Magix Music Studio 10 Deluxe [OLD VERSION]

No

Doesn't really have any selection in what you can use for sounds and music. I'd definitely go for another Music making product before this one.

First, let me make it clear that I have used Guitar Tracks Pro (GTP) for about 5 years, and in the 90's used the original Cakewalk sequencer software (multiple versions) for about 8 years. Consequently, I'm very used to working with their user interface. That said....This product installs easily, and supports both computerized recording as well as midi sequencing. I have NOT used the midi portion at all.There are actually 2 separate applications, the other is the Midi Studio, which does allow you to create recorded tracks for playing with midi tracks.The recording application works well. My GTP has been hanging up my PC for some time, for no apparent reason, and the Magix doesn't do that. This app will certainly record tracks, provide tools for mixing and adding effects, and will export to .wav or other format files.I found the track editor is not very intuitive, but this is largely due to how easy I find GTP's editor to work with. In Magix, clicking the top half of the clips allow you to do some things while clicking on the lower half allows you to do other things. This is confusing to an old guy like me, trying to figure out which half of the clip to click to do what I want.It's not easy to block out a range for looping. And when you do, sometimes the looping stops (it's after an action on my part, but I can't figure out how to get it looping again once it stops). There are some other weird behaviors too - bottom line is it's just kind of klunky.One other big negative for me is the lack of support for ACIDized files. You can't easily stretch a loop to the pitch or duration you want. There are tools for it, but I gave up on them. As I recall, you work in percentages - if I want to stretch a 132 BMP loop to 114, what percentage is that? Seems pretty un-thought out (in GTP, with an acidized loop, you set your song tempo and drop the loop in. That's it. If you then change the tempo, the loop changes too. NO fuss.) If I need to do this, I will use Cakewalk for changing the loop, export it as a new file, then import into Magix. Since that's not fun, I probably won't do it!On the good side of things, though - I like this mixer much better than GTP. It has quite a few features built in to the mixer that GTP forces you to add a plugin for, such as dedicated EQ for each track, compression, reverb, delay, and AMP SIMULATOR, easily available on each track. Unlike GTP, you can type in paramters such as pan and levels. Cool!. The master section has it's own effects too, such as a multi-band compressor and stereo enhancer. No extra plugins required.When you export a file, it remembers where the destination is (GTP always resets, at least if you exit the project, so you have to go browsing for it each time).And the point I like the most - the export (when you do a mix down of the song to a single wav file) is MUCH FASTER THAN GTP! I don't know what language they wrote in, but all Cakewalk code used to be in C++, yet it's slower than dried snot flowing uphill. Magix is great.I will use this product some because I'm doing some projects with a friend who uses it. I don't know what the mix will be, as I said I like some things better, but the lack of ACID support is almost a show stopper for me since all of my drum tracks are loops. If you use the software to record everything, and don't care about dropping pre-recorded loops into your song, I'd recommend this app.The hard copy manual is poorly written (at least the english version - this app was not written by someone who has english as their first language), and says to refer to the online manual. The online manual may have more in it but it's poorly written too. It's not complete or topics are hidden - I have been unable to find answers to some of my questions, even using the search mode.----------------------Update, 4/23//2006I had a need to do some short midi tracks. Since I'd bought the Magix Midi Studio (as indicated in another review here, it's a completely separate project), I decided to try it out.I gave up after about an hour of trying to figure out how to get the sound card to work (never did). The other thing I tried was to find a piano roll type window. Couldn't find that either - I'm guessing all this product does is record midi from an external device and doesn't really provide any editing like the old Cakewalk or other midi editors.But, I don't know for sure. What I do know is that the help is so poorly written and the help interface design is so crappy, that I gave up trying to figure it out.I can't recommend this product at all to anyone (the entire Magix package). I can't point to a better midi product because I do so little with that any longer, but I would suggest Frooty Loops. I've tried the demo version of it that came with my Guitar Tracks Pro, versions 2 & 3, and the sounds are incredible, it provides easier editing to develop SHORT sequences (like a measure or two, in a loop format).But, I would recommend Cakewalk Guitar Tracks Pro for a straight recording package. I use it constantly, and after having the Magix for a few months now, I only use it to exchange projects with a buddy. Even that's going to stop, since I sent him my GTPro 2 (I'm using version 3). Once we can exchange projects using the Cakewalk, this whole mess will get unloaded and the cd's will get filed along with all my old AOL cds. I can't say enough what a disappointment this product is and a waste of money.

no problem still have my copy and its very easy to use .i recommend this for beginners that want to learn how to be a engineer

This is a fabulous program. I love it. I'm older but it is easy to use.

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.