Acoustica Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio Student/Teacher Edition (Download)
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Mixcraft 10.5 is the latest version of the renowned digital audio workstation for Windows from Acoustica, designed for musicians by musicians. With its unique combination of ease of use and professional features at an irresistible price, Mixcraft has been a favorite among music enthusiasts and professionals since its introduction in 2004.
Ready to take your music to the next level? Then look no further than Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio. Not only does it include dozens of more instruments, effects, and utilities, Pro Studio has some impressive innovations such as the new Track Regions feature. With Track Regions, you can select, move, copy, and paste sections of your project, including multiple clips and automation as a group. Track Regions is a convenient master track and submix track feature that makes light work of retooling song arrangements. Instead of editing and moving individual clips, edits made to the selected horizontal bar in the grouped tracks affect all clips beneath, including region and lane automation. Once you try it, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it!
Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio is the ultimate music production powerhouse, equipped with the tools to let you get the most out of your valuable plug-in collection. Pro Studio provides new and advanced MIDI and audio options that enable you to route the output of a plug-in to use with others. Now you can easily route and record the output, for instance, of a MIDI-generating plug-in such as an arpeggiator or chord generator to another plug-in, natively with Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio.
Innovation and quality are at the core of Mixcraft Pro Studio, and with the release of Mixcraft 10.5, this professional virtual studio has only become more impressive. Not only does it still include essential and highly regarded plug-ins such as Melodyne, Voltage Modular Ignite, and Pianissimo, it now boasts the addition of three innovative products from Cherry Audio. The DCO-106 Polyphonic Synthesizer offers a detailed recreation of an iconic 80s polysynth with the modern features today's music producers expect. The Stardust 201 Tape Echo is a hot-rodded version of classic 70s and 80s tape delay effects. Galactic provides users with a highly coveted digital reverb with a decay time of up to 35 seconds. These plug-ins represent an additional $100 value, all yours as part of Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio.
Other NEW Features include:
Mixcraft 10.5 now boasts a fresh, more intuitive interface that remains familiar to fans but is easy for new users to dive in and begin creating. The Mixcraft 10 interface has been revamped to be more intuitive and scalable, regardless of your monitor or resolution. There are more track color options, and you can even give each clip its own individual color. The menus are streamlined, with options to pin pop-up menus open to make multiple changes faster, and batch editing functions are available for any selected MIDI clips directly from the main window. Drag clips and their automation between tracks while maintaining their position in the timeline, and you can temporarily disable snapping. Automation can be dragged, dropped, and copied, and multiple automation points are easier than ever to modify.
The updated Start Panel combines several convenient functions. It gives you everything you need to start a new project, open an existing one, and customize your launch experience. Mixcraft 10 does most of the browsing for you by listing your saved projects in recent order, and provides you with date and project length information. And the search box will help you quickly find just the project you're looking for. A drop-down menu lets you quickly select from your saved templates, and the familiar defaults page now enables you to choose which template to open in Mixcraft. The right side of the Panel also keeps you plugged into Acoustica and the latest Mixcraft content with direct live links to videos, announcements, updates, and tutorials.
Misbehaving plug-ins can be the greatest source of instability in a project. We've taken steps with Mixcraft 10 the reduce the risk of lost projects by redesigning the plug-in architecture and giving you better ways to manage your plug-ins. The robust new displays native and third-party installed virtual instruments and effects plug-ins, and the Categories window provides various filters for which plug-ins are displayed. You can even group plug-ins into your own custom collections for more immediate access. The Manager displays several parameters such as VST type, manufacturer, 32- or 64-bit, last used, category, and more. A plug-in can be renamed, and easily enabled/disabled if it is potentially causing issues. 64-bit plug-ins now have a Safe Mode option, allowing them to run in a separate process, providing even more stability to your projects.
Finding the right instrument or loop for your latest project can be a time-consuming process, but Mixcraft 10.5 just made the search a whole lot more convenient with the integrated Mixcraft Store. Now, when inspiration strikes, you can quickly and easily browse a wide variety of free and paid products from multiple manufacturers, all from one central location. With an ever-increasing selection of best-in-class sample and loop libraries, virtual instruments and effects, presets, templates, and drum kits, you're sure to find exactly what you're looking for. And with new content being added regularly, you never know what exciting new tools are just waiting to be discovered and made part of your sound.
In Mixcraft 10.5, you can now assign various commands their own custom keyboard shortcuts, consisting of single or multiple keys, which can speed up your workflow. Dozens of hotkey shortcuts are already pre-configured in the default set as a starting point. Assignments can be freely changed and saved, and you can create additional custom assignments. Groups of hotkey assignments can be saved as sets and named. This allows multiple users to save and use their personalized hotkey sets easily and makes moving sets between different computers effortless.
Mixcraft 10.5's Piano Roll and MIDI Step Editor panels have received a significant facelift, making them more intuitive and responsive to your needs. The redesigned interface is now more user-friendly, with clearer notes, and steps can be color-coded according to MIDI channel or note. Users can also view notes from multiple selected clips simultaneously. Advanced note selection functions, such as selecting steps by velocity or duration, are also available. Users can now drag notes vertically without altering their timing, and the snap-to-scale function ensures that new notes stay in key. With new larger handles, editing velocity and other MIDI CC data is now a breeze.
Having the right tools, including hardware, to get to your sound is essential in music production. That's why we're thrilled to announce that Mixcraft 10 has just added a new controller script API built on Javascript. This means that we can now support any MIDI-based control surface device to help bring your music to life. We've already received feedback from our loyal users on some of the most popular controllers out there, and we've added support for them within Mixcraft 10. And the best part? There are even more controllers to come to customize your production experience to your heart's content. With Mixcraft 10's commitment to supporting more control surfaces, creating your music your way is easier than ever.
The Mixcraft 10 mixer controls have undergone a stunning and sharp redesign, making them even more intuitive and accessible. Swapping channels, inverting phase, setting to mono, and adjusting stereo width now takes a few clicks, streamlining your workflow like never before. Plus, the mixing panel is now equipped with a special track icon view, providing more straightforward and intuitive navigation throughout your project. With the added benefit of hiding preview and master tracks, managing your mix has never been smoother. An improved top-of-mixer track meter never scrolls out of view, perfect for keeping a closer eye on the details. And as with the new piano roll, you can easily hide or show panel preferences.
Other Features include:
With Mixcraft, users can record and mix unlimited tracks to perfection. It features almost universal third-party plugin support and supports audio interfaces and hardware controllers. Mixcraft's loop library has over 7,500 professionally-produced loops, music beds, sound effects, and samples in diverse genres. Additionally, there are a vast library of effects and instruments that include a suite of ToneBoosters reverbs, compressors, filters, equalizers, classic synthesizers, electric pianos, rock organs and sampled instruments.
Mixcraft is also loaded with routing and control features, advanced MIDI routing, and clip-based automation tools. Its Performance Panel is ideal for live performance and loop-based composition, and it is also a feature-packed video editing and scoring environment that offers seamless transitions, titles, and scrolling text. Mixcraft offers an all-in-one solution to all your audio and video editing needs in a single virtual studio package.
NEW! Features in Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio include:
Track Regions
Ready to take your music to the next level? Then look no further than Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio. Not only does it include dozens of more instruments, effects, and utilities, Pro Studio has some impressive innovations such as the new Track Regions feature. With Track Regions, you can select, move, copy, and paste sections of your project, including multiple clips and automation as a group. Track Regions is a convenient master track and submix track feature that makes light work of retooling song arrangements. Instead of editing and moving individual clips, edits made to the selected horizontal bar in the grouped tracks affect all clips beneath, including region and lane automation. Once you try it, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it!
Advanced MIDI and Audio Options
Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio is the ultimate music production powerhouse, equipped with the tools to let you get the most out of your valuable plug-in collection. Pro Studio provides new and advanced MIDI and audio options that enable you to route the output of a plug-in to use with others. Now you can easily route and record the output, for instance, of a MIDI-generating plug-in such as an arpeggiator or chord generator to another plug-in, natively with Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio.
Additional Value-Packed Plug-ins
Innovation and quality are at the core of Mixcraft Pro Studio, and with the release of Mixcraft 10.5, this professional virtual studio has only become more impressive. Not only does it still include essential and highly regarded plug-ins such as Melodyne, Voltage Modular Ignite, and Pianissimo, it now boasts the addition of three innovative products from Cherry Audio. The DCO-106 Polyphonic Synthesizer offers a detailed recreation of an iconic 80s polysynth with the modern features today's music producers expect. The Stardust 201 Tape Echo is a hot-rodded version of classic 70s and 80s tape delay effects. Galactic provides users with a highly coveted digital reverb with a decay time of up to 35 seconds. These plug-ins represent an additional $100 value, all yours as part of Mixcraft 10.5 Pro Studio.
Other NEW Features include:
Interface Improvements
Mixcraft 10.5 now boasts a fresh, more intuitive interface that remains familiar to fans but is easy for new users to dive in and begin creating. The Mixcraft 10 interface has been revamped to be more intuitive and scalable, regardless of your monitor or resolution. There are more track color options, and you can even give each clip its own individual color. The menus are streamlined, with options to pin pop-up menus open to make multiple changes faster, and batch editing functions are available for any selected MIDI clips directly from the main window. Drag clips and their automation between tracks while maintaining their position in the timeline, and you can temporarily disable snapping. Automation can be dragged, dropped, and copied, and multiple automation points are easier than ever to modify.
New in Mixcraft 10.5! The Quick Access panel enables users to quickly add, remove, and reorder instruments and effects on virtual tracks.
Project Start Panel
The updated Start Panel combines several convenient functions. It gives you everything you need to start a new project, open an existing one, and customize your launch experience. Mixcraft 10 does most of the browsing for you by listing your saved projects in recent order, and provides you with date and project length information. And the search box will help you quickly find just the project you're looking for. A drop-down menu lets you quickly select from your saved templates, and the familiar defaults page now enables you to choose which template to open in Mixcraft. The right side of the Panel also keeps you plugged into Acoustica and the latest Mixcraft content with direct live links to videos, announcements, updates, and tutorials.
New in Mixcraft 10.5! Preset Project Templates, which offer task-specific presets for podcasting setups, mastering, video editing, and more.
New Plug-In Architecture and Manager
Misbehaving plug-ins can be the greatest source of instability in a project. We've taken steps with Mixcraft 10 the reduce the risk of lost projects by redesigning the plug-in architecture and giving you better ways to manage your plug-ins. The robust new
Updated in Mixcraft 10.5: more improvements in stability and plug-in support, making your favorite plug-ins more stable than ever before. And the new Auto-Save feature with user-defined intervals further reduces the risk of projects lost or corrupted due to misbehaving plug-ins.
Mixcraft Store
Finding the right instrument or loop for your latest project can be a time-consuming process, but Mixcraft 10.5 just made the search a whole lot more convenient with the integrated Mixcraft Store. Now, when inspiration strikes, you can quickly and easily browse a wide variety of free and paid products from multiple manufacturers, all from one central location. With an ever-increasing selection of best-in-class sample and loop libraries, virtual instruments and effects, presets, templates, and drum kits, you're sure to find exactly what you're looking for. And with new content being added regularly, you never know what exciting new tools are just waiting to be discovered and made part of your sound.
New in Mixcraft 10.5! The Mixcraft Store tab now offers over 100 items from top brands, including Addictive Drums, Antares, Baby Audio, Blue Cat, Cherry Audio, D16, FabFilter, Kilohearts, Kuassa, PSP Audioware, and more. Soundtrack Loops, Loopmasters, and others also offer a great selection of loops and sample packs. And the new Mixcraft Loyalty Credits program rewards Mixcraft users with points they can apply as virtual cash towards purchases in the expansive Mixcraft Store.
Hotkeys Editor
In Mixcraft 10.5, you can now assign various commands their own custom keyboard shortcuts, consisting of single or multiple keys, which can speed up your workflow. Dozens of hotkey shortcuts are already pre-configured in the default set as a starting point. Assignments can be freely changed and saved, and you can create additional custom assignments. Groups of hotkey assignments can be saved as sets and named. This allows multiple users to save and use their personalized hotkey sets easily and makes moving sets between different computers effortless.
Improved Piano Roll and MIDI Editing
Mixcraft 10.5's Piano Roll and MIDI Step Editor panels have received a significant facelift, making them more intuitive and responsive to your needs. The redesigned interface is now more user-friendly, with clearer notes, and steps can be color-coded according to MIDI channel or note. Users can also view notes from multiple selected clips simultaneously. Advanced note selection functions, such as selecting steps by velocity or duration, are also available. Users can now drag notes vertically without altering their timing, and the snap-to-scale function ensures that new notes stay in key. With new larger handles, editing velocity and other MIDI CC data is now a breeze.
Enhanced Controller Support
Having the right tools, including hardware, to get to your sound is essential in music production. That's why we're thrilled to announce that Mixcraft 10 has just added a new controller script API built on Javascript. This means that we can now support any MIDI-based control surface device to help bring your music to life. We've already received feedback from our loyal users on some of the most popular controllers out there, and we've added support for them within Mixcraft 10. And the best part? There are even more controllers to come to customize your production experience to your heart's content. With Mixcraft 10's commitment to supporting more control surfaces, creating your music your way is easier than ever.
Refined Mixer Controls
The Mixcraft 10 mixer controls have undergone a stunning and sharp redesign, making them even more intuitive and accessible. Swapping channels, inverting phase, setting to mono, and adjusting stereo width now takes a few clicks, streamlining your workflow like never before. Plus, the mixing panel is now equipped with a special track icon view, providing more straightforward and intuitive navigation throughout your project. With the added benefit of hiding preview and master tracks, managing your mix has never been smoother. An improved top-of-mixer track meter never scrolls out of view, perfect for keeping a closer eye on the details. And as with the new piano roll, you can easily hide or show panel preferences.
Other Features include:
- Updated User-Friendly Interface: more intuitive, customizable, and scalable
- Unlimited Audio and MIDI Tracks
- Over 7,500 loops, sound effects, and samples
- 16 Virtual Instruments and 36 Effects (24 instruments and over 50 effects in the Pro Studio version)
- Vocoder Tracks
- Curved, Tempo, and Pitch Envelopes
- Per-Track Parametric EQ & Oscilloscope
- Live Performance Panel
- Updated Piano Roll, Step Editor, and Music Notation panels
- Video Editing
- New - Integrated Mixcraft Store - additional virtual instruments, effects, loops, presets, drum kits, and more, with new content added regularly
- Improved Plug-In Architecture and Management - Better Search and Organization with an Optional Safe Mode
- Updated Project Start Window with Live Links to News, Videos, and Updates
- Master Tempo Envelope
- Curved Automation
- Gain, Drive, Parametric EQ, Compressor, Oscilloscope, and Spectrum Analyzer Mixer Panels
- Tempo-Synced LFOs For Plug-In Automation
- Rewire Hosting
- New Controller Scripts API for broader support of MIDI control surfaces and devices
- Custom Hot Key Assignments
- Drag-and-Drop Automation
- Track Regions - easily manipulate groups of clips and tracks, including their automations (Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio only)
- Advanced MIDI and Audio Output Recording and Routing (Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio only)
- Natively Integrated Melodyne (Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio only)
- Audio to MIDI Conversion (Mixcraft 10 Pro Studio only)
- Supported by the free Mixcraft Remote app for iOS and Android
- Comprehensive online User Manual with downloadable PDF (English only). Other online translations available.
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