Magix Hip-Hop Maker

by Magix Entertainment

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005JHWQ
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 23, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,682 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #77 in Software > Video & Music > Software > Music Creation & Sequencing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

If you've always wanted to try your hand at spinning some beats, but amateur MC night at the local club seems a bit intimidating, MAGIX Hip Hop Maker lets you play DJ without leaving your PC. Find all the tools you need to produce and publish professional quality songs and videos, even if you have no prior musical training at all.

Hip Hop Music Maker is based on the concept of sound and video modules, all of which can be combined to create mixes and clips of varied lengths. These modules live in containers that are classified according to instrument, including drums, bass, chords, and melodies. You can choose any number of modules from each container, simply by double-clicking on that particular icon. Once a module is chosen, play with the volume, reverse play, fade in or out, distort sounds, and add other cool effects. If you wish to add lyrics to your mix, the melodies container provides a few simple yet surprisingly authentic sounding raps, our favorite of which was "To All the Ladies," and its counterpart "To All the Fellas." And old-school enthusiasts will love the virtual turntables, which let you use your mouse to record scratch sounds into your songs.

In addition to mixing up tunes, Hip Hop Music Maker lets you add video clips to your creations. Video modules also live in a container, and include the quintessential rap video poolside scene, as well as various scenes involving dancers decked out in full hip-hop regalia. With the help of a special effects tab, we added a fade-in-and-out effect to our video, so our dancer looked like she was getting down while standing above the pool.

To further personalize your creations, Hip Hop Music Maker allows you to add your own recordings to your mixes (with the help of a microphone). Or, if you're shy about showing off your inner hip-hopper, have the Song Wizard help you mix up a jamming beat to get you started. Once you've completed a tune, show it off by publishing it to the Web or e-mailing it to friends.

While Hip Hop Music Maker won't put Snoop Dogg and the Dogg Pound out of business anytime soon, it is a fun and innocuous way to play DJ for a day. --Gisele Toueg

Amazon.com Product Description

With Hip Hop Music Maker you can easily create your own hip-hop tracks and video clips. Just choose from an enormous selection of sounds and videos.Drag and drop samples on the beat, or wherever you like. Hip Hop MusicMaker features 16 stereo tracks, over 500 loops, funky beats, and rapsamples, all license free and CD quality. Plus, you can import your ownsound and video files and MP3s. A DJ scratch box with two turntables offersreal-time scratching. Professional sound effects include reverb, echo,distortion, reverse, resampling, time-stretching, pitch-shifting, and muchmore. License-free video clips are also included. Choose clips from the hip-hop scene, plus 3-D animations, backgrounds, and dancers. Add mixing,fading, and blue screens for your own visual creations. When finished, youcan e-mail your work directly from the program.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hip-Hop Maker is pretty good, November 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Magix Hip-Hop Maker (CD-ROM)

Bought it. Thought it would be lame like the Music Generator for Playstation. It actually isn't. Not only can you make some insane beats, but you can add your own voice, or outside sounds pretty easily. The interface is nice and the software is relatively easy to use. The best part is that you can convert any song you make to a WAV file, so you can burn a song onto a CD and pretend you are somebody. I gave it 4 stars (instead of 5) because most of the Bass selections aren't all that good, but there are tons of good harmonies and drums to make up for it. Buy it!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good But Gets Old, July 15, 2002

By 

Matt (Alamogordo, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magix Hip-Hop Maker (CD-ROM)

This program is good for the non-famous singers or people tryin to have fun with music. I bought this program because I was a music starter but it doesnt have enough sounds to make a whole cd or even a couple songs. So now I am getting a real studio. But if you dont want to spend alot of money but want quality songs get Magix Hip-Hop Maker.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the illest, October 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Magix Hip-Hop Maker (CD-ROM)

Yeah this is one of the illest music makers, however if this had more sounds then this would meata!