Conceptually, it's a close cousin to programs like Apple's GarageBand and Sony's Acid, and it employs a similar multi‑pane, single‑window user interface. Briefly, it provides multitrack audio and MIDI recording and sequencing, with integrated tools for working easily with sampled audio loops in different keys and at different tempos. The current version of Mixcraft, unsurprisingly, retains all the features that characterised the previous versions. Support for Windows 98, ME, NT and 2000 has, quite understandably, been dropped. At present, a 1GHz CPU and 2GB of RAM are the least you'll need, in a machine running Windows XP, Vista or 7. As is the way of these things, the minimum system requirements have crept steadily upwards with each new release. Mixcraft is available for PCs running Windows only. (I'd personally recommend the download version, as the pace of development is such that it's likely the first thing you'll be prompted to do after installing from disc is connect to the Internet and download the latest update.) Boxed versions are also available, for slightly more. This may be thanks in part to the vagaries of the exchange rate, but even so, it represents a pretty good deal.
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Registration costs $74.95, which at the time of writing is just slightly under £50 - approximately the same as version 4.1 would have cost a buyer in the UK on its initial release.
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So, as the program reaches version 5.0, does Mixcraft still live up to Acoustica's motto that "Software should be easy to use”? Previously In SOSĪs with previous versions, Mixcraft is available to download from and runs as a feature‑limited demo unless a registration code is purchased.
New features are, generally speaking, to be welcomed - but for an application whose greatest strengths are, arguably, ease of use and affordability, there's a danger that a lengthening feature list might alienate the very audience it hopes to attract, especially if it's accompanied by a swelling price tag. The developer's change log contains an extensive list of bug‑fixes (some large, most small) since version 4.1, the last to be reviewed in SOS, and records the introduction of some significant new features, too. It's a couple of years since Acoustica's Mixcraft last made an appearance in these pages, and development has continued steadily during that period. But has it retained its trademark ease of use? Acoustica's affordable DAW has acquired some significant new features, including video support, score editing and a fully fledged mixer.
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