MAGIX Music Maker 2013 is designed to create your own musical compositions and arrangements. The main functions of the program are to combine sounds and "loops" - individual repeating fragments of a melody, recording real and virtual musical instruments, as well as mixing and mixing individual tracks into a final audio recording.
System requirements (minimum configuration)
Processor 2 GHz
Microsoft® Windows® XP | Vista® | 7 | 8
(32-bit or 64-bit system)
5.5 GB free hard disk space (Minimum 6 GB required for Premium version)
Integrated graphics card with a screen resolution of at least 1024x768 pixels
Sound card
DVD drive
Description
The interface of the program looks quite friendly, and it will not be difficult for a person with any level of training and knowledge in the field of music processing to deal with it, not to mention the degree of proficiency musical instruments.
The visual interface of the program is divided into two parts - the preview window, which is a ruler with fragments of the composition, as well as a window that combines the functions of the explorer, selection of fragments, "loops" and effects.
The built-in base of sounds and "loops" has more than 3000 positions. A variety of musical genres are represented, ranging from rock and hip-hop to varieties electronic music. The choice is so great that a novice user can easily create a good composition, resorting only to the help of the base.
For those who find this not enough, it is possible to add their own fragments. The program perfectly exports WAV, MP3, OGG Vorbis, WMA, QuickTime, MIDI, CD-A, AVI, MXV, WMV, FLAC files.
MAGIX Music Maker 2013 provides an opportunity not only to use ready-made fragments, but also to record your own. For this purpose, you can use the built-in virtual instruments - as the most common ( acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, grand piano, piano, violin), and many others.
It is also possible to purchase and integrate additional virtual instruments into the software. If the user himself plays real, “live” musical instruments, then you can record them too. The virtual amplifier with the eloquent name "Vandal SE", contrary to the obvious associations, will allow you to convey the sound as accurately and efficiently as possible.
To create your own melodies, or edit ready-made ones, MAGIX Music Maker 2013 contains a built-in MIDI editor. It is quite easy to use and does not require serious preparation - you just need to select the necessary notes with the mouse.
To obtain the highest quality soundtrack, the program has a built-in mixing console - its purpose, of course, is the same as in real studios - mixing recordings from individual tracks.
There are also separate series of effects, such as "FX Rack", "Essential FX" and "Vintage Effects Suite", musicians will understand what it is about. The choice of effects is diverse - for example, the FX Rack series includes the most commonly used ones - an equalizer, delay effects, reverb, distortion, and similar musical "gadgets". There are, of course, ready-made "presets".
Summing up, we can say that MAGIX Music Maker 2013 may be of interest to both professionals in the field of sound processing and novice users - the program surprisingly easily combines ease of use and an extended list of functions.
DJs won't be disappointed either - with the help of the software remix wizard, you can easily give a new sound to a previously recorded song.
Any musician knows that studio time is not cheap. Of course, no one calls for the destruction of all studios and recording at home - initially, individual instruments still need to be recorded with high quality, and one cannot do without a studio with good sound insulation and competent architecture. But it is quite possible to reduce to the final soundtrack, or, at least, “aim” to show the sound engineer “what you mean” with this program. And for novice musicians ... In general, - you understand ...
WITH MAGIX Music Maker 2014 just create music that will delight you!
IN as soon as possible You will achieve amazing professional results even without any special skills and knowledge. Using the intuitive block layout of loops, practical tutorial videos and the endless possibilities of our product, you will be able to write your songs and immediately share them with your friends.
Create music right now!
Your beat and sound, your songs.
Thanks to the new MAGIX Music Maker 2014 You will be able to short time create high quality music. However, experience is not required!
First step into the world great music: Thousands of loops, various genres, virtual instruments and big choice effects allow you to implement projects of almost any complexity.
Thanks to the redesigned recording module, you can record singing or playing instruments in high quality. WITH new feature vocal settings (Vocal Tune) and an assistant when setting the key You will never be out of tune!
Create your own songs
Just combine various ready-to-use magnifiers ("Drag & Drop") and you can achieve decent results in a short time.
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- You can directly connect a microphone, guitar or synthesizer and record in studio quality.
- IMPROVED! Redesigned recording function: The recording function in MAGIX Music Maker 2014 has been greatly redesigned and simplified.
- Now it's even easier to create really high-quality recordings that will embody specific ideas and musical concepts. Enough to record vocals and the right musical accompaniment, such as a guitar, bass or synthesizer, and the main part of the future hit is already ready.
- NEW! Vocal Tune - always on note: Based on Pro Audio technology, the Vocal Tune tool in MAGIX Music Maker 2014 is designed for efficient professional pitch work.
- Vandal SE - guitar and bass amplifier professional level: Vandal SE is a virtual guitar amp with incredible fidelity and tons of guitar effects to create rock hits
- with a fantastic guitar sound - just like real professionals.
- RECOMMENDATION! It's worth a try, this applies not only to rock, but also to other musical genres. The Vandal SE is great for experimenting with sounds using other instruments such as pianos, synths, drums and more.
- The professional principle of operation and convenient operation makes Vocal Tune indispensable in cases where it is necessary to correct unsuccessful recordings of vocals or instruments. In this case, the original sound will be largely preserved.
Customize
- A professional mixer with professional effect templates will help you quickly master the intricacies of mixing at a professional level.
- Studio effects help you mix your material perfectly.
- Thanks to a large number of effects that are in no way inferior to studio ones, as well as a mixing console, you can mix songs in professional quality. The volume of any of the 99 tracks can be adjusted using the remote control, and the sound of the track can be improved with one click - now your music will always be distinguished by the richness of shades and purity of sound!
- Advice! Thanks to numerous effects and templates from professionals, any user can easily create their own sound and mix perfectly.
- Mix it yourself using sounds prepared by professionals
- FX Rack lets you familiarize yourself with all the important effects and helps you make your song sound perfect.
- At the same time, the equalizer, Hall, Delay, Pitch and Tempo effects allow you to get real pleasure from experimenting with music.
- essentialFX - effects to help you achieve the perfect result
- The essentialFX series of effects makes it easy and quick to change all sounds and loops. Effects such as Chorus or Flanger allow you to give compositions a special timbre and professional sound processing.
- Now you can create professional sound on your own computer without even having basic knowledge!
- Uncompromising sound quality with Vintage Effects Suite
- Vintage effects will further expand your possibilities! Make music in own style, using effects that match the style of different genres.
- Thanks to the large number of professional effect templates, using Vintage Effects Suite is no problem: convincing results are guaranteed in the shortest possible time.
Your beat and sound, your songs. With the ability to freely combine musical elements and Vita Solo instruments,
as well as the new DN-e1 synthesizer, your creativity will simply have no limits.
MAGIX Music Containers
- Rock Pop Volume 8
- Hip Hop Volume 15
- Dance Volume 1
- Techno Volume 16
- Chill Out Volume 8
- Dubstep Volume 2
Virtual Instruments
- power guitar
- electric piano
- Drum Engine
- Synthesizer DN-e1
NEW! MAGIX Music Containers
MAGIX Music Maker 2014 contains over 2000 new loops and sound elements covering genres such as rock, pop, hip-hop, dance music, techno, chillout and dubstep.
Additional 1000 items can be downloaded for free online.
NEW! Easy-to-use pitch adjustment assistant
The Key Adjustment Assistant will help you find the perfect key for your project. Thanks to this, the composition will sound harmonious. All components will be perfectly tuned one by one and the track will produce a natural, professional impression.
NEW! DN-e1 is a really powerful high-end synthesizer
Thanks to the DN-e1 virtual analog synthesizer, you will have a real high-quality electric sound. This synthesizer is very versatile, but at the same time very easy to use.
DN-e1 belongs to the group of analog synthesizers and allows you to create amazing, long-lasting melodies
and arpeggio. In addition, with its help, you can improvise almost unlimitedly and work in any musical style achieving good results.
BeatBox 2 - Creating Your Own Beat
With Beat Box 2, you'll always have a deep, crisp rhythm pattern. Dynamic drums with rich functionality, high quality effects and many other outstanding features.
The well-known stepping principle used in the BeatBox allows you to have fun while working and quickly achieve desired results. Both an experienced user and a beginner can quickly create a beat of any complexity.
Drum Engine - Drums at the professional level
With the Drum Engine, you'll get really dynamic and rich drum sounds.
This tool offers the widest range percussion instruments- from modern sound to vintage rarely used in contemporary music percussion.
NEW! Power Guitar - powerful, energetic guitar melodies
Power Guitar is ideal for creating real rock music, overdrive and allows you to get the effect of a truly live sound.
Thanks to the collaboration with producers and studio musicians, Power Guitar meets the expectations of professionals about quality software to the smallest detail.
NEW! Electric Piano - authentic electronic sound
Electric Piano has everything you need to get an unusual beautiful sound that will become distinctive feature your music.
The Electric Piano is an instrument that lets you get exactly the sound you want. Everything is possible, from soft and charming to hard and aggressive sounding.
Built-in MIDI editor to create your own melodies
With the MIDI editor, you can create your own melodies using virtual instruments or easily modify existing ones.
Even without knowledge entry level in the field of music, you can simply select notes with the mouse, so that any user can quickly create own song!
VST support let you use additional effects and instruments
MAGIX Music Maker 2014 comes with VST support, allowing you to integrate additional free tools and effects from the Internet.
Additional Vita Solo instruments can also be purchased as an option.
CATOOH Online Multimedia Marketplace - An opportunity to add new samples to your collection
Online trading platform multimedia CATOOH offers a large number of multimedia elements and effects that you can add to your collection.
Professional studio for your home computer. Includes a huge set of features for the implementation of absolutely any musical idea. Of course, like any professional-level instrument, MAGIX requires proper training from its users, which is more than rewarded with the excellent quality of the created tracks.
When opening the program for the first time, users are usually lost in the abundance of all kinds of buttons, sliders, knobs and other interface elements. And no matter how hard the developers try to simplify the interface of the program, you can’t throw out the words from the song, just as you can’t throw out all its extensive functionality from MAGIX, which creates this halo of mystery for beginners. To correct this situation and eradicate misunderstanding, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with a meaningful video course.
Mini-course on MAGIX Music Maker
Concise training course for novice users of the program. Professional Lessons accompanied by pleasant voice announcers will help you quickly master the basic functionality of the program, creating a fertile ground for further, self-study. Training consists of 9 lessons, total duration just 15 minutes. Of course, this is not enough for a full-fledged study of the basics, but since this is a concise course, you will learn a lot of useful information.Increase the speed and efficiency of your work, modify audio files and do other manipulations with advanced mouse capabilities.
Learn how to set up and process audio materials the way you want.
What is the movement of objects in space and how surround sound is created in MAGIX Music Maker. Watch and repeat.
In this lesson, we will talk about the purpose of an object microscope.
An overview of the module for creating and processing tracks in the style of Drum & Bass.
Learn how to make your own Beat & Drum sounds.
Overview of a virtual synthesizer with the ability to create unique sound on 4 tracks.
Somehow, having played enough with Garageband on the iPad, I decided to look for a worthy analogue on the PC. And I found an entire virtual music studio called MAGIX Music Maker. It will be discussed in this short review.
So let's get started.
The interface of the program is simple and clear, it will not be difficult to understand it.
The MAGIX Music Maker window is divided into several areas by default. The most most of the application window is reserved for a multitrack virtual studio.
Up to 99 tracks can be used in the program (in Premium edition).
Below is a library of samples with which you can start creating your first masterpiece. The number of samples depends on the edition, but it is not limited to what you see when you first start the program - you can buy (or download) new ones, so your creativity will have no limits. Clicking on the sample name activates the preview. To add a sound fragment to our composition, just drag it to one of the tracks.
Some samples have a complete look - put one after another, they become a single whole. Such samples are called loops. To create such a loop, you just need to pull the music block by the edge until you reach the desired length.
The volume control is done quite interestingly: a straight line runs through the center of the block, raise it higher, the volume increases, lower it lower - it decreases. On this line there are control points, by moving which you can control the sound, including making “fade out”, etc.
In addition, the program has virtual instruments, the number of which is also not limited to the initial set.
But that's not all! You can directly connect a microphone, guitar or synthesizer and record in studio quality, which should appeal to advanced musicians.
You can save your songs as WAV, MP3, OGG Vorbis, WMA, Quick Time, MIDI, FLAC files, burn them to CD or upload them directly to Facebook, SoundCloud and YouTube.
All Benefits at a Glance
- Over 3,000 sounds and loops
- 6 different Sound Banks
- Up to 99 tracks available
- Vocal tuning
- power guitar
- electric piano
- Synthesizer DN-e1
- Drum Engine
- Vita 2 sample player
- beat box 2
- Loop Designer
- Guitar amplifier Vandal SE
- Release tracks online
- VST support
Conclusion
MAGIX Music Maker interesting program both for people who have never been involved in music in their lives, and for those who understand at least something about it. Yes, assembling ready-made sounds into a melody is not real creativity, but you need to start somewhere, right? Perhaps Music Maker will instill in someone a love for music and become the first step towards becoming a future great musician.
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We are deeply convinced that every person should do in his life what he is interested in. Only when work is a joy, you can realize your creative potential. However, the reality, unfortunately, is often very different. When choosing an occupation, the majority is often guided by rules that are based on stereotypes, moreover, covered with dust and cobwebs.
One of the most common misconceptions: to be a designer, you need to be able to draw on paper. Yes, this is a big plus if a person has this talent and can, so to speak, "as he goes along" make a sketch with a pencil or pen. But this condition is by no means obligatory. IN real life a designer may not be able to draw a straight line, but at the computer he becomes a master of his craft. Even more a difficult situation observed among those who suppress the desire to create music. Yes, there are tragic cases when the elephant really stepped on the ear and the person hardly separates the sound of the trombone from the buzz of the vacuum cleaner. However, in most cases, in order to become a composer, only the desire and the right means for work are enough. Who said "musical instruments"? No, no, we meant software. And to be precise, MAGIX Music Maker MX.
When thinking about creating your own musical composition Mountains of hand-written scores and a complexly equipped music studio come to mind. MAGIX Music Maker MX is built in such a way that a person can "throw off the shackles" and start creating without bothering with such things as musical notation.
The program interface is so clear that you can deal with it much faster than with the "dancing men" on the stave.
“But what about musical instruments? - you ask - "How about a recording studio and tedious guitar or keyboard lessons?" The question is fair. When a person learns to ride a bicycle, they either support him or put an extra pair of wheels so that he does not immediately fall. So is the case with MAGIX Music Maker MX - this program keeps a person afloat, even if he is a "complete zero" in the composer's craft. This application has everything you need for the very first creations - there are blanks, there are virtual instruments. This is a kind of simulator for imagination and development. musical memory. But if you get to the point where you feel like you can pick up a real guitar and start learning "tedious playing lessons", then MAGIX Music Maker MX will give you the opportunity to take it to the next step. Having bought a high-quality microphone and equipped a mini-studio at home, you can record your parts on the same interface and mix them into a single composition. Moreover, the extended edition of the program with the Premium prefix comes with a USB MIDI keyboard.
The architecture and philosophy of the program corresponds to the usual strategy of the MAGIX company. Let's say, if you have previously used wonderful video editing programs from the same developer, then the process of mastering a new application will take you very little time. For example, after installing and launching the application for the first time, a window with “incomprehensible” downloads appears on the screen. These downloads are additional content that the program automatically downloads from the server.
A similar procedure is available in other programs from MAGIX. In principle, this is an optional step, and you can skip it if you wish. However, we recommend (especially at first) to allow music editor install everything you can - visual examples of songs and a library of instruments will allow you to quickly learn the application, which is especially important at the first stages of mastering the craft of a musician. The download process will take a lot of time, because first the download manager from MAGIX will download the necessary files from the server, and then they will need to be installed. Given that the size of the libraries is hundreds and hundreds of megabytes, it will take quite a lot of time.
By default, the Easy mode is enabled in the program. Its difference from the standard one is that an information window appears in the corner of the screen, where explanatory inscriptions are shown commenting on the purpose of one or another element of the program interface.
The MAGIX Music Maker MX window is divided into several areas by default. The largest part of the application window is dedicated to the multi-track virtual studio.
In total, the program can use up to 96 independent tracks in the extended edition and up to 64 in the standard edition. In our opinion, even very, very complex project is unlikely to completely occupy all the tracks of the virtual studio. If dozens sound at the same time different instruments, then it will no longer be music, but sheer chaos.
The similarity of applications from MAGIX is also manifested in the fact that the same keyboard shortcuts work in them. For example, simultaneously scrolling the mouse wheel and pressing the CTRL key causes the project in the Arranger Field window to scale up or down, just as non-linear video editing software scales the Timeline.
A little lower is the sample library - based on it, you can start creating your first mixes. The number of tracks in the library depends on the installed edition of the program. The youngest edition has about three and a half thousand samples, and the most advanced edition of Music Maker MX Production Suite includes more than 10 thousand titles.
A sample added to a track is a complete piece of music—a keyboard chord, a series of drums, a short bass line, and so on. If you've never created your own music before, try listening to modern songs from the point of view of the composer - and you will understand that all pop music is built on the same variations, on the same beat main topic. Let's say if a music track begins with piano chords, then most likely they will be repeated many times throughout the entire length of this composition. Beginning in the eighteenth century musical science this way of presenting music is called rondo. Therefore, working with ready-made fragments, we in a certain sense we follow in the footsteps of Mozart, repeating the same samples in the MAGIX Music Maker MX project.
Some samples have a complete look - placed one after the other, they seem to be a single whole. Such “looped” samples are commonly called loops in DJ jargon. In the program, making a "loop" is as easy as shelling pears - just drag the desired sample onto the track, move the cursor to its edge and "pull" it to the required length. Ready blocks of samples can be copied and pasted into the project an unlimited number of times.
The program is very convenient to control the volume of each sample. Centered music block there is a straight line indicating the volume level. By moving control points on it and changing its shape, you can control the sound.
Another way to control the volume is with the Volume Mixer tool. It brings up a virtual mixing console and gives you the ability to control the sound level on each track.
For clarity, opposite each track, you can select your own icon, which will visually indicate what type of instrument is used in a particular case. In this case, it will not be necessary to switch to the “solo” mode in order to understand which sound track contains, say, a drum part.
A unique effect can be applied to each sample placed in the project window. The set of effects in MAGIX Music Maker MX is different for each instrument. The effect is selected directly on the work area. You can also apply effects to the entire track.
Despite the fact that the program works very stably (without a hint of advertising, let's say that this applies to all programs that MAGIX offers), there is a parameter in the application settings that is responsible for "force majeure". For projects created in the program, you can specify the time period after which the current work will be automatically written to disk.
Music Maker MX also includes a built-in synthesizer with which you can compose and edit sequences.
You can apply various post-processing effects to the melodies obtained on this synthesizer. The program supports VST effects, so you can download any of the thousands of free VST plugins into it.
Among other things, the program has many different constructors for creating musical parts. You can simulate drums, strings, playing the synthesizer.
Having created a multi-track composition, the user can easily save each track as a separate file with one command. This can be useful, for example, in order to process a part of instruments in an audio editor.
Finished projects can be exported to MP3, WAV, OGG, WMA, AIFF, FLAC files. It also provides recording to CD directly from the program and the possibility of publishing to SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
The possibilities of MAGIX Music Maker MX are not limited to creating musical material. With this package, you can even mount music videos. Tracks can contain not only audio data, but also video sequences, as well as static graphics.
Conclusion
MAGIX Music Maker MX is one of those programs that you can get carried away with and forget that you were not accepted once in music school or chorus, motivating this by the lack of hearing. Well no, okay. And we will still create. In the end, Sir Paul McCartney was not taken to the choir at one time due to the lack of voice and hearing. So do not rely on someone else's opinion.
Someone will say that working with MAGIX Music Maker MX deprives a person of individuality. They say that ready-made parts and sets of samples are not creativity yet. Of course, "dry" work with the program is not at all what a pianist feels when he picks up his own chords and improvises on the go. But maybe you just need to grow up to this? And then at one fine moment the realization will come that without first pumping your musical talent something like MAGIX Music Maker MX wouldn't work.
