Today we're looking at free software for making music we're doing MAGIX Music
Maker guitar recording 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 going to quickly look at MAGIX Music
Maker guitar recording now this is free software for making music on your PC
there are premium versions that will cost you a bit of money and I've
included a link to Magix website in the description below so you can check out
and compare the different versions but in this video I'm just using the Magix
music maker free edition magix music maker comes with some free instruments
and loops to get you started and it even has some VST instruments included with
it plus it comes with a cool guitar amp simulator which is what we're going to
be using today I've created a backing track using some
drum loops from here and the revolta instrument for the bass
guitar and now we're going to attempt to record guitar over top of them
I should note here that I'm using an audio interface to plug my guitar into
the computer the one that I'm using is the Behringer UMC 22 it's a fairly
affordable interface and it's going to give you some great sound I've linked to
it in the description below along with some other interfaces that you might
want to consider you can check those out if you need to. now what we first want to
do is to make sure that our software is set to use the audio interface for
recording and to do that we can go down here to this little gear icon click on
it and up here you'll see audio line-in and
mine's set to Behringer USB audio which is what I want if yours is set to something
else change it to whatever your audio interface is
now once that's set up we can go back to our project and add the guitar amp sim
to do that we click on the effects button on the track that we want to
record guitar into and we click on audio effects rack track
here you can see that there's some fairly popular track plugins already in
there none of them are enabled if they were
you'd have a little blue light on here but what we're going to do is go down to
this plus symbol here click on that click magix plugins then click on
Vandal SE and you'll see that our guitar amp sim has opened up here
and if you want to choose one of the presets that's included you click here
where it says default and your preset list is going to come up here and I
think for this I'm going to choose hardrock stereo
and once you have an idea of what preset you want you can close this down don't
worry you can go back and change it and we're going to click on the arm for
recording button right here and now it says audio record and it's highlighted
in red which means it's ready to record once we press the record button below so
I'm ready to start recording now and I can either choose to have the
metronome on if I want to hear that click track or I can keep it off I like
to keep it off I'm just gonna follow along with the drumbeat and to start
recording I'm just gonna hit record
once you're done recording you can either press the spacebar on your
computer keyboard or press the record button below and then if you want to
play back what you just recorded to make sure it sounds ok you can just click off
the arm for record button so it's no longer red you may have to press it two
times to make sure it's off and you'll know it's off because it's no longer red
and then you can either press spacebar and your computer keyboard or go down to
the bottom here and press the play button and if you want to adjust your
levels you can press the M button on your computer keyboard
and that's going to bring up the mixer view and you can see we have our bases
here our drum tracks here and this is our guitar track here now what if we
don't like that guitar preset that we used you can change that go back into
the amp sim and you can change the preset that was used so let's try
something else this metal motor core let's hear what that sounds like play
around with the sounds and have a little fun with the program I just did this
backing track up quickly I'm sure if you spend some real time and
creativity in this program you can come up with some great sounds magix music
maker was actually the first program that I used to record a song on the
computer now I have a question for you is MAGIX Music Maker your first audio
recording software let me know in the comments below and if you'd like to see
more videos where I look at guitar and other audio recording tips and tutorials
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you so much for watching and we'll talk soon