Is that all? No, the software offers the possibility to activate a surround mode at the top of the processing chain that will allow us to manage the position of our tracks in a 5.1 configuration. The Master channel also has two inserts and two tracks: one that is identical to that of the other channels (except for the fact that the stereo width enhancer got swapped for a Pitch Shifting and Time Stretching processor), and a second one that is more Mastering-oriented with a 6-band parametric EQ, a stereo width expander, a multiband maximizer, a limiter, a visualizer, and a tool to clone the spectral signature of a mix, like with Har-Bal. Obviously, this same configuration applies to the aux bus to which the sends are routed. In order to do that, we press the "M" button to access the virtual console that offers us, for each track, two insert slots and two sends, besides a relatively comprehensive channel strip (10-band graphic EQ, reverb, delay, compressor, filter, distortion and stereo width expander). Once finished with the arrangement and structure, let's see what the software has to offer in terms of effects and mixing possibilities. Since such software usually likes to fiddle with Windows' registry (and not always with good results), we will prudently untick the previously marked box and move on to what really interests us.
We start off with the wrong foot: like a sponsored shareware, the installer offers to install Simplitec Simplicheck, a PC utility tool like Norton Utilities. We'll have to see if that's true… On familiar ground More possibilities" is written on the box. We are interested in the Premium version which, as usual with the German developer, includes even more from everything, always more and more.
Not surprisingly, this end of year will see the arrival of the 2014(!) version of the software, which will be available in three versions: normal ($60), Premium ($100) and Premium with a 49-key MIDI keyboard ($160).
The ideal genre to start with computer music without getting lost in the complexity of it.Īware of that, Magix never stopped offering the general public new versions of its best-selling software, always adding features and recovering or popularizing concepts and features of its professional programs ( Samplitude and Sequoia). And we must admit that, 20 years after is invention, the idea is still as relevant as ever, to the point that it has become a software genre in its own right. The concept was brilliant: compose a song by juxtaposing audio loops, like an audio Lego, all within a sequencer reduced to its most basic expression. To Jürgen, Dieter and Erhard what is Jürgen, Dieter and Erhard's: Music Maker was the first loop sequencer in the history of computer music, well before eJay, Acid, and Ableton Live, and certainly well before GarageBand and Sequel.