New Features

Vital Instruments with incredibly realistic virtual instruments (powered by Yellow Tools)
Say goodbye to your flute! With the Vital Instruments anyone can play an instrument and it sounds amazingly realistic. Vital Instruments like acoustic guitars, drums, and an E-pianos have the identifying characteristics of real instruments, like for example, strings or sliding noises.

Graphical interface with new design and workflow
Current design in glass look! Despite the large range of functions of MAGIX Music Maker, the interface remains clearly ordered, helping the user find all the most important functions fast. No need to get used to working with the functions, it's all intuitive so you can start making music straight away.

Sound loops and MIDI loops
Creative help! 3,000 new sound loops in tried and tested MAGIX quality by internationally acclaimed producers in 10 music styles including: Rock & Pop, Hip Hop, Techno, House, Ambient, Film Music and many more. All sounds are clearly categorised and separated according to instrument group.

Media database
Find it with ease! With the new media database you can spend your time making music, rather than searching for it. Open all sound loops that have 120 speed with the touch of a button or all sound loops that match the Hip Hop genre. The media database always knows where your sound loops can be found on your hard drive. Finally, you no longer have to tediously search through folder structures.

Podcast upload
Worldwide with your own radio show! Publish your own music as a podcast to a worldwide audience. Podcasts are the new distribution format that let you provide and show off your music to listeners in the most important music portals. Create your own radio show and load everything onto your free webspace in the MAGIX Online Album.

Supports uneven beats
The odd couple. Now lets you record and play uneven beats like ? or 6/8 beat and more.

Explorer splitting
Doubled and tripled and more! In the beginning, there was Explorer. And then there were two. Double access to sound loops for quick arranging and even more fun making music.

MIDI Editor with improved design and Drum Editor
Beauty and the beats! The MIDI Editor has been given a makeover. Additionally, the Drum Editor is now included, making the programming of your drumbeats as easy as 1-2-3. Furthermore, instruments can be played and recorded using the keyboard.

Bass & Lead Synth
Powerful analog sound! The new virtual analog synthesizer creates powerful, warm lead & bass sounds, but also ranges from satin smooth to scratchy: exactly what you'd expect from a classic synthesizer.

Extra styles & sounds
Film Music, World Music, ChillOut! New sound loops of the very popular film music soundpools and, for the first time, a World Music soundpool with styles like Reggae and African Music. Lounge Music in ChillOut style as well as Easy Listening with a South American feel.

MAGIX Mastering Suite 2.0
Even more power! The effects have been revised and can now create even more power for your music. Furthermore, MultiMax now also runs with ASIO.

MAGIX Atmos
Quickly & easily produce your own atmospheric background noises! (Free download on product registration)

Includes

• Vital Instruments
• Graphical interface with new design and workflow
• Fresh sound loops and MIDI loops
• Media database
• Podcast upload
• Supports uneven beats
• Explorer splitting
• MIDI Editor with improved design
• Drum Editor
• Revolta Bass and Lead Synth
• Two additional Vital Instruments 
  Grand piano and E-bass
• Extra styles and sounds
• MAGIX Mastering Suite 2.0

Product Features

• Create your own unique recordings with over 3,800 pre-produced sound loops, virtual instruments, numerous drum computers and modern synthesizers.
• Import tracks from audio CDs and easily remix them with new sound samples.
• Record and edit your own voice, sounds and instruments with the microphone.
• Use the professional mixer to control all sound effects for the best results possible.
• Master and burn compositions or mixdown in the 5.1 Surround room.
• Mix tracks live with up to 16 voices in Live Mode via the keyboard.
• Use composed music for your own websites or publish as a podcast.
• 96 audio, MIDI, video tracks
• Transport control
• BPM tap
• Media database
• 1-click Song Maker
• Audio Metronome
• Metering
• Real-time track effects during recording
• Audio recording

Wave Editing

• Wave editing in real-time
• Reverse
• Re-sampling
• Pitchshifting
• 5.1 Surround sound editor
• Virtual room simulation
• Time Stretching
• Elastic Audio (Vocal Tuning)

Sound Effects

• Stereohall (Vari/Verb)
• Reverb
• Delay
• Equalizer - 10 Band
• Parametric EQ - 4 Band
• Dynamic processor
• Stereo enhancer
• Stereo analog chorus
• Distortion
• Analog distortion
• Guitar amplifier simulation
• Filter
• Flange
• Vocoder
• Synchro filter
• Lo-fi effect
• Gater effect

Mastering

• MAGIX Mastering Suite
• Multiband compressor
• Internal 32 bit float
• Sound restoraiton
• FFT Filter

MIDI

• Drum editor
• Event editor
• Matrix editor (piano roll editor)
• Quantize
• MIDI object settings / Editor
• Transpose MIDi

Instruments and plug-ins

• Drum/groove machines: Robota, Beat Box, Drum and Bass Machine and LiViD

• Synthesizer: Revolta, Silver Synth, Copper Synth, VSTi-Synth

• Sampler/Wave Player: Vita, Vital Instruments, SampleTank 2 MX

• Ambient sound generator

• Voice Synth

• Upload media from the Internet

• Batch processing

Publish

• Send directly via email

• Publish Music as Podcast

Burn

• Audio CD

• Backup on DVD

• Bun Red Book compatible audio

• CDs

• MP3 CD/DVD

Import

• Audio and MIDI:  MIDI, sample formats (SF2), WAV OGG Vorbis, MP3, AIFF, WMA, CD-A, WAV Interleaved (5-channel surround

• 24 bit WAV

• Photo and Video:  BMP, JPG, AVI, MAGIX Video, WMV, QuickTime

Export

• Audio and MIDI:  MIDI standard formats (MID), WAV, OGG Vorbis, MP3 (optional), AIFF, CD-A (audio CD), RealMedia Helix, MP3 Surround (optional)

• Photo and video:  QuickTime, JPG, AVI, MAGIX
• Export video sound
• MP3 encoder:  20 free encodings included

Interfaces

• VST interface

• DirectX interface

• ASIO

Extras

• Media archive:  Over 3,800 new Soundloops, Vital Instruments (acoustic guitar, drums, epiano, grand piano, e-bass)

• Specials:  Remix Agent 2.0, Remix Maker 2.0, Harmony Agent

• Add-ons:  MAGIX Music Manager, MAGIX Photo Manger, MAGIX Mobile Music Maker & MAGIX Music Editor 2.0

• Newsfeed

Windows Requirements

• Windows 2000, XP (SP2), Vista 
• Pentium or AMD Athlon 700 MHz processor
• 512 MB of RAM or higher
• 900 MB free Hard Disk space minimum
• Minimum1024 x 768 resolution with 32 bit high color Graphics Card
• Full duplex 16 bit Sound Card or ASIO-capable Sound Card
• DVD-ROM drive
• Windows compatible mouse
• Internet service required to access online features