6.0

Introduction
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other has a stick marked to the nearest inch. Although the
house built with the stick measuring to the nearest foot
may not fall down, the one using the finer scale will build
a more accurate house.
New Audio Engine: MAGIX music studio generation 6
now works with a new, significantly improved audio en-
gine. It offers shorter latency times, faster fader response,
improved VST™ support and overall better performance.
Monitoring, that is, listening to the input signal at the au-
dio output, is now available. You will find these new driver
settings on the pages “Audio Drivers” and “Audio Drivers
2” in the Audio menu.
CD Sound
CD quality audio is recorded at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz
with 16 bit resolution. Many Multimedia programs use a
lower rate such as 22.05 kHz or 11.025 kHz, and many use
8 bits. This is often quite adequate if the sound is played
through inexpensive PC speakers but you would certainly
be able to tell the difference if it played through a good hi-
fi system.
Direct-to-disk Recording
One minute of CD-quality sound requires 10 MB of stor-
age space. Clearly it’s impractical to store this in RAM. It is
more practical to store your samples on disk. During play-
back this data has to be read on the fly so you need a rea-
sonably fast hard disk if the data is to be played back accu-
rately. Most modern disks are capable of this but some
older ones may have problems, especially if they are run-
ning in a slow PC. With MAGIX midi studio generation 6
you can playback digital audio which has previously been
saved to disk.
Setting up Your Equipment
Make sure the MIDI interface or sound card and MAGIX
midi studio generation 6 are correctly installed. If you are
using an external MIDI keyboard connect its MIDI Out to
the interface’s MIDI In. If you are also using the sounds
on the keyboard, connect its MIDI In to the interface’s
MIDI Out. If you are using the sounds on a sound card
this is not necessary. If you want to use a keyboard for re-
cording but a MIDI sound module for playback, connect
the module’s MIDI In to the interface’s MIDI Out. If you
want to use MAGIX midi studio generation 6’s digital au-