MAGIX Music Maker 2016 Live Audio Production Software

Got item & it has been open before. Has it been downloaded already? Want to know before I open it.

Says item is new but it clearly not. Will open and see if it has been used. If so will be returning it.

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Great- without the adware.

I want to say this is a 5 star mid-tier music mixing and mastering program, but I can't. One of the bundled programs (the registry cleaner) took a chunk out of my WIndows and I had to revert back to my last back up to restore my PC to a working state. DO NOT INSTALL any other bundled programs like SImpliclean!

The extent of my music knowledge is woefully amateurish. I know my do ray me's and can play one song on the piano. The strongest part about this program for aspiring musicians is that much of the hard work is already done with the soundpools. You are not going to achieve Tiesto or Coldplay levels of production, but you can easily cobble together some attractive tunes with the existing tracks. If you wish to experiment and compose, there are keyboard synths galore and even some digital renderings of analog synthas such as the Robota Drum Synth/Sequencer. A touchscreen PC or laptop is recommended for this program.

You can even upload your own sound samples for mastering. The major weakness in the Soundpools are the vocals. It's basically one guy or gal singing different sounds. You will want to record new vocals if you want to produce a hit song. For my personal preference, the best sounds are in the Guitar and Techno soundpools. Be prepared to shell out more dollars if you want limited publication rights.

Learning this program as an amature will take months, but it is enjoyable. I can recommend this program as long as you avoid installing any other bundled software!

Erol Esen

February 15, 2016

Very Intuitive Creativity Tool!

First, let me say that this is an amazing piece of software. It's not perfect. I was able to crash it. I attached the crash screen at the end of the attached video--for the benefit of the Magix team to improve it. The problem has to do with selecting multiple tracks at once and manipulating them together. The work around is not to select multiple tracks. Other than that, the software works beautifully. It has amazing collection of sound loops with simply outstanding digital and analog samplings and very intuitive user interface to create music. In the attached video I added a demo that comes with MAGIX Music Maker 2016 Live for a few seconds, and then I've added an original arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner with my vocals superimposed on an instrumental version I found on YouTube. Music Maker Live makes it very easy to create and mix new samples. I hope you will enjoy this software as much as I have.

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