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
Hybrid Audio Engine
The Hybrid Audio Engine
®
in Samplitude Music Studio 15 offers a new dimension in professional music
production: The combination of the Low Latency Engine and the classic Samplitude
®
playback engine enables minimum latency at maximum performance. The Low Latency Engine allows for
very short reaction times while calculating track effects, and also permits monitoring at low latency during
Live Recording. The classic playback engine saves resources and allows for integration of
high-performance effects.
Formats and interfaces
Import: MIDI standard formats (MID, GM, GS, XG), WAV (24 & 32-bit), WAV with codec, OGG
Vorbis, MP3, CD-A (audio CD with preview), AIFF, FLAC, MOV, AVI
(audio tracks only, but with video display)
Export: MIDI standard formats (MID), WAV (24-bit), WAV with codec, OGG Vorbis, MP3
(optional, demo encoder with 20 free runs included), CD-A (audio CD), AIFF, WMA, RealAudio
TM
(Helix), QuickTime
TM
, FLAC, AVI (video sound)
Interfaces: VST, DirectX
®
, ASIO, ReWire, SMPTE, MTC, MC (master and slave)
Also: Song-to-email, multi-channel input/output, AudioID
/freeDB (query music information online)
Synthesizer
Samplitude Music Studio 15 comes with the following synthesizers that you can play directly on your PC
keyboard or with a MIDI
keyboard.
MAGIX Vita + Vital Instruments: A sampler with incredibly realistic-sounding, "classical"
instrumental sounds like different guitars (Power Chords, clean electric guitar, acoustic guitar,
bass guitar), different pianos, percussion, strings, brass, woodwinds (each as an individual set &
as an ensemble set), and much more.
Drum & Bass Machine: For bass and drum tracks in "Drum 'n' Bass" sound
BeatBox 2: For computer beats and computer sounds.
LiVid (Little Virtual Drummer): For "real" acoustic drum tracks.
Robota: For "mean" electronic sounds
Revolta 2: An analog, varied, and powerful-sounding 12-voice synthesizer with sound matrix,
noise generator, and a complete effects section with nine effect types. With this synthesizer, you
can create any electronic music you can imagine. The sound presets were created by the sound
designer for Access Virus and Rob Papen's Albino.
Atmos: For natural sounds or atmospheres like rain, thunder, or wind.
Effects and effects plug-ins
Samplitude Music Studio 15 offers the following effects and effects plug-ins:
Equalizer: Graphical and parametric
FFT filter: Including Sound Cloner, e.g. for transferring sound characteristics of an optimal
sound to other audio files.
Echo (delay)
Reverb (MAGIX VariVerb)
Vocoder
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