Simply create music MAGIX Music Maker 14 is the perfect solution for stunning songs, experimental beats, and exciting soundtracks! High-quality premium sounds, virtual instruments, an integrated mixing console, and exclusive effects are all available to you! Setting everything up is easy, letting you experience what it's like to dive even deeper into the world of music production. NEW! Over 1,500 sounds in current styles MAGIX Vita: Sample player and sound controller New instruments for unique, authentic songs Power Chords: Uncompromising, versatile distortion guitars Chat function & knowledge exchange: Online answers to all of your questions New ideas. New songs. Produce music with MAGIX Music Maker 14: Record, edit, and mix. Everything in perfect audio quality for the most demanding standards. Songs, sounds, and loops are made quickly with the instruments selected – your songs! Start your music projects The arranger is the heart of MAGIX Music Maker 14. Combine your sounds, loops, and MIDI data on up to 64 channels to complete your song! Plus, internationally successful star producers have gathered together an enormous, exclusive sound archive: Over 3,500 current sounds form an especially high-quality and unbelievably diverse launch pad for your projects, either to help you get started or to complete your existing sample archive. NEW! Vital Instruments TM – the new standard MAGIX Vital Instruments TM are samples in premium quality. Instruments developed by sampling specialists yellow tools combine real recorded instruments with the natural sound characteristics and typical play behaviour of musicians. The advantage: Instruments that sound just like the original with unique fade behavior, up to 11 volume levels, string resonance, sliding string sounds, and more! Experience the fascinating sound library with unbelievable faithfulness to detail and a wide spectrum of various instruments. With the Vita Sound Controller, you can access all parameters directly. Beats, drums, and grooves Would you like to build beats that are clearly different from the others? Robota, the ultimate beat machine, is the first choice when it comes to creative grooves and expermiental drum sounds. Not only is Robota especially intuitive to use, but the sound spectrum clearly goes much further than representatives from the 808 and 909 era. The advantage: You have limitless possibilities for deigning your grooves. If you need a convincingly realistic drum beat right away, then grab LiViD, the virtual drummer with human behavior. Recording & Sampling MAGIX Music Maker 14 opens the door to studio standard audio recordings for you. Thanks to easy operation, every recording process becomes a creative session. One click, and recording is on. Want to sample yourself and build your recordings into your own songs? No problem! With MAGIX Music Maker 14, you can build up your own sample archive, record vocals or instruments live, and then optimize them and edit them after. Mixing & Effects The tidy mixer console makes volume, panorama, and effects settings for every track handy at anytime. Take advantage of the integrated studio effects and optimize the sound of your songs, for example, with MAGIX VariVerb: This flexible studio reverb tool simulates every kind of acoustic space and gives your audio material an especially realistic and high- quality effect – ideal for vocals. ProAudio Technology MAGIX Music Maker 14 is based on Samplitude ® audio technology, the professional standard in sound studios, radio stations, and TV stations around the whole world. The advantage: 20 years of experience, absolute sound neutrality, and outstanding effects algorithms. Your own music video With MAGIX Music Maker 14 you can import videos, cut them to match your song and then apply detailed editing. The perfect cut in time to your own beats is anything but complicated with this tool, since film and music are displayed clearly in the same interface. Discover completely new possibilities which result from the combination of sound and film. It's never been easier to produce your own music videos. The world of podcasts. Would you like to create your own podcasts and publish your own shows online? With MAGIX Music Maker 14, you can do both in a flash. Publishing your audio reports can be done with just a click, and you can concentrate completely on the content of your podcast broadcasts. NEW! Live user chat & Knowledge portal Imagine having an answer to all of your questions about producing music. Integrated live user chat offers you the possibility immediately and without time delay to exchange with other users: Just launch the communicator, enter your question, and wait for the answer online. Good contacts will be produced quickly who can help you move forward with your music projects. If that doesn't help, then take a look at the new online knowledge portal for information all about music production. Simply download new sounds Catooh – the Online Content Library is your online sound archive. Whatever it is that you are looking for – drumloops, instruments, vocals or sound effects – MAGIX ® Music Maker 14 provides a direct connection to this giant sound library and supports every one of your song ideas with the right material. In perfect unison: MAGIX products and Online Services Discover the possibilities offered by myGOYA, your free online operating system! Every MAGIX product offers a direct and easy-to-use gateway to the world of online multimedia. • Present your songs in the MAGIX Community. Here, you can create a profile and publish your music online with just one click. • Create your own personalized website in professional Flash ® design – with photos, videos, music & impressive animations. Experience these and many more online services on www.mygoya.com Advanced functions NEW! Structure song arrangements comprehensively NEW! Start assistant with instructional videos and much more NEW! Power Chords: Dynamic distortion guitars Remix Maker: Import and remix CDs & MP3s 2 Harmony recognition & guitar chord display Burn your own songs to disc and use them for websites or your mobile phone Your own songs available directly on your MP3 player Program interface The advantages at a glance Recording and editing MAGIX Music Maker 14 combines recording and editing with professional tools with especially extensive user friendliness Recording quality Up to 48 kHz, internal 32-bit editing HQ timestretching algorithm For minute sound manipulation in real-time MAGIX Low Latency Minimal latency times, also for ASIO-incapable sound cards MIDI editor With classic piano roll, drum, event, and control editors Instruments You can look forward to a massive, high-quality instrument collection which will always inspire you with new ideas. NEW! Vital Instruments TM Premium instruments with ultra-realistic sound characteristics NEW! Vita Vita: Sample player and Vital Instruments TM sound controller NEW! MIDI instruments Variously applicable orchestral instrument sets Drum computer Robota, Beat Box, Drum&Bass Machine, and LiViD Atmos For atmospheric nature and other background noises Effects MAGIX Music Maker 14 offers genuine studio effects. The practical templates make sure that you get the best results possible, even without expert knowledge. VariVerb Room, reverb, plate with extremely realistic room sound Delay Mono delay, stereo delay, ping pong delay Vintage Effects Suite Chorus, filter, flanger, analog delay, and distortion BitMachine Sample and bit rate reduction Compressor / Limiter Classic state-of-the-art compressor and limiter EQs Graphic10-band EQ and parametric 4-band EQ Mixing and Remixing With the integrated mixing console, you can keep an eye on all of your intruments, effects, and settings. Mixing console Multitrack mixer with integrated effects AUX effects paths 2 automatable send channels Master FX Complete effects section for the master track Remix Agent Remix tool for for tempo analysis of songs Harmony Agent Accord recognition and display of audio files Content Giant sound archive for every current style: Rock&Pop, HipHop, Electro, Techno, House, and much more NEW! Soundloops Over 1,500 soundloops in every genre Instrument presets Over 200 predefined sounds Audio FX presets Over 100 effect presets for tracks, objects, intruments Video effects Over 50 video effect presets Publishing and Community Publish your songs quickly and easily worldwide. With just one click, your own music will be available on the web. Create podcasts Incl. RSS feed, distribution on podcast portals and free web space Music community Direct upload to the MAGIX community NEW! Live User Chat Communicator for chat and exchange with other users NEW! MAGIX Knowledge Community Online knowledge portal for questions about music production, technology, workshops, etc. Import | Export Import: WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG Vorbis, WMA TM , QuickTime TM , MIDI, CD-A2, BMP, JPG, AVI, MXV, WMV Export: WAV, AIFF, MP31, OGG Vorbis, WMA TM , QuickTime TM , MIDI, CD-A, BMP, JPG, AVI, MXV, WMV, Real TM Media Helix Interfaces: ASIO Minimum system requirements Computer: Intel ® Pentium ® or AMD ® Athlon ® 700 MHz or higher, 256 MB RAM (512 MB recommended) Free hard disk space: 3 GB SVGA graphic card with min. 4 MB RAM, min. resolution 1024 x 768 at 16-bit high-color 16-bit sound card DVD ROM drive Microsoft ® compatible mouse Operating system: Microsoft ® Windows ® 2000 | XP | Vista TM Optional: Burn CDs/DVDs with CD/DVD±R(W) recorders. Video recording and output: Video for Windows or DirectShow-compatible video card,