My only real complaint is that the sample content is not included on the installation CD for ‘physical’ copies of Mixcraft. The Mixcraft installer is fractionally less than 10MB in size, so downloading is no great inconvenience. Mixcraft development is active, to say the least: no fewer than three updated builds were made available while I was writing this review, each one providing a handful of small bug–fixes and minor refinements. My review copy arrived on CD–ROM, but I was prompted to go on–line and download the latest update as soon as the installation wizard had finished. Mixcraft can either be purchased on CD–ROM or bought on–line and downloaded directly from the Acoustica website. Where Mixcraft currently differs from these rivals is in its lack of support for plug–in instruments or provision of basic MIDI sequencing functionality, although these features are apparently in the works for version 4.0. Moreover - like Acid, GarageBand and Sequel - Mixcraft also aims to make working with sampled loops as easy as possible. Visually, Mixcraft 3 is reminiscent of Apple’s (Mac–only) GarageBand and Steinberg’s Sequel, both of which seem to have borrowed the same multi–pane all–in–one–window layout from Sony’s Acid.
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