imagine making an entire song in seconds with the song maker feature in the new
magix music maker 2021 premium edition you can i'm zane welcome to simple green
tech where i do weekly audio tech tips tutorials
and reviews to help you conquer the tech and unleash your creativity and just so
you know i've linked to magix website below
in case you want to download this latest version get some more info and there is
a free version out there but it doesn't include this feature that i'm talking
about today and i'm also going to look at how to get
four free sound pools a little later on in this
video so be sure to stick around for that
now let's look at the song maker feature all right let's start a new project
and then down in this bottom area if you don't have it enabled
you can click right here to enable this area you want to click on
the song maker tab and then over here you'll see some genre templates
if you click on one of the primary genres we'll click on dance
you're going to see some sub genres in there
so click on whatever genre you want i'm going to go to
dance and then we'll go to electro house so click on that and now you want to go
to the sound pools area and in here you can
select one or more sound pools that you want to
add to this song so i'm going to select a couple in here
i'll choose 80 synth wave and the stranger synths
and i'll also choose pure rock here and then over here you can choose the
instruments that you want in your song so i only want one bass i'll unclick
that you notice if it's white that means it's
clicked if it's gray that's unclicked and to
deselect it you just click it again and that's it and that's the same thing
over here just click it again to get rid of it
and then after you have all your instruments selected you want to select
your song parts so i'm going to go with just
one intro we'll have intro a then we're going to go into main
a build up drop a and i'm not going to do drop b then
we'll go into main b break down a break down b and we'll just
leave the rest how it is so this is going to be our song when
you're ready just click create song
and now you can see it's putting our song together here
okay it looks like it's done let's give it a listen
so that's not too bad for just a few seconds of work
but this is where you can truly start to make this track your own by adjusting
the levels so you could just go over here and you
can adjust the levels maybe turn down some things or
turn up some things if you need to you can also go in and add some effects to
different tracks so maybe you on your drums you want to go to the
audio effects rack track and maybe go with
the compressor here
or of course you can add one of your own vst effects
and another way you can make this your own is you'll see up here
on the pitches bar it has a ac you can change these around so you
can really make this song your own now let's listen to how this sounds as a
how it was
all right so i'm going to change that to c now we'll hear how it sounds
so you can really change this around and make it your own
of course you can add other parts into it using either the sound pools or your
own loops plus you can record your voice into it
or another instrument like guitar or maybe one of the midi instruments in
here what the magix music maker song maker
does is it gives you a nice starting point to work with
or if you're new to music production and you want to practice your mixing skills
a bit this is a perfect place to start and do
that even if you choose the exact same template and sound pools
it's supposed to create a different track every time
so you have a lot of opportunities to practice your skills here
now let's go through the process again selecting the same template the same
sound pools and everything the same and we'll see what
we get now before we do that i just want to ask if you're enjoying
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into music maker so now we're going to be choosing everything the same we can
just hit the create button over here again
as everything's still selected the same so we'll just hit create song again it's
going to ask if we want to save that and you can if you want i'm not going to
save this project right now
and here it is creating a whole new song for us so
let's have a listen to see if it's any
different
and you can see in here that it's different from the last song even though
everything we selected was the same so if you have soundpools that complement
each other this is going to be great but you can try mixing some soundpools that
you might not normally try mixing together and you can see what
this comes up with and just in case you're not aware of the four free sound
pools that you can download i'll show you how to do that right now
so let's click here to bring up the store and then if this is something
different you want to change it to soundpool so you would just click there
click on soundpools then over here where it says price yours
might say name but you want it to say price ascending
so you just click on that and now you can see one two three four
these four are free soundpools that you can download you would just click on
them and you would then click buy but it
would say zero dollars and you go through the process
that way for each one of these be sure to download those so you have
even more loops to work with in the song maker now let's try mixing some more
sounds together let's go to a rock sound and we're going
to go with pop rock no time for soundpools we're
going to choose that free rock one that we just got but i'm also
going to mix in something else let's try some hip hop in
there that's normally not something you would go with for rock
and we'll also add 80s too hot in there and we'll see what it comes up
with we'll leave all the instruments the same here and for the song parts i'm
going to take out intro b we only need one intro and we'll go
right into the chorus like it says we'll leave everything the same
other than changing the intro click create song
and now let's hear what this sounds like
all right so that's a very 80s rock song but what do you expect with the soundpools
that i chose there but again you go in you start the mixing
process and maybe add your voice or some other instruments in there and
these songs can really become something that you're proud of one thing you might
want to note is you can post all of your songs to
youtube soundcloud or wherever as long as you're not monetizing them
if you want to monetize the songs that you create using the soundpools
you have to purchase a commercial license for each sound pool that you use
but if you're just posting in free places and not making any money
go for it as these can help to get your name out there and it can help you
really enhance your mixing skills and also develop your own style now if
you're just using your own loops and your own voice and your own
instruments things like that you don't need a commercial license you
can post those songs and make money on them
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