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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52 in Software
• Brand: Magix Entertainment
• Released on: 2008-11-26
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Format: Enhanced

Manufacturer's Description

NEW! The sound archive
MAGIX Music Maker 15 includes an extensive sound package with rock, pop, dance, hip-hop, disco house, techno, and chillout and ambient material. Over 1,500 professional sounds offer the ideal basis for your own audio experiments: different musical styles can be easily combined to create something new. The tempo adjusts itself automatically - you'll never be out of sync with the rhythm.
Instruments
Get ready for ultra-realistic instruments which seem just like the real thing on your PC. The practical MIDI editor lets you easily write in your melody ideas. You'll also receive more exciting synthesizers like LiViD, your own personal virtual drummer.

NEW! BeatBox 2
The new version of the popular BeatBox wasn't just equipped with a completely new sound engine - now it also it offers even more for creating your own grooves. You can look forward to dynamic drum kits, numerous options for shaping sounds, high-quality effects, and much more. It has never been easier to construct complex and multi-layered beats! Try it out...

Effects & mixer
Use the integrated studio-quality effects to get the most out of your song. Thanks to numerous templates, you can quickly make professional production sound your own.
Use the mixer to specify instrument volume for the perfect harmony and produce the perfect mix. Want the drums a little quieter? The bass a little louder? You're in control of the sound.

Record & remix
Of course, you can also mix your own recordings into your songs, too. You can also expand your sound archive with exactly the material that fits with your style by adding your own recordings. No matter whether you sing into the microphone, record instruments, import MP3s, or import songs from CDs, everything can easily be cut, remixed, edited, and enriched with effects!

NEW! Publish directly
Your song is great, but nobody knows about it? Just a single click is enough to publish your music on the Internet! For example, you can upload your music project to YouTube directly from the program. Make some noise, exchange with others, and meet other fans of your style.

Online extras
Catooh - the Online Content Library is your online sound archive. Whatever it is that you're looking for

• drum loops, instruments, vocals, or sound effects
• the program provides a direct connection to this giant sound library and supports every one of your song ideas with the right material.

And if you need a special tip, magix.info, the Knowledge Community provides fast and direct answers for all of your questions about producing music: just write your question in the text window and send it off online, and it won't be long until you get the help you want.

New Features:

• BeatBox 2: A newer, more flexible drum computer for your own beats
• Sound archive: Over 1,500 brand-new sounds
• Infobox: Learn about music while you produce it
• Sound Vision: All of your sounds at a glance
• Easy mode: The easiest way to get started

Minimum system requirements

• Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7
• PC with Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon from 1 GHz
• Min. 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Free hard disk space: 3 GB
• Graphics card: 1024 x 768 resolution with 16-bit high-colour
• 16-bit sound card
• DVD-ROM drive

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Customer Reviews

Magix Music Maker 15
So what kind of software is Music Maker 15? Well, at its simplest, it allows the user to combine pre-recorded sample loops together to make new and interesting sounds.
When you first start, the top half of the screen is empty, waiting for you to add your music loops to it.
You go to the styles selection on the left-hand side and decide whether you want Ambient, Chillout, etc. Next to that are the musical instruments available with that style, and next to that are the loops available with that instrument. You find a suitable name and listen to the loop. If it sounds right, you can drag it up into the top half of the screen.
Some instruments have more loops to choose from than others, and there's nothing to stop you changing the style during the creation process. You could have up to 64 instruments.
Moving from EasyMode (a click at the top-left of the screen) makes a number of new options available at the bottom of the screen.
Clicking on the Synthesizer option makes a number of synthesisers available to you including LiviD, Vita, and Beatbox. These can provide exciting drum samples that can be used in your own new tune.
Clicking on the Templates option brings up lots of advanced features. One of these is Audio effects. This provides things like echo and guitar reverb.
Further down the options are Visuals. This allows you to drag a video track to play alongside the audio track.
Clicking on the sound wave for a particular loop, give you the opportunity to modify it in lots of different ways.
Once you're happy with tune you've created, you can save it or publish it on the Internet.
You might think, with so many features it might be difficult to use, but it comes with an "infobox" that gives information as you mouseover a button - so you know what it does. The software also starts in EasyMode, so you can get the hang of the basics before rushing on the more adventurous stuff. It's pretty easy to use, and it's a great deal of fun. If you're looking to have fun with music (and add visuals etc), then it is definitely worth having a serious look at. I liked it, and I would recommend it.

Fun to use
Music Maker 15 is a great music software application that is easy to use and you get a professional result at the end. I have tried also other tools but Music Maker is just more fun and I can turn my ideas better into reality. I also know MAGIX Samplitude Music Studio which is better suited for real musicians. I would recommend this software to all music lovers that want to create something but do not play any real instrument. It's just great.

Magix 15
A great programme for making music, mixing music, by a pitch and tempo effect, also echo, reverb, add bass, treble etc. It also has great videos effects, whirlpool, motion, echo, mirror effects and much more, which is also good for editing your own pictures. It also give you chords for any song you wish to know by harmony agent

the only downside with Magix is on synthesizer where it give you choice of drum and bass, atmos, livid, robota, beatbox it does tend to crash a lot, also when saving videos it can make the pc rev up a lot too, however all in all a very good programme and would recommend it to music lovers 4/5 stars