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Integrating other programs - Synchronizing and
ReWire
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Preroll frames: Here you can enter a frame number that MAGIX Music Maker
MX Production Suite will ignore before synchronization starts. This will ensure
that analog devices first require a certain time to reach the correct speed. In
order to prevent synchronization of MAGIX Music Maker MX Production Suite
to an invalid time, this can be skipped by means of preroll frames.
Send synchronization (master): Master sync on. The external device/program
follows the tempo and transport control in MAGIX Music Maker MX Production
Suite.
Start offset (ms/SMPTE): Specify an offset in milliseconds or SMPTE frames
(minutes:seconds:frames) to be deducted from the incoming timecode before
the time is used for synchronization. An offset of 60:00:00 (1 hour) will
synchronize a tape with an SMPTE code that starts at 1 hour; MAGIX Music
Maker MX Production Suite however still starts at the tape beginning at "0".
Vice versa, sending a timecode snaps this value to the current position.
Correction factor: Normally, this value should be at "1" if you don't change it.
In seldom cases, synchronization of MIDI and audio can run apart for longer
arrangements. You can accelerate the speed of the MIDI playback in this case
by slightly increasing this factor (e.g. to 1.000001).
ReWire
If this option is activated, ReWire-compatible client applications (like, for
example, Propellerheads Reason) can be integrated into MAGIX Music Maker
MX Production Suite as synthesizers.
Activate the ReWire function in the arrangement properties ("E") under the
"Synchronization" tab.
Afterwards, installed ReWire applications can be loaded as instruments into a
track. All ReWire client applications appear as individual sections in the
selection menu for software instruments in the track box and in the MIDI editor
and are loaded as software instruments (VSTi).
Several client applications can be opened automatically by right clicking on
their name in the selection menu, just as you can open the plug-ins window for
VST instruments by right clicking. ReWire clients which support the direct
opening of the client application via the host application (MAGIX Music Maker
MX Production Suite) need to be started manually. You can do this by starting
your client application as you would normally. It then automatically recognizes
the host and starts in a special client mode. The client application should
always be launched after MAGIX Music Maker MX Production Suite and should
be closed before exiting.