How do I access SYNTH in MEP 2013 Premium?

Taumatarea wrote on 2/4/2013, 10:27 PM

I have been using MEP 15+ for several years and I have found the SYNTH option in the Audio Effects to be quite useful on occasion . However, I now need to edit several of those earlier movies. But MEP 2013 Premium does not present the SYNTH option among Audio Effects as the previous MEP 15+ did..

As well as being a b . . . . nuisance, this is quite curious because the various *.WAV files needed are actually loaded into the sub-directory c:/Program Data/MAGIX/Movie Edit 2013 Premium/ SYNTH by the 2013 premium installer. Is the omission from the menu system an oversight by MAGIX or is this sub-directory a redundancy left over from a previous re-incarnation? (Surely MAGIX would not stoop to padding . . . . !)

Please, can anyone please help me come up with a way to access SYNTH from MEP 2013 Premium?

Thank you

Taumatarea

ps I am using version 12.0.0.32(UDC2) on an intel Core i7 Hewlett-Packard Envy with Radeon Graphics and Windows 8 as the OS, plenty of memory and a TB of hard-drive space.

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cpc000cpc wrote on 2/5/2013, 5:50 PM

Taumatarea,

Nuisance to the say the least! It seems sometime the beforwarder they go the behinder they get with Magix program design. :-) As you know, the synths were easily available in MEP and in VPX as well, though in different places:

All is not lost however. Navigate in your MEP 2013 media pool window (Import tab) until you can see your *.syn files, then do a right click in the media pool and chose 'Create link for folder'. You can then name it SYNTHS or whatever you like. To use just drag a syn file onto the timeline and up will pop the associated synth window to set parameters.

Regards,

Carl

Taumatarea wrote on 2/6/2013, 12:58 AM

Thank you so much for that Carl.

Very much appreciated!

Taumatarea

Taumatarea wrote on 2/26/2013, 3:21 PM

"Much success is born of frustration!"

Maybe Confucius had a copy of MAGIX MEP 2013?

Fiddling around and building on Carl's advice, I have found a 'fix' which may be of interest to others:

I have copied the SYNTH directory from MEP 15+ to the MEP 2013 directory and I can now import the 'atmos.syn' and 'dum'n'Bass.syn' files to wherever I want them (as suggested by Carl). The right mouse button on the selected 'syn' file will then access all the pre-2013 options. Incidentally, this 'SYN' import also works with several of the '*.syn' files in MAGIX Music Maker although I have not yet tried to generate sound-tracks with MMM from within MEP.

This means that compatibility within the MAGIX programs significantly adds to overall versatility. (But only if you are frustrated enough to persist!)