DISCONTINUED Acoustica Mixcraft 4 Multi-track Recording Software, Education

Full Description

Only available to Educational Establishments - Proof of educational status is required

• Clear, colorful, and intelligently designed interface to streamline your work.
• Custom loop library includes hundreds of royalty-free sounds in dozens of musical styles.
• Works with Acid and Apple Garage Band loops.
• Record multiple MIDI and audio tracks simultaneously.
• Piano roll to view and edit MIDI.
• Includes a General MIDI library, two sampled grand pianos, Hammond B-3 emulator, MiniMoog emulator and a polyphonic synthesizer.
• Includes 18 high quality effects.
• Create mega presets that layer and split multiple virtual synthesizers and effects.
• Add unlimited VSTi instruments, VST and DirectX effects.
• Mix down to MP3, WAV and other audio file types.
• Burn CDs of your mix with just one click.

Sound Engine

• Wave (WDM), ASIO and Vista's WaveRT low latency audio support.
• MIDI input and output support. Will work with any USB MIDI keyboard or any keyboard connected to a MIDI interface.
• Support for VSTi virtual instruments. Bundled virtual instruments include: MinimogueVA classic analog synthesizer recreation, VB3 Organ virtual tonewheel organ with rotary speaker emulator, Impulse polyphonic analog synthesizer, Acoustica Instruments, a large collection of high quality multi-sampled instruments organized in General MIDI format, Acoustica Grand Piano and Acoustica Classical Piano, ultra-professional 250 Megabyte quadruple-strike sampled grand pianos.
• 32 bit sound engine supports recording and playback of broadcast quality audio up to 192 kHz and 32 bits.
• Time stretch any sound from 25 to 400 with FlexAudio without affecting the pitch! No chipmunks!
• Pitch shift sounds from -24 to +12 semitones!
• Use an unlimited number of tracks and effects.
• Automatically detects beats points, keys and tempos of imported songs.
• Import WAV, AIF, OGG, WMA, and MP3 files!
• 18 powerful, built-in, effects including reverb, delay, EQ, compressor, flanger, chorus, distortion, auto filter, master limiter, phaser and a guitar amp simulator.
• Shape each sound's volume, pan and resonant filters with unlimited envelope points.
• Support for DirectX & VST effects, including plug-in delay compensation.

Interface

• Edit any sound to make a loop. Pick sections of prerecorded songs and extract and perfect loops for remixing. Adjust loop points to visual beat marks.
• Edit MIDI data in the piano roll editor. Perfect MIDI loops by adjusting the loop points. Edit notes and controller information.
• Create mega presets which combine multiple virtual instruments and effects. Set the key range, velocity sensitivity, transposition, pan and volume for each instrument.
• Load in standard MIDI files.
• Add your own photos or images to each track header.
• Edit each track's color, size and position in a variety of ways.
• Intuitive design and keyboard controls for quick work flow.
• Work in beats / measures mode or in time mode.
• Adjust the snap to grid setting which allows you to work and edit in whole notes, quarter notes, etc.
• Split, cut, copy, delete and paste sounds with ease.
• Easily move sounds around with drag and drop or via the keyboard.
• Cross fade sounds automatically by visually overlapping them.
• Create precise, custom loops extracted from existing songs.

System Requirements

• Windows XP, or Vista.
• 512 MB Ram (2 GB RAM recommended).
• 1.0 Ghz CPU ( 2 Ghz Dual Core recommended).
• Sound card or sound device.
• Display resolution @ 800 x 600 (1024 x 768 or greater recommended).
• Optional MIDI keyboard.