Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 17)

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Here we go . click the red Record button in the transport (the one with the red dot),
wait four clicks for recording to begin and record something! When you’re done,
click the Record button again to stop (you’ll notice the red circle turns into a square
while recording), or just hit your computer’s space bar. It should look something like this:
Congratulations, you’ve made your first Mixcraft audio recording!
RECORDING A MIDI TRACK
Unlike an Audio Clip, which contains digital sound data, a MIDI Clip contains MIDI
notes. Think of a MIDI Clips as a sort of computerized player piano ... a MIDI Clip
primarily contains digital on/off messages saying, “hey computer instrument, play these
notes at this time, wouldja?”
There are a number of ways to create MIDI clips, but the most common way is to plug
in a USB MIDI controller keyboard, press the Record button, and tickle the ivories
(plastics?). If you have a USB MIDI controller, plug it into an available USB port on
your computer. If you don’t have a USB keyboard controller, you can input notes direct
from the computer’s keyboard using Musical Typing. This can be toggled on and off by
going to the View menu at the top and selecting Musical Typing, or by using the key
shortcut CTRL+ALT+K. Musical typing uses the computer’s QWERTY keyboard to play
musical notes. When activated, the layout shows the “mini music keyboard,” octave,
transpose, velocity, and other relevant parameters:
Now that we’re playing some kind of keyboard, we’ll select one of Mixcraft’s built-in
Virtual Instruments. A Virtual Instrument is like having keyboard instrument that lives
inside the computer. Handy, right?