Music Studio DeLuxe 2004

by Magix Entertainment

Product Features

• A production suite that takes musical ideas from concept to final product
• Compose and record music, control MIDI equipment, and burn CDs
• Powerful, high-end audio tools and the latest in MIDI technology
• Record, edit, mix, and remaster: make music without limits
• Includes a CD-ROM, quick-start manual, electronic manual, and video tutorial

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000092P2W
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 1, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,419 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #39 in Software > Video & Music > Software > MIDI
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

MAGIX Music Studio 2004 DeLuxe is the total production suite for taking original musical ideas from concept to final product. A complete solution, you can compose and record music, control MIDI equipment, and burn your original sounds onto CD. MAGIX Music Studio 2004 DeLuxe offers powerful, high-end audio tools and the latest in MIDI technology. Record, edit, mix, and remaster: now you can make music without limits.

Features:

Audio Studio:

Recording, editing, mastering

• Arranger with up to 64 stereo tracks
• NEW! 32-bit float support, 24-bit export
• Real-time effects: reverb, parametric 4-band EQ, dynamics, stereo enhancer, and plot-able FFT filter
• NEW! 10-band graphic EQ
• NEW! MAGIX MultiMax multi-band compressor
• NEW! Vocoder
• NEW! Tube amp simulation
• NEW! Tuner and metronome
• Non-destructive WAV and MP3 editing
• Live input, multi-track mixer with 64 stereo channels, delay, surround, and virtual room simulator effects
• Undo history lists (undo/redo up to 100 times)
• Sound restoration: denoising, declipping, dehissing
• Sound optimization: stereo enhancer, compressor, normalizer
• Drum loop function (breakdown of individual sounds)

MIDI Studio:

Arrangement, composition, instruments, and plug-ins

• Sequencer with 2,000 MIDI tracks and 48 audio tracks
• NEW! Four stereo output support
• NEW! Four ready-to-use drum machines (rock, acoustic, techno, hip-hop)
• NEW! E-piano sounds with EZpiano2
• Six virtual instruments
• Sample editor: time and pitch, groove machine, audio energizer
• Mixer (up to 48 effects inserts, 2 master inserts) with automation option
• 14 real-time effects: reverb, delay, distorter, chorus, filter, pitch-shifter, 15-band graphic EQ, and much more
• Groove quantizer, song rearrangement with editors

Comprehensive

• Music production set: 1,500 royalty-free samples and MIDI Ioops
• Notation: print detailed scores with lyrics
• Video (avi) integration feature, cross-fades
• Import and burn music CDs and project data backups
• Internet publishing (songs, info, photos, lyrics, and much more)
• Send MusicM@il from within the program
• CD burner plus automatic track marker function

Interface and format support

• VST[*] 2.0, DirectX, ASIO and ASIO 2.0 driver support
• Synchronize with SMPTE, MTC, MC (Master and Slave)
• Export streaming audio (WMA, RealAudio, QuickTime)

Import / Export

• NEW! Export in 24-bit WAV, import 24-bit and 32-bit float WAVs
• MIDI standard formats (MID: GM, GS, XG), sample formats (SF2, EXS)
• WAV, WAV with codec, MPEG and MP3 (MP3 demo encoder with 20 free runs)
• Import AIFF, AVI, MPEG, MOV
• Export streaming audio (WMA, RealAudio, QuickTime)

Contents

• One CD-ROM
• One quick-start manual
• One electronic manual
• One video tutorial

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, cheap software, February 19, 2004

By 

Brian Cassidy (Cuyahoga Falls, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Music Studio DeLuxe 2004 (CD-ROM)

I noticed that there are no reviews for this software, so here is one. This is an excellent package for the price. It does everything that a beginning musician would need and more. I am using it on windows xp, and have really had no problems at all. A bug that I noticed up front was that the tutorial song did not put out any sound, which made it more difficult to learn to use the software, but this was the only major bug that I have found (most likely just a freak thing). The software is not very difficult to use. It is a little confusing at first because the manual does not go very far in depth but the Magix web site has more information about things that the manual left out.

If you are looking for something in which all that you want to do is make playlists of MP3s, and non-original cds, this will do it, but you can get software that is cheaper that will work just as well. But, if you are looking to compose, record, and make your own cds, this is a very good place to start.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product !!!, May 14, 2005

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Biff "Biff" (New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music Studio DeLuxe 2004 (CD-ROM)

This program is excellent. It has midi and audio studio capabilities. I mainly use the programs audio studio for multi track projects. Comes with a bunch of great effects, amp simulators etc. You can even burn your projects directly to cd from the program itself. I believe it has 64 audio tracks and unlimited midi tracks. Look online for more features. Overall its a great value. I was planning on buying other software like guitar tracks pro ver. 2 or 3, but settled on this for the quality price, and included midi studio. The book that comes with the program isnt the greatest for instructions, but there is a manual on the cd rom, which is ever so helpful. I have even owned a previous version of Magix (studio 6 deluxe) and their product has just gotten better. Their tech support is great as i had to use it once. They have online forums on magix.com as well. For the money you really cant beat this. One thing i actually dont like about it is you only get a limited amount of mp3 exports. (just export the wave file and convert with Itunes or any other free program...problem solved). I really love this product, and would recommend it to anyone looking to get their feet wet with music production, without paying the high cost of other programs like pro tools etc. Most other products are overpriced and over-rated. I have read other user reviews on the internet, and either you love magix or hate it. Its an exceptional product for the price.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I have a question, June 1, 2005

By 

zoda (L.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Music Studio DeLuxe 2004 (CD-ROM)

Could I create songs from scratch? Like the music maker? I just bought the product and I haven't installed it yet, not until I know if I could track a drum and bass song or something like that?

Help me please.
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