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Music Creator
by Cakewalk
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Product Music Creator
Developer Cakewalk
Primary Type Sequencer / Multitrack
Price (MSRP) $29 - 39.99
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VSTDirectX
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Music Creator

Music Creator 3 puts all of the most frequently used tools right at your fingertips, with an easy-to-use interface and comprehensive video tutorials to quickly get you up and running. No matter what you want to record—guitars, keyboards, vocals, audio samples, integrated virtual instruments, or any other sound source; even notate and print your our sheet music—Music Creator aims to make it easy to get started and get great results in the art of creating and recording music.

Highlights:

  • Create music with up to 32 audio tracks and 128 MIDI tracks using any instrument, vocals, or audio loops.
  • Play and record using thousands of instrument sounds with included Virtual Sound Canvas and Dreamstation instruments.
  • Take the mystery out of home recording with a series of comprehensive video tutorials included on a separate CD that explores all of the features in Music Creator 3.
  • Integrated notation tools to create and print your own musical scores and sheet music.
  • Scrolling Lyrics Window for singing along with your own creations or popular songs.
  • Easily identify what is on each track with hundreds of built-in Track Icons.
  • Includes ACID -format loop library for creating backing tracks.
  • Easily create Podcasts and soundtracks for home videos.
  • Keep perfect time and tune your instrument using built-in audio metronome and tuner.
  • Detailed editing views including Arrange, Console, Loop Construction, and Piano Roll with Drum Editor.
  • On screen mixer to seamlessly mix all your audio and MIDI tracks.
  • Share finished projects using the included Pyro Express CD maker, WAV ripper, and MP3 encoder.

Advanced features include:

  • Audio quality up to 24-bit/48 kHz.
  • 13 studio effects including EQ, Delay, Chorus, Reverb, and more.
  • Expand your sound using ReWire compatible applications including Project5, Kinetic, and Reason.
  • Add more instruments and effects from additional DirectX and VST instruments.
  • Browse and purchase additional audio loops right from Music Creator.
  • Open environment includes WDM, DX, DXi, VST, VSTi, MFX support.

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By hermit01
On 28th December 2007
Version: 4.2.2

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Music Creator is Cakewalk's replacement for the older Cakewalk Express, a light version of whatever is their main sequencer product at the time. In the times of Sonar, it is MC.

This program is very poorly supported. I suspect Cakewalk's rationale for that is its very low price compared to Sonar, but that is really just an excuse. It's simpler than all that: if you are not going to support a product -- don't put it on the market. There is a major MIDI bug in MC4 4.2.2 (latest as of Dec '07) which tech support simply will not deal with. The bug makes it of limited use as a VST/VSTi host. The bug is, if loaded into MC4 VST/VSTi's do not listen to MIDI patch(program) changes. Program changes recorded on MC4 tracks will be transmitted by MC4 via whatever MIDI out is assigned, but any loaded VST/VSTi's ignore them. Cakewalk is not forthcoming in any way about fixing this bug, so, if you have any plans to use patch changes at any time, this program is not a wise investment.

All the other features I have used seem to function correctly. But as complex as the Sonar program is (and this program is essentially Sonar) it's hard to tell what I might have missed. If another bug is located, the only thing I can count on is I'm on my own. So if you're looking at budget sequencers, I would not recommend this one to anyone who is concerned about long-term support. There are realistic alternatives. Look at them. Search KVR for sequencers by price and try them first.
 
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