you want to start making music you've got the beat in your head maybe some
words jotted down and now you just have to learn the software luckily MAGIX
Music Maker 2020 is music production software that makes it very easy to
start making music in your home studio in this video I'll be reviewing MAGIX
Music Maker 2020 comparing the different versions there's free plus and premium
and I'll also be doing some guitar recording into it using the free guitar
amp sim that comes with magix music maker and I'll record some MIDI into it
using my MIDI keyboard so you can see just how easy it is to start making
music with magix music maker 2020
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 so today we're
looking at the all-new MAGIX Music Maker 2020 and it comes in three main versions
there's magix music maker free plus and premium and those are the main editions
that you can get there's also some specialty editions like 80s Edition hip
hop, trap music and those can be great to get you started in making those styles
of music I put a link to magix official website in the description below so you
can easily head over there download the free version or you can see if there's
any offers or sales on the more premium editions but right now we're going to
check out what's new in MAGIX Music Maker 2020 it looks like most of what's
new is just really cosmetic differences but that's pretty cool because these
cosmetic differences can actually alter your workflow within the program and
they can allow you to quickly make music the way you want so the first new thing
that we'll look at is you can now customize your user interface by moving
the different sections around to wherever works best for you and you can
see how this will help you with your personal workflow and the second thing
that's new is it has a slightly different look to it it's a more modern
streamlined look it is a subtle difference but I find things like the
look of the interface can really help with inspiration so it's always
welcome when a company tries to make things look clean and tidy and the third
new thing can really help with your workflow as they have redesigned the
arranger area this is the main section that you'll be working in to create your
beats and your music and you can now drag a loop underneath an existing track
and it will create a new track for that loop the track header now includes
volume control and you can resize tracks to make them minimized or larger these
are some great added features if you've used previous versions of
MAGIX Music Maker you'll notice that in this new 2020 version the start dialog
box has changed a bit this is where you can access tutorials videos demo
projects previously created projects and you can launch a new project from here
they've also improved their MIDI editing and recording functions allowing you to
quickly record then edit your music with ease now all of those new features that
I just mentioned are available in the free plus and premium versions there are
some new features that are available just two premium users and we'll look at
those now first up MAGIX Music Maker 2020 Premium users get the two core FX
bundles which include five mastering effects and three delay effects another
great new feature for Premium users is you actually get a free copy of sound
Forge audio Studio 12 and this is a great piece of recording and WAV editing
software so we've quickly looked at what's new in MAGIX Music Maker 2020 now
let's look at some of the core features that make MAGIX Music Maker a great
program in all three versions its installed with 453 sounds and loops that
are available to you right away with magix music maker free you can download
an additional four soundpools all you have to do is go over to store in the
media pool area here and then right here you want to make
sure it says soundpool so if it doesn't you click click on soundpools and then
down here where it says name you want to click and change that to price ascending
you can now see for free soundpools here and if you download all four of
these you're going to be adding over 1,000 loops and sounds with the plus and
premium versions you can download a lot more for free and you're free to select
from a lot more with the free version you get three basic instruments you get
the concert grand you get revolta and you get Vida with the Plus version you
get two freely select three more instruments from the store and with the
premium version you can select six more from the store also with the premium
edition you get iZotope ozone Elements 8 which is a great VST plugin that really
can help your tracks sound great this plug-in alone goes for around 99 dollars
on its own now I'm going to connect my MIDI keyboard here it's the m-audio key
station 32 it's a mini keyboard very easy to connect and I'm going to show
you how to do some MIDI recording so I'm going to quickly drag over a drum loop
from the media pool area here I'm going to drop it into our track so now I have
a quick drum beat to work with so I'm actually going to hold down ctrl on my
computer keyboard and then click and drag to create another one and that way
I'm going to loop it into a few more bars here and I'm going to bring in an
instrument I'm going to bring in the revolta instrument this comes free with
all three versions of MAGIX Music Maker and you can see when I bring it in
it creates a demo MIDI clip I'm just going to delete that you can listen to
it if you want but I'm going to be creating a new one when I record my
keyboard into here you want to make sure this says MIDI record right here and I'm
going to record a quick bassline into here I'm gonna turn on my metronome by
clicking right here and we're going to hit the record button
okay so now I have my bassline here and I want to edit it a bit so if you just
double-click on the MIDI clip you're going to bring up the MIDI editor here
so I'm going to want to move some of these here
and once you have everything lined up you can just click the X up there and
you can see we now have our bassline here and we can do the same thing that
we did with the audio track up here we can press ctrl on the computer keyboard
click and drag and you've created a duplicate that you can move wherever you
want so my basic little bassline is nice and
tidy now and now I want to record my guitar in using the free guitar amp sim
that's included with all versions of MAGIX Music Maker and it's called vandal
bass and guitar se so I'm gonna go to track 3 here then I'm going to click on
FX and I want to go to audio effects track rack so what I want to do
is go down to the plus sign go to magix plugins and click on vandal se
and here's our free guitar amp sim plug-in you can see it has some presets
in there I'm not going to be too fussy here so let me just select one
I now have a quick guitar recording bass line and drum beat and it really didn't
take me much time at all I could loop these over and over and create another
section if I really wanted to and it would be just as easy there are some
other great tools in MAGIX Music Maker I'll get into those in other videos of
course you don't have to record any audio to make music in MAGIX Music Maker
it includes well over a thousand loops and sounds in the sound pools that are
even included with the free version let me know in the comments below if you do
download magix music maker and you're able to create some music with it
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