15.0
Table Of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Support
- Before you start
- More about MAGIX
- Introduction
- Tutorial
- Program desktop overview
- Functional overview
- Working with objects in the VIP
- Ranges
- Working in wave projects
- Using markers
- Volume
- Output mode
- Record
- Tips & tricks
- Effects and effect plug-ins
- What effects are there, and how are they used?
- Saving effect parameters (preset mechanism)
- Dehisser
- Sound FX (object editor, mixer channels, mixmaster)
- Parametric equalizer (mixer channels, mix master)
- MAGIX Mastering Suite
- Vintage Effects Suite
- Track dynamics (track effects, mixer channels)
- Track delay/reverb (track effects)
- Elastic Audio
- General information on the Elastic Audio editor
- Edit window
- Axes labelling and legends
- Fundamentals of the Elastic Audio editor
- Description of all control elements
- Tools in the Elastic Audio easy editor
- Applications of the Elastic Audio easy editor
- Pitch-sliced-objects and VIP objects
- Fundamental frequency analysis correction
- Keyboard commands and mouse-wheel assignments
- Installation of VST plug-ins
- Effect calculations
- Samplitude Music Studio 15 as an external effects device
- Automation
- Automation modes
- Draw panorama mode
- Edit automation curves
- Move automation curve with audio / MIDI data
- Mixer
- MIDI in Samplitude Music Studio 15
- MIDI editor
- Notation display, movement, zoom
- Synchronized MIDI editor and VIP screen view
- MIDI editor multi-object editing (MO editing)
- Using the MIDI editor: Selecting events
- Editing events: Piano roll
- Controller editor
- List editor (midi event list)
- Drum editor
- Score editor
- Opening the score editor
- Score editor modes
- Linear view
- Page view
- The score
- Editing MIDI data in the score sheet
- Adjusting and optimizing the score
- Note allocation in multiple staves
- Multi-voice notation
- MIDI score settings dialog
- Stave settings
- Note display: Interpretation options
- Notation symbols
- Page format settings
- Printing score
- Print notes
- Quantize to grid
- MIDI editor shortcuts
- Software / VST instruments
- Installation of instruments and path settings
- Load instruments
- Routing settings during software instrument loading
- Load effects plug-ins
- Route MIDI instrument inputs
- Instruments with multi-channel outputs
- Adjust instrument parameters
- Play and monitor instruments live
- Routing of VST instruments using the VSTi manager.
- Preset management
- Freezing instruments (freeze)
- Tips on handling virtual instruments
- ReWire
- Synth objects
- Auto Jam Session
- Managers
- Surround sound
- Burning CDs
- File menu
- New Virtual Project (VIP)
- Open
- Loading / Importing
- Save project
- Save project as
- Save complete VIP in
- Save project as template
- Burn project backup on CD
- Save object
- Save session
- Rename project
- Delete HD wave project
- Delete virtual projects
- Export audio
- Make podcast
- Batch processing
- Connect to the Internet
- FTP download
- Send project via email
- Close project
- Exit
- Edit menu
- Menu view
- Track menu
- Object menu
- Range menu
- Real-time effects menu
- Offline effects menu
- Amplitude / Normalize
- Switch channels
- Stereo FX
- Invert phase
- Equalizer
- FFT equalizer
- Dynamics
- MultiMax
- Declipping
- Remove DC offset
- Dehisser
- Amp simulation
- Vocoder
- Room simulation
- Echo / Reverb
- Resample / Timestretching
- Change sample rate
- Reverse
- Build physical loop
- DirectX plug-ins
- Process only left (right) stereo channel
- Tools menu
- Playback / Record menu
- Menu tempo
- MIDI menu
- New MIDI object
- New MIDI track
- MIDI editor
- MIDI object editorCtrl + O
- Glue MIDI objects
- Trim MIDI objects
- MIDI bouncing
- Separate MIDI objects according to channels
- MIDI quantization (start and length)
- MIDI start quantization
- MIDI length quantization
- Cancel MIDI quantization
- Track information
- Track MIDI record
- VST instrument editor
- Metronome active
- Metronome settings
- MIDI options
- MIDI record modes
- MIDI panic – All notes off
- CD menu
- Load audio CD track(s)
- Set track
- Set subindex
- Set pause
- Set CD end
- Set track markers automatically
- Set track indices on object edges
- Remove index
- Remove all indices
- Make CD
- Show CD-R drive information
- Show CD-R disc information
- CD track options
- CD disc options
- CD text / MPEG ID3 editor
- Set pause time
- Set start pause time
- CD arrange mode
- Get CD info (FreeDB Internet)
- FreeDB options
- Audio ID
- Options menu
- Project properties
- Project options
- Track information
- Synchronization
- Program settings
- System / Audio
- Window menu
- Tasks menu
- Online menu
- Help menu
- Mouse functions and mouse modes
- Button overview
- Preset keyboard shortcuts
- General settings
- Project settings
Record
Hard drive recording
The device used to digitize audio signals is already included on the sound card and is called an
analog/digital converter (A-to-D, ATD or A/D). In order to record, the A/D Converter gathers samples
of the signal to be digitized in determined time lapses and measures its frequency. The rate is called
"sample rate" and normally lies in the kHz ranges. KHz means a vibrating frequency of several thousand
times per second. The higher the rate, the more samples are taken by the A/D converter
and the more natural the digital transformation of the sound will be.
The precision with which the A/D converter measures the analog signal is determined by the sample
resolution. The finer the resolution, the better the digital transformation.
CD-quality audio recordings are recorded with a sample rate of 44.1 kHz and 16-bit resolution.
Recording source
First of all, the recording source must be connected to the sound card. There are several ways to do
this, depending on your equipment.
Microphone
: Microphone signals must first be amplified before the sound card modifier can record them. Most sound
cards have separate microphone inputs that pre-amplify signals, but the results are rarely professional.
Quality
: Connection to an external mixer or external microphone amplifier produces far better results.
Amplifier
: If, for example, you possess a guitar amplifier that has a line-out output, you can connect it with the
line-in input on the sound card.
Stereo system
: The stereo system's amplifier usually has a separate line-out. If instead, you see "Aux. out sockets," then
you should use these. Connect them with the input on the sound card (usually shown in red). Normally, a
high-fidelity (hi-fi) amplifier has cinch sockets and sound card mini-stereo catch sockets. You must have
the corresponding cable to connect these properly.
If the amplifier doesn't have separate outputs (other than the loud speakers), then you can use the
headphones socket for recording. In this case, you need a cable with two mini-stereo headphone
connectors. This process has an advantage: you can control the signal level through the phones input. The
disadvantage is that phones outputs are normally not very good. With cassette recordings, always use the
cassette deck line out. Record transfers often leave you no other choice... Never connect a record
player's outputs directly to the sound card, because the phono signal must be pre-amplified first. If you
don't have a pre-amplifier, the only way to do this is via the phones output or an external amplifier
Adjusting the signal
Digital recordings through the sound card need optimal control in order to obtain the best sound quality.
Once the recording source is connected to the sound card, open the recording dialog with the "Record"
button and start the recording source.
You can check the control on the LED displays in the recording dialog.
If the level is too high, reduce the incoming signal. If the recording source is connected through the
amplifier or tape deck's line out connectors, then you can reduce the incoming signal only by using the
sound card's mixer window. This is located in the recording dialog under the "Level control" tab.
If you reduce the input sensibility with the sliding regulator (fader), then you also reduce (with many
sound cards) the precision of the resolution of the digitized analog signal. This is why these controls
should be kept at the loudest possible setting!
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