Audio Production Features:  

Samplitude Music Studio offers a wealth of tools, applications and features that make for a uniquely-intuitive experience editing and arranging audio tracks. A few of the standout design features include:

Samplitude Music Studio offers full compatibility with DirectX and VST plug-ins, two of the most widespread plug-in manufactures, for both audio effects and synthesizers. This compatibility greatly increases the functionality of the program, while enabling users to have a physical device to execute tasks that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to do with the program alone.

Samplitude Music Studio utilizes the same 32-bit floating point calculation technology that professional studios use. Any and all changes to structure and sound of tracks are executed using 32-bit floating point calculation. This provides users with a map or visual layout of a given track, from which more precise changes can be made.

The Automated Jam Session enables users to create complete songs single-handedly by simulating “looping delays” in a fashion similar to the Gibson Echoplex. The difference between the Jam Session Automation and the Gibson Echoplex is that Samplitude Music Studio creates an arrangement that can later be edited and arranged as a complete song.

The Remix Agent is a tool designed for producing DJs and live mixes. The application operates by recognizing in real-time the BPM count of a given song and editing it into precise loops and measures. These loops can then quickly be used to form the foundation of a mix.

Input/ Output:  

Samplitude Music Studio supports the standard MIDI formats, SF2 sample format, wave (24 and 32-bit) and wave codec, OGG Vorbis, MP3, CD, AIFF, MOV and AVI audio file formats, enabling users to bring audio samples and tracks from a variety of sources and formats. Finished music projects can be exported sing MID, wave (24-bit) and wave with Codec, OGG Vorbis, MP#, CD-A, AIFF, WMA, RealAudio and QuickTime audio file formats.

Help/ Support:  

So much of the Samplitude Music Studio’s strength and appeal rests in its comprehensive help tutorial features, most of which are built into the program itself and can be accessed quickly and easily through the program’s well-organized topical and task-oriented sections. Manfucaturer MAGIX also offers an online knowledge center where users can receive help and information on other topics not included in the software.

For technical support, MAGIZ features a dedicated support website, with additional email, phone and user forum support also available.

Performance:  

Despite only using the base hardware and sound card requirements, Samplitude Magic Studio ran with little latency, even when tasked with the incorporation of multiple-effects, various application usage and real-time changes to the arrangement and structure of tracks. Even when using plug-ins and more CPU-consumptive effects like the included Vocoder, Samplitude Magic Studio performed seamlessly. Performance results will only improve when the base hardware and sound card requirements have been exceeded. All Music Studio software programs come with a learning curve that requires practice and patience to mount. Fortunately, in the case of Samplitude Music Studio, that learning curve is greatly reduced by its simple, well-articulated user interface and the depth and breadth of its help and support features, which facilitate use at every stage and occasion. Best of all, Samplitude Music Studio can be customized and modified to meet the tastes or purposes of its users. This flexibility becomes crucial as program familiarity and fluency increase.

For what Samplitude Music Studio by MAGIX lacks in brand name recognition, it more than makes up for in well-designed easy to use tools and applications, helpful, easy-to-access tutorials and resources and performance stability that never falters from import to export. With all the tools necessary to edit and arrange tracks and craft songs and then some, Samplitude Music Studio in its latest version is likely to attract many new music producers, and even win over other music studio program users while it’s at it. But for more advanced features, improved line-in/line-out functionality and more visually-precise user interface, top-rated programs Reason, Ableton and Komplete might be better choices.