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Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio Specifications

  • System Requirements

    Windows 7 SP1, 8 or 10 (64 or 32-bit)
    8 GB RAM
    1.8 GHz Dual Core CPU (Quad Core or higher recommended)
    Sound card, USB, or Firewire sound device
    Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio requires Internet access for Voltage Modular Ignite and Melodyne activation
    Voltage Modular Ignite (included in Mixcraft Pro Studio) requires 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Mixcraft

About Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio

The Industry's Best Workflow
Created by musicians, for musicians, Mixcraft is unrivaled in the industry for its ease-of-use and raw power. Record and mix your tracks to perfection, in record time, with Mixcraft's incredibly intuitive interface, lightning-fast sound engine, reality-defying pitch-shifting and time-stretching technology, and nearly-universal support for third-party plug-ins, audio interfaces, and hardware controllers.

Don't just take our word for it. There's a reason Mixcraft has been honored with so many awards from so many respected magazines, including Electronic Musician, Computer Music, MusicTech, and Keyboard Magazine.

A Complete Recording Studio
Record an unlimited number of audio and virtual instrument tracks, edit, crop, and crossfade sounds effortlessly, add tons of effects and automation, and mix and master your project to WAV, MP3, and other formats.

Massive Loop Library
Mixcraft's massive loop library features over 7,500 professionally-produced loops, music beds, sound effects, and percussion samples, in a massive array of genres. Infinitely broaden your sound palette with built-in Freesound.org browsing and import functions.

Live Performance
Mixcraft's Performance Panel offers incredible features for live performance and loop-based composition, rivaling the best DAWs on the market. Trigger audio and MIDI loops with a Launchpad, MIDI controller, or even your typing keyboard. Record directly to slots, and make real-time edits to sounds mid-performance.

MIDI Scoring and Editing
Compose and edit performances with Mixcraft's powerful piano roll editor, notation editor, and step editor views. Create tempo-synced MIDI automation with Mixcraft's powerful new automation tools, and use the new Step Recording feature to create perfect MIDI patterns.

Instruments and Effects
Mixcraft's suite of effects and instruments is unrivaled, featuring a massive library of sampled instruments, powerful samplers, authentic emulations of classic synthesizers, electric pianos, rock organs, and a massive suite of ToneBoosters reverbs, compressors, filters, equalizers, and other effects.

Mixcraft Pro Studio is packed with additional plugins, including Voltage Modular Ignite, Melodyne Essentials, iZotope Mastering Essentials, Pianissimo Grand Piano, incredible effects and instruments from ToneBoosters, G-Sonique, Applied Acoustics, Memorymoon, Cherry Audio, and so much more!

Advanced Routing and Control
Mixcraft is packed with routing and control features, including nested submixes, track grouping, output tracks, native sidechaining, advanced MIDI routing, and so much more.

Mixcraft offers support for a vast array of hardware control surfaces, including Mackie Control-compatible mixing boards and Novation's Launchpad.

Video Editing
Mixcraft is more than just a recording studio - it's also a feature-packed pro video editing and scoring environment. Edit, crop, and crossfade video clips, create seamless video transitions, add titles and scrolling text, and mix it all down to a variety of web-friendly formats.

Mixing and Mastering
View and edit multiple parameters simultaneously with powerful lane and clip-based automation tools. Every sound features independent volume, pitch, and filter automation, and a master tempo track offers flexible tempo changes. Mixcraft 9's new curved automation and automation-editing features make it easier than ever to create the perfect mix.

Mixcraft's mixer is packed with power, with every mixer channel featuring overdrive, compression, parametric equalization, an oscilloscope, and a spectral analyzer.

New in Mixcraft 9

New Visuals, Detachable Panels
Featuring our sleekest and most flexible interface yet, Mixcraft 9's workflow remains the fastest in the industry. Panels through the software can be detached and positioned around your screen, and the transport is now undockable as well, and can be moved to the top of the interface.

Curved Automation + Tempo and Pitch Automation
Create smooth, complex curves for all types of automation. New pitch automation on all audio clips, and new master tempo envelope for smooth tempo transitions throughout a track.

Vocoder Tracks
Vocoders, which turn your voice into robotic sounds, are found everywhere in today's dance, pop, and electronic music. Our groundbreaking new Vocoder Tracks make it easy to add vocoder sounds to your projects with a single click

New Effects and Instruments
You won't believe the quality of Mixcraft 9's new plug-ins, from Toneboosters, Cherry Audio, and Acoustica.

Mixcraft 9 Record Studio's new suite of plug-ins includes TB MultiFX, TB Reverb, TB Parametric Equalizer, TB BusCompressor, TB Barricade, TB De-esser, TB Compressor, and the new Acoustica Vocoder.

Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio adds TB Dither, TB FlX, TB FlX4, and Voltage Modular Ignite.

New Mixer Panels
Mixcraft 9's mixer is loaded with new features providing immediate control of very powerful effects on every channel, including the new Gain, Drive, Parametric EQ, Compressor, Oscilloscope, and Spectrum Analyzer panels.

Advanced Plug-in Automation and Control
Plug-in parameters can now be controlled by MIDI, side-chained to audio, and modulated by tempo-synced LFOs, all from a new, streamlined interface.

Step Recording + Piano Roll Improvements
Create patterns and arpeggiations with ease using the new Step Recording feature in Mixcraft 9's piano roll interface. New line tools and LFO tools make creating MIDI automation easier than ever.

Features
• Over 7,500 loops, sound effects, and samples
• Live Performance Panel
• Music Notation, Step Editor, Piano Roll Editor
• Video Editing
• Unlimited tracks
• Master Tempo Envelope
• Curved Automation
• Vocoder Tracks
• Gain, Drive, Parametric EQ, Compressor, Oscilloscope, and Spectrum Analyzer Mixer Panels
• Tempo-Synced LFOs For Plug-In Automation
• MIDI Step Recording
• Rewire Hosting

Instruments

Audio Examples
• Acoustica Instruments
• Acoustica Expanded Instruments
• Acoustica Studio Drums
• Alien 303 Bass Synthesizer
• Alpha Sampler
• Combo Organ Model F &V
• Journeys
• Lounge Lizard Electric Piano
• Messiah Version 1 & 2
• Minimogue VA
• Omni Sampler
• Renegade
• VB3 Organ

Effects

Audio Examples
• Acoustica Vocoder
• TB Barricade
• TB Broadcast Multiband Compressor
• TB BusCompressor
• TB Compressor
• TB DeEsser
• TB EZQ Equalizer
• TB MultiFX
• TB Parametric Equalizer
• TB Reverb
• EU ProMixEQ-10A New!
• DTC-1 Compressor New!
• ORB7000 Octave Reverb New!
• Voxengo Amp Simulator
• Voxengo Spectrum Analyzer
• GTune Guitar Tuner
• VocalZap
• Pultronic Tube EQ
• Shred Amp Simulator
• GSnap Pitch Correction

Legacy Instruments and Effects

• Acoustica Chorus
• Acoustica Compressor
• Acoustica Delay
• Acoustica Distortion
• Acoustica EQ
• Acoustica Flanger
• Acoustica Reverb
• Classic Auto-Filter
• Classic Chorus
• Classic Compressor
• Classic Delay
• Classic EQ
• Classic Flanger
• Classic Master Limiter
• Classic Phaser
• Classic Reverb
• Impulse