Last week we announced the availability of Samplitude SE with the next edition of Keys magazine (issue 05/06); Magix have now confirmed that Samplitude SE will also be released as a full downloadable product from April and it will cost €49.
Magix are positioning Samplitude SE as the ideal starting point for sound professionals, producers, and ambitious musicians. It is fully upgradeable to Samplitude classic / professional.
Features:
- 48 tracks, 2 submix buses, 4 aux buses.
- Consistent use of 32-bit floating point processing.
- ASIO, MME, and WDM support.
- Comprehensive realtime audio editor functions.
- Unique object-oriented editing options.
- Batch processing, flexible mixer with variable signal flow.
- ReWire, DirectX and VST plugin support (VST instruments & effects, DirectX effects).
- Automatic latency compensation for Samplitude effects.
- VSTi support incl. 8 separate outputs.
- MIDI recording & editing.
- Supports up to 8 I/Os (24-bit/96 kHz).
- Mixer automation (vol. pan), 5x undo/redo.
- High-quality effects: Normalize, 4-band parametric EQ, Stereo Enhancer, Amp Simulation, Vocoder, Dehisser, Timestretching/Pitchshifting, Panorama, Dynamics (Compressor, Expander, Noise Gate, Limiter), Reverb, Delay, Resampling, Declipping, Distortion, Noise Reduction, Phase Invert.
Feature Comparison:
Features | Samplitude SE | Samplitude classic | Samplitude professional |
Native Audio - no additional DSP hardware needed | x | x | x |
Consistent 32-bit floating point calculation | x | x | x |
Non-destructive object-based editing | x | x | x |
Physical inputs/outputs | 8 / 8 (mono) | not limited | not limited |
Max. number of audio tracks | 48 | 64 | 999 |
Max. number of MIDI objects | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
Number of VSTi incl. single outputs | 8 | 8 | unlimited |
Automatic latency compensation | intern effects only | x | x |
Mixer with variable signal flow | x | x | x |
Configurable mixer view | - | x | x |
Mixer automation | x | x | x |
Inserts | 2 internal / 2 VST or DirectX effects | 8 | 64 |
Effect sends/returns | 4 / 4 | 8 | 64 |
Submix busses | 2 / 2 | 8/6 | 64 / 64 |
Folder tracks | - | x | x |
Track freeze | - | x | x |
1024-band equalizer (FFT), multiband stereo-enhancer, real-time normalization, multiband dynamics | - | x | x |
Real-time effects (Parametric 4-Band-EQ, Stereo Enhancer, Dehisser, Panorama, Compressor, Expander, Noise Gate, Limiter, Echo, Reverb) | x | x | x |
Offline effects (Compressor, Expander, Noise Gate, Limiter, Echo, Reverb, Declipping, Noise reduction, Dehisser, Distortion, Stereo Enhancer, Phase Invert, Resampling/Timestretching) | x | x | x |
AmpSimulation, Vocoder | x | x | x |
MAGIX Analog Modelling Suite | - | - | x |
MAGIX Vintage Effects Suite Pro | - | x | x |
Room simulator/Convolution | - | Offline / Stereo, incl. 200 MB impulse samples | Real-time / 5.1 Surround, incl. 490 MB impulse samples |
Sound cloner | - | x | x |
Stereo/5.1 surround mixing | stereo | stereo | x |
Object-based surround panning | - | - | x |
Panorma automation | x | x | x |
Auto crossfade | x | x | x |
Asymmetric crossfades | - | x | x |
Noise reduction | x | x | x |
MAGIX Elastic Audio | - | - | x |
Timestretching / pitchshifting | x (3 modes) | x | x |
Track Speed | - | x | x |
Audio resolution | 24-bit / 96 KHz | 32-bit / 384 KHz | 32-bit / 384 KHz |
Resampling | x | x | x |
POW-r dithering | - | x | x |
Analysis tools (Peakmeter, bitmeter, phase corellation, oscilloscope, spectroscope) | Peakmeter, oscilloscope, spectroscope | x | x |
Batch processing | x | x | x |
Record wav files larger than 2 GB | x | x | x |
MIDI-Editing (incl. drum-, list-, event editor) | x (no drum editor) | x | x |
MIDI synchronization | MIDI clock send | x | x |
MAGIX Robota Pro | - | - | x |
ASIO, MME and WDM support | x | x | x |
ReWire/Rewire 2 support | x | x | x |
Shortcut editor | - | x | x |
Undo/ redo | 5 | unlimited | unlimited |
Object editor | x | x | x |
File browser | x | x | x |
Project browser | - | x | x |
Take Manager | - | x | x |
Take Composer | - | x | x |
DAT marker support | - | x | x |
Marker Manager | - | x | x |
Take Manager | - | x | x |
Root projects | - | x | x |
Strip silence | - | x | x |
Hardware controller support | Mackie Control, Logic Control, HUI | x | x |
Video file support | - | - | x |
User-defined shortcuts | - | ||
Burn CD/ DVD (stereo/ surround/ RedBook standard) | - | x | x |
DVD-Audio authoring | - | x | x |
Burn backups on CDs/ DVDs | - | x | x |
Import: WAV, MP3, AIFF, WMA, OGG, CD | x | x | x |
Export: Broadcast Wave (inkl. BWF Timestamp), MPEG 1 Audio Layer II, MP3 | - | x | x |
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