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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

Editing recordings retroactively

Leave the MR-64 by pressing the arranger button. The arranger allows you to cut, arrange, add effects,

and otherwise edit your recordings. The arranger also lets you burn audio CDs of your work. For more

information, please see the section "Editing objects

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