Samplitude Music Studio X8 - Academic

Turning concepts into chart hits. Time to put your ideas on stage

Bring your musical vision to life. Compose, record, mix and master. Use innovative tools and object-oriented workflows to create complex arrangements. Choose from a wide selection of essential sound tools to prepare your songs for the stage. Discover Samplitude Music Studio. Everything you need for your music.

Highlights

One of a kind editing: cut and arrange your recordings easily and efficiently. Each clip can be assigned its own plugins, EQ and time/pitch settings in the object editor, which reduces the number of tracks and makes automation easier. Plus, the dockable track editor provides access to all of the important track functions.

Impressive New Features

When your arrangements are set and everyone knows what to do, it's the details that set a true performance apart from just another practice session. Discover the latest features in Music Studio 2022 to perfect your sound.

Recording, easy and professional

Choose from a range of recording templates for pure MIDI sessions or entire recording projects. Recording vocals and perfectly tuned instruments on multiple tracks at the same time.

• Multitrack recording - Record instruments and vocals in up to 24-bit/96 kHz studio quality on up to 16 mono tracks or 8 stereo tracks at the same time. From band practice to demo tapes to entire albums – a range of professional editing tools and high-quality plug-ins are available for every track.
• Vocal recording correction - With Vocal Tune 2, correcting your vocal recordings is simple. The pitch curves and practical waveform display let you adjust recordings in detail with the pencil tool.
• Recording templates - With recording templates, a single click is all it takes to get your projects ready for recording solo performances or entire bands. Suitable tracks with EQ, compressor and other effects are loaded and ready to go for recording.
• Chromatic tuner - With the integrated tuner, you can make sure your guitar and bass are perfectly tuned before you start recording. Simply hit a string and adjust it. This tool also works with acoustic resonating bodies and other amplified instruments, such as analog synths.
• Track freeze - The gentle cycle for your hard drive and RAM without loss of sound quality: Recordings made with effects can be easily converted to normal audio files using track freeze. The applied effects are disabled until the tracks are "thawed out".

Virtual music recording. Instruments, MIDI and soundpools

Once your guitars, vocals and drums are recorded, you can easily add more musical elements to them. Bring your songs to completion by recording virtual instruments with MIDI controllers and combining sounds and loops from different genres with drag & drop controls.

Samplitude Music Studio 2022 contains a wide range of impressive VST instruments for improvising and composing your own music – from concert grand pianos to atmospheric synthesizers to full-bodied drums and entire ensembles.

12 Tiny Percussion instruments
Preview all Tiny Percussion instruments Add more rhythm to your music tracks with the new Tiny Percussions: Eight new drum sounds bring lots of dynamic and vibrancy to your music.

• New! Tiny Percussion Barrel: Thrilling drum rhythms ensure the perfect suspense – ideal for dramatic moments in movies.
• New! Tiny Percussion Christmas Bells: This instrument is ideal for adding a festive atmosphere to any song.
• New! Tiny Percussion Claps & Snaps: The light clap and snap sounds will inspire your listeners to start dancing.
• New! Tiny Percussion Cowbells: This unique bell sound is characteristic in the cha-cha-cha and adds a Latin flavor to any track.
• New! Tiny Percussion Darbuka: This sound evokes "One Thousand and One Nights" and is perfect for Middle Eastern and belly dance music.
• New! Tiny Percussion Djembe: This popular goblet drum transports you away on a musical journey through West Africa.
• New! Tiny Percussion Doumbek: Spark a musical fire in your listeners' ears using passionate rhythms from this drum.
• New! Tiny Percussion Tambourine: The sounds of the tambourine are great for adding both rhythm and fine details throughout a piece.
• Tiny Percussion Bongos: These drums sounds that originate in Cuba add an exciting rhythm and a hot salsa flair.
• Tiny Percussion Congas: When the congas kick in, it's guaranteed to get everyone onto the dance floor.
• Tiny Percussion Shaker: From pop and jazz to Latin sounds, the shaker can be used in any genre to create the perfect groove.
• Tiny Percussion Taiko: Drum sounds from Japan: Perfect for a backdrop to fast-paced fighting scenes and for creating a dramatic effect.

5 drums & percussion
Preview all drums & percussion Pop, rock and jazz drum sets plus a wide range of electronic beats offers the right groove for rehearsals and musical composition.

• Soundtrack Percussion: A wide palette of impressive bells, drums, timpani, gongs and taiko drums for building up the drama in film music in a rhythmic way.
• Jazz Drums: Drum sticks, brushes, tom toms, ride cymbals and hi-hats provide that true groovy jazz sound.
• Rock Drums: Dynamic snares, powerful kick and precise hi-hats, supported by a smashing electric guitar. Supported by a smashing electric guitar.
• Pop Drums: Play booming trap beats, pumping techno grooves or a furious double bass in a metal style with Pop Drums!
• Drum engine: The classic sound and style of legendary drum machines and samplers.

6 synthesizers
Preview all synthesizers Use virtual synths to create powerful bass sounds, floating soundscapes and catchy leads. Or simply experiment to see what kinds of sounds you can create.

• Lead Synth: This polyphonic synth specializes in catchy lead sounds, growling sawtooth and smooth phatty sounds.
• Bass Machine: This bass machine makes the most perfect bass lines with powerful, bone-rattling tone.
• Analog Synths 2: From analog to digital and classic to modern: These unique synths will enrich any piece of music.
• Cinematic Synth: Dark dreamy sequences lose themselves in this synthesizer between grating basslines & extra-terrestrial sounds.
• Cinematic Soundscapes: Explore icy, vast expanses of sound – ideal for creating depth & tension.
• Revolta 2: An electronic dance track with an animated beat and playful synth lines.

5 orchestra sounds & choirs
Preview all orchestra sounds and choirs A cello, a range of pianos, and a complete orchestra: bring the sound of the concert hall into your home studio.

• Cello: An instrument that sounds just as good on its own as it does in an ensemble: the cello. The master of nuanced sounds, from delicate to powerfully expressive.
• Orchestral Ensemble: Full orchestra, brass, woodwind, percussion and strings with an impressively authentic sound – ideal for arranging film score.
• Concert Grand: This virtual concert piano shines in modern pop and all other kinds of productions.
• Church Organ: This organ is based on an original recording in a little church near Venice and ideal for authentic organ sounds.
• Choir: A dark melody with mystical undertones sung by a mixed choir.

2 guitar instruments
Preview all guitar instruments Whether for imposing power chords or warm semi-acoustic tones, these instruments deliver a rich orchestral sound.

• Power Guitar: Phenomenal power chords, screeching slides and powerful overdrives – all you need for a deep, full guitar sound.
• Jazz Guitar: Warm, semi-acoustic tones are a wonderfully harmonic complement to any recording.

Additional instruments
Preview additional instruments Enchant your audience with breathtaking sounds and take them on a musical journey.

• Accordion: A light summery accordion melody just like in classic French films.
• Folk: Whether banjo, piano, percussion or acoustic guitar: These traditional sounds lend your music that special note.
• World Flutes: The exotic woods create organic sounds that are perfect for chillout, world music and tropical house.
• Vita 2: Orchestral winds, electrical basses and funky electronic pianos – set accents and zany leads with Vita 2.
• Vita Sampler: With the Vita sampler, you can play every loop like an instrument.
  
  

MIDI in Samplitude Music Studio

Simply connect your MIDI device, such as a keyboard or pad controller, record to your heart's content, and then edit your MIDI material in the editor.

• MIDI editor - Record melodies and beats on a MIDI device or with your mouse and edit them easily in the included MIDI editor. Choose between the piano roll, score and drum editor views. Adjust velocity, pitch bend and modulations in the respective areas of the editor. Display the notation for your compositions and arrangements or basic chord progressions, and even print them.
• MIDI editing and advanced copy functions - Samplitude Music Studio 2022 boasts better plug & play for MIDI devices, easier editing of MIDI automation data and functionality for smoothing and touching up automated parameters. Transfer particularly detailed modulation curves to other controller lanes. Select the desired sections, e.g., for volume, and paste them onto any sub-tracks you want. Enjoy more creative freedom for highly expressive compositions.
  
  

Sounds & loops

Samplitude Music Studio 2022 contains eight new Soundpools with a huge range of professional sounds and loops which you can use to sketch out a track or to enhance one of your own arrangements.

Editing

Whether at the object level or the track level, Samplitude Music Studio offers practical solutions for editing audio tracks and files.

• New! Shape your own, completely unique sound with modernEQ - The new modernEQ equalizer allows for easier, more precise mixing. You can amplify, cut and shape sounds with complete precision using the wide range of filter options in each EQ band. Custom editing options for audio tracks help you shape your own unique sound for projects.
• NEW! Search for and find presets fast with the plug-in browser - Rediscover the full potential of your plug-in collection with the plug-in browser extension . Enjoy quick and direct access to the matching sounds by searching and finding all available instruments and effects with keywords and filters. Save your favorites for easy access in the future, so you'll always have the perfect sound at your fingertips.
• Pitch shifting & Time stretching - Easily adjust the pitch of audio files without affecting playback speed. This feature is great for making quick harmony changes in arrangements. And if you need to pick up the pace a little bit, you can also easily adjust the playback speed of your audio material without affecting the pitch.
• Object editor - Edit the sound of individual audio clips without having to change track settings or create new tracks. For instance, you can apply an effect to just a single word in a vocal recording to make it stand out. The object editor also provides EQ and time/pitch settings for each clip.
• Perfect transitions - Much more than the sum of its parts: Use the crossfade editor to design seamless transitions between different audio files. For un unbelievable listening experience.
• Combine objects & takes - Combine all your takes and objects into groups at any time. You can group all the objects on one or more tracks and move them together, edit them or add effects.

Mixing and mastering. The perfect sound

Give your music unmatched sound with first-class effects and tried-and-true tools, whether in the mix or during the finishing touches of production, mastering. All of the reverb and delay effects on each individual track can be sent to the AUX busses. Submix busses are also available for combining the outputs of multiple tracks, such as individual drums.

• New! Keep a clear overview of projects with the dockable track editor - The dockable track editor ensures that you always have access to all the most important track functions – from audio and AUX settings to plug-ins, mixer settings, and equalizer. Enjoy even better control over faders, flexible window arrangements for your projects and the ability to keep all your track settings and information in the foreground. NEW SINCE JULY 2021
• New! Enjoy a faster workflow with ARA2 support - Experience greater speed when using ARA2-compatible plug-ins and edit your audio files even more efficiently. Perform editing tasks on multiple tracks simultaneously and create seamless clip borders. The interface is allowed directly using the new plug-in browser and provides you with even more creative possibilities.
• Tempo track - Using a track to control tempo ensures that your arrangement has a clear structure. The speed and tempo changes you make are displayed by means of easy-to-manage markers. Transitions for musical climaxes and slow-downs can be easily automated.
• Automation Shapes & advanced copy functions - Use the available shapes to create smooth custom transitions between automation points. The predefined curve types are suitable for making both classic fades and dramatic modulations. Use the available shapes to create smooth custom transitions between automation points. The predefined curve types are suitable for making both classic fades and dramatic modulations.
• Vandal SE - Overdrive or distortion, tremolo or chorus: the Vandal SE virtual guitar and bass amp sounds like an authentic analog amplifier, but with a range of unique and diverse features. Can be used with connected instruments or as an insert effect in the mix.

Highlights

• NEW! modernEQ
• NEW! Preset search function in the plug-in browser
• NEW! ARA2 interface
• NEW! Dockable track editor
• NEW! 8 new Soundpools
• NEW! 8 new Vita instruments Virtual instruments: Including synths, guitars, choir, pianos, strings, brass, bass and drum machines (32 Vita instruments)
• Quickstart Wizard: Templates for playing and recording instruments
• MAGIX Audio Remote app: Start recording on your PC using the app
• Audio content: Unlimited sounds & loops
• Multitrack recordings in 24-bit/96 kHz studio quality

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