this magix music maker tutorial looks at the basics of how to make music with
magix music maker 2020 if you're new to home studio music production and you're
interested in using magix music maker free premium or plus then this magix
music maker tutorial is for you
welcome to simple green tech I'm Radio zane and on this channel i do audio tech
tips tutorials and reviews to help you unleash your creativity now today's
music production tutorial is for people who are new to music production or just
new to MAGIX Music Maker and for this video I'm using magix music maker 2020
I have the premium version but I'm going to be using all of the tools that are
available in the free version so don't worry if you don't have the premium
version I've put links in the description below in case you're
wondering what's the difference between the free version and the premium version
you can check that out I'm not really going to be using the soundpools in
this video but here's what you can expect in this magix music maker
tutorial I'm going to show you how to set up your audio interface and your
midi controller for recording I'm also going to show you how to record audio
and MIDI in two magix music maker I'll then show you how to edit MIDI
notes without a MIDI keyboard and then I'll show you how to arrange audio in
the timeline and finally how to render your song to
an mp3 if that sounds interesting to you let's jump in alright with music maker
2020 open let's start a new project
when you first start a project there's likely going to be a piano track loaded
up by default I like to get rid of this right away so you just right-click then
click on delete track
now before we begin let's quickly make sure that our audio interface and our
MIDI keyboard are set up correctly so go up to the gear icon right here click on
it and then go to the Audio slash MIDI tab right here so for your audio
interface you want to make sure that ASIO is clicked here and then in the
drop-down menu select whatever your audio interface is I'm using the FL
Studio ASIO driver for this video because that allows me to record what
I'm playing while using OBS studio to record the screen but typically I would
be using my Focusrite interface driver right there then for your MIDI keyboard
go over to the MIDI side here then click on input device and if you see your MIDI
keyboard here click on that and we're ready to go so now click on OK I'm going
to record a quick guitar clip here and to set up your track you want to go up
to this record button here on whatever track it is your recording to and click
it once until it says audio recording if it says MIDI record click it again until
it says audio record now we're going to use the built-in
guitar amp simulator so click on the effects button here then go to audio
effects rack track and if you don't see vandal se in the
list of effects here click on the plus sign then go to magix plugins and if
you have the free version of magics I'm pretty sure this is the only plug-in
that you're going to see here it's the vandal SE which is your guitar amp
simulator plug-in so now if you click on where it says default it's going to show
you a bunch of presets in here that you can choose from so I'm going to choose a
preset in here and don't worry you can actually change
this preset later on even after you're done recording you can change the sound
of the guitar and that's one of the great things about using a guitar amp
sim is you're not stuck with one sound so let's get out of here and go back to
our track alright we're now ready to record some audio but I just want to say
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see more from me now let's jump back into Magix 2020 before we hit record
make sure that your click track or your metronome here is turned on so that way
you have something to keep time with and if it's blue that means it's turned on
you can also change the BPM of your song here if you need to you would just click
on the BPM there and change it to whatever value you want I'm just gonna
go with 120 bpm so we're now ready to record I'm gonna hit the record button
all right that's not bad for just coming up with something on the spot so the
next thing that we're going to do is record some MIDI into MAGIX Music Maker
2020 and I'm going to bring in one of the free synths that comes with the free
version of MAGIX Music Maker and it is this revolta 2 synth so just click and
drag it into a track here and it's going to come up with some demo MIDI
information here I just click on that and get rid of it
we're going to create something of our own now I'm going to find a base preset
in here all right so I have a base patch here that I'm going to use and I'm just
going to record a few bars here quickly and then we can loop that
all right so we can now loop this information
and I'll tidy up the start here like that and if we double-click on this clip
it's going to bring up the piano roll like this where we can align our notes
however we want and if you just want to do a quick
quantize see how all of the notes are yellow here that means they're all
selected can hit this cue here and that's going to quickly quantize all
your notes to the grid or you can just manually go in and add the notes
yourself
alright let's say I'm happy with that what I can do now is tidy up the end
here it's I can duplicate this so it keeps going with the song and I can
choose to hold down control on my computer keyboard and then click and
drag and that's going to create a duplicate or I can click on it press
ctrl C to copy it on my computer keyboard and then click over here
and press ctrl-v on the computer keyboard to paste it okay so we have a
bit of a base pattern and a guitar track up there now let's bring in some drums
and I'm going to use the free drum kit called free drum Rock and that comes
with magix music maker 2020 will delete this MIDI clip and you can see this is
already set to MIDI record so we don't even need to do that
I'm just going to hit record and we'll see what I come up with or a drum
pattern
all right so we have my drum pattern here which was pretty messy but we'll
stick with that I'm going to hit the queue to quantize
it quickly and let's listen to how that sounds let's just say this is fine this
is what I want to go with well X outta there
now let's just say we're happy with this song and we want to render it now to an
mp3 so we can send it to a friend or upload it to SoundCloud or somewhere
else on the Internet what we'll need to do now is go up to file
and then go down to export
and depending on what type of file you want to export to you would choose here
I'm going to choose mp3 so I'm going to go to export audio as mp3 and then I can
click on this folder here
to choose where I want to save the audio to so I'm gonna save it to here I'm just
going to call it new you can name it whatever you want
and then here I'm going to change the bitrate to 192
personally I'm a fan of 192 and 320 when it comes to mp3s and the lowest I would
possibly go to is 128 but 192 is alright it keeps the file
still small but it still sounds decent
so you can notice in the timeline that I do have a section that is highlighted in
here with start and end markers and if you have that and that's the section you
want to render then you can select this only export the range between the start
and end markers I don't want that so I'm going to uncheck that and also I don't
want it to normalize I'm going to do my own mastering to this so I'm going to
uncheck that as well now I'm ready to hit OK wait for it to do the mix down
and I'll have my mp3 file click up here to see my Magix tutorial playlist or
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