At just $89, it still features plenty of useful tools including the music notation, step and piano-roll editors unlimited tracks 28 effects, and 15 virtual instruments, plus those 7,500 loops. Recording StudioĮven cheaper! Mixcraft 8 Recording Studio is the cut-down version of Pro Studio, aimed at home and project- studio users. Add a bundle of iZotope Mastering Essentials plug-ins and Celemony’s Melodyne Essentials and it seems that Acoustica has done a great job as a kind of software farmer, gathering a fantastic flock of titles to its Pro Studio farm. Then there’s the ME80 and Memorymoon vintage synths, both based on classic Yamaha and Moog synths respectively.Ī jewel in the crown has to be the Pianissimo piano instrument a physically modelled piano that also combines Steinway samples. The latest update includes Kastelheimer Veldberg XD, a synth described as having a ‘cold, heavy and ultra-sharp sound, with analogue-sounding liquid filters and hard oscillators’.

But it’s that claimed $1,250 of plug-ins where it gets really interesting. Turning to the features in more detail, Pro Studio has unlimited audio tracks three types of editing (piano roll, notation and step) video-editing facilities and a not inconsiderable 7,500 samples (hits, loops and effects). Mixcraft 8: Up on features, Down on Price And with this top-end Pro Studio version selling for just $179, it already seems like the DAW deal of the century.

This is a PC-only DAW but, on the face of it, it comes with a staggering featureset that not only includes a list of pro features, but also bundles $1,250 worth of extras. We last looked at Mixcraft a couple of years ago, so it’s high time that we gave it another in-depth look. Most recently, we looked at Tracktion Waveform, a fantastically neat DAW that pretty much does everything you could need on any machine, and there are plenty more contenders from the likes of Bitwig, PreSonus and this – the latest update to Mixcraft from Acoustica.

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