Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1711 in Software
• Brand: Magix Entertainment
• Released on: 2007-11-14
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description

Record. Edit. Restore

MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 12 Deluxe is the revolutionary solution for all recordings: record, edit, optimize, restore, digitize and burn with total ease to CD or DVD - easy, quick, and professional!

Simple record, edit, restore, and burn
It is the easiest to use, all-in-one solution for all your audio needs: transfer your favourite records, tapes, and all other sound recordings quickly and easily onto CD or DVD - no prior experience required, and you can even choose to have it done automatically!

Record everything. Edit, cut and optimize your audio material with one smart click, and using more than 40 studio effects, you can produce high-quality results from any audio material. A click is all it takes to remove sound distortions like hissing and crackling from your music.

In no time, your complete music collection as well as all other recordings can be perfectly digitized, restored and securely archived on CD or DVD. Thanks to the integrated MAGIX ProAudio Technology the result is always a pumping, crystal-clear sound, just like on a store-bought CD or DVD!

Easily record it all
With MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 12 Deluxe you can transfer your favourite records, tapes, and all other audio devices quickly and easily onto CD and DVD - no previous technical knowledge required.

Effortlessly restore it all
Use over 40 studio effects to remove sound distortions like hissing and crackling from your LPs and tapes. Optimize the dynamics, the stereo picture and with the brilliance of your restored music. With 1-click automation you neither have to be a sound technician nor an expert in computers. The Task Assistant lightens your load and offers the most popular restoration tasks as presets.

Perfectly secure all
Burn the optimized recordings to CD/DVD in all the most common formats. Perfectly digitize, restore, and safely archive your entire record collection in no time - enjoy your music the way it was intended to be.

MAGIX ProAudio Technology
Add new sound to your recordings with over 40 high-quality cleaning and mastering tools - no previous experience necessary. Benefit from the advanced MAGXI ProAudio Technology based on the digital audio workstation Samplitude: the reference product for professional music production

Optimization and editing
Sound restoration: easily remove over modulation and distortions from each and every recording - 100% automatic if desired. High-quality mastering tools & editing functionality make your songs sound the way you want them to in seconds.

Simple handling
Help & workshops: Helpful Task Assistants, video tutorials, and numerous workshops make the first steps easy, provide useful tips and quick troubleshooting options for every question you may have.

MAGIX AudioID
Never again will you have to deal with incomplete track information! Regardless of the source, MAGIX AudioID automatically supplies and updates track details, including artist, song, album, and genre - works for individual songs as well.

Customer Reviews

Could be great....
Magix Audio Cleaning Studio seems to be the current market leader for cleaning up old LP's etc - and it's pretty good. In terms of the balance between effective cleaning and retention of sound quality, it's not quite as good as Steinberg Clean (Versions 3 or 4, not the problematic Version 5). But Steinberg, anyway, seems to have disappeared.

What Audio Cleaning Lab has over Steinberg is that it's much more flexible. You can experiment with effects without clogging up your hard-drive with redundant files, and for complilations you can adjust individual volume and equalisation settings. You get both a standard equaliser and a parametric equaliser - the latter allowing you to adjust literally whatever frequencies you choose.

Some of the other effects are also useful, though a fair number of the 40 odd effects claimed by Magix amount to little more than variants on the loudness control theme.

But there is one major negative with this package: no 'go to next track' button. If you're working on a compilation, this can drive you to distraction. Every time you need to move to working on the next track, you've either got to go via 2 drop down lists, or zoom out far enough to get the relevant track into the picture. This ommission is surprising; it's a fairly standard feature with most other packages.

The expectation that this would be put right was my main reason for buying Version 12 when I'd already already got Version 11. If you've got 11, there's not a lot of reason to shell out for 12. The main additions are a second de-esser - more adjustable than the basic one, but still essentially a treble-muter, and a 'pycho-energiser' which I won't comment on because I don't understand it well enough to get it to do anything useful.

The other bonus is that when you open the programme a picture now flashes up of a nineteen-year-old female eyeing you seductively from under an enormous pair of headphones. Perhaps the marketing genius who thought of this might conjure with the idea that it's actually trivialising - not of 'women', but of the people who built this software and the people who use it.

It's Getting Better
One of the better software packages of this type. I found the music editor (for getting rid of major "clicks") excellent, although you're better of using a graphics tablet and pen for greater accuracy.
Gets rid of most the basic vinyl faults easily and quickly, to leave a good recording to burn on cd.
I found one good example of this software in work on YouTube, well worth tracking down.
On the downside, AC Lab (when I put a split mp3 track) annoyingly did not load the second part, but other software does, also refused to load mp2 tracks, again other software does...
The manual still leaves a lot to be desired, and as some of the help screen has some of the index titles and the actual screen dumps in German a certain sloppiness is involved.
With a bit more tweaking it could be a perfect piece of software.
Remember though that this is a great piece of software for basic audio to cd recording, and well worth the money.
Works ok with vista.

fantastic for the cost
Introduction [updated]

To commemorate the passing of a dear relative, i found an analog audio cassette of conversations we had from years ago. As this was from the 1970's, the sound had suffered parasitic degradation such as loud hiss. So I had a look around for a sound editing software.

Is it very complicated to learn?

The basic rules of this application are in three stages; import, cleaning + mastering, and export. The video you can see on the amazon page is taken from the 'Magix' install disk.

In my case, to connect a cassette player to my computer, I needed a jack plug, (available elsewhere) to connect the cassette-recorder headphone socket to the input socket of my sound card in my computer. When you select the audio file you wish to improve, the file is usually shown by a graph of time and voltage . There is a 'auto- Analysis' functions, or if you wish more depth, then you could click the controls for this. In response is displayed a metaphorical 'rack' of electronic equipment dedicated to customised individual manipulations. This makes it a lot easier to use and see how to apply it.

Does it work and is it worth the money?

My view that in the case of vocal recordings, is to return it to the original quality. If you use this application for a few hours, then the majority of the remarkable improvements can be used successfully. In my case the abilities of this software was stretched to nearly it limits, but if the recording is not played loudly, the resulting improved sound is remarkably crystal clear and hiss free.


[Update:

I have also experimented with this software to reduce annoying hiss and distortions within my first attempts (2006) with a Fuji digital camera / V.G.A videos. With patience the improvements in the clarity of the audio side of these digital recordings is well- worth the effort. So I could burn them to DVD media with a version of Roxio]

Summary

Although if you use the many features to the fullest extent, please note then this could generate odd warblings, twitterings and hummings / and other distortions which may me MORE noticable than the origional feature you may be trying to erase. so the best idea in my opinion, is to apply the least settings one-at-a-time to repair the fault.

So if your careful, the improvements that can be applied is still truly remarkable. And for so little cash is a one of the bests applications. In my opinion many musical files could benefit from this remarkable software application.