Mixcraft 9 Pro & Styles

[Gusher]

Hello everyone! Any Mixcraft Pro 9 users here creating, editing styles with it?
Would you mind sharing your workflow, steps on accomplishing this? Particularly,
preparing a midi to be used as a style....

[SeaGtGruff]

I'm an Acoustica Mixcraft 9 Pro user; Mixcraft is my favorite DAW. However, I haven't used it-- or any other DAW-- for creating or working on styles.

The workflow should be roughly the same regardless of which DAW you're using, although of course the fine details of how to do specific tasks can vary from DAW to DAW. Still, if you can find a guide or tutorial on creating MIDI files for styles using some other DAW then you should be able to adapt it for Mixcraft.

In my opinion, the main thing to be aware of is that Mixcraft-- as well as Ableton Live and PreSonus Studio One, if anyone is interested in using those DAWs-- does not support SysEx messages, which Yamaha uses for setting the Reverb Type, Chorus Type, DSP Type, and other system-wide parameters, including part-specific parameters that don't correspond to any CC, RPN, or NRPN channel messages.

Thus, you'll be able to select the channel voices and set most of the channel-specific parameters, but you'll need to use some other program to add any desired SysEx messages to the MIDI file after you've exported it from Mixcraft, Live, or Studio One.

Of course, you'll need to use some other program even if you don't plan to add any SysEx messages, so you can create a style file from the MIDI file.

[JohnS (Ugawoga)]

Hi
Mixcraft has been problematic for me  and is no good for the Genos, only samples and vst.
Cubase pro 10.5 is 100% for me

[SeaGtGruff]

Since Mixcraft doesn't allow SysEx messages-- filters them out when loading a MIDI file-- it really isn't suitable for editing MIDI files that contain SysEx messages.

Cubase, on the other hand, not only allows SysEx messages, but has a built-in understanding of Yamaha's SysEx messages, making it a very good choice for editing MIDI files that contain SysEx messages in general, and Yamaha SysEx messages in particular.

I love Mixcraft for other things that don't require SysEx, and I'm hoping Acoustica will eventually add SysEx capability to Mixcraft, but only time will tell.

And to be fair, there are other very popular and well-respected commercial DAWs that don't allow SysEx messages, either, such as Ableton Live and PreSonus Studio One.