MAGIX Announces Music Studio Professional

With the new MAGIX Music Studio Professional, MAGIX is integrating a MIDI and audio studio with complete mastering and direct CD writing. All the tools you need to develop your creative ideas into songs, and produce a CD.

MAGIX Music Studio Professional is a digital studio with two main components: the MIDI Studio, for sequencing and working with MIDI hardware, and the Audio Studio with the multitrack hard disk recording. Both components are directly linked to each other and allow you to put your ideas together quickly. And for those who do not want to start from scratch,a library of MIDI file drum patterns, bass lines, and complete works are included, royalty free even for commercial use.

With the MAGIX Music Studio Professional, the ambitious musician can not only record live instruments, compose music, edit audio material, process it with DirectX plug-ins, synchronize videos, produce samples and remix his songs. He can also master his or her creation and burn it onto CD-R. If the Internet is the desired mode of distribution, MAGIX Music Studio Professional also allows you to save your work in MPEG Layer 2 format.

Features

MPEG Audio Encoder

The integrated MPEG audio encoder allows you to compress audio material into the MPEG-Layer 2 format. The data size of your audio file is reduced by a factor of 10 while maintaining near studio quality. This allows you to send the production via Internet easily.

Adaptive Track Mixer

The virtual mixers have been developed to preserve the feel of a professional console. The channels displayed automatically adapt to the number of tracks. The mixer in MAGIX MIDI studio has a 3 band EQ, volume, pan, mute, solo, record, clip, mono/stereo controller and 6 effect returns which can be used simultaneously with up to 3 included effects as well as DirectX plug-ins. In MAGIX audio studio, the mixer has 3 AUX sends, dynamics, delay, DirectX, and filter functions.

1000 MIDI File Construction Kit

For your production, you have an extensive royalty-free midi library in general midi (GM) format at your disposal. Containing both sound patterns as well as drum loops, bass lines, chords, sequences and complete music arrangements. The midi files have been produced by international musicians and producers in the various styles such as techno/trance, hip hop, house, acid funk, rock, pop, funk, Latin and jazz-rock.

Direct CD Writing

With the integrated CD recording software, you can burn your production directly onto your CD in the professional Red Book standard. The program supports nearly all CD recorders available.

Video Integration

The MAGIX music studio professional offers you full AVI video integration so that you can produce a perfect soundtrack for your video.

MAGIX MIDI Studio

MIDI environment

The extensive environment editor lets you fix the internal midi signal flow of your system.

Score editor

The Score Editor allows you precise presentation, editing and printing of your arrangement and flawless integration of your song text. Theres also an AudioTo Score Function that allows you to transform monophonic audio signals into notes, Parameter box

The Parameter box allows you to put in different settings such as transposing, velocity, loop, delay, etc. for single objects or whole midi channels all in real time.

Mini event editor

The practical mini event editor shows you the exact settings of each single event. This allows you to quickly and precisely fine tune your arrangement.

Drum / HyperDraw Editor

This editor is actually two editing windows in one. In the drum editor you can record single bass components such as snare drum, bass drum or hi-hat separately and then edit them exactly. With a click of the mouse you can change to the HyperDraw Editor where you can additionally control all midi parameters such as modulation, velocity or pitch bend.

Audio integration

In MAGIX midi studio you can integrate audio tracks. The audio material can be edited in the integrated audio editor or be directly exported into the MAGIX audio studio for extensive .WAV editing and mastering.

MAGIX Audio Studio

Wave Pipeline to MAGIX MIDI Studio

The MAGIX audio studio is conveniently linked to the MAGIX MIDI studio. Now audio material can be edited and exchanged between the two components efficiently.

Recording Box

The recording box allows you to set the recording parameters in detail. Select an audio resolution up to 24 bits and sampling rates up to 96 kHz.

Audio Effect Curve

The intensity of your audio effects such as echo, reverb, delay, etc. can be determined for each particular track via an effect curve. This curve can be drawn graphically anyway you like.

Audio Editing

For the production of your audio material you have a vast amount of editing features such as time stretching, pitch shifting, resampling, normalize, etc. at your disposal. You can also import audio material directly from an audio CD and edit it.

Multiple In/Out

MAGIX Music Studio Professional supports multi-stereo wave drivers and allows you to address each of the 64 audio tracks separately. This allows for simultaneous recording on as many tracks as you wish.

System Requirements

• Microsoft Windows 95 or 98
• Pentium 200 MHz, 100 MB free disc space minimum
• 64 MB RAM minimum, Resolution min. 800 x 600 with 16-Bit-High-Color, 16-Bit-sound card, CD-ROM drive, CD-R for direct CD burning.