Hey everyone whats up? Just getting into Magix music maker 17, so far I love it! The demo is great and Im making beats easy and recording is simple. However, i was wondering if Magix is good for hiphop/rap/ urban music etc.
Seems like Magix is morely for techno, house, and rock. Can anyone let me know if its a good enough product for hiphop? Or should I look into something like Protools or Cakewalk?
Hi,
For making beat easily Music Maker is enough. If you want to make Hip Hop on higher level you should use Hip Hop software like Digital DJ.
http://www.magix.com/gb/digital-dj/
There is also easy software for making Hip hop
http://www.magix.com/gb/music-maker-special-editions/hip-hop/
Cakewalk, Ableton, Protools are Full Daw, but I do not think they are easy that is why I stopped using Cubase. I love Music Maker.
Hope this answer will help you.
nihon94
Your question is difficult, flavor is differ from person to person, but what I have seen on internet Digital DJ is much better.
But if you are talking about the real Bass, Kick and Drum sound of Hip hop sorry so far I did not find in any soundpool of Magix. And without those Bass, Kick and Drum hip hop is not hip hop.
If the soundpools in MM-17 leave you wanting, perhaps adding some of the older sounpool collections to your sound palette will give you the authentic feel you're looking for. You can preview all of them at CATOOH. Also check out the other Hip-Hop/Rap/Urban groups at CATOOH.
If none of these will satisfy you, then by all means explore other possibilities.
I think of the Music Maker program as an audio canvas. It is where you piece together samples to make something...
the other programs you mentioned "Pro-Tools", "Cakewalk" are called DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations) and are meant for recording, not mixing in the since that the Music Maker works... sure you can do it, but there are no samples already and you would need experience as a audio engineer to navigate the programs.
MAGIX makes its own DAW called Samplitude, which I use and I find is much more robust than any other DAW I have used in the past 11 years. Still, I think a DAW is the wrong type of program for you, unless you want to record your own samples from actual instruments.
Pro-Tools is weak, in my opinion. The cost itself makes it seem like its better than it is, but it really does leave a lot to be desired when working with it, at least that is how Digi-design has always made me feel... You really need to research more, and explain what you want to do... You might be more interested in something like Fruityloops, so give that a whirl before you lay out money on something you really don't need.
With the Music Maker program, I can record, making my own samples (just like in a DAW without the headache of settings up tracks and environmental windows) I can then use those recorded samples in a song; regardless of genre. I can manipulate the BMP, Pitch, and Tempo. I can EQ the sound to get a different style out of a "worn out" sound. At that point, is where the "creativity" process comes into play. The more creative you are, the more you will find, and I think Music Maker has all the tools necessary to do that job.
To me, Hip/Hip uses a variety of styles and BPM, and I have noticed that Hip/Hop from one region of the country to the other is greatly different... I am not sure if it’s that East Coast/West Coast thing, but the sound it different.
I also use loops from other sources that share them, there is a site called freesound.org that I use, some of the samples are pretty good, and they are royalty free.
Ultimately, it comes back to how you can manipulate the samples, taking a rock beat, changing the BPM, and mixing in another beat as a backbeat, you can get some interesting styles going on that way. I would think any straight up Hip/Hop samples provided would be "been there, done that" sounding anyway, it would be best to mix it up to make something uniquely your own.
Again, I think you need to identify what you want, and how you want it to work.
Do you own any actual instruments? You would need that for Pro-Tools or any DAW; they do not make music on their own.
Do you know how to compose with MIDI?
Do you know what MIDI is?
I would hate for you to spend a grand for something that is not what you want or need for the creative process of making music.