Ball Kicks The Crap Out of Mixcraft

I have been accused of being a poster who kicked the living shit out of some Acoustica shills on the Acoustica/Mixcraft forum. As a result is scoured the Mixcraft forum and found out that Ball totally wrecked those fuckers. GO BALL!

Here's the thread.

Here are some excerpts.

Ball starts...

I am trying to redo a vocal track. I arm the track, the meter is moving when I sing, I hear the vocal in my headphones, I click record, I hear my voice (plenty of signal) and all the other tracks but it does not record when I play it back.

I closed Mixcraft and repoened it and still not recording. I tried different track and nothing.

Checked preferences and everything is correct.

Is this a common problem with Miscraft? Is there a remedy?

Tried the help menu and it doesn't

Any suggestions?

Tried another track now the POS froze.

Opened another track, track 9 and when I arm this track the meters start jumping for no apparent reason re-arm track 8 and the meters behave but it still won't record.

When MixCraft works it pretty good for a software multitracker but for me it has been a buggy POS. Is there any chance Mixcraft 7 will be debugged?

To Eric, you seemed a bit miffed regarding my critique of the usless loops and poor tempo adjustments but you know what, this product IMO has not lived up to the hype. MixCraft has some really nice features. The GUI is exceptionable but based on my reliability is a serious issue. I realize that today marketing is all about selling the sizzle but word of mouth can sink a product if it is truly a POS. I hope you guys test and fix your product before the jerk offs in marketing start selling them

Here's my review that I will be putting on Sound Cloud and my blogs.

MixCraft does not live up to the hype.

It has a good GUI some decent effects and a few good presets. The music library leaves a lot to be desired. Most of the loops are for non music music like electronica and that awful crap they play at raves.

MixCraft's biggest downfall is reliability. It simply stops working. If you are a singer/song writer or a band doing demos or recording rehearsals get a stand alone unit that can record tracks simultaneously. MixCraft pro can do that but you will need to buy a DAW interface and have a lot of RAM and a probably a very fast processor and a top of the line sound card.

MixCraft has great potential but currently it's too buggy and while it is not all that tough to learn the learning curve is made steep by the fact that the help menu doesn't help and the tutorials are low quality.
MixCraft might be fun for techno geeks who wants to dabble in music and solve software issues but for the creative professional and the serious amateur wanting to record music the reliability issues make MixCraft suck. While MixCraft is touted as the PC version of Garage Band it isn't. Garage Band is very stable.

I hope that this review gets the suits at Acoustica to hire some better design and software engineers who can understand what real musicans need and want. Perhaps a bug free version geared toward bands and singer/songwriters would could secure Acoustica a niche in the home recording market place where the other DAWs fall short. As it stands now MixCraft 6 is very unreliable and buggy.

Here are some dishonest comments form the Acoustica shills. They start with the blame the computer and offer no factual information or explanation. When Mixcraft and other DAWS fail... BLAME THE COMPUTER OR THE USER!

Yeah, the only problem with this review is that you seem to be the only user reporting these issues. The fact that no-one else reports these problems does seem to suggest that they are local to you and/or your system.

Some pretty slanderous stuff there IMHO - unless, of course, you can prove them...

Mixcraft works great for me.

Ball nails them with truth and logic and they increase the lying.

It's not my system. Other projects don't do that. When I load and existing project and try to record tracks they won't record. If it was a problem with my computer the MixCrap should identify it. There is no mystery here. The problem is with Mixcraft. It's buggy. Maybe the older versions were stable. Based on my experience Mixcraft 6 is unacceptable. Did Acoustica hire the people responsible for Window Vista? Maybe that is why they are getting 7 out.

Is there a patch that can fix MixCraft? Will Acoustica give Mixcraft 6 users a free upgrade to 7?

Here a Mixcraft shill attacks Ball:

clavguy wrote:

That's about enough of your %$#$...

If you can't call Mixcraft by its proper name, and you have have so use slanderous language, maybe you just just go back to Reaper, Cubase, FL or whatever you are using, delete Mixcraft from your system and get out of this forum.

Ball becomes a wrecking ball!

Who died and made you boss?

MixCraft may be fine for electronic musicians who like to nerd out splicing together sample and playing with effects. I make real music with real instruments that I took the time to learn to play. Maybe the reason there hasn't been a decent band since Metalica is because all these no talents churning out fake music with fake instruments instead of learning how to play.

I spent days looking for a ASIO driver to deal the the latency issues and all I could find is ASIO4all. The crap on CNET is full malware and nobody likes it. M5 had that problem viewtopic.php?p=37249

The simple answer would be for Acoustica to include an ASIO driver that works.

The best I can get M6 to do is 19 ms of latency before it will F up.

Here is what a google search reveals with the search term ASIO driver for Mixcraft 6 https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=asio+driver+for+mixcraft+6&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

Here is another thread on this forum regarding latency and ASIO drivers and it is another example of geek wannabes blaming the user's computer. http://forums.acoustica.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=39008

Acustica Greg directs the user to ASIO4all that won't work when monitoring during recording.

Since most people have laptops with RealTech sound cards that can only get to a 20 ms latency Mixcraft is not suitable for laptops. As far as I know you can't get a better upgrade sound card for a laptop that what is in it. Does Acoustica tell people that? NO THEY DON'T!!

Acoustica does not offer a solution for monitoring your performance during recording and like I said, I'm a REAL musician and that being the case we real musicians rely on out ears and we don't have time for BS.

Lucky for you clavguy you are behind a keyboard in your mommy's basement because if you had the balls to insult me to my face you'd be taking an ambulance ride the the ER.

FACT TIME!

FACT: The lowest non ASIO latency with Mixcraft on most computers is 19 ms. The only latency setting that works without mixcraft crashing is 100 ms or more.

FACT: Mixcraft will NOT run as advertised on most computers unless you can find a usb interface that is compatible with mixcraft. By the time you upgrade your computer and buy Mixcraft your can by a decent stand alone unit.

FACT: Acoustica does not tell buyers that they need hardware upgrades before Mixcraft with work right.

FACT: Acoustica has not adequately tested USB audio interfaces nor has it tested external sound cards for compatibility. They seem to rely on customer reports and anecdotal evidence.

FACT: Acoustica leads buyer to believe that Mixcraft will run on most computers when they know that it won't.

FACT: As far as I can find out, no commercial studio uses MixCraft pro so implying that is it professional software ie Mixcraft Pro is misleading.

Do anymore of you fact haters wish to get pwned?

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There are a lot more pages to this thread and and Ball lays waste to the shitheads. Go there and see for yourself before they delete the thread.

Mixcraft Crashing

Here is the first page that comes up in Google with the search term Mixcraft Crashing.


https://www.google.com/search?q=mixcraft+crashing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Here is what Mixcraft users are saying:

Mixcraft Constantly Crashing

I'm really starting to get frustrated with Mixcraft-6 today. I "finally" sorted out that annoying issue with midi sequencing with my Juno-Di where it was cutting off the first notes upon playback after quantizing.

However, fixing that just caused another PIA problem. Now when I close the program it crashes (or stops responding). It does this EVERY TIME now. If that's not enough of a PIA.., Mixcraft won't allow me access to my Log File now. WTH! Everytime I try to get the log file to send it in, I get "access denied".

Grrrrr.., really getting frustrated with this program now. A lot of people I talk to who use Mixcraft.., I find a vast majority (at least who I speak to) are guitar, bass, and drum players. On the Audio Side of things MC6 seems to really be set up well for those people. However.., for us keyboard players.., I'm noticing way too many failure issues lately with this application.

What am I to do for support requests if Mixcraft denies me access to my Log File.?.?

Read More Here  how the liars at Acoustica the Makers of MixCRAP blame everything and everyone but their buggy beta DAW.

And the Mixcraft crashing just keep on coming.

Look how Mixcraft fucked this guy!

I just finished making probably the greatest song that I've ever made, and when I went to play it back, a message popped up for half a second saying something like, "Mixcraft in experiencing a crash... ...a synthesizer problem with Alien 303 Synthesizer has caused... ...Alien 303 Synthesizer will be muted." The '...'s are all parts that I skipped over so I could read the whole gist of the message before the application closed and a Windows 7 error message appeared, stating that Mixcraft 6 has just crashed (No duhhh!!). Now, whenever the project is played back, Mixcraft crashes. Only when I hit the play button. I tested all the synth lines individually, and they worked fine for a minute and then mixcraft crashed again. Mixcraft hasn't shown any more error messages before crashing, and it doesn't even leave any log files.

More Mixcraft crashing! WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT!

Every time I try to open a mixcraft file with both an instrument track and an audio track, it doesnt open properly and it crashes. This occurs 80% of the time and I am getting extremely frustrated because I have been writing a track with guitar and drums.
It may have something to do with the drum plugin that i'm using but im not too sure.
The plugin I just mentioned is the EZ Drummer Drumkit From Hell if you need to know that.

My system has 8gb ram and an i5 core.

Once again a customer's Mixcraft crashes and the liars at Aounstica blame the computer.

Mixcraft crashes on me a lot. It seems to crash when I ask of it to do a large task. For instance, if Im working really quickly and il be slicing a clip up, something will cause mixcraft to have a hiccup and then crash. This happens with a vast amount of things to me. Another thing that bothers me, is that I feel that when there are a LOT of sound clips in 1 project Mixcraft becomes extremely sluggish in playback, making mixing and mastering almost impossible. If I let the terrible laggy playback continue, the screen will freeze and then will lead it to mixcraft crashing again. Another crash I get often is when I copy a big segment of the song im working on and when I paste it (in the correct track and everything mind you) the software will crash due to the sheer size of the clipboard im copying it to.

Midi crashes Mixcraft 

Looks like there is an even bigger issue; Mixcraft isn't allowing midi to be sent to Livemachine; it's only sending to the instrument track so it looks like its a no go at the moment.

Lucky I own Reaper as well  


Another disgruntled Mixcraft crash victim complains...

Hi,

I've been using Acoustica Mixcraft since version 3, I think it's a fantastic software because it's simple to use and the workflow is smooth and intuitive

The problem is that Mixcraft (even in recent versions 5.x) in extremely unstable

I don't make "modern" music, I mean... I don't need loops, samples or whatever, but I make HUGE use of VST. Tipically I have 8/10 tracks with Spectrasonics stuff, Superior Drummer, Absynth and other "heavy" VSTi... and ALL of them have VST effects like Waves, T-Racks and so on...
The result is that a certain point... BOOM!... Mixcraft crashes or start an unpredictable behaviour... need to say I lost some project, too

So the question is... what host could be SIMPLE (in workfolo and interface) like Mixcraft, but SOLID also after a ton of VSTi and effects loaded?

I'm on a quite good PC machine 

Let me be clear, Mixcraft is a TOTAL PIECE OF SHIT!  While Mixcraft as the potential of being a decent DAW as it stands now it is pretty much worthless.

Some Facts and Opinions About Mixcraft

UPDATE! Apparently this blog caught the attention of on the folks at Acoustica and now Mixcraft is a very stable DAW. Mixcraft 6.1 works quite well even when you push it hard. Finally Mixcraft has reached its potential. Let's hope they don't fuck things up when they release Mixcraft 7.

For me reliability is paramount and now Mixcraft is very reliable. The plugins that come with it are as good as the industry standard and you get lots of them. I have gone back to Mixcraft because I have not found another DAW that I like better. Other DAWs such as Cubase, Pro Tools, Presonus Studio One and Audition may work out their bugs but don't count on it. Go with what works. Mixcraft is now one of the few DAWs that work well.

WARNING TO ARTISTS: DON'T USE TUNECORE CLICK HERE

Mixcraft is a DAW. DAW means digital audio workstation. On the surface Mixcraft seems pretty good. It has a very user friendly GUI and the learing curve is not steep but that is where the good stuff ends.  Mixcraft is as buggy as a roach motel. After several weeks of evaluating Mixcraft 6 and trying to deal with crashes, freezes, driver and latency issues what at first glance seems like an answer to the many shitty and hard to learn DAWS reveals itself as piece of poorly designed software with more issues tha your average fat girl drama queen.

Latency is that annoying thing that happens when you record on many DAWs. Here's an example. You have just recorded a drum track and now you are playing the bass track but as you are plucking the strings what you are hearing in your headphone is not in sync with the drums. That's latency and it sucks.

Acoustica, the company who sells Mixcraft would like you to believe that 40 - 80 millisecond is acceptable latency. It isn't. It gets sleazier. Mixcraft's marketing implies that Mixcraft will run seamlessly on nearly all computer and that's a lie.

With most computer when you fire up Mixcraft you will get this warning and sugesstion.

The problems with this are many and this is the is them main reason Mixcraft sucks. With the sound cards that come in standard in most computers you cannot adjust latency low enough to record without MixCraft crashing. The other thing you can do is use a USB interface but that will become a matter of trial and error with no guarantee that it will work with Mixcraft and no gurarantee that Mixcraft will even find the device driver.

You can go to the Mixcraft forum for support and you will be told to download ASIO4ALL. It doesn't work. When you present a problem the geek droids will immediately blame your computer but if you do a Google or a Bing search you will find that you are not alone. Mixcraft latency issues are a problem for everyone unless maybe you are lucky enough to find the mystery soundcard or find the right USB inferface with the right drivers. Ask Mixcraft to what that sound card is ad you will get wrong answers and non answers.

Maybe if you are a computer geek you can get around the bugs in this shitware or maybe if you had enough time you could. Trial software may not reveal its flaws during the short trial but you can download a nice little free program called Run as Date from Cnet that will allow you to run trial software indefinately.  I don't know if it is legal to do so but since RunAsDate is on CNET I'm guessing that it is. Is it moral? That's between you and your morals but as I see it when a company can make billions of work on a product that cost them less than $100K to develop all I can say is fuck those greedy cocksuckers. IMO software copyrights should expire are a few years or a certain number of downloads.

Acoustica will tell you to upgrade your sound card  or by a very expensive USB interface that will cost you more than a stand alone digital multitracker like a Boss or a ZOOM multitacker that will double as a DAW controller.

Here is what Mixcraft users are saying about Acustica's bullshit suggestions.

James Andrew 

If you are running Win7 you can use exclusive mode to get the latency as low as 3ms. This does nothing to solve Mixcraft's terrible plugin delay compensation however, which makes mixing a multi-miked drumkit using parallel compression a lottery.

merlijn1998 

i have a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, and with my ASIO driver, i still got a little bit latency. but when i dont have latency, i have a lot of noise, and after a few seconds, the signal is gone. Help please!

David Pierson 

I think mixcraft, has a huge problem with its converters. How can the same .wav file when converted down in audition sounds great, but mixcraft boxes it in and really makes my mix cheap sounding.

By the time you upgrade your computer you can and still not be sure Mixcraft will run properly on it you can get 

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