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Mixers and Audio Objects
in each synthesizer’s section. As you know, there is always
a price to pay—but we figured out that this method will get
you started as soon as possible.
To get the most out of the following, we recommend that
you have your MAGIX midi studio generation 6 up and
running on your computer, with your audio and MIDI in-
terfaces and a MIDI keyboard connected. Further, please
make sure that you have inserted the desired synthesizer
in the Audio Instrument mixer channel in the Mixer win-
dow, and that you have selected the track of this Audio In-
strument mixer channel in the Arrange window. Finally,
please load the setting “test” into the synthesizer. Ready?
OK, let’s start.
The Synthesizers—Carpet Sweeper
The Carpet Sweeper is designed to give you warm, soft
and animated pad sounds, thus creating spacious atmo-
sphere in your music. As opposed to bass synthesizers like
the M-TB6, the Carpet Sweeper is designed as a chordal
instrument providing eight voices, meaning that you can
play up to eight notes at a time.
The sound generation of the Carpet Sweeper begins with
an oscillator, with which pitch or frequency can be ad-
justed with the three pushbuttons at the left. Only one of
them can be active at a time. They select the general pitch
of the Carpet Sweeper in octave steps. The meaning of the
numbers on the switches stems—believe it or not—from
the pipes of church organs. Back then, the length of a pipe
was measured in feet. The shorter a pipe the higher the
pitch or frequency of its sound. Doubling the length of
pipe resulted in halving its pitch. So, 16 is one octave be-
low 8, while 32 is one octave below 16.
Back to the Carpet Sweeper. Its oscillator can, of course,
not only be tuned, but offers a choice of two entirely differ-
ent basic sounds: a “sawtooth” and a “pulse” wave. Locate
the big Mix control and turn it. You will notice that you