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Table Of Contents

Copyright
Preface
Support
Before you start
- System requirements
- Serial number
More about MAGIX
- myGOYA
- MAGIX Premium Club
Introduction
- What is Samplitude Music Studio 15?
- What’s new in Samplitude Music Studio 15?
- The features
Tutorial
- Create a virtual project (VIP)
- Recording with the multitrack recorder (MR-64)
- Arranging MAGIX Soundpool sound loops
- Add synthesizers
- Editing objects
- MIDI recordings
- Edit MIDI
- Mixer
- Effects
  - Offline effects and real-time effects
  - Calculating audio effects
- Burn CD
Program desktop overview
- VIP window
- Transport control
- Track editor
- Track box
- Workspaces
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
- Installation of VST plug-ins
- Effect calculations
- Samplitude Music Studio 15 as an external effects device
Automation
- Automation – Context menu
Automation modes
- Off mode
- Read mode
- Touch mode
Draw panorama mode
Edit automation curves
Move automation curve with audio / MIDI data
Mixer
- Overview
- Operating the mixer
- Channel strips
- Master section
- Global settings
- Buses and routing
- Embedding external effects devices
- Tips and tricks
MIDI in Samplitude Music Studio 15
- What is MIDI?
- Connect external equipment
  - Interface connection
  - MIDI cabling
- Convert MIDI objects into audio files
- MIDI settings
- MIDI: Import, record, edit
- MIDI object editor
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
  - Selection of MIDI events (piano roll, drum editor, controller editor, list editor, score editor)
- Editing events: Piano roll
  - Editing selected events (edit buttons)
- Controller editor
  - Tools
  - Quantize controller events
- List editor (midi event list)
- Drum editor
- Score editor
- Quantize to grid
  - Quantization grid ("Snap")
  - Quantization settings
- 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
- Working method
- Note for users of older versions of MAGIX Music Studio
- Atmos
- BeatBox 2 plus
- Drum & Bass machine 2.0
- LiViD - Little Virtual Drummer
- Robota
- Vita
- Revolta 2
Auto Jam Session
- Open
- Handling
- Auto Jam Session modes
- Loop effects
- Enhanced Auto Jam Session dialog
Managers
- File browser
- Soundpool
- Track manager
  - Track view and selection
  - Rename, delete, and insert tracks
- Marker manager
- Range manager
  - Defining and search for ranges
  - Edit range parameters
- VSTi manager
- Object manager
Surround sound
- Surround panorama module
- Stereo and mono signal processing with twin-channel Surround
- Automation of twin-channel Surround
Burning CDs
- Red Book
- Writing
- Burning CDs in Samplitude Music Studio 15
- DSP display
File menu
- New Virtual Project (VIP)
- Open
- Loading / Importing
  - Import audio
  - Load audio CD track(s)
- 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
  - Convert audio
    - 2 mono -> LR wave
  - Export video sound...
- Make podcast
- Batch processing
  - Source files
  - Effects
  - Target format
  - Destination files
- Connect to the Internet
- FTP download
- Send project via email
- Close project
- Exit
Edit menu
- Undo
- Redo
- Undo history
- Cut
- Delete
- Copy
- Paste from clip
- Extract
- Insert silence
- Append projects
- More
- Crossfade editor
- Auto crossfade active
- Delete curve handles
- Delete undo levels
Menu view
- Rebuild graphic data
- Sections
- Fix vertically
- Hide submix / AUX buses
- Overview mode
- Show grid
- Grid lines
- Units of measurement
- Snap to grid
- Snap and grid setup
- VIP display
- Store position and zoom level
- Get position and zoom level
- Horizontal
- Vertical
Track menu
- Insert new tracks
  - New MIDI track
- Cut track(s)
- Copy track(s)
- Insert track(s)
- Delete track(s)
- Track properties
- Track settings
  - Audio
  - MIDI
- Track effects
- Surround editor
- DirectX plug-Ins
- Maximize track
- Minimize none
- Track freeze
- Track unfreeze
- Activate next / Previous track
Object menu
- New object
- New synth object
- Cut objects
- Split objects
- Trim objects
- Group objects
- Lock objects
  - Locking options
- Move object
- Mute objects
- Build loop object
- Hotspot
- Delete hotspot
- Select objects
  - Object lasso
- Group objects
- Ungroup objects
- Object color / name
- Object editor
- Object manager
- Take manager
- Wave editing
Range menu
- Range all
- Move play cursor
- Edit range
- Range length
- Split range
- Split range for video
- Store range
- Get range
- Get range length
- Save markers
- Get marker
- Markers on range borders
- Set markers on silence
- Delete marker
- Delete all markers
- Recall last range
- Range editor
- Range manager
- Edit time display
Real-time effects menu
Offline effects menu
- Amplitude / Normalize
  - Amplitude / Normalize > Normalize
  - Amplitude / Normalize > Loudness adaption
  - Amplitude/Normalize > Fade in/out
  - Amplitude/Normalize > Set zero
- Switch channels
- Stereo FX
- Invert phase
- Equalizer
- FFT equalizer
  - Scaling options (FFT filter)
- Dynamics
- MultiMax
- Declipping
- Remove DC offset
- Dehisser
- Amp simulation
- Vocoder
- Room simulation
- Echo / Reverb
  - Reverb
  - Echo
- Resample / Timestretching
  - Resampling
  - Default
  - Smoothed
  - Beat marker slicing
  - Beat marker stretching
  - Monophone voice
- Change sample rate
- Reverse
- Build physical loop
- DirectX plug-ins
  - Working method and use
  - Pre and post in the plug-in dialog
  - Drag & drop VST plug-ins
  - Buttons in the dialog
  - DirectX / VST plug-in set-up
- Process only left (right) stereo channel
Tools menu
- Track bouncing
- Range track bouncing
- Remove unused samples
- Delete freeze data
  - Freeze data administration
  - Deleting freeze data manually
- Waveform generator
- Open new manager
- Managers
- Take manager
  - Display filter
- Timestretch patcher
- Remix Agent
Playback / Record menu
- Play once
- Play loop
- Play in range
- Play with preload
- Play only selected objects
- Stop
- Stop and go to current position
- Change play direction
- Restart play
- Playback options
- Record
- Record options
- Record mode / Punch in
- Monitoring
- Auto Jam Session
Menu tempo
- Tempo / Time signature
- Set new tempo marker
- Set new beat marker
- Set new beat position marker
  - Bar position markers (Advanced Tempo Mapping)
  - Working with tempo and bar markers
- Ignore all tempo markers, use only project tempo
- Metronome active
- Metronome settings
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
  - Normal
  - Overdub
  - Replace
- MIDI panic – All notes off
CD menu
- Load audio CD track(s)
  - Features of the track list dialog
  - Features of the drive list dialog
  - Features of the CD-ROM drive configuration dialog
- 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
  - Burn “on the fly”
  - Generate a complete new file
  - Print TOC
  - Show TOC
- Show CD-R drive information
- Show CD-R disc information
- CD track options
- CD disc options
  - CD title
  - UPC / Ean code
  - Number of first CD track
- CD text / MPEG ID3 editor
- Set pause time
- Set start pause time
- CD arrange mode
- Get CD info (FreeDB Internet)
- FreeDB options
  - Submit CD to FreeDB
  - Clear FreeDB cache
- Audio ID
Options menu
- Project properties
- Project options
- Track information
- Synchronization
- Program settings
- System / Audio
Window menu
- Kaskadieren
- Tile
- Untile
- Arrange icons
- Main toolbar
- Position bar
- Mouse mode toolbar
- Range bar
- Workspace bar
- Button bar
- Status bar
- Mixer
- Track editor
- Time display
- Visualization
- Transport control
- Managers
- Close all windows
- Iconize all wave projects
- Hide all wave projects
- Half height
Tasks menu
Online menu
- MAGIX Online World
- MAGIX Community
- MAGIX Blog Service
- Make podcast
Help menu
- Help
- Help index
- Context help
- About Samplitude Music Studio 15
- Start selection / Tip of the day
- System information
- MAGIX auto-update
- Encoder activation
Mouse functions and mouse modes
- Universal mode
- Curves / Object mode
- Range mode (safe mode)
- Curve mode
  - Volume and panorama rubber band
  - Volume and panorama gradients for the whole track
- Cut mode
- Pitchshift / Timestretch mode
- Draw volume mode
- Draw panorama mode
- Wave edit mode (only wave projects)
- Scrub mouse mode
- Zoom mode
Button overview
- Toolbar (left)
- Toolbar (right)
- Mouse mode bar
- Positioning bar (left)
- Positioning bar (right)
- Range bar
Preset keyboard shortcuts
- File menu
- Edit menu
- View menu
- Track menu
- Object menu
- Real-time effects menu
- Offline effects menu
- Range menu
- CD/DVD menu
- Tools menu
- Playback menu
- MIDI menu
- Options menu
- Window menu
- Help menu
- Mouse
General settings
- System / Audio
- Program
- Editing keyboard shortcuts and menus
- Design
  - Display options
  - Colors
- Easy setup
Project settings
- Project options
- Mixer setup
- Media link
- Synchronization / Synchronization settings
- Capture options

Mixer

In this chapter

Overview

Operating the mixer

Channel strips

Master section

Global settings

Buses and routing

Embedding external effects devices

Tips and tricks

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