It's amazing how much overhead Aero created. my crappy Sempron laptop actually works with win 8, and mixcraft 6 plays nicely.

...and with an mp3, unless it's high quality, the artifacts will kill you when you remove the vocal.

I use v2 on a daily basis at work. I would love to upgrade to 5 or 6 at work but can't because the new interface is too much for the staff to handle. It would be neat to skin 6 with a v2 look so all would be well in radio land.

...lots of light compression on individual tracks vs one effect set to 11. I've also noticed in my stuff that compared to professional mixes, I always have too much bottom end. Gotta remove low mid mud. And, mix it to what you think is good, walk away from it and come back tomorrow. Often what you t...

I just make a clone of the entire drive onto an external usb. Search Easeus. There's one that you boot from usb, and one you can use in Windows. Both take about the same amount of time to complete, but when done, you have a fully functional clone indistinguishable from the original except for the zo...

Sounds like not enough input leve.

You mean this?

http://www.ecrater.com/p/205983/creativ ... ys-pc-midi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodikeys

Open project one in MC. copy clip. Open project two in SAME instance of MC. Paste.

...find a sample that's already a roll, and use it? That's what I do.

http://www.voxengo.com/product/curveeq/ Har-Bal is not a ÔÇ£curve-stealingÔÇØ program (like Steinberg's FreeFilter or Voxengo's Curve EQ) that impresses the spectrum of one song onto another, but allows displaying ÔÇ£reference curvesÔÇØ if you like a particular sound, and want to see how...

The SFz player will play raw wav files (at least the version I have does). Use that as a plugin and select your wav as the sample.

http://www.kvraudio.com/db/sfz_by_cakewalk

...set up a drive "in the cloud" and work from that if you've got the bandwidth.

...tape stop vst.

Glitch http://www.kvraudio.com/db/glitch_by_illformed

has tape stop as well as other beat driven effects.

This is where you get into spectral analysis and trying for flat curves, or flat for the genre. Voxengo Curve EQ can copy the eq curve of a recording that's similar to yours and apply it to your recording with often times good effect. Here's an article: http://www.harmonycentral.com/docs/DOC-1140/ve...

Spectro Spectral Editor Plugin, BIAS SoundSoap, Audacity Keep in mind that removing parts of the spectrum creates artifacts that are often worse than the problem you are trying to fix. Maybe a manual edit job would work, or gating as a possibility. Or the time tested and rock band approved "lot...