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While popularity of home studios for creating music or video soundtracks continues to grow, one of the main deterrents from creating one is cost. Magix Music Studio 7 deLuxe solves this problem, putting a fully loaded, multitrack sound studio on your Windows PC for under $100.
Studio 7 deLuxe is actually two separate pieces of software: Magix MIDI Studio and Magix Audio Studio. One's a powerful MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) sequencer, the other a multitrack hard disk recording and editing program. And while this software is perfect for people just starting out in home recording, be warned: This is no toy.
Installation is a snap, but you will need to know what type of sound card is in your PC. Also, to take full advantage of MIDI Studio's features, you need to have an internal or external MIDI interface as well. Learning the ins and outs of how it all works can try your patience. The user interface works, but is not perfect. This, compounded by the fact that there is no detailed, printed manual of all the features--just a PDF version in the software--makes using it difficult at first. What is included is a book of tutorials taking you step by step through some of the more important features. After completing just a few of these tutorials you realize just what Studio 7 deLuxe is capable of accomplishing.
MIDI Studio allows you to play back up to 2,000 MIDI and 48 audio tracks at once. Six virtual instruments are included for laying down bass, piano, choruses, and ensembles. You can even print out your creations in traditional notation.
Audio Studio gives you a live-input, 64-channel mixer to tweak each track with real-time effects. The recording, editing, and mastering features worked perfectly, and the combination of adjustments you can make to everything is practically infinite. Plus, the package includes a CD-ROM of 3,000 MIDI loops and samples, adding more to the value.
Magix Music Studio 7 deLuxe is truly a powerful, professional, and inexpensive sound studio for your PC. If you're patient and willing to take the time to learn the software, the creative possibilities are limitless. --Joshua Goldman
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best semi-pro virtual studio.,
By Anthony D Ravenscroft (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music Studio G7 Deluxe (CD-ROM)
I started with the 5.0 version, & was instantly blown away. With 7.0, very little is beyond the professional, & the beginner will be (briefly) overwhelmed.The GUI is what Computer Music Magazine (Britain) calls, "Logic-alike". You can't play around under the hood as with eMagic products, but I doubt 99% of users would ever notice. Now that Logic is Mac-only, this is the place to be for PCs. The name is misleading, as this is actually two separable products, the Audio Studio & the MIDI Studio. Unless you're working in audio-only multitrack, you'll probably do all of your work in the MIDI Studio -- trust me when I say the Audio Studio is fascinating, & will result in many happy hours of getting no productive work done, so steer wide of it. Other than that, I'll just say that this comes with a whole rack of impressive virtual instruments (including "analogue" bass, drums, & a very good piano sim), handles DX & VST plug-ins, carries more than enough effects & processing gizmos to get you off to a great start, & has some of the best waveform editing I've ever handled. You can change colors of the interfaces freely, to make it easier for those long mix sessions. Almost every toolbar & view can be "floated" so you can shape it & put it where it works best for you. The MIDI editor is a touch clunky, which makes it better than that in a few packages that cost 10 times as much. MAGIX products consistely get a "10 of 10" rating from CM (the only publication I read on the subject), something they rarely dole out more than two or three times a year. Let's just say that MAGIX gets more than half of them, & MS7d is one. The paper manual is on the skinny side, but a decent introduction if much of the concepts are new to you. The full (roughly 500-page) manual is on the CD. Better, though, is to follow the Tutorial, & then let the Wizard walk you through your first projects -- yes, you can build a decent basic tune by choosing someparameters from the menus! And let's not forget that the deLuxe version includes more than 3,000 samples & MIDI loops to get you started. Word of warning: you don't absolutely *NEED* 256 megabytes of memory, but you'll be thankful for it...! [later note: while I sympathize with the other reviewers who've had problems with this package, all I can say is -- seriously! -- don't get a Jaguar if what you really want is a Chevy. Unless you buy the barrel-bottom Magix wares, you're going to be utterly overwhelmed with options. The learning curve is ridiculously high. However, those who persist will find that they're laying down major parts of rough tracks with only a few presses of your customized macro keys. Plus, Magix manuals do truly suck -- many screen-shots are in German, for instance -- and the indexing is some of the worst imaginable. And I have a talent for coming up with simple-seeming questions that aren't answered anywhere, usually solving the problem by guesswork. To top it all off, I've never been confident in debugging for XP -- though my G7 works just fine with 98SE & 2000. You're taking a little chance, sure, but this is equivalent to another company's package that costs 10 times as much, which seems like a great way to leap into the industry.}
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible!,
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This review is from: Music Studio G7 Deluxe (CD-ROM)
Paid $80 for this program and have never been able to get it running. Continuous errors on startup, despite the fact that I am trying to run it on a quality Windows XP Pro, IBM A31P machine. Basically, just give your $80 to the nice kid working at the cash register, and skip the purchase -- your money will be better spent. By the way, tried to download patches to update my software, but oddly enough, the Magix website is "down"
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
baaaaaaaaad,
By A Customer
This review is from: Music Studio G7 Deluxe (CD-ROM)
i bought this program about 3 months ago and haven't had a chance to work with it until now. the best thing i can say about the program is at least i've had 3 months to get over the 80 bucks i paid for it - i may as well have thrown the $$ out the window. the program is the MOST user UNfriendly program i've ever used, the documentation is essentially worthless, and the virtual instruments are so virtual they can't be found! i'm more than disappointed - i'm ticked off. i wouldn't even pay the reduced price for it today if someone paid me.
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