Music Center Pro

by Data Becker

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004SUHA
• Item model number: 30001
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,450 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Music Center Pro is the professional version of the popular Music Center title, and is designed specifically for the music enthusiast. It consists of a powerful 96-track virtual recording studio with 64 MIDI tracks, 32 audio tracks, and over 1000 sound samples. Use the intuitive mixing-board interface, edit with precise control, and add up to 10 fully adjustable real-time effects for superb song creations. You can even add DirectX audio plug-ins for additional effects. Assign vocals and record, using your MIDI keyboard. And when you're done, create a studio-quality recording of your music. It's the truly professional tool for any musician interested in creating incredible-sounding music on their computer.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is truly a professional software, August 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Music Center Pro (CD-ROM)

Now the guys from DATA BECKER have come out with Music Center Pro and have made some decent adjustments in style and technology. The terrible red interface is gone - now it's all silver and metal, the program is full 32-bit (now the filenames can be longer than 8 digits - thank you) and there are a lot of features that you normally have to pay much, much more for:

Included Direct-X Effects support

Graphic Effects interface

The number of tracks (audio and midi) are doubled Video support

3D Spatiauliser (looks good - but I'm not yet sure what's this for)

and a full GM/XG midi support - to be honest, something I've not seen in ANY other package so far.

I was very enthusiastic about MC and MC Pro certainly is a step upwards from there. The price for that kind of software is ridiculously low - but who am I to complain.

It would be great if the other DATA BECKER software would be up to that standard, which it sadly is not.

One more: Beginners beware: Buy the original MC first, MC Pro has too many features to make you happy when you're not already into HD-Recording and PC-Music Production.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of money..., December 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Music Center Pro (CD-ROM)

I am an experienced musician but a beginner as far as MIDI and electronic music goes (although i am much more than a PC literate). This CD has been a waste of my money and time. The user guide is useless, it just describes one by one all the menus (Like "New File": click here to open a new file...). Zero added value. I haven't been able to make it work. It is like a nice Ferrari without a motor. I wonder if the unique 5 star review has been written by the guy who wrote the software.

Anyway i'm returning this software today...

PS: i wanted to put 0 star but amazon did not allow me...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Where's the exterminator, this programs buggy, February 27, 2001

By 

"theolos1582" (Huntsville, AL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music Center Pro (CD-ROM)

Other than creating a new sequence file, the program was easyto use. More functions could be listed in the drop downmenus. However, problems started right after installation. The programcrashed when importing an audio file. Re-installed the program and itworked fine. It would crash when closed after importing a midi fileinto the default screen. No big deal. Selecting a new file whenstarting the program fixed this issue. First time I saved a song, thenext time I opened up the file all the tracks were missing. Found afix for this. However, 1 hour down the drain. Copied all the waves inthe default save folder. The program uses shortcuts to the wave files,which is moronic. Everything seemed good. I had twelve tracks ofaudio pieced together. Then I tried opening up my song(which had beenopening fine,) the program crashed. Restarted the computer. Stillcrashed. 4 hours of work down the drain. Finally after hours of tryingdifferent preferences. I figured out a fix for this. Move the wavefiles to another folder, and open the sequence. Finally the... program opened up my song. You can bet that I am not going to usethis program for future recordings. The stability of a program whichis used to create ... better than this. It's definitly not worth themoney I paid for it. You'd be better off with ... As a matter of factI will not buy software that has Data Becker on it. All they do isdistribute the program. If they would have tested it, they would haveknown it was a piece of garbage. As a matter of fact, I was surprisedwhen I went to their website and there wasn't a patch. After all theproblems I was having and not one mention of these issues. There FAQwas a joke... END