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Feature |
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MP3 Audio Mixer |
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Mixcraft |
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Basic sound
engine mixing capabilities |
Can be rough when mixing sounds with different sample rates, imports
8khz->48khz, 8,16 bit stereo sounds. (Engine built in 1998) |
Anti-aliasing, 32 bit floating point mixing, supports 8Khz->192khz, 8,16,32
bits, 32 bit floats, stereo sounds. (Top of the line engine built in 2004.) |
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Recommended
CPU |
PII-400 Mhz, 64 MB Ram |
PIII-700 Mhz, 128 MB Ram |
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Sound Groups |
Supports hierarchical Sound Groups |
Can import Sound Groups, but does not support Sound Groups nesting. |
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Rate control |
Has rate envelope which allows you to change the playback rate of a sound
over time. |
Has a single playback flat rate setting for each sound. |
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Effects |
None |
6 built in effects: EQ, Reverb, Delay/Echo, Chorus, Flanger and
Compressor. Can have an "effect chain" for each track + global effects |
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Tracks |
Tracks are basically placeholders for organizational purpose |
Tracks have pan, volume, muting and soloing functionality. Each track also
has its own "effect chain" of multiple effects. |
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Looping |
Can loop, but requires an external sound editor to perfect loop |
Built in looping tool which allows you to loop a section of any sound. |
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Meters |
Recording meters. |
Playback and recording meters. |
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Envelopes |
Volume, Pan & Rate |
Volume, Pan, Low Pass, High Pass & Resonance |
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Autocross
fading |
None |
Drag and drop cross fading |
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Other |
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Wave display dialog, master global volume |
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Price |
$24.95 |
$64.95 |
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