Xara Samplitude Producer - 11.5 Owners Manual

Manual

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Preface

Congratulations on your purchase of Samplitude 11.5 Producer!

Creating your own music or video soundtracks in a home studio has become
more and more popular. But the wide variety of available equipment and
software often confuses both beginner and professional musicians alike. You
may find yourself asking questions like "What do I really need?", or "What's the
best value for my money?"

Samplitude 11.5 Producer is the perfect solution: Fast and easy-to-handle
music production on your PC, from recording to mastering. Transform your PC
into a complete sound studio.

All you need to produce and arrange in high-quality is a conventional sound
card, but additional studio equipment can easily be added.

The following pages will introduce to you in detail the various functions and
possibilities offered by Samplitude 11.5 Producer.

Have fun with Samplitude 11.5 Producer.

Your

MAGIX team

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Table of Contents

Copyright 2
Preface 3
Support 13
Before you start 15

Package contents 15
System requirements 15
Serial number 16
Installation 16

More about MAGIX 18

myGOYA 18
MAGIX Premium Club 18
MAGIX News Center 19

Introduction 20

What is Samplitude 11.5 Producer? 20
What’s new in Samplitude 11.5 Producer? 21
The features 22

Tutorial 25

Step-by-step mode 25
Switch workspace 35
Recording in the Arranger 36
Integrate audio material 38
VIP and wave projects 38
Arranging MAGIX Soundpool sound loops 40
Add synthesizers 43
Editing objects 44
MIDI recordings 45
Edit MIDI 48
Effects 51
Burn CD 53

Program desktop overview 54

VIP window 54
Transport control 55
Track editor 58
Track box 61

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Workspaces 62

Mouse functions and mouse modes 63

Universal mode 63
Curves / Object mode 65
Range mode (safe mode) 65
Curve mode 66
Cut mode 66
Pitchshift / Timestretch mode 67
Draw volume mode 67
Draw panorama mode 67
Wave edit mode (only wave projects) 67
Scrub mouse mode 67
Zoom mode 68

Button overview 69

Toolbar (left section) 69
Toolbar (right section) 70
Mouse mode bar 70
Position bar (left side) 71
Position bar (right) 71
Range bar 72

Functional overview 73

Working with objects in the VIP 73
Ranges 77
Working in wave projects 80
Using markers 81
Volume 82
Output mode 83
Record 83
Tips & tricks 87

Effects and effect plug-ins 90

What effects are there, and how are they used? 90
Saving effect parameters (preset mechanism) 91
Dehisser 91
"Sound FX" (object editor, mixer channels, Mixmaster) 93
Parametric equalizer (track effects, mixer channels, Mixmaster) 97
MAGIX Mastering Suite (Mixmaster) 98
Vintage Effects Suite (track effects, mixer channels, mix master) 103
Essential FX 117
Vandal SE 121
Track dynamics 138
Track delay/reverb 140

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Elastic Audio Easy 141

Installing VST plug-ins 152
Effect calculations 152
Samplitude 11.5 Producer as an external effects device 153

Automation 154

Automation – context menu 154
Automation modes 157
VST plug-in/VST parameters dialog 158
Recording automation in "Read" mode 158
"Draw" mode 158
Edit automation curves 159
Move automation curve with audio/MIDI data 159

Mixer 161

Overview 161
Operating the mixer 162
Channel strips 163
Master section 165
Global settings 167
Buses and routing 169
Embedding external effects devices 170
Tips and tricks 170

MIDI in Samplitude 11.5 Producer 172

What is MIDI? 172
Connect external equipment 172
Convert MIDI objects into audio files 173
MIDI settings 174
MIDI: Import, record, edit 174
MIDI object editor 178

MIDI editor 181

Notation display, movement, zoom 181
Synchronized MIDI editor and VIP screen view 182
Multi-object editing (MO editing) 183
Using the MIDI editor: Selecting events 184
Editing events: Piano roll 185
Controller editor 189
List editor (midi event list) 192
Drum editor 194
Score editor 197
Quantize 210
MIDI editor shortcuts 214

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