WavePad-another program in the suite intended as a recording app-does support VST plug-ins. Plug-in support would be a nice-to-have feature in MixPad, but recording is not really the program’s intended use. Without plug-in support though, the program becomes a lot less useful. That’s a shame, because you actually can use MixPad for recording live instruments. So, if you use a program such as Native Instruments Guitar Rig as a plug-in for your recording software, it will not be available from MixPad.

The bad news for audio professionals is that unlike the Windows version of the program, MixPad for Mac does not support VST plug-ins or any other audio plug-ins to extend the product. MixPad also supports drag and drop for audio clips, so you can create tracks in another program and drop them into MixPad for mixing as part of a production workflow. This simplicity at least makes the program easy to learn. MixPad has a simple interface that makes it easy to learn how to mix audio clips, but the program lacks the depth required for professional mixing.

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