Customer Reviews

Music Studio 7

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1 star:		(2)

 

 

I have used Magix Samplitude in a professional studio setting, editing radio commercials and doing audio for video work. This product is about three features short of the $1,700 (approx.) version of their pro audio program, Samplitude. It's incredible. When I first saw it, I thought, "They must have stripped the program bare, but at least it has the interface". Upon receiving this product, I was shocked, it's essentially Samplitude Studio, and it has a full MIDI sequencer to boot, with some of the most realistic instrumentation I've ever heard.

It doesn't record 96K audio (only up to 48K - perfectly suited for pro work), can't burn CD's directly from the timeline (who doesn't have alternate CD burning software these days? - it's built into WinXP and others), and doesn't have a built in de-esser (which you can emulate with it's extensive EQ settings).

All in all, this is an incredible program that is mature, stable and has most if not all of the features of it's big brother Samplitude, which has become a staple in studio settings.

I'm buying two more for my business!

I bought this hoping for something somewhat more intuitive than Cakewalk or SoundForge to cut some MIDI files I wrote into MP3's and then burn them onto an audio CD so I could send them to friends.

The plus side is that it accomplished this task fairly easily and stably --- always a must for Windows software running complex artistic tasks in real time. I did add some minor echo and reverb special effects with the software to some of the MIDIs. Higher levels add annoying white noise and sound awful. You have to tinker with the virtual knobs to get the sound you want.

The biggest flaw in the package involves MP3 files, and it's a whopper. They try to limit you to writing thirty, and once you are over the limit they want to nick you for more money. Whoever designed this moronic misfeature must have never played around with the Windows Sound Recorder. Load in a .WAV file, and that programme that came with my Win98 is happily to save the file as a Windows .WAV with MPEG-3 compression. All it takes then is to change the filename extension and there you have an MP3. Have to lower my rating on account of this stupid and easily evaded cripple.

This software might be useful to people who want to get some simple tasks done and don't need a high end package. But if you use it, you have to have the patience to suffer fools gladly.

DON'T BUY. O.k. I have a few more...this thing crashed more than a drunk pilot. It lagged and locked up on me so many times i'm going cross-eyed. I liked version 5 deluxe a heckuvalot better than this. I was warned about 6 so i stayed away. I wish i were warned about this one. Give this vampire the old wooden stake! DEFINITELY buy 5 over 6 or 7. Or just stay away and find a nice sonic foundry program. They cost a whole lot more...but if you can afford it...get it.If not, look around for magix music studio 5 deluxe. You won't be sorry.

Works great! Very fast on my 2.4GHz machine. I had absolutely no problems using my Audigy drivers under DX8. If you have any doubts, download the demo from Magix and try it before you buy it (duh!).

asio drivers will be very poor and your computer will overstack its buffers. This will cause crashing, dropouts, and other bad assortments. Before buying audio software make sure your drivers are updated and well written specifically for the card. Otherwise you will probably have problems like most of the other users writing reviews. By the wayside... This program is an older version of logic with cut-down logic-type vsti support. Definitely worth it's price not to mention the sample cd's.

I've used this software since finding it in a bargain bin at $7. At the time I figure it'd be a simple Windows recorder, since I'm a Mac guy who has Digital Performer. I didn't expect much.

This stuff is AWESOME! Unlike the clumbersome Cakewalk, etc., this is set up the way a studio is set up, and works relatively intuitively. But most important are the sounds and effects. I recorded a rough demo on this software - THROUGH THE PINHOLE MIC in my laptop.... and it sounded good enough to let people hear!

As to the MP3 encoding limitation: Hey, they hit you up for $15 upgrade to encode in mp3. Big deal. They already give you .wav files and other uncompressed options. Use iTunes' free built in encoder if you like, but as cheap as this software goes for, even at list well under $100, quit complaining about a lousy $15. Digital Performer is several hundreds more and they hit ya up every time they do an UpDATE as if it were an upGRADE.

Bottom line? As someone else mentioned, this stuff is pro-quality algorhythms for a VERY discounted price. If you're crashing it, etc., figure out what you've got set up badly, what extra stuff you've got running, etc., because if an older laptop can run this without crashes, the sofware wasn't the problem.

ENJOY!

I never could get this product to work with the audio drivers in my Audigy sound card so I bought Cakewalk Music Creator 2003 instead. Am I glad I did. Cakewalk is 100 time better. Magix has a very poor user interface.