Can Mixcraft do this, and how do you use the user manual?

[Vhailor]

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User manual question first: it's 803 pages and there's no index or table of contents or anything at all to help you learn of the existence of, and navigate to, any particular topic. Am I missing something, possibly something very obvious to everyone but me? Well, wouldn't be the first time.

How do you use it?

PS The online manual is not too helpful, being basically an eyesore. What amuses me is the arrowheads. What a bizarre way to do things...


Main point:

Here's something that I need to do constantly: I have a li'l audio loop, just a few seconds in length. What I need to do is the set Mixcraft's bpm so that the audio loop will be exactly one measure of the song. So that, if that audio loop is 3.456 seconds long, Mixcraft will set the project's bpm so that each measure will be that same 3.456 seconds long, and if I paste that li'l clip any number of times, the playback will be perfect with the adjacent clips neither overlapping nor having gaps between them.

I found nothing in the online manual that seemed applicable and as for anything in the pdf manual, well, I have no idea what's hidden in its vast depths.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!
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[cactus-head]

Hello,

For reference, the left side of the online help menu is the major table of contents and clicking on any of those headings breaks out additional submenus. From the main online manual page choose Clips and the Main Clipboard > Audio Clips and that will give you all the info you need for managing the audio clips. Look specifically for Flexaudio and time stretch. Also at the top of the online page (Get Started) there is a link to download the manual as PDF. You can use PDF search tools within that.

Direct process: If the BMP info is in the clip (metadata), mixcraft will ask if you want to set the project tempo to that BPM. If not and you know what BMP you want, set the project BMP, set the timeline to snap to grid/Beats, load the clip starting directly on a measure, hold CTRL and drag the right side of clip to make it longer or shorter to fit within the measure length you want.

[Acoustica Greg]

Another way to navigate the manual is to download the PDF and then search it (Ctrl+F) for keywords.

[rev.f]

Here's something that I need to do constantly: I have a li'l audio loop, just a few seconds in length. What I need to do is the set Mixcraft's bpm so that the audio loop will be exactly one measure of the song. So that, if that audio loop is 3.456 seconds long, Mixcraft will set the project's bpm so that each measure will be that same 3.456 seconds long, and if I paste that li'l clip any number of times, the playback will be perfect with the adjacent clips neither overlapping nor having gaps between them.

When I have this issue, I change the tempo until the loop fits or almost fits onto a measure. Then I make the loop fit on the measure with time stretch or something. Hope that helps.

[Vhailor]

Here's something that I need to do constantly: I have a li'l audio loop, just a few seconds in length. What I need to do is the set Mixcraft's bpm so that the audio loop will be exactly one measure of the song. So that, if that audio loop is 3.456 seconds long, Mixcraft will set the project's bpm so that each measure will be that same 3.456 seconds long, and if I paste that li'l clip any number of times, the playback will be perfect with the adjacent clips neither overlapping nor having gaps between them.

When I have this issue, I change the tempo until the loop fits or almost fits onto a measure. Then I make the loop fit on the measure with time stretch or something. Hope that helps.

Thanks for the reply!

I have a li'l freeware applet from MixMeister BPM Analyzer but there are others, also free, and the one I use will calculate the bpm of a file to 2 decimal places. I have some (generally unfounded but nonetheless nagging) doubts about its accuracy, though, and I ought to compare it with some other similar applets.

So I took a li'l drum loop, and used this applet to get its equivalent tempo, which in this case was 92.26 bpm. Mixcraft will not accept this and rounded it up to 92.3. So I set the project's tempo to 92.3 and then pasted in a succession of these clips one after another, snapping to the beginning of each measure. Playing them didn't feel like the timing was off, and there were no audible gaps in the sounds, although I only pasted three of them, but I am pretty sure that the timing would not drift into audibility if I pasted 100 of them.

It's an okay workaround, I guess. Nuendo let me set the length of a measure to the clip's exact length, and that's much easier.

(Someone with a good grasp of math could actually figure out the difference in length, measured in seconds and milliseconds, between one measure at 92.26 bpm and 92.3 bpm. But I, alas, am pretty much innumerate...)

[Vhailor]

Hello,

For reference, the left side of the online help menu is the major table of contents and clicking on any of those headings breaks out additional submenus. From the main online manual page choose Clips and the Main Clipboard > Audio Clips and that will give you all the info you need for managing the audio clips. Look specifically for Flexaudio and time stretch. Also at the top of the online page (Get Started) there is a link to download the manual as PDF. You can use PDF search tools within that.

Another way to navigate the manual is to download the PDF and then search it (Ctrl+F) for keywords.

Thanks for the replies!

The pdf needs a table of contents and an index. A table of contents serves as an overview and outline of the program. Using a browser search function to for things presupposes that I know that the thing exists in the first place, which I might not. The online help seems to be a kind of skeleton key to the program and seems to contain only a fraction of what's in the manual. And since nothing in the manual is easily discoverable because of the missing and sorely-missed index and table of contents, the program is far more difficult to learn to use in more than a basic way, than it needs to be.

I had a very frustrating day because of the difficulty in using the manual.

Just hire someone to compile them. The lack of these things is really incomprehensible.

[Acoustica Greg]

Hi,

Thank you for the suggestion!

Greg

[Passionpasi]

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