Music Studio 12 DeLuxe

Sweeney-Robert wrote on 9/3/2019, 6:29 AM

I have used Music Studio 12 successfully for over 12 years with great success, running on Windows XP Pro SP 3.

I recently purchased Music Maker 2016 and Samplitude to run on Windows 10 and I must say that they are two of the most useless products I have come across in over 25 years of music production. The drawbacks are too numerous to mention.

Is there any way I can get Music Studio 12 DeLuxe to run on Windows 10?

Also why can't Samplitude and Music Maker perform as simply and effectively as Studio 12 DeLuxe?

Comments

ralftaro wrote on 9/6/2019, 4:29 AM

Hi there,

First of all, to answer your specific question: Your chances of successfully running Music Studio 12 on Windows 10 are probably pretty slim. This version is so old, it's not even officially compatible with Windows 7, let alone Windows 10. It think one of the main hindrances that could prevent you from running the program in the first place would be the old on-disc copy-protection, which will likely not authenticate properly on an unsupported operating system. Sorry.

I think it would be more interesting to look into what problems you're having with your newer programs. Maybe it makes sense to keep Music Maker out of this discussion, since it's a completely different product line. However, any more recent version of Samplitude Music Studio (or even Samplitude Pro) would be a direct successor (and hopefully improvement) to your old Music Studio 12. So, is this just a matter of having a hard time easing into the current user interface of this product line, after skipping more than a decade in its development? To be honest, if you were a happy user of version 12, I don't really see what could have happened to the software that would qualify its current version as the "most useless product" in music production. So, if you have any more specific details regarding your problems with the software, we might be able to work with that. Thanks.