Long supported by Steinberg and others, the VST3 infrastructure puts plug-in makers in the position to create much more flexible tools. One of the important additions to the Mixcraft audio engine is its support of VST3 plug-ins. Acoustica has the same demands, but has decided to use the opportunity to rework the core of the software, and to also provide some interesting new features. One of the demands on software developers is maintaining compatibility with current versions of the computer’s operating system. However, with the version 8 release, we see some important updates-some of them obvious, and some of them subtle. At the Winter NAMM show this year, I had the opportunity to get the lowdown on the newly released Mixcraft 8, and wanted to update our readers on what I’ve found.Įach version of Mixcraft comes to the plate with a few standard improvements: updated user interface, more plug-in tools, or better OS support. In our previous review of Acoustica Mixcraft 7 (April 2016), we found it to be a great DAW for beginning Windows producers, yet one that had the kind of professional production (and performance) functionality that could make it useful for everyone.
