aidan o driscoll Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, daveiv said: Mixcraft also costs peanuts, and it's very serviceable. Get Home Studio for $10 from Steam right now, upgrade to Recording Studio for $40 bucks on their website! Alternatively in the past many of us would have got an earlier version of Mixcraft in a HUMBLE BUNDLE so should allow an upgrade also Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio was included in a bundle called "HUMBLE SOFTWARE BUNDLE: MEGA SOUND DESIGNER LOOP CRATE" in sept 2020. That bundle cost €25 inc Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio + Mixcraft 8 Home Studio The only upgrade from Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio is to Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio for $79 BUT looking at compare its really not worth it. The Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio has pretty much all the core stuff thats in Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio. Pro just has a load of extra own plugins which you probably have covered already with your own plugs https://acoustica.com/mixcraft/compare-chart Edited August 25, 2022 by aidan o driscoll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 3 hours ago, aidan o driscoll said: The Mixcraft 9 Recording Studio has pretty much all the core stuff thats in Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio. Pro just has a load of extra own plugins which you probably have covered already with your own plugs But if you're starting out, the pro makes sense IMHO ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 25, 2022 Author Share Posted August 25, 2022 (edited) Mixcraft Recording Studio (and Pro Studio) has the Performance Panel. "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." I don't use Mixcraft, but believe this feature is somewhat similar to the "Session View" in Ableton Live, or the Bitwig Studio "Clip Launcher". Funnily enough, the now defunct legacy Cakewalk Project 5 had a similar feature. The bakers tried to move some of it's functionality over to Sonar as the "Matrix", but IMO it came up a bit short, and has never really been realized to it's full potential. Edited August 25, 2022 by abacab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aidan o driscoll Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 21 minutes ago, abacab said: Funnily enough, the now defunct legacy Cakewalk Project 5 had a similar feature. The bakers tried to move some of it's functionality over to Sonar as the "Matrix", but IMO it came up a bit short, and has never really been realized to it's full potential. Im still waiting for some serious love toward the MATRIX from Bandlab TBH. It could be a serious game change feature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 25, 2022 Author Share Posted August 25, 2022 Just now, aidan o driscoll said: Im still waiting for some serious love toward the MATRIX from Bandlab TBH. It could be a serious game change feature Preferably by having the Cakewalk "Matrix" setup like the Performance Panel in Mixcraft, which is "in-line" with the tracks they represent. Just as it was in Cakewalk Project 5. Having it in another tab, or docker, or page view is just a workflow killer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InstrEd Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 That is o e of the reasons I have Mixcraft on my laptop. I love the Performance Panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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abacab Posted August 25, 2022 Author Share Posted August 25, 2022 Well back on topic, Mixcraft suffers from the same limitation as Cakewalk, as it's not cross platform. Windows only! Plus it's not completely free! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Rintoul Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 5 minutes ago, abacab said: Well back on topic, Mixcraft suffers from the same limitation as Cakewalk, as it's not cross platform. Windows only! Plus it's not completely free! I thought the topic was traction waveform :). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveiv Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Another issue with Mixcraft: non-modifiable keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+B for split, seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 25, 2022 Author Share Posted August 25, 2022 42 minutes ago, Doug Rintoul said: I thought the topic was traction waveform :). LOL, I probably didn't correctly say what I was thinking. A period would have been better punctuation than a comma in the example. You are correct. Well back on topic. I was attempting to express that this thread had gone way off track, and not even close to the original topic. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubdisciple Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 I never minded that CW wasn't cross-platform. In my experience, Mac users that truly find a program useful will just buy a cheap pc . Tons of FL user did this for years and some still do since mac version can be a little odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 25, 2022 Author Share Posted August 25, 2022 Gotcha, but that's a different topic as well... ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubdisciple Posted August 25, 2022 Share Posted August 25, 2022 Cakewalk as is was never going to be appealing to mac users enough to offset expense of conversion 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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abacab Posted August 27, 2022 Author Share Posted August 27, 2022 Interesting extra bit! I didn't catch that DAW Essentials were now part of Waveform 12 Free now, as I already had DAW essentials from an earlier Waveform Pro bundle. Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kitekrazy1 Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 6 minutes ago, abacab said: Interesting extra bit! I didn't catch that DAW Essentials were now part of Waveform 12 Free now, as I already had DAW essentials from an earlier Waveform Pro bundle. Nice! When Cakewalk went defunct we were given a code to get Waveform Pro. I didn't need the extra plugins included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 On 8/22/2022 at 1:23 PM, dubdisciple said: I tried to like tracktion. I just don't lol Same here. I feel that way with Cubase. I tend to like DAWs that only take a click to start working. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveiv Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 What is wrong with Tracktion? Bad UI? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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