found by itself, such as "Rock-G", Mixcraft will assume that "G" is the key of the sound. Instrument - If a keyword is found in the file called "lib-insts-for-import.txt", Mixcraft will consider that word to be its instrument. For example, if a file has the word "piano" in it, Mixcraft will set the sound's instrument to "Piano". Default Song Kit - Select or type in a name for the song kit you want the imported sounds to be associated with.
Mixcraft Reference - Loop Library 101 To New Audio Track . Now crop the resulting audio clip to your desired size and add this file to the library. Deleting Sounds Simply select the sound or sounds. Right click and select Delete or press the [Delete] button on the keyboard. You will only be able to delete sounds that you have imported. Editing You can edit your library for organization of your sounds and loops.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual the "Separated by Comma" option with a Text delimiter of a quote ("). You may need to change the file extension to .CSV before editing depending on how your system is setup. MLDB Fields Each MLDB file has a number of columns that you can fill in: Field Name Description Valid Values Genre This is the genre "Rock", "Jazz", etc. Style This is equivalent to the Song Kit "Blues Shuffle", "Crazy Blues Kit", etc.
Mixcraft Reference - Loop Library 103 Tempo The tempo of the loop if applicable. null or valid tempo such as 120 or 141.23 Date The date that the loop/sound was created/added. A valid date such as 01/03/12 or mm/dd/yy format, where dd=the day, mm=month and yy=year FilePath The path to the file. If the path is relative to the library folder, you can use the variable % LIBRARY% before any filepath.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Show/Hide Tracks You can check or un-check tracks under the Show Track s section. This allows you to simplify your view and only see the tracks that you are currently mixing. Click the Check All button to see all tracks in the project. Click the Check None button to hide everything except the main mix. Send Channel Selector Located on the left hand side of the Mixer, the Send Channel selector lets you choose the active send channel on the Mixer.
Mixcraft Reference - Mixer 105 Arm the track for recording Solos the audio on this track. (Mutes other non-soloed tracks.) Mutes the audio on this track. Audio tracks and Virtual Instrument tracks have an Input selector. On an audio track, this lets you select the audio source device (i.e. USB microphone, Line Input, etc.), as well as the input channel or channels.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual The default is the Main Mix which is the Master track. Video Mixcraft supports loading and saving of video. It is designed so that you can do the following: Add a musical soundtrack to a video. Add sound effects to a video. Add titles, lyrics or credits to your videos. Get millisecond accurate syncing of video to sound. Export your project to video for burning DVDs or uploading to the Internet. Loading Videos You can add videos by clicking the Video menu > Add a Video File...
Mixcraft Reference - Video 107 PNG GIF If you want to add more than one image at a time, you can select multiple photos or images and add them all at once. The images will be added to a video track with each image lasting five seconds and overlapped by one second. Adding Text You can add text by clicking the Video menu > Add Text... This brings up the text editor with all its various settings. Learn more about text here. Video Preview Window This window shows the video at the current playback position.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual You can alter a video by adding effects. You can make it fade in, fade to black or look like its old film. Before effects After using the Kaleidoscope and Green channel effects. Learn more about video effects here. Mixing/Rendering To Video Mixcraft supports saving video to AVI or WMV. AVI is uncompressed and will be larger than WMV. If you are uploading to Google's YouTube, you should choose "WMV" as it will be compressed automatically on YouTube's servers.
Mixcraft Reference - Video 109 You can add any photo or image by clicking the Video menu > Add Still Images... This brings up a file dialog which allows you to select an image or multiple images. The images will be placed at the caret location. The following image types are supported: JPG BMP PNG GIF If you want to add more than one image at a time, you can select multiple photos or images and add them all at once.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Choose a duration, start time and overlap time for each clip. If you have a selection you can choose Selected Clips Only and only the selected clips will be adjusted. Video Clips If you have video clips in your project, their length will not be changed by default. In order to crop the right hand side of video clips, make sure to check the Adjust Video Clip Lengths.
Mixcraft Reference - Video This shows the automation lane. Choose from various effects and add points to shape the effects. Click to add points and edit points just like audio track automation.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Adding Text There are a few ways to add text. The easiest is to click Video menu > Add Text... This will create a text track and place a new text clip on it and launch the text editor. To create a scrolling text object, click the Video menu > Add Scrolling Text... or right click on a text track and choose the Add Scrolling Text... This brings up the scrolling text editor. Alternatively, double click a text track to create a new text clip.
Mixcraft Reference - Video 113 Editing Text You can move the mouse cursor to any of the red squares. This allows you to re-size the text object like a standard window. The cursor will turn into a re-size arrow when you are over a red square and can re-size it. You can move a text object by positioning the mouse on the red line of the text object. The cursor changes to a hand which signifies that you can move it. You can add a background color to the text object.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Change the text color or background color, as well as the Opacity. The opacity is how solid the color is. By moving the Opacity slider, you are moving from transparent to full solid color. Note that if you have some text selected, moving the text opacity and colors will affect the selected text only. (If there isn't a selection, it will affect all text.
Mixcraft Reference - Video 115 Choose a text mask color. This is the color that fills the non-text area. In the above example, the text mask color is white. Drop Shadow Choose between Small, Medium and Large drop shadows. Fade On the Fade tab, you can choose to fade the text in and out. Click either Fade In or Fade Out and then set the milliseconds for the fade. 1 second = 1000 milliseconds. Motion On the Motion tab, you can choose from some simple intro and outro text animation.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Most everything is the same as normal text editing as with editing scrolling text, except that it is missing a Motion tab. For more help on editing scrolling text, please see the Editing Text section. Mixing Down Choose from various settings of quality and size when mixing down your finished video to WMV or AVI. To save your project as a video, click the File menu, followed by Mix Down To, followed by AVI or WMV.
Mixcraft Reference - Video File menu > Mix Down To > AVI WMV If you want to change the output quality or size, click Edit Details... Learn more about changing the mix down settings here: AVI Render settings WMV Render settings AVI Re n d e r S e ttin g s If you want to change the settings of your AVI file, click Edit Details... from the Mix down window. Whenever creating a file, you'll want to choose between quality and file size.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual If you don't want to think, choose Preset Quality and slide the slider to the best format. Move it all the way to the left if you want the smallest possible file size or all the way to the right to choose the highest quality video. If you are feeling more precise, click Specify Settings and then click Settings... which brings up the WMV Advanced Settings Dialog. W M V Ad v a n c e d S e ttin g s Dia lo g These are the advanced settings for WMV file rendering.
Mixcraft Reference - Video 119 encoding method works best will generally differ depending on your video content, and you might have to try multiple methods and compare them. Bit rate also has a big impact on video quality. Higher bit rates will result in higher video quality (albeit with larger file sizes). There will usually be a point at which a higher bit rate won't help any, but raising the rate won't hurt video quality.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual to produce smaller file sizes, you'll need to experiment to find the best setting. Video Bit Rate: This setting specifies approximately how much bandwidth your video will require, in kilobits per second. It's one of the primary factors affecting compression. Higher bit rates mean larger files and higher quality, while lower bit rates will result in smaller, lower quality video files.
Mixcraft Reference - Video 121 high audio quality setting will rarely have much relative effect on the overall size of your video. 128 kbps will usually produce good results for music audio quality. Timeline The timeline displays in time or beats mode. It also contains markers which includes tempo changes, key changes and time signature changes. Playback Indicator The playback indicator shows the current playback time or where playback will occur when you click Play on the Transport.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual You can change the snap level on the time line or by clicking the View menu followed by clicking Snap To Grid followed by clicking the desired snap setting.
Mixcraft Reference - Timeline 123 Markers Markers can be used for marking a specific time with text such as "Chorus Begins Here" or they can contain tempo, key or time signature changes. In addition, markers can indicate new CD tracks or mix down tracks. Adding There are several ways to add markers. Click the + Mark er above the tracks and to the left of the time line. The marker will be added at the time offset of the playback indicator. If snapping is on, it will adjust based on the Snap Settings.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual marker you'd like to edit. Deleting Right click on a marker on the time line and select Delete to remove a marker. (Note that you cannot delete the first marker and may only edit it.) Delete All Markers Click the Mix menu and select Mark ers followed by Delete All Mark ers. This will delete all markers besides the first marker. Marker Properties Right click on a marker and select Edit.. This brings up the marker dialog.
Mixcraft Reference - Timeline 125 When mixing down to an audio file or burning an audio CD, the software will create a new CD track or audio file if the option Create Track For CDs or Audio Files is checked. ISRC If you are making an official audio CD for mastering, put in the ISRC code for this track. Play Metronome Every Change the number of beats per measure that a metronome sound is X Beat played. In some time signatures, such as 12/8, by default, the metronome will play 12 times each measure.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Time is selected on the timeline. Right click on the time-line and choose Remove Selected Time. Time is removed and everything beyond the selection is moved over. Automatic Marker Wizard The track marker wizard is a handy way to add multiple track markers at a time. You can either choose to add markers at specific intervals, or you can add markers based on the silence in a sound.
Mixcraft Reference - Effects 127 Adding Effects To add an effect, click the drop down labeled
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Delete the effect chain Reordering and Deleting Effects Select an effect to delete or reorder. The order of the effects is important. Click on an effect to select it. After selecting an effect, click one of the buttons to move or delete it. Button Description Moves the selected effect up one in the list. Moves the selected effect down one in the list. Deletes the selected effect. Effect Presets After adding an effect, you can choose a preset under the Preset column.
Mixcraft Reference - Effects 129 This allows you to audition how things sound without that particular effect without losing the settings. Note: When a track is frozen, its effects will not be editable until the track is unfrozen. Editing Effects Each effect has properties that can be changed. Click the Edit button to edit all parameters or values for an effect.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Load VST Preset File (VSTi's only) Some VST effect and instrument manufacturers will distribute additional banks of sounds, in the form of .fxb files. These files replace your current presets with a new set of presets, given your effect or instrument a whole new range of sounds. Master Effects To edit the master or master effects, click the Effects button on the track header header. Alternately, you can show the Master track and click the fx button.
Mixcraft Reference - Effects 131 Effects Included In Mixcraft There are several effects included by default with Mixcraft and are detailed below. Acoustica Chorus Chorus effects are used to thicken up a sound, such as a vocal or guitar recording. This effect is often used to give the impression that there is more than one instrument or vocalist performing the same part.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Delay effects are often the simplest and most musically useful effects. Quiet simply, they take incoming audio, wait a certain amount of time, and play the audio back, sometimes at a lower volume. This creates an echo effect, such as hello, hello. The Feedback parameter allows you to send some of the delayed audio back into the delay effect, so it will play again after the delay period.
Mixcraft Reference - Effects 133 boost or reduce the audio frequencies that make up the sound of your recording. If, for example, your recording sounds tinny, you can boost the bass frequencies. If your recording sounds too 'bright', you might want to reduce some of the high frequencies in the recording. The Output Gain control is used to raise or lower the volume of the recording after the EQ is processed.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Broadcast Multiband Compressor This powerful weapon in the "loudness wars" helps you boost your music's volume so that it sounds louder than ever. It can also lower louder audio parts with downward compression to make the mix more dynamically balanced. It does this by breaking your audio up into separate frequency bands, and then compressing those individual bands to make them louder or quieter.
Mixcraft Reference - Effects 135 This effect is similar to the Acoustica Chorus effect, with some additional features and a unique sound. Classic Compressor This effect is similar to the Acoustica Chorus effect, with some additional features and a unique sound. Classic Delay This effect allows you to create echo and delay effects, just like the Acoustica Delay effect. However, this effect goes much further, with several outstanding features.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Similar to the Acoustica EQ effect, the Classic EQ effect gives you individual control over the left and right channel of your recording. This can be used, for example, to create interesting stereo effects, where one speaker emphasizes different frequencies than the other speaker. Classic Flanger This effect is similar to the Acoustica Flanger effect, with some additional features and a unique sound.
Mixcraft Reference - Effects 137 This effect is similar to the Acoustica Reverb effect, with some additional features and a unique sound. EZQ Equalizer There's no easier way to EQ your tracks than with EZQ! Rather than thinking about your music in terms of frequency bands and sliders, EZQ lets you choose between making your tracks darker, brighter, warmer, or tinnier, or anywhere in between. Just grab the dot and move it anywhere in the 2D display until you nail the sound you're looking for.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Plug this effect into a track that's armed for recording with a guitar with Monitoring turned on, and GTune will work as a real-time guitar tuner. Make sure your guitar is in perfect tune before you start recording and avoid losing that perfect performance. Works great for tuning other monophonic instruments like flutes, violins, and synthesizers! This effect does not alter the audio in any way.
Mixcraft Reference - Effects 139 The Shred Amp Simulator by AcmeBarGig, a complete guitar amp and cabinet suite containing 5 classic amp heads, 17 cabinet models, and 6 powerful effects. Shred faithfully models classic British and American tube heads, and adds powerful room modeling technology. From crisp cleans to roaring leads, Shred gives you instant access to $20,000 worth of classic guitar gear.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual This is a unique effect that does not actually process or change the audio and, instead, allows you to view the frequency spectrum of the audio. This is great for learning about audio frequencies and for helping you to analyze your final mix. You will need to click the Edit button on the effect chain list in order to make use of this effect. VocalZap Reduce or remove vocals. Results will vary depending on the recording.
Mixcraft Reference - Effects 141 100% and the Dry Mix to 0%. Using MIDI To Control Effects An effect can receive and use MIDI data from any track. For example, a pitch correction effect can use MIDI data to shift the audio to the MIDI note currently playing on a track. To use MIDI for an effect, create a Virtual Instrument Track and add some MIDI notes on it. Now go to the effect you wish to change and on the drop down "Use MIDI From Track" and select the MIDI track.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Virtual Instruments Presets Assuming the track is a Virtual Instrument Track, click the instrument piano keyboard button to bring up the Instrument Preset window. This will bring up the instrument preset window filled with category presets on the left. There are four special preset categories: , , & . This means that you have made your own custom virtual instrument.
Mixcraft Reference - Virtual Instruments 143 Click on the preset column to select a preset. Learn more about creating your own virtual instruments. This section will list any available ReWire applications that are available on your computer. Selecting a ReWire application will automatically create a ReWire track for that application. In the "Show Details" view, you can select instrument sources (under Presets) that are available in the ReWire application that you have selected.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Editing Virtual Instrument Presets You can make your own virtual instrument presets by layering multiple synthesizers, editing presets, setting key range and more! To create your own Virtual Instrument, click the Instrument button on a Virtual Instrument Track. This brings up the Instrument window. Editing Your Own Preset On the pop-up window, click the Show Details... button This will extend the instrument window and show more details about the preset.
Mixcraft Reference - Virtual Instruments 145 After selecting an instrument, you can change the following parameters: Parameter Description Preset Select a preset or patch from the synthesizer Edit If the synthesizer has an interface, click the Edit button to bring it up for further customization.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Each instrument interface will have the same controls on the top of the effect window which allow you to choose a new preset, save a preset or delete a preset. Preset Drop Down Choose a preset. If the preset is factory default, it may have [Sys] at the start of the preset name. Button Description Makes the instrument active or inactive. Brings up the automation mapping window. Saves a preset Deletes the selected preset. Load VST Preset File.
Mixcraft Reference - Virtual Instruments 147 wish. Optionally, you can have the custom icon embedded in the preset file by clicking the Embed Icon check box. When are satisfied, click Save. New Preset Click this to create a blank preset. If you have made changes to this preset, Mixcraft will ask you if you want to save your changes. Preset File Location Your preset files are located in your Mixcraft folder under a sub-folder called InstPresets. Preset files have a .
Mixcraft 6 User Manual A deep, biting bass synthesizer inspired by the famous Roland TB-303™ bass synthesizer. Ideal for authentic acid bass tones, and other forms of electronic music. Combo Organ Model F A recreation of the classic Farfisa™ transistor combo organ. Great for 60s rock, surf rock, and more! Combo Organ Model V A recreation of the classic Vox Continental™ transistor combo organ. Great for 60s rock, surf rock, and more! (Especially the famous organ part from The Doors' Light My Fire.
Mixcraft Reference - Virtual Instruments 149 This polyphonic analog-style synthesizer is modeled after synthesizers from the early 80s, and is loaded with classic analog synthesizer tones. Lounge Lizard Electric Piano The Rhodes™ and Wurlitzer™ electric pianos defined much of the sound of the 1970s. Featured in songs like Billy Joel's Just The Way You Are, and Supertramp's The Logical Song, these electric pianos had a warm, unique sound that works as well in folk music as it does in rock and roll.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual This incredibly accurate recreation of the famous Sequential Circuits Prophet 5™ synthesizer takes the concept even further, with increased polyphony, added effects, and more. This classic analog synthesizer dominated the music of the late 70s and early 80s. These amazing instruments are difficult to find, highly collectible, and are worth thousands of dollars, but Messiah nails the tone and experience of using a real Prophet 5™.
Mixcraft Reference - Virtual Instruments 151 The Hammond Organ™, invented by Laurens Hammond in the 1930s, has had a major impact on nearly every popular music genre, from gospel and blues to rock and pop. Paired with a Leslie™ speaker, there may be no more expressive and powerful musical instrument in the world. The VB3 Organ recreates the sound and controls of the famous Hammond B3™ organ, paired with a Leslie™ speaker.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Transport This is where you'll find playback, recording, loop mode and master volume. Controls Record Click the recording button to start recording. Alternately, press Ctrl+R or R. Rewind To Start Resets the playback indicator to the start of the project. Alternatively, press [Home]. Rewind Rewinds the playback indicator by a measure or so. Alternatively, press Ctrl+, Play / Stop Starts and stops playback at the current playback indicator position. Alternatively, press [Space].
Mixcraft Reference - Transport 153 The master volume adjusts the level of the entire mix. Move the slider left or right to set the desired volume. Alternatively, you can right click on the Transport and select Master Volume or choose the Mix menu followed by clicking Set Master Volume followed by picking a level % or specifying an exact value. Loop Mode & Punch In/Out You can set up Mixcraft to play or record in loop mode. Punch In/Out lets you record at a specific time section.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Punch In/Out Use Punch In/Out to create a very precise and surgical recording at specific time section. To mark a section as a punch in/out area, click the Punch In/Out button. Adjust the Punch In handle and Punch Out handle to set the section that you'd like to record in. Click the Record button to record. Newly recorded clips will only be recorded in the punch in/out section. Tip: To quickly set the punch in/out area, create a selection and toggle Punch In/Out.
Mixcraft Reference - Transport 155 Recording Metronome If checked, the metronome will sound during recording. Toggle Recording Metronome Alt+O Recording Count-In Measures When Count-In is activated and the Record button is pressed, Mixcraft will "pre-roll" or play the audio for the selected number of measures prior to starting recording.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual MIDI Learn Make sure you have a MIDI device plugged in to your computer. Now you can assign a whole list of options from playback, metronome, arming, undo and redo. 1. Click MIDI Learn to automatically assign commands 2. Click on the command to learn. 3. Go to your MIDI keyboard/controller and move the knob, button, slider or push a key that you wish to trigger the command. 4. If you wish to learn another command click on the command.
Mixcraft Reference - Transport 157 MIDI Channel & Device If you want to set up the control surface to only receive on a specific MIDI channel or device, choose MIDI Channel or Device and pick the desired channel and device. For example, if you to set up your control surface on your "MIDI Controller Pro" device on MIDI channel 2, select "2" from the MIDI Channel drop down and "MIDI Controller Pro" from the Device drop down.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Set Selected Track Pan Mute/Unmute Selected Track Solo/Unsolo Selected Track Arm/Disarm Selected Track Monitoring For Selected Track Toggle Guitar Tuner For Selected Track Toggle EQ High For Selected Track EQ Mid For Selected Track EQ Low For Selected Track Send Adjustment For Selected Track Other Undo Redo Save Insert Virtual Instrument Track Insert Audio Track Project Set up project level defaults, save, render and backup.
Mixcraft Reference - Project Or Your Band for making recordings from live instruments or your microphone. Build Loop & Beat Matched Music This option is great Eighth notes for DJs or just anyone constructing music with loops. This is a good choice if you are making a remix, a mash-up or a loop based song Beats ON Build Virtual Instrument Tracks This option is good Eighth notes for building music with virtual instruments, MIDI and loops.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Template (MX6Template). Alternatively, you can save the project by clicking the Save button on the toolbar. Mixing Down If you want to save your project as a single MP3, WAV, OGG or WMA file, you should mix down your project to an audio file. Saving As A MIDI File If you want to export the MIDI in your project to a Standard MIDI file, choose Save As MIDI File... from the File menu. Alternatively, you can choose Save As...
Mixcraft Reference - Project 161 Project Tempo, Key And Time Signature Choose a master or project tempo, key and time signature. Project Tempo * All sounds that have a tempo and are set to Adjust To Project Tempo mode will adjust based on the project's tempo. For example, if a sound has a tempo of 200 bpm and the project has a tempo of 100 bpm, the sound will playback two times as fast and be 1/2 the normal duration.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Alternatively, you can toggle Auto Beat Match mode by choosing Automatically Beat Match New Sounds from the Mix menu. Project Folder Each project has its own recording folder which defaults to the Default Project Recording Folder in the Preferences under the Recording area. You can change the recording folder for each project for better organization. All new recorded sounds will be placed in this folder. Click Change... on the Project tab to set a new recording folder.
Mixcraft Reference - Project 163 Burn Proof type protection, you can burn at maximum speed without worrying about a burn failure. Test Mode In this mode, the CD writer will not turn its laser on for writing and will go through the process of transferring the data to CD. If you are having problems burning a CD, go to our troubleshooting area. This allows you to see if your computer can send data to the CD writer at the desired speed.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Format Details This shows the current format details such as bit rate and channels. Click Edit Details... to change the format details for the current format. A window will pop up and allow you to change the bit rate, channels and other options. Estimated Size This shows the approximate size of the mix down in Megabytes (MB).
Mixcraft Reference - Project 165 Choose a folder, type in a name and click "Save". After mixing down, your default video player will be launched and will start playing your video. Copy Project Files To... You can copy your project and all the sounds, videos and/or recordings used in your project to a single folder or zip file. This is handy for organizing your projects and backing them up! In many cases, you use sounds from various folders on your computer.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Sound Device Choose settings for your sound devices. Driver You can choose from Wave or ASIO or WaveRT mode. This choice changes the rest of the controls available on this page. The ASIO option will be unavailable if no ASIO drivers are found on your computer. (WaveRT mode is not available on Windows XP.) Force Single CPU This will force the sound engine to use a single CPU for mixing audio.
Mixcraft Reference - Preferences 167 AS IO P re fe re n c e s These are the preference options if ASIO mode is selected on the Sound Device Preferences. ASIO is an alternative driver system that allows for lower latency and better synchronization between playback and recording. Tip: Always make sure that you have the latest drivers for your sound device or sound card. Visit your sound device or sound card manufacturer's website.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Buffer Size The size of the buffer also determines the latency of the software. Larger buffers lead to higher latency. Choosing different buffer sizes may help the software work better with your sound card or sound device. Smaller buffers lead to lower latency but also possible audio gapping. Open Mixer... This button opens the Window's mixer to allow you to configure the inputs or recording levels for your sound devices. General Language Choose a language to view Mixcraft in.
Mixcraft Reference - Preferences 169 Display Volume As: Choose between Decibels or Percentage. This will affect the track volume sliders and editing volume envelope points on the sound. Default Track Color Choose a default track color. (The default is green.) Interface Auto-Scroll During Playback This option causes the software to automatically scroll the Sound Work space to follow playback indicator.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual The default copyright notice will be filled into each new project's author information. Tempo The default tempo. (Default is 120 bpm.) Key The default key. (Default is C) Time Signature The default time signature. (Default is 4/4 time.) Change Project Tempo And Key To Match First Sound When adding loops or sounds with a known key or tempo, the software will change the master tempo and/or key so that it sounds good.
Mixcraft Reference - Preferences 171 Recording Format Choose from uncompressed WAV or compressed OGG. OGG allows you to save disk space on your hard drives, if audio quality does not have to be perfect. If you choose OGG, you will be able to also choose a quality setting. Metronome Metronome Sound File (Measure) Choose the sound that plays at each measure boundary. The default is a sound called HighTone.wav and is located in your Mixcraft folder under Program Files. Click Browse... to choose a new sound.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Default MIDI Settings This button will revert this page back to the default settings. CD Burning Burning Engine Choose between Primo, Goldenhawk or IMAPI. Primo is the default and recommended CD burning engine. It will burn audio CDs without gaps between tracks, as well as CD-Text. If supported, our alternate CD burning engine called Goldenhawk will be able to burn audio CDs without any gaps between CD tracks, as well. IMAPI is Windows default way to burn audio CDs.
Mixcraft Reference - Preferences 173 Click this button to add, edit or delete folders that the software will scan for VST plug-ins. Re-Scan All VST Plug-Ins Scans your VST folders for new plug-ins. Automatically add all instrument output tracks for virtual Instruments This will add a child output channel track for each output channel in the VSTi. This is only important for instrument plug-ins that support multiple output channels.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual for easily reorganizing your project files, or for collaborating with others. For example, you can quickly zip up your project, including all included loops, videos and recorded sounds, and e-mail it to another person. Mix Down To This menu has six formats in which you can mix down to. Choosing one of the mix down options for audio (WAV, MP3, OGG and WMA) or for video (AVI and WMV) will bring up the Save As dialog with the chosen mix down format. Save As MIDI File...
Mixcraft Reference - Menus & Toolbar 175 spanned multiple tracks. Crop (Ctrl+Q) This is the opposite of cut. Cropping something will keep what is selected and discard everything else on the selected clips. Delete (Delete) This will remove any sounds or parts of sounds that are currently selected or in the selection rectangle. Unlike, Cut, this will not store the deleted audio in the Clipboard. Select All (Ctrl+A) This selects all the audio in the project.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Rewind To Start ([Home]) This sets the Playback Indicator to the beginning or start of the project. If the project is playing audio, it will restart playback from the start, as well. Fast Forward To End ([End]) This sets the Playback Indicator to the end of the project. If the project is playing audio, it will stop the playback. Record (Ctrl+R) This starts recording on any armed tracks and is the same as pushing the record button on the transport.
Mixcraft Reference - Menus & Toolbar 177 Track Menu Add Track This appends a new audio track . (Ctrl+G) or a new Virtual Instrument Track (Ctrl+E) to the end of the project. Insert Track This inserts a new audio track or a new Virtual Instrument Track before the currently selected track. Delete Track (Ctrl+Shift+D) This deletes the selected track. Show Master Track Click this to show or hide the master track. Properties This is a sub menu with some track options.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Mute All Mutes all clips on the clicked lane. Unmute All Unmutes all clips on the clicked lane. Select All Select all clips on the clicked lane. Arm For Recording Arms the selected track. Monitor Allows you to hear your live recording audio, including any effects that may be on the track. Choose Recording Channel And Device Pick the recording source. Guitar Tuner Choose this to bring up the guitar tuner on the selected track. FX...
Mixcraft Reference - Menus & Toolbar 179 Properties This is a sub menu with properties. Mute Mutes or unmutes the selected sound. Channels Allows you to choose the active/audible channel for an audio clip. ** Audio clips only. Phase Choose the phase of the audio clip. ** Audio clips only. Normalization Volume / Turn Off Normalization (Ctrl+K) This adjusts the volume of all selected sounds to the normalized level. The normalized level is based on the highest peak in the sound.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Link Selected Clips Unlink Selected Clips If a clip is linked, it will have a link button on its title bar: Click it to easily unlink a linked clip. Split (Ctrl+T) This will split any selected sounds at the time offset where the caret intersects them. Remove Spaces Between Clips (Ctrl+J) Removing space between the clips eliminates the gaps or silence between any selected sounds by moving the selected sounds together.
Mixcraft Reference - Menus & Toolbar 181 Choose the color of the background when there aren't any video or image clips. Show/Hide Video Window This will show or hide the video playback window. Set Preview Window Size Choose from standard video sizes for the Video Window. Link The link sub menu allows you to link or unlink clips together. When clips are linked, they move together when dragging. Each linked clip retains its relative offset to the other clips.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Zooms in or out so that the entire project is visible on the screen. Help Menu Help Contents... Brings up the help file. Check For Update... Checks the Internet to see if there is a newer or updated version of this software. Enter Registration Code... If unregistered, this allows you to enter in your registration code and register the software. Buy Now! If unregistered, this shows a window with instructions on purchasing and registering the software. About Mixcraft...
Mixcraft Reference - Menus & Toolbar 183 Zoom in for a closer view. Zoom Out Zoom out to view more time. Preferences Brings up the Preference dialog. Buy or Register Mixcraft Purchase Mixcraft and enter your registration information. More on purchasing and registration. Select Envelope Selects the current envelope type for all sounds in workspace. Choose from Volume, Pan, Low Pass Filter, Low Pass Resonance, High Pass Filter, High Pass Resonance.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual CTRL + arrow keys moves +/- 20 milliseconds. Ctrl + Shift + arrow keys move +/- 1 millisecond. Up/dow n arrow keys move the selected clips to a different track. Moving the Caret If snap is on, the caret w ill m ove at the current snap setting. Ctrl + arrow keys moves the caret +/20 milliseconds. Ctrl + Shift + arrow keys move the caret +/- 1 millisecond. Up/dow n arrow moves the caret to a different track or lane.
Mixcraft Reference - Keyboard Controls Snap Adjustments (These shortcuts will not work properly if the Musical Typing Keyboard is visible. The keystrokes may be used by the Musical Typing Keyboard.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Move Note But Keep Offset Shift + Drag Selecting Clips Select All Ctrl+A Select All On Track Ctrl+Shift+A Select All On Lane Ctrl+Shift+Alt+A Select Next Clip Tab Select Previous Clip Shift + Tab Unselect All Esc Delete Selected Note(s) Delete Drag Notes Vertical Only Shift + Drag Tracks Delete Track Ctrl+Shift+D Add Audio Track Ctrl+G Add Virtual Instrument Track (MIDI) Ctrl+E Arm Toggle Ctrl+B Mute Toggle Ctrl+M Solo Toggle Ctrl+L Move Track Down
Mixcraft Reference - Keyboard Controls Zooming/Scrolling Zoom To Project 0 Zoom In - Zoom Out + Zoom Mouse wheel Scroll Horizontal Shift + Mouse wheel Scroll Vertical Ctrl + Mouse wheel Scroll Tracks Up Page Up Scroll Tracks Down Page Down Miscellaneous Add Sound File...
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Boost Clip 5% Alt+Ctrl+W Reduce Clip 5% Alt+Ctrl+S Boost Clip 25% Alt+Ctrl+E Reduce Clip 25% Alt+Ctrl+D Boost Clip 50% Alt+Ctrl+R Reduce Clip 50% Alt+Ctrl+F Musical Typing Keyboard (MTK) If you do not have a MIDI keyboard attached to your computer, you can use your computer's keyboard to trigger notes! Note: The functionality depends on the capability of your computer's keyboard. Many keyboards do not allow more than three keys to be pushed at a time.
Mixcraft Reference - Musical Typing Keyboard (MTK) 189 Keyboard shortcut : Ctrl + Alt + K Playing And Recording Notes The MTK spans 17 notes or 1.5 octaves which can be played via the computer's keyboard. Make sure to add a Virtual Instrument Track and choose a preset. Press the keyboard buttons on the MTK to trigger the associated notes. Press multiple keys at a time to play chords. Press the Shift key to sustain notes. Adjust the default velocity by clicking the velocity adjust keys < or >.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual I-Beam This cursor shows that a selection can be made on a sound. Pencil This cursor shows that you can draw new notes or controller data. Play Sound This cursor shows that you can play a sound in the sound library. Re-size Interface This cursor is shown when resizing the details area or resizing a track. Re-size Or Loop Sound This cursor shows that you can re-size or loop a sound from the left or right.
Mixcraft Reference - Cursors 191 Troubleshooting Here are some answers to common problems and issues. Playing Can't Play Sound You've added sounds, but you can't play anything... There are a few things you can check. 1. Are the speakers on and plugged in? (Sorry, management made us ask.) 2. Can you play a Wave file through Windows or another sound application? If you can't there may be a problem with your sound card's configuration or drivers.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual This will report how much CPU Mixcraft is using compared to the entire computer's CPU usage. Sound Is Delayed Or Lagging (Latency) The opposite problem of sound breaking up or gapping is that the sound will be delayed and have a latency from the time an edit is made to the time you hear it. For example, if you are playing back audio and change an envelope point. If it takes several seconds to hear the effect of the change, it means that you are experiencing latency.
Troubleshooting - Playing 193 most likely. Click on the sound and then click on the Sound tab and adjust the sound to be in Time Stretch By mode instead of Adjust To Project Tempo. When a sound plays back at a different speed, it can sound odd if it's being time stretched too drastically. Recording Recording Is Not Working! You can play audio, but you can't record anything! There can be many reasons why this is not working. Here are a few: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Adjust the sound manually Update your sound card's drivers if possible. Check the sound card's website. Get a new sound device. Get a more professional sound card designed for recording music, if possible. Try switching to ASIO mode. or WaveRT mode for better synchronization.
Troubleshooting - Recording 195 My recordings are too loud and are distorting! What do I do? Distortion can ruin a good recording, and the worst part is, once you've recorded distorted audio, there's no way to fix it. If your meters are lighting the meters up all the way and the peak indicators are lit, your incoming signal is too loud. There are two ways to remedy this. If you're using Wave or WaveRT drivers, and your track is armed, there's probably a red volume slider available on your track.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual If the video fails to load, it is because you are most likely missing the correct DirectX video codec. The best advice is to do one of the following: Install the software that came with your video camera. It may also have come with a DirectX video decoder that would allow other programs such as Windows Movie Maker or Windows Media Player to play the files. (This assumes that the file was created with a video camera that you own.
Troubleshooting - Effects & Plug-ins 197 However, if you'd like to hear the effects during recording, you'll need to disable the sound device's monitoring and use Mixcraft's monitoring system. For example, if you are making a weird recording of your voice and would like to hear the echo or delay while recording, you'll need to turn on monitoring. You'll need to enable Mixcraft's monitoring and disable any sound card's built in monitoring. Can I Use 64 bit plug-ins? No.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Shut down other programs and temporarily shut down your virus checker during a burn. ( Shutting down your virus checker should be done at your own risk. Make sure you are not connected to the Internet and have done a full virus scan recently.) Try burning at a slower speed, especially if your CD recorder does not have 'Burn Proof'. Try checking the option to 'Convert To WAV First.
Troubleshooting - Video 199 Video Video Playback Problems If after loading your video, Mixcraft does one of the following: Mixcraft crashes with an error window Mixcraft freezes and stops responding Mixcraft's CPU usage goes way up to above 60% or so. Video frames appear distorted If one of the above is happening, it could definitely be the DirectX video decoder. The best advice is to convert your video file into an AVI or WMV. AVI and WMV files are tested to be compatible with Mixcraft.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Make sure that you are connected to the Internet. Try launching your Internet browser and going to a news article or website that you haven't been to. (This verifies that you aren't viewing cached content.) Make sure that your security software or Internet firewall is not blocking Mixcraft from accessing the Internet. You will need to go into your firewall or security software and allow Mixcraft access to the Internet.
Troubleshooting - Control Surfaces 201 Mixcraft recognizes some knobs or buttons on my controller, but won't respond to other knobs or buttons. Mixcraft's controls can be set to respond to MIDI Continuous Controller (CC) message, or specific notes on your keyboard. Some controllers send MIDI Machine Control (MMC) or other types of System-Exclusive data, which Mixcraft does not respond to.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Mixcraft Pro Studio Mixcraft Pro Studio 6 gives professional audio engineers the tools they need to mix and master commercial-quality music with ease.
Mixcraft Pro Studio - Effects 203 Effects In addition to the 25 effects included with Mixcraft, Mixcraft Pro Studio also includes these professional audio and mastering effects: Acoustica 31 Band EQ Perhaps no effect is more important for proper mixing and mastering than a good, flexible EQ effect. The Acoustica 31 Band EQ gives you precise control over your frequency content. Slider range is adjustable from 6dB to 24dB, and there are lots of great-sounding presets to get you started.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual This intense delay effect goes far beyond the limits of traditional delays. Dubmaster combines tempo-synced rhythmic liquid delay with powerful LFO-driven filtering and phase effects to add atmosphere and a unique sound to your tracks.
Mixcraft Pro Studio - Effects 205 This powerful mastering tools adds sweet high frequencies, analog colors, crystal and transparent transients, and boldness to any mix. FSQ1964 adds life and sparkle to even the most basic tracks, so they pop out of your speakers with the crisp modern sound heard on today's chart-topping records. GSXL4070 Vintage Parametric EQ This parametric equalizer is modeled after the classic rack-mount equalizers coveted by professional recording studios.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Perhaps no company is better known for creating professional mastering tools than iZotope. From the makers of Ozone, the premiere mastering suite, comes iZotope Mastering Essentials. Mastering Essentials combines a great sounding and gorgeous parametric EQ and spectrum analyzer with a phenomenal room simulation, vacuum tube compression, limiting, and saturation.
Mixcraft Pro Studio - Effects 207 Give your tracks 3D space, depth, width, and atmosphere with this powerful stereo enhancer. Harmonic Vitaliser+ features brand new technology for vitalizing, coloring, controlling, adjusting and widening stereo material (the Side part of a signal) as well as adding space, width and depth to mixes. Mid-Side Stereophase Filter+ This cool filter effect offers new, creative methods of modulating stereophonic sound.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual There's something about the sound of tape -- and Ferox captures that "something." The unique sound of authentic tape hiss, saturation, and compression gives personality and classic tone to your tracks. Try it on drums or vocals for an instantly recognizable '70s and '80s sound. TB Gate A good gate effect is critical for removing noise and mud from a mix.
Mixcraft Pro Studio - Effects 209 The key to a good mix is proper EQing, and this graphic parametric equalizer is one seriously powerful equalization tool. With a gorgeous interface, 6 color-coded bands, 6 filter types, spectrum analysis, and the ability to EQ the mono (Mid) and stereo (Side) portions of stereo material independently, TB Parametric Equalizer will quickly become an indispensable tool in your mixing and mastering arsenal.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual Adds subtle analog warmth or fierce over driven tube grit to your tracks. This vintage tube preamp adds 1960's charm and character to vocals, guitar, drums, and more. XBass 4000L Bass Enhancer XBass 4000L adds the warm, fat bass tone found in vintage tube circuits to your projects.
Mixcraft Pro Studio - Instruments 211 An incredibly realistic emulation of the Yamaha CS80™ analog synthesizer, among the most powerful and coveted analog synthesizers ever made. This amazing recreation supports polyphonic after touch (just like the original) and has the same rich, creamy tone as the original.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual This high quality, award-winning grand piano features 250MB of Steinway Model D™ piano samples combined with powerful piano modeling technology.
Mixcraft Pro Studio - Instruments 213 Glossary ASIO ASIO provides an interface between your audio application and the sound card, and stands for: Audio Stream Input/Output. It was developed by Steinberg Media Technologies and helps manufacturers and developers to create hardware and driver software which extend the personal computer's audio connectivity to meet the needs of musicians and audio engineers. ASIO offers a relatively simple way of accessing multiple audio inputs and outputs.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual The decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit of relative measurement used to compare the ratio of the intensities of two signals. When an amplitude doubles, the increase corresponds to 6 dB. Decoder An algorithm or process for taking compressed or encrypted data and turning it into uncompressed or unencrypted data. DirectX Effects DirectX Effects are Microsoft's method of processing audio. Audio goes in to an effect and comes out manipulated.
Glossary - 215 Metronome A metronome is a device or system that produces a regulated pulse, usually used to keep a beat steady in musical compositions. MIDI MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and is the way that physical and virtual synthesizers communicate with each other. For example, when you press middle C on your musical keyboard, it sends a message says "Play Middle C". It is a small and compact series of codes.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual to be confused with bytes). Common examples of bit depth include CD audio, which is recorded at 16 bits, and DVD-Audio which can support up to 24-bit audio. Sample Channels Sample channels describes the number of channels contained in each audio sample. For example, CD audio has two channels in each sample.
Glossary - 217 Virtual Studio Technology and its acronym VST refer to an interface standard for connecting audio synthesizer and effect plug ins to audio editors and hard-disk recording systems. VST and similar technologies allow the replacement of traditional recording studio hardware with software counterparts. WAV WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform Audio Format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs.
Mixcraft 6 User Manual CHANGE LIST Version 6 Changes New interface & artwork Over 6,000 loops in version 6!!! Major improvements to MIDI editing, piano roll Submix tracks for grouping tracks together Multiple lanes for tracks (including multiple MIDI channels) Improvements to loop library including loop importing & search Loop recording mode with multiple takes Video transitions, automation, text & titles, still image importing Built-in guitar tuner on every audio track New virtual instruments (ComboV
Change List - New ALT drag to make a quick copy of a clip New +1 looper button on clips Improved support for faulty VSTs Lower CPU usage Better hard drive utilization Record directly to OGG mode. Version 4.5 Changes Support for saving projects to MIDI New Primo Burning engine! Can now select channel for mono audio clips Bug fixes for some audio devices Bug fix for freezing tracks. Version 4 Changes Support for MIDI - record and playback. Integrated support for VSTi software synthesizers.
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