today we're looking at free software for making music on your computer quickly
and easily it's Magix Music Maker free 2019
welcome to simple green tech where we do tips tutorials and reviews to help you
unleash your creativity I'm Radio Zane and in this video we're
doing a magic maker review we're looking at the magix music maker free edition
I haven't downloaded any additional soundpools this is exactly how it is
when you first download it and speaking of downloads I put a link to Magix
website in case you want to download it and get started for yourself but right
now let's jump in when you first open magix music maker free you'll be
greeted with this window asking you to activate an edition of music maker if
you don't have an Edition to activate you can just click on the X in the
corner and don't worry if you need to activate a purchased Edition later you
can do that you'll then see this welcome window where you can create a new
project load a project or load the demo project we're going to be creating a new
project today but I do encourage you to poke around the demo a little bit just
to get an idea of what the possibilities are of this program and now that we have
a project created we can start to make music but first I find the default
layout is a little bit congested you have this keyboard down here and this
window over here to turn either of these off you go up to the corner and you can
click this to turn off the keyboard and you can click this one to turn off the
media pool I'm going to leave the media pool on but I'm going to take away the
keyboard from the bottom so let's now look at the media pool area this is
where your soundpools are going to be located in sound ools are basically
full songs that are broken down into individual stems meaning that these are
the instruments and the sections all separated into pieces or loops that you
can arrange however you want in the arranger section which is over here you
can also adjust the pitch of each there are seven pitches for each loop and you
can toggle those with these numbers right here
typically these go C D E F G A B but some soundpools might be different so
to just be sure what you're bringing in you can click on one of these will click
on two and we'll drag this over into the arranger and you can see up here it says
it's a D and you can do that with pretty much all of the loops that are included
in the sound pools and the cool thing is if you bring another sound pool
underneath that doesn't matter what you clicked on it's also going to be in D so
let's create a basic four bar beat so I've now created this basic four bar
pattern here it has drums bass synth and strings and it's all been taken out of
this sound pool right here which is the basic one that magix music maker free
comes with now what if we need to adjust the levels a little bit to do that we're
going to want to bring up the mixer view you can press M on your keyboard or you
can go up to view mix mixer and to adjust the levels we'll start playback
and then we'll just adjust the sliders for each track
until we come up with the desired levels that we want you can also add effects to
each track and to do that you can either click on the effects button in the mixer
view or if you're in the arranger view you can click on the effects button
right here and go to audio effects rack track and say we want the compressor we
can turn it on by just clicking on the on button here then you can adjust the
settings however you like in here and you have a couple of presets in here
that you can choose from as you can see there are some other effects like reverb
EQ and echo that you can enable by default but you can also bring up other
effects down here like distortion filter and you even got this cool guitar amp
sim it's called vandal se and you can run this on any track like your drums or
whatever you want or if you're a guitar player you can use this as a guitar amp
so if you want to record some guitar right over top of your beats you would
just go to an open track like right here click on the rec button and you want to
make sure that says audio recording so we have it armed now then we would just
hit the record button and it will record whatever input you have going in there
there are also a few virtual instruments included in MAGIX music maker free if
you click on the instrument tab here you'll see that you have these three and
abled and I'm not sure why these other three are here I do own them as VST
plugins' and I guess magix music maker free has picked those up too but you'll
just get these three basic ones here you have concert grand le which is a piano
instrument you have revolta which is a synth instrument and you have Vita which
is a drum machine and if you want to use any of these instruments let's say we
want the piano we can drag it over into a track and by default it creates a MIDI
pattern here and it's just a demo pattern so if you double click on that
you can bring up this piano roll here and you can choose to edit or you can
just click on it hit the Delete key on your keyboard and get rid of it then
start brand new by right-clicking create a new object and you want to create new
MIDI object you can choose however many bars you want here you can always extend
it later on then to edit anything in there you double click on it then you
can click on the pencil button up here and start drawing in your notes however
you want them you can add to your collection by buying
more instruments from the MAGIX Music Maker store you can see the pricing up
here and you can also add to your soundpool collection by clicking on
store and you want to see more sound pools here and you do actually get some
more free sound pools included with this to find those instead of name click on
that and you want price ascending and you can see that there's for free sound
pools available right here to download it you would just click purchase and
then follow the step-by-step instructions if you just want to jump
into a program and start making music with a very little learning curve and
you want all of the tools at your fingertips
MAGIX music maker free is a great starting point and it can grow with you
as your needs grow I'll be adding more videos to this MAGIX music maker free
edition series so if you want to check out the features and more depth like
MIDI recording or audio recording please be sure to subscribe and if you enjoyed
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simple green tech I'm Radio zane and we'll talk soon