


You can create crossfades and transitions, add titles, and score your clips. Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio lets you load and edit video files with ease. New Toneboosters effects have replaced old Acoustica and Classic effects, and there are multiple new mixer panels including Gain, Drive, Compressor, Parametric EQ, Oscilloscope, and Spectrum Analyzer. Record loops directly to the panel's grid locations for instant creation of layered, live loop performances, or produce mixes and mashups with audio warping and song slicing. The flexible Performance Panel lets you jam along with audio or virtual instruments, while automatically synced to the groove. The software also supports VST3 plug-ins and MP4 video formats. Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio utilizes a fast and improved sound engine, which offers advanced audio and MIDI routing, native sidechaining, and Audio Control, a feature which allows for easy control of effect and instrument parameters via audio from other tracks within a project.

Version 9 introduces a modernized look and new features such as detachable interfaces, curved automation, micro-fades, and many more, making it even better for recording audio, programming loops, remixing tracks, composing with MIDI and virtual instruments, scoring/editing video, and mixing/mastering your songs. A simple tabbed interface at the bottom makes it easy to get around.Aimed at home and project studios, Acoustica Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio is a Windows-based music production workstation with unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, 7500 music loops, 36 effects, and 16 virtual instruments. The buttons and dropdowns in the mixer and track controls are clearly labelled, with the mouse pointer helpfully changing shape as it passes over sliders and knobs. Every audio and instrument clip on the timeline has a convenient preview, mute and loop button, its own volume envelope and a title bar for easy dragging. The creative workflow is clear and straightforward, too, with arming a track for recording a matter of a few clicks, and chopping and arranging takes a breeze. Several of the included instruments are inspirationally sumptuous. Still, the important thing is how everything sounds, and here we’ve no complaints.

The bundled Acoustica effects look cheap too: it can feel like you’re using a shareware tool rather than a pro audio workstation. The timeline and transport controls are slick and colourful, as is the mixer elsewhere you run into boxy buttons and drab dropdowns that hark back to Windows 3. The experience of making music with Mixcraft is a strangely inconsistent one.
