Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17157 in Software
• Brand: Magix Entertainment
• Model: 602902
• Released on: 2001-03-31
• Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000
• Format: CD-ROM

Amazon.com Product Description
Magix Music Studio Generation 6 Deluxe is a professional MIDI sequencer, hard disk recording system, and audio-mastering and CD-recording software package. Produce songs quickly and easily without sacrificing control. With four virtual instruments and 12 real-time effects, the program comes equipped with all the essential audio tools needed for creative sound production. Featuring 48 digital stereo tracks, real-time effects, reverb, freely adjustable FFT filter, delay distortion, and a five-band EQ, this system will help you create your music from recording, composing, arranging, to mastering, mixing, and CD recording.

Music Studio G6 Deluxe has a professional (real-time) multitrack mixer with pitch-shifting, time-stretching, and resampling functions. Sound optimization features like enhancer, compressor, and normalizer let you digitally master your audio. The MIDI sequencer includes a 1,000 track MIDI sequencer, six different MIDI editors, music and lyric printing, and AVI video file integration.

You can import and record music CDs, download sounds and songs from the Internet, and upload projects to the MAGIX Web-publishing area. Synchronize to SMPTE, MTC, and MC. Run six plug-ins simultaneously (VST 2.0 and DirectX 6.0). Import and export WAV, WAV with Codec, MPEG, and MP3. Export streaming audio: WMA, RealAudio, and QuickTime. Import and export MIDI files, and export songs for MAGIX playR.

Customer Reviews

It has provided me with great entertainment
First I want to say I am not a professional musician and that I do not sing or play the guitar very well. But with Music Studio G6 I have put together a few songs that actually sound good. When I was in high school my brother and I would record on my AIWA stereo for the fun of it. Music Studio G6 has given our hobby a digital upgrade so to speak!

Music Studio comes with a MIDI producing program and Audio Studio, which is used to record CD quality material. The materials are saved as .vip files, and then may be exported as wavs, mpegs, or MP3s (although the basic software only comes with 20 free uses of the MP3 conversion software). You are permitted to integrate up to 48 tracks, using imported sound files, or your own recordings. There are many digital effects available, such as echo, reverb, equalizing, noise normalization, etc. It is like having a full working music studio at your fingertips. Then once you are done, burn the songs onto a CD, and you have your first demo tape.

My computer handled the program just fine. I had some slight problems with the MIDI program, although the troubleshooting guide helped me get it working. The manual suggests that for OPTIMAL performance your computer needs to have 128 MB of RAM, although mine works fine with 64 MB. One key component your computer should have is a full-duplex sound card. This means your sound card can play audio files and record at the same time. If your sound card cannot do this, then your recording capabilities will be very limited.

Ultimately, this is a nice product. The deluxe edition listed here has CD burning software and a few other features, which the basic software package lacks. The deluxe package contains 2 CDs, each with sound clips that can be used for your recording. If you have problems, magix.com has free update patches available for download.

Excellent!
I burned my first CD full of my original music. I have three songs. I'm going to go back and do another set of 8 or so. The music studio deluxe effects are great and I edited, fined tuned and mastered each track. When I was done I cleaned it up with the audio cleaning feature. It sounds sharp, sweeet, clean, tight. It's an really good program because my end result was perfect.

If you didn't write this software...
...then don't try to use it. I've been waiting a month for any response from thier technical support. The documentation is hysterically bad. There are sections describing how to use one's mouse and what "selecting" means, and the rest of it is diabolically confused. There's never any indication of where functions being discussed are found, how to interpret the constantly shifting barrage of hybrid computer hardware/technical recording industry/made-up control name terminology, or... really, anything. It's useless. Several of the keyboard commands don't work, the icons are impossible to interpret, and there's no way to guess what parts of the intricate interface are active and which are merely display. If you have weeks and weeks of time on end, as I do at the moment, to play with it, and are masochistic, like me, then by all means purchase this product.