Here is a selection from a set of different open tuning recordings I had made earlier this year. This tuning in particular was "EBDGAD" which was kind of nice. I used 2 guitar tracks. The rhythm guitar was an old Fender steel string acoustic and the other guitar playing lead was a recently...

Mixcraft has some cool instruments for orchestrations. I was vacationing up in New Hampshire this past summer. I brought along a small PC with MIDI keyboard. I am always playing around with modes and thought I would try something slightly ominous sounding and tense. I used Mixolydian flat 6 mode and...

I was messing around with some different scales and came across one called "blues". So I thought I would check it out. I used a MIDI keyboard and an electric fretless bass along with a big ol jazz box guitar. Drums done by a friend. I was trying to get a smokey bluesy jazzy vibe. I normall...

Here is a tune I did while vacationing up in New Hampshire a few weeks ago. I took a small PC and USB keyboard. Thats all I used. I played all instruments. Drums were from Mixcraft as well as the acoustic bass and piano. I used a 3rd party saxophone vst and synth. Song is done in the Locrian #2 mode...

Hi, listening to your tune right now. I like it alot. Very good sound. I made a few "classical" sounding songs myself. Mixing is good, right on. Balance of instruments good too. I could never use ANYTHING from Kontakt because all the links to the FREE PLAYER did not work! Could you steer m...

For a long time while studying modes I used a VERY helpful website https://jguitar.com/scaledictionary.jsp that has a useful dictionary of pretty much all you would need as far as modes/exotic scales. It takes a little work to memorize this stuff and exotic scales are useless unless the chords you a...

Very good music. You play all those songs well and it was very enjoyable listening to them. The "age police" got me too! I write, play and produce all my own material too. Keep up the good work!

Nice tune.....you have some good stuff posted. You played all the instruments and vocals parts? Very impressive man! Nice mix and production.

Hey this is pretty good! Very well done interpretation. You make it your own. I like it. Good arrangement and phrases.

Here is an album of acoustic guitar music that I did using Mixcraft 8. I used a pair of AKG P170 condenser mics in an X/Y configuration to record each guitar. The mics were aimed at 12th fret at a distance of about 5". I prefer close-miking. I used some of the Mixcraft 8 effects, but lightly ca...

Yes, there have been many VST's I have found that are just plain no good. I do have some assorted freebie ones that never cause me any trouble. When these crashes occur is is mostly a mix of Acoustica and third party ones. All the VST's I have, I have been using for a few years with no problems. I d...

I had this trouble about a week or so ago...then it seemed to go away. But now it's back! I have a copy of the log file but I don't know how to either post it here or send it via email. I was told if the VST crashes continue to send in a copy of log file from Mixcraft.

OK thank you very much! I have basically figured out how to use a "send" track. Apparently I see you can only put 1 effect on each send track. So I did an experiment and made 2 send tracks. Send 1 has a compressor and Send 2 a Reverb. The only problem is the RED send button. How do you kno...

Not sure how to explain, but how can I assign, for example a REVERB to more than 1 track using ONE INSTANCE of the reverb effect. For example, I recorded my acoustic guitar with 2 microphones, trying different configurations. I found one that worked well so I used it also on the lead tracks. So I ha...

OK if I have another problem I will send the Mixcraft log file....thanks