So yesterday afternoon at Best Buy, I picked up the boxed version of Acoustica Mixcraft 7 which is the homestudio version. I just finished installing it this morning and played around with it for a little bit and so far, it’s pretty nice. It’s a pretty nice DAW; however, the homestudio version is the smaller version of the software. I would have to upgrade to the full version which will cost like $49.95 which isn’t bad so technically this is a $100 program since I bought the boxed version for $50. I will upgrade to the full version sometime in the future but for now, I wanna play around with the program and learn how to use it. Get the hang of it.

It is very close to Apple’s garageband but even better, in my opinion. I’ll be able to make backing tracks with this software. I’ll be able to make full band music with this software now which was the whole goal that I wanted. The MIDI instruments on this sounds realistic enough. Not only I’ll be able to put drums and bass behind my songs now… I can put all kinds of instruments behind my songs.

If I’m doing slow ballads, I’ll be able to add piano parts and orchestration like cellos, violins. I can add organs and brass instruments as well.

I’ll start off with the small version of Mixcraft for now so I can learn how to use it and I’ll get the full upgrade maybe in a few months. This looks better than Cakewalk, ProTools and all the other DAW’s out there.

I think I might as well delete garageband off of my Ipad and will use Mixcraft instead. Mixcraft looks awesome so far even if I played with it just a little bit this morning. I’ll have to record audio with this Focusrite interface to see how it sounds.

My new mini home studio is just about complete. Just need those speaker monitors which I still haven’t gotten yet. Damn amazon. I don’t think I’ll ever order music equipment from amazon ever again. I like sweetwater better. In the past I used to order musicians gear through American Musical Supply but then I discovered Sweetwater. Sweetwater is a better company, in my opinion. I’m just starting to order stuff from them more.

Kev