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Magix Music Maker Tutorial

Magix Music Maker computer software allows you to create a wide variety of musical arrangements with recording and mixing tools as well as royalty-free samples and demo arrangements. Magix makes it easy to produce professional sounding music in the comfort of your home studio. This product is ideal for musicians or producers on a budget looking to record while saving money on costly studio time.

  1. Recording

    • Record live instruments and vocals with Magix Music Maker. After starting the program, select the "New arrangement" option in the File menu. The song wizard automatically opens a blank arrangement for you to complete. Click on the Record button in the middle of the screen and follow the prompts. You can record live guitars, drums, vocals, and whatever else you like using a USB microphone or the internal microphone of your computer.

    Inserting Loops and Programmed Sounds

    • Insert beat loops, preprogrammed riffs and melodies, sound effects, or other audio files to make a more complex arrangement. Magix Music Maker lets you create your own compositions from existing music files to supplement live recordings. Insert one of the sound archive CDs and click the "Sounds & videos" button beneath the Media-pool. Browse the multimedia library that appears and select whatever loops, melodies, effects, or audio files suit your needs. You can also drag and drop audio files manually from their folders into the Magix arrangement field.

    Editing and Effects

    • Edit your arrangements and add sound effects. Click on the bars that appear in the arrangement window to select individual elements of your song. After selecting a bar representing part of your recording or a sound file, browse the options in the Edit menu. You can edit the sound effects and master your arrangement. Open the Effects menu and browse options for echoe, reverb, overdrive, and other polishing effects. Click and drag any bars of your song that you would like to reposition. Mix the final cut of your song as you play back the finished audio. Click the "Mixer" tab in the middle of the window to adjust individual tracks and the entire composition for volume and effects.

    Exporting Arrangements

    • Export your completed arrangement. Click on the File menu and select "Export" to determine the destination of your song. You can choose to send the song to any directory on your hard disk. The individual tracks of your Magix Music Maker creations will be mixed down and consolidated into a single mp3 audio file that can be played in iTunes and Windows Media Player or burned to a CD.

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Recording Music

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