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Music Studio 10 Deluxe s for the true music lovers who want to experiemnt with sounds at home. It creates MP3s and other formats, converts them and lets you edit and alter it until you have a whole new composition. It's easy-to-use software that with a huge functional range for anymusician, from beginner to expert. Use the Magix LiViD virtual drummer, for digital percussion with human performance qualities New ringtone generator lets you export your own sounds to common cellular phone audio formats 24-bit playback and processing, plus native support of the high-resolution 24-bit sample format throughout 3,000 new loops, samples, effect presets and video clips Burn data to a DVD, archiving your entire sound library Work with professional effects like Chorus, Flanger, Modulated Filter and Delay Updated Task Assistant for help with common tasks & with making videos Wider range of remix functions, including EQs and insert effects Magix Remix Maker for extended remix automation Optimized start and end marker handling for faster arrangements Expanded MIDI editor for more intuitive MIDI handling and arranging Low Latency offers fast response for real-time recording and live audio inputs
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25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of features, but pretty much unusable,
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This review is from: Magix Music Studio 10 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I've been spoiled by FL Studio 5.0 and my demo copy of Project 5. A friend of mine was going to let go of his copy of Sonar 4 because he just bought Sonar 5. But he hasn't gotten around to it yet, and in my impatience I ventured into the software aisle of Comp USA looking for an inexpensive tool that I could use to automate the VST control interface of FL Studio while I lay down some audio tracks. I came across Magix Music Studio 10 Deluxe. By the looks of the screenshots and the promises on the box, as well as what few reviews I've found on the product, I decided to give it a shot.
I loaded it up and quickly discovered, however, that this kludge of a product had been literally sawed in two. The audio multi-track recording environment is one environment, while the MIDI and VSTi/DXi multi-track recording environment is a COMPLETELY SEPERATE PROGRAM!! Can you believe it? Yes, you can record audio, by loading WAV files but possibly in realtime also, within the MIDI recording environment. But all those nifty audio effects must be loaded up into the seperate program. To make things worse, there does not appear to be a way to specify the default MIDI output device, so the MIDI Out on my MIDI controller is being used as the default device for MIDI playback because it's the first thing it finds. And if THAT wasn't bad enough, trying to use ASIO doesn't work for me because the ASIO drivers keep giving me messageboxes saying "cannot use clock rate of 44khz" or whatever. (I guess this is because my sound card--an Audigy--is set up for 48kHz.) And if you're like me, you'll throw up over your computer monitor when you see the remnants of an 80's/90's-looking user interface filling up half of the product's windows. It still uses pixellated two-color toolbar icons that remind me of the days of System 6.x on the Macintosh. I have not done enough tinkering to give it a full evaluation, right now I'm still recovering from the shock factor of how utterly useless this thing is. I should have gone with Sonar 4 Home Studio on the rack there, or Cakewalk Music Creator, or drove over to Guitar Center to pick up Cubase SE, or something, anything other than this. Heck, the Voyetra offering looked to be better than this.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great stable recording software with satisfying results.,
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This review is from: Magix Music Studio 10 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
After becoming frustrated with the way Cakewalk handles system resources, I began to shop around for another option for my main recording software. A couple of years back I tried a fully functional demo of Samplitude (also made by Magix) and was highly impressed, though it was rather out of my price range. Just recently I found Music Studio in a local store, and the screen shots caught my eye because it resembled Samplitude so closely.
Hoping that this program could handle system resouces much like its bigger brother, I decided to take a chance. For $70, I found it hard to argue with. To put things into perspective, I'm running a 900Mhz processor with only 384 of RAM in XP. With Cakewalk, I could usually get up to 8 tracks before I noticed my resources starting to take a major hit. Real time effects were out of the question, except for maybe a general reverb patch. With the Audio Studio portion of Music Studio, I recently recorded up near 30 tracks, rerouted via virtual submix busses, EQing most channels, and adding some real time processing, and my system was perfectly fine. And if a situation might come up where your system is being hammered, Music Studio offers the option to freeze tracks in order to clear up resources. Further, although it lacks some of the nice additions that Samplitude has, all of the everday basic features (and then some) are still here. The wave editor has some nice features for cleaning up tracks, and the time stretcher, when set to "Smooth", produces some impressive results. The various scopes and meters are a nice touch (spectroscope, phase correlation, oscilloscope, spectrogram, and more). I really enjoy the realistic layout to the mixer view, along with the ability to assign a particular mixdown to a preset so that you can save and compare up to six separate mixdowns side-by-side. It would be nice to have MIDI and audio built into one single program, but most of these issues can be resolved by downloading a free virtual MIDI router. I suspect (though I could be wrong) that these (MIDI and Audio) are two separate programs in order for the Audio portion to be programmed strictly around audio to allow for better handling of resources. The reason I suspect this is that I have generally had poor results with programs that feature audio and MIDI capabilities in one program. I could upgrade my system, but it makes a strong statement for a program to be able to produce the results that Music Studio does on the resources I have available. In short, if you enjoy recording as a hobby and want quality results, Music Studio is the way to go. There will be a slight learning curve, but with a little work you will feel right at home and content with this program.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
very pleased,
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This review is from: Magix Music Studio 10 Deluxe [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I have not used much recording software in the past but have talked to friends that do about the features of this product before I used it and after. I am a musician (teach guitar at a local music store and in my home) not a recording engineer although I have been around some recording projects for a CD we recorded and have seen the use of Pro-Tools I was concerned about how long it would take to figure out the interface.
I was concerned that I would be able to quickly get some guitar tracks laid down and be able to use the effects to produce demo-quality outputs (both MP3 and CD). I found that with only a few hours of trying, I could do most things I wanted to with the following exceptions: - couldn't figure out an easy way to mark a section for copy (or cut) with a drag-n-drop operation. I found I could use a 'split track' feature to segment the area I wanted but there HAS to be a better way! - some of the effects are not processed in real-time so you have to guess at the settings and then process the audio and then listed to see if you got it right (usually involved several cycles of un-do's to get it right). Maybe all the less-than-pro tools do it this way but I am not sure - could not find a way to have the monitoring include the current track being recorded; could hear the previously recorded tracks just fine but had to split the signal before it went into the computer and then mix it with the other recorded tracks coming out of the computer to get a monitor signal that included what was currently being recorded; again, perhaps most software has trouble doing this because of the latency involved in processing the signal coming in so perhaps it wasn't obvious to me that this should be a problem; especially for vocalists, singers need to be able to hear themselves in addition to any previously recorded tracks - disappointed in the manual and on-line help although I didn't expect very much; phone support with a knowlegeable resource would have saved a lot of time (my time) but never could find a support number to call that was open when I needed it (mostly evenings, of course!) In spite of the above issues, I was very pleased with what I was able to produce and am willing to continue to work with it to get it done faster and better. In particular: - the interface to capability including the mixer, recording track controls and effects features (chorus, eq, delay, etc.)were pictured as the hardware would look which greatly reduced any guessing about to operate it. - I had no problem with the quality of sound produced either in MP3 form or on CD - seemed to include a pretty wide range of effects that would total a lot of $ to own the actual hardware For under $100, it is surprising to me what is available in this package and I expect to continue use it for future projects. John C. Cochran
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