http://www.vstcafe.com/2009/06/messiah-prophet-5-inspired-synth.html


Above is review of one of the many VST's included in Acoustica's MixCraft5..

Messiah..is a Prophet5 soft synth...It totally surprised me how good it sounds and the parameters of synthesis it has...

Guys and Gals that like Roland Jupiter8 and Sequential Circuits Prophet5 keyboards..this is on par with them...I kid you not..

Download the MixCraft5 demo and you will have Messiah as well as many other great VST's ..like Lounge Lizard, also a super B3 organ module, Minimoog type software etc..

Bring a smile to your face..download the demo..

The main features MixCraft5 brings to the table are unbelievable...It is a complete multi track recording software..audio/video/ midi...It comes with a large library of great effects, and loop library...Take a look at all it has to offer..
www.acoustica.com

Maybe we can have a detail discussion here after some of you download the demo..and try it out...I guarantee you will be impressed...It will serve as a host for your VST's ..even the VST's you already own..You can also run multiple VST's in a single application and save as a MixCraft project for quick boot up in the future use.. Try it NOW!!!!!

Quick question, Fran... the website says very little about plug-in delay compensation, just that there IS, but it doesn't say full, or anything much.

Main thing I look for in any DAW these days is FULL effect and VST plug-in delay compensation. Not just on the channel inserts, but on send effects (for parallel compression), busses, master output, etc., etc..

Have you any info on this?

Looks like a nice inexpensive DAW. That Prophet sim sounded good, too...

Latency is excellent..You can select wave, waveRT or asio...
Diki, try it..and you tell me what you think..I have been using Mixcraft4 for over a year and they upped the features with MixCraft5..I was a beta tester and purchased it on the first day it was available..

Not talking latency, Fran. You insert a compressor on a group, or a channel send, and that audio path becomes delayed (actually, ANY plug in adds delay, but compressors with look-ahead functions are some of the worst culprits), now, when mixed back with the original signal, there are phasing issues or even worse, audible delay...

Most TOTL DAW's compensate for plug-in delay at ANY point in the signal path. This feature, to be honest, is more needed by amateurs than professionals who are usually aware that this is going on (and can compensate manually), but it's a feature of just about all modern DAW's.

I was just concerned that I couldn't find this feature trumpeted (which you would think they would if implemented)...

I haven't noticed any delays when using the plug in effects including compression...

Try it ..and let us know if you have a "compensation" problem..

Depends where you use them, Fran. Inserted on basic channels, every DAW for ten, twelve years has had full delay compensation (and I doubt you've even DONE parallel compression, where the compressed signal is mixed back with the original), but it's only in the last few years that groups, sends and FX busses have got this feature. If you ever HAD mixed delayed and non-delayed signals back together, trust me, you WOULD have noticed it.