Can you tell us more about your crashes? Does Mixcraft ask you to send your crash log in when the crashes occur? If you can email your crash log (mixcraft-crash.txt) we can tell you if the crash is occuring in Mixcraft or in the plug-in. Also, be sure you're running the newest build of Mixcraft, whi...

No, Mixcraft (and all Acoustica applications) will only run on PCs, not on Macs. Unfortunately, Apple has shut out competition for inexpensive music software by distributing their GarageBand sequencer for free with all new Macs. Its a fun little program, pretty limited in its feature set, but its fr...

Most of the drum sounds in Mixcraft are real drums played by a real drummer, with the exceptions of certain electronic styles. You can certainly make your own loops in Mixcraft. Set a tempo, turn on the metronome, and play along with the metronome. Set you snap to Measure mode, and trim or cut the r...

Hello, Easy -- solo the track, highlight just the part you want to render, the Mix Down to Wave, and click the Selection box to render only the selection. This will render only the portion of the audio that you've highlighted (selected) and will not render the entire length of the song. Then you can...

There's probably a lot of information on Mastering.. However there are at least three goals when Mastering an album: 1) Have all the songs at a consistent volume 2) Have all the songs at a consistent sound quality 3) Have all the songs in an order that flows The third one - the order of the songs - ...

Mixcraft 4 will be out by the end of the year - and its gonna be a doozy!

You can certainly move the VST effects to the main directory, or, as I said, add the subdirectories in the Preferences of Mixcraft.

Thanks!
Dan

Mixcraft 3 will not find VST effects that are in subdirectories of the vstplugins directory, unless those subdirectories are added to the directory list in the preferences.

Mixcraft 4 will not have this problem.

Dan

So the music created with those loops is free to publish for profit or any purpose? Absolutely! All included sounds are completely royalty free - music created with these loops is free to publish. The only thing you can't do is sell or distribute the actual loop files (or the loops converted to ano...

Yes, its in the Loop Library section of the help file:

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.

All sounds included with Mixcraft 3 are included royalty free, meaning that you can use them all you want for any purpose without paying any royalty.

Have fun!

Dan

Hi Jason, The volume at 139% means that Spin It Again is recording audio with plenty of headroom, and is raising the volume after the fact so the songs will be as loud as possible. The fact that every song is at 139%, and that Spin It Again is complaining about distortion, proves without a doubt tha...

Glad you figured out the rendering! Unfortunately I have no idea why it would take so long to import a simple WAV file into this Sound Designer program. It must use its own proprietary file format.

I'd recommend getting a copy of Mixcraft for the studio! Sure would be easier!

When you arm your track for recording, click the little down arrow next to the Arm button, select your M-Audio Duo, and select the Left channel. The Duo has two microphone inputs - one shows up on channel 1 (left) and the other on channel 2 (right). This is really powerful -- if you arm two tracks, ...

Spin It Again will detected flattened peaks in the audio, which mean that you are overdriving the input of your sound device (or preamp). I'm not sure I understand your setup. Is the turntable going into the amp, which then feeds the USB preamp? Or is the turntable going into the USB preamp, which i...

Sorry, there is no easy way to do this in Mixcraft 3. The best thing to do is load the stereo file into an audio editor, such as Sound Forge, or the free Audacity, and save each channel as a separate file.

Future versions of Mixcraft will make this easier.

Dan