Music Creator 2

by Cakewalk

Product Features

• Record audio and MIDI tracks using any instrument, vocals, or audio loops
• Write music for CDs, sheet music, home videos, and the Internet
• Edit, arrange, and mix music; make loops out of any MP3 or WAV file
• Integrates seamlessly with Cakewalk Kinetic and other Rewire synths
• Includes Pyro Express CD Maker and WAV Ripper

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002PZWT2
• Item model number: 10-CWMC2.22-10C
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 20, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,486 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Just plug in any instrument or microphone and press record. Whether you’re an aspiring musician or just looking to be more creative, Music Creator makes it all happen.

Features:

• Record audio and MIDI tracks using any instrument, vocals, or audio loops
• Write music for CDs, sheet music, home videos, and the Internet
• Includes Pyro Express CD Maker and WAV Ripper
• Edit, arrange, and mix your music
• Make your own loops out of any MP3 or WAV file
• Rewire support lets you integrate seamlessly with Cakewalk Kinetic and other Rewire synths

Product Description

Discover the musician inside you



From the leaders in music and sound software comes Cakewalk Music CreatorVersion 2.  It's the fastest, easiest, and most enjoyable way to createmusic and sound on a PC.  Get started quickly with an onlinetutorial.  Then plug into your PC and start recording with any musicalinstrument or your voice.  You can record and play back unlimited tracks ofaudio and MIDI.  Use included ACID -format audio loops by leading producersor import MP3s to get your creative juices flowing, and layers to your songs, orcreate entire tracks with no experience necessary.

MusicCreator is ideal for:

• Musicians
• Music enthusiasts
• Singer/songwriters
• Bands
• Choir groups
• Music teachers and students
• PC hobbyists
• The entire family

Play back your MIDI tracks with hundreds of high quality instrument soundsusing the included Virtual Sound Canvas DXI soft synth.  Edit and arrangewith the click of a mouse, and mix with professional audio effects.  Whenyou're finished, print beautiful sheet music.  Even save it as an MP3 fileand put it on the Internet, or export audio for burning CDs!

• Unlimited Maximum number of audio and MIDI tracks
• Unlimited Maximum number of virtual instruments
• Click and Drag loop tools with ACID loop support
• Virtua

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Difficult for the Sake of Difficulty, April 2, 2006

By 

David Bradley "David Bradley" (Sterling, VA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Music Creator 2 (CD-ROM)

I have to agree 100 percent with the reviews below: This software was written without any consideration to the end user. Just getting the thing to make a sound--any sound at all--is a major undertaking. Instead of just programming the junk to use your soundcard, it is made so that it will remain mute until you search out the soundcard manually and inform the software to use it. Each and every @!?%$#@*&!!!! time you copy or create a track, you have to tell the software AGAIN to use the soundcard. I'd love to get an explanation from the manufacturer as to why this is--were they under the impression that some users would want to program music and then NEVER LISTEN TO IT?!?!?

There are 4 or 5 possible 'views' of each tune on this software, but the layout, and the archane instructions that come with the software, could lead you to believe that that is really an astronomical figure. The guide book is written in an amazingly, astonishingly complex manner, making it virtually unuseable.

I've had the software 3 weeks and have yet to get a second's enjoyment out of it. I've played music all my life and have done some composing on my computer before, but I can say without a shadow of a doubt I will never--NEVER--get any use out of this overly complex piece of junk. Everything about this appears to have been overdone by software engineers looking to impress other software engineers, with no thought of any kind given to the end user or how the software would be used.

A complete and total waste of money. I'll never buy anything from Cakewalk again. Never.

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An appended review...., December 16, 2004

By 

Z. deScathach (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music Creator 2 (CD-ROM)

To be honest, I had previously written a scathing review of this product. I have decided in the light of recent events to append it. I am giving this prog 4 stars,(unfortunately, the ranking can't be changed in an appended review).If your soundcard has both WDM and ASIO drivers, this software will automatically detect the WMD's, resulting in latency probs. Manually connecting to the ASIO drivers within the program solves the problem, thus the appended review. The dxi soft synths in this prog are quite lame, and the sounds rather poor. However, it get's high marks for it's combination of low price and a very full featured loopintg and recording system. It also has great plugin flexibility. For what you pay for it, it's a sweet little program. It only get's 4 stars due to it's lack of decent soft synths, but beyond that, an excellent prog.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Music Majors Will Pull Out Their Hair With his Program!, January 1, 2006

By 

Jenny Walsh "englishgaltx" (TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music Creator 2 (CD-ROM)

As a former music major who writes instrumental and vocal music, and who is not creating a CD or music video for her music at this time, this program drove me CRAZY!!! In spite of great searching, I was unable to see both tracks for a song at the same time in a standand layout except while in Print Preview Mode. All other times, it just continued scrolling indefinitely! I could not change a note to an accidental unless I used Piano scroll mode (a huge grid with a piano keyboard sideways on the left). I could not insert a repeat sign or a fermata to save my life. These may be available, but the program certainly was not intuitive, nor accessible using the help options I used. While many wannabee rock star composers could not care less about these things, people with serious music backgrounds will sorely miss an accessible way to write musical notations. In spite of it being marketed as ideal software for all music writers, it seems this program was designed for music creators who do not know how to write music to captured their music in a variety of ways, modify it, and prepare their own CDs and videos.

I purchased this program less than a year ago, and have not been able to complete the tortuous process of inputing (by hand) even one song with this program. I am now looking for a new program that meets the needs of musicians who understand musical notation and want a computer to help provide neat, printed copies of their music.