Samplitude Music Studio 21 vs Samplitude Pro X/Pro X Suite

Neil-Kendall wrote on 10/3/2020, 2:13 PM

I was wondering what's the difference between Samplitude Music Studio 2021 and Samplitude Pro X/Pro X Suite.

On the website, it claims Samplitude Music Studio 2021 is for 'music production', whereas Samplitude Pro X/Pro X Suite is for 'professional music production'.

I even saw an old post from around 2014 where someone replied saying that Samplitude Music Studio isn't a DAW but only a recording studio. What???

I've used Samplitude Music Studio before and made professional quality recordings with it, so I don't buy into the idea it's not for pro quality recordings, nore that it's not a DAW!!! It's a serious piece of software, especially when you start adding in VSTs etc. Is it not a DAW then?

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SP. wrote on 10/3/2020, 2:31 PM

Today's Music Studio has features that many recording engineers maybe would have killed someone for to get their hands on some decades ago. It's a tool that can be used by professionals no problem and you get professional results.

I think one of the most important difference between Music Studio and Samplitude for me is that you cannot get MIDI Out for VST MIDI effects in Music Studio. Therefore you cannot use a MIDI appegiator plugin inside of Music Studio to play some other VST.

Some other major differences are listed here: https://www.magix.com/us/music/samplitude/pro-x/version-comparison/

Nordlicht wrote on 10/3/2020, 11:48 PM

I've used Samplitude Music Studio before and made professional quality recordings with it, so I don't buy into the idea it's not for pro quality recordings, nore that it's not a DAW!!! It's a serious piece of software, especially when you start adding in VSTs etc. Is it not a DAW then?

You’re absolutely right! And recording and audio quality are in fact the same.

There are limitations in the Music Studio in how many tracks you can record simultaneously (I think 8 inputs and 8 outputs), you can only have 128 tracks in a project and at maximum 8 plugins per track. But if that’s not really a limitation for your actual project you will get the same quality as with Pro X especially when using external plugins.

I also worked many years with the Music Studio 2014 and was very happy with it.

Neil-Kendall wrote on 10/4/2020, 12:19 PM

I've used Samplitude Music Studio before and made professional quality recordings with it, so I don't buy into the idea it's not for pro quality recordings, nore that it's not a DAW!!! It's a serious piece of software, especially when you start adding in VSTs etc. Is it not a DAW then?

You’re absolutely right! And recording and audio quality are in fact the same.

There are limitations in the Music Studio in how many tracks you can record simultaneously (I think 8 inputs and 8 outputs), you can only have 128 tracks in a project and at maximum 8 plugins per track. But if that’s not really a limitation for your actual project you will get the same quality as with Pro X especially when using external plugins.

I also worked many years with the Music Studio 2014 and was very happy with it.

'Only' 128 tracks! Haha, I wouldn't use anything like that amount of tracks in a song! I also wouldn't need to record 8 tracks at once either as I'm a solo artist and usually record one or two tracks at a time. 8 plugins per track is more than enough too :-)