Anyone got any insider knowledge on this yet? Seems like a shift away from the previous structure and some interesting additions - such as the mastering suite (VST/DX effects?. Assume it will open files saved with previous versions.
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Magix Music Studio 11
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- KVRian
- 1262 posts since 15 Feb, 2003 from Up the Pennine way
I can't see that it has changed much since 2005deluxe and as usual Magix have a habit of lumping things all together.
Unless.... it is now just one product instead of two.
By reading it you would assume that the instruments are all useable in the Audio studio but that is not the case. Most of what they talk about as new is for the Audio Studio only.
The audio studio has allready got vst/dx support and there realy is not that much new stuff.
Can't see anything about the midi stidio so I presume that has not changed at all. As for the rest it would not tempt me to upgrade or buy it again.
The time has come the walrus said........
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ps the mastering suite comprises a 3band compressor limiter, stereo enhancer and grafic eq. Which is what it has allready except the eq looks parametric.
Unless.... it is now just one product instead of two.
By reading it you would assume that the instruments are all useable in the Audio studio but that is not the case. Most of what they talk about as new is for the Audio Studio only.
The audio studio has allready got vst/dx support and there realy is not that much new stuff.
Can't see anything about the midi stidio so I presume that has not changed at all. As for the rest it would not tempt me to upgrade or buy it again.
The time has come the walrus said........
fake
ps the mastering suite comprises a 3band compressor limiter, stereo enhancer and grafic eq. Which is what it has allready except the eq looks parametric.
You cant beat people up then have them say "I love you"
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- KVRist
- 72 posts since 17 Apr, 2002 from Scotland
No, this has come up before - it's still two elements: Midi Studio and Audio Studio.
Here's the details, for those that are interested: http://site.magix.net/english-uk/home/m ... /?version=
£10 off till 7 November, apparently.
If you patched the UK version 2005 (which added some useful features), then I wouldn't expect there to be much new in the latest release of Midi Studio off the disk, but what's been happening with the last few releases is that the package comes out, Audio Studio has a fair bit of new stuff, Midi Studio much less so, but a later patch adds things to Midi Studio (and sometimes tidies up Audio Studio). Can't say for sure that this is what will happen this time. I guess Audio Studio/Samplitude development is much more an in-house thing with Magix, as opposed to whatever deal they struck with emagic about feature sets and future development.
Having said that, one notable addition to Midi Studio is a version of Sampletank called "Sampletank 2 MX" - I've not got my copy yet, so I don't know whether this is an improvement on the free/demo version that's been out for ages. The blurb does mention up to "16 instruments" - this may imply that you can use it multi-timbrally (which you haven't been able to do with any instrument in Midi Studio to date), so unless the advertising department have got the wrong end of the stick (not unheard of), then this would be a distinct advance.
What's annoying is that the ad blurbs seldom focus on fairly important new features in Midi Studio - the nitty gritty stuff like now having FX inserts on audio tracks (in the patched UK MS 2005). The addition of full Hyperdraw support a while back similarly was never really plugged. They also make less of ReWire support (again the result of that patch) than I'd have expected.
I'll be interested to try the new intelligent harmonizer feature in MAGIX Elastic Audio easy, too.
Here's the details, for those that are interested: http://site.magix.net/english-uk/home/m ... /?version=
£10 off till 7 November, apparently.
If you patched the UK version 2005 (which added some useful features), then I wouldn't expect there to be much new in the latest release of Midi Studio off the disk, but what's been happening with the last few releases is that the package comes out, Audio Studio has a fair bit of new stuff, Midi Studio much less so, but a later patch adds things to Midi Studio (and sometimes tidies up Audio Studio). Can't say for sure that this is what will happen this time. I guess Audio Studio/Samplitude development is much more an in-house thing with Magix, as opposed to whatever deal they struck with emagic about feature sets and future development.
Having said that, one notable addition to Midi Studio is a version of Sampletank called "Sampletank 2 MX" - I've not got my copy yet, so I don't know whether this is an improvement on the free/demo version that's been out for ages. The blurb does mention up to "16 instruments" - this may imply that you can use it multi-timbrally (which you haven't been able to do with any instrument in Midi Studio to date), so unless the advertising department have got the wrong end of the stick (not unheard of), then this would be a distinct advance.
What's annoying is that the ad blurbs seldom focus on fairly important new features in Midi Studio - the nitty gritty stuff like now having FX inserts on audio tracks (in the patched UK MS 2005). The addition of full Hyperdraw support a while back similarly was never really plugged. They also make less of ReWire support (again the result of that patch) than I'd have expected.
I'll be interested to try the new intelligent harmonizer feature in MAGIX Elastic Audio easy, too.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 109 posts since 1 May, 2004
Thanks for the thoughts. What really caught my eye was the mastering suite. I don't use the midi studio - but audio studio is a good way of getting final waves onto CD. I assume that the mastering suite bit is something that's called in the audio studio mixer - unless it's a separate program?