Magix Samplitude - Just jumped ship from Cubase 8

[tbritton]

ok i checked it out. It's only for WINDOWS... PFFT serious?
must be a cracker.
274 employees and they can't manage to port it to OSX?
furry muff then

They started to but dropped the project.

Enjoy Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra sqigls, if possible. Apple is shifting the sands again. I suspect they secretly hate media people.

Terry

[fmr]

I'll give it a go sometime. I got a free copy with my Fireface about 12 years ago I'll look into it anyway.

the name "Magix", to me, sounds like a good name for a company that sells cheap knock-off audio products.
or action figures or something.
It just sounds very very wack.

I may be way off but I thought it came from a split with eMagic years ago

Emagic was born of a split from C-Lab where the main developers (Gerhard Lengeling, Chris Adam and Clemens Homburg) first came out with Creator and then Notator, for the Atari. Actually, Logic 1 (not yet with audio) was still launched for the Atari under C-Lab, if I'm not mistaken

Magix acquired Hohner Midia, which was the successor of SEK'D (which, BTW, stands for Studio fur Elektronisch Klangerzeugung Dresden), and therefore Samplitude, but I think Magix was already a big company in the flourishnig market of Multimedia for the PC when Emagic was born. They were never related as far as I know. The main developers of Samplitude were (and still are, AFAIK) Titus Tost and Tilman Herberger.

[siriusbliss]

I'm a Samplitude fanboy.
So what?

It's still considered a 'minority' DAW that has had features that the other DAWs are just now starting to emulate' (but not totally replicate). Same goes the other way around with the other DAWs, which have other features that I just never need or use.

I still get a superior mix in Sequoia much easier, faster, and without having to use a ton of plugins.
Audio editing and conversions/rendering stems is liquid fast.

It's still my most-used DAW (and I've used many others).

G

[sqigls]

ok i checked it out. It's only for WINDOWS... PFFT serious?
must be a cracker.
274 employees and they can't manage to port it to OSX?
furry muff then

They started to but dropped the project.

Enjoy Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra sqigls, if possible. Apple is shifting the sands again. I suspect they secretly hate media people.

Terry

I was very excited to demo after reading the blog... oh wells

I'm finally on Mavericks, after 3 years on Mountain Lion. but this is where I stop, as Cubase 6.5 doesn't run on anything higher apparently.

[Hink]

I'll give it a go sometime. I got a free copy with my Fireface about 12 years ago I'll look into it anyway.

the name "Magix", to me, sounds like a good name for a company that sells cheap knock-off audio products.
or action figures or something.
It just sounds very very wack.

I may be way off but I thought it came from a split with eMagic years ago

Actually eMagic, creators of eMagic Logic, was who were bought by Apple, producing Logic Pro. They also created one of the best patch librarians and editors ever, SoundDiver (with tremendous support by the author himself, Michael Hayden, back then), but that portion of the product line was immediately dropped by Apple after the acquisition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emagic

Here is the very brief history of Magix. Samplitude was originally a project that became Sek'D (formerly Hohner Midia). (Wikipedia Samplitude Article) It was my understanding back then that it had originated as a university project, but I cannot find info confirming that. My first version of Samplitude was the one called Sek'D Samplitude 2496. Here is an old review comparing it with another version.

Hey, Hink! Finally joined SoundClick, and you've got a new follower!

Terry

I'll give it a go sometime. I got a free copy with my Fireface about 12 years ago I'll look into it anyway.

the name "Magix", to me, sounds like a good name for a company that sells cheap knock-off audio products.
or action figures or something.
It just sounds very very wack.

I may be way off but I thought it came from a split with eMagic years ago

Emagic was born of a split from C-Lab where the main developers (Gerhard Lengeling, Chris Adam and Clemens Homburg) first came out with Creator and then Notator, for the Atari. Actually, Logic 1 (not yet with audio) was still launched for the Atari under C-Lab, if I'm not mistaken

Magix acquired Hohner Midia, which was the successor of SEK'D (which, BTW, stands for Studio fur Elektronisch Klangerzeugung Dresden), and therefore Samplitude, but I think Magix was already a big company in the flourishnig market of Multimedia for the PC when Emagic was born. They were never related as far as I know. The main developers of Samplitude were (and still are, AFAIK) Titus Tost and Tilman Herberger.

thanx guys, I was way off thanx Terry for following me, can I get your link?

[tbritton]

thanx Terry for following me, can I get your link?

I don't have anything there at SoundClick yet - still mostly at Soundcloud.

http://soundcloud.com/terrybritton

Terry

[LawrenceF]

I personally never liked the phrase "jumped ship" as relates to switching software or preference. It implies that the ship is sinking, which is almost never the case.

But, of course, lots of modern daw users are drama queens.