Simple Mixcraft 7 Tips!

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Re: Simple Mixcraft 7 Tips!

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Here's how you can see the quality setting of any audio file in your Mixcraft project:

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Highlight some audio on the sound tab, then click "Slice To..." and send it to Mixcraft 7's performance panel.


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You can speed up or slow down clips on a video track in Mixcraft by Ctrl-dragging the end of the clip.

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Tip: if you need to export audio from Mixcraft, you can choose to make each track into a separate audio file.

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Any way to make that do submixes/stems Greg?
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msnickybee wrote:Any way to make that do submixes/stems Greg?
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It mixes down each child track in a submix as a separate track. There's no option to have it mix down the child tracks as a submix and still mix down everything else separately at the same time.

You could solo the submix track or tracks and mix that down the regular way to render the submix into a single file if you wanted.

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Set the default recording mode for an existing track with a right-click. The default recording mode for new tracks can be set in preferences.

Learn more about recording modes here: Mixcraft 7 Arming and Recording Tracks: Record Mode and Lanes

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How to send MIDI from an instrument track in Mixcraft out to a hardware MIDI device:

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If your virtual instrument seems quiet, check your velocity settings.

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Tip: hold down the sift key and drag to modify the velocity of selected notes.

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Tip: you can use the GTune Guitar Tuner effect for any sound.

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Don't have a MIDI controller keyboard? Use your PC keyboard like a piano!

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Mixcraft has a whole bunch of video effects.

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Mixcraft's Horror song kit is ready for Halloween.

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Right-click the MIDI Learn button to pop up the MIDI Control Surfaces dialog that appears on the Mix menu.
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