Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 72)

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a sound and choose Edit In External Editor... or choose
Sound>Edit In External Editor... from the menus in the Main Window.
You’ll have the option of editing the original sound or a copy of it. If the original
sound is edited, any changes made to it will be permanent. This is known as
"destructive editing".
CROSSFADING BETWEEN CLIPS
Crossfading with Mixcraft is so easy that, for all intents and purposes, it’s automatic.
Simply drag one sound over another and a crossfade is instantly and visibly created.
The length of the crossfade corresponds to the size of the overlap of neighboring clips.
REVERSING CLIP PLAYBACK
Audio clip playback can be reversed by highlighting a clip and selecting Sound>Reverse
in the Main Window menus. (Or “unreversed” by reselecting Sound>Reverse.) If clip
automation has been applied, remember that envelope points won’t move – they stay
in their original location. Reverse sound playback works especially well with long,
decaying sounds such as cymbal crashes or long piano chords.
FLEXAUDIO™ TIME STRETCHING
FlexAudio™ allows easy time compression and expansion by visually dragging the left
or right edge of a clip. While holding the CTRL key down, click on the left or
right edge and drag left or right.
The cursor turns into two hands when in FlexAudio™ mode.
Fast Talkin’ With
FlexAudio™
Ever made a 30- or
60-second that ran a
couple seconds long?
Try time-stretching it
with FlexAudio™. Ever
heard a lightning-fast
legal disclaimer at the
end of a commercial?
Create the by time-
stretching by about
75%. Turn off snapping
and FlexAudio™ it to
the desired length.