Magix Music Maker
- Combine sound loops in almost any style with great effects and video sequences
- Create and edit music videos full of effects, animations and photos
- Build custom grooves with the virtual instruments and add effects and transitions
- Become a DJ and entertain your friends with your creations
- Includes a complete tutorial, 16 stereo audio tracks, 2 video tracks, a multitrack mixer, a beatbox drum machine, an instrument sampler and more than 3,000 content loops
Product Description
Turn your PlayStation 2 into an extreme music machine. This innovative disc will have you building your own CD-worthy tunes from thousands of killer riffs, scratches, catchy beats, vocals and effects in just minutes. Mix funky tunes with awesome visuals to produce a custom music video — you’re in complete control of your musical experience…. More >>
The various selections of pre-made beats and samples are re-sampled from the original Music Maker game with a little twist to them this time around. This version adds the ability to record with any usb mic even a ps2 headset will work. The options available to create noise are amazing. Pre-made noises can be manipulated in various ways such as pitch, reverb, tone, echo, duration, etc… Not just once but many times over until it sounds like you want it to, but no going back through your edits only reset.
You can use the Keyboard to make your own noises with choices of which beat to set the keys to, what tone, use reverb, etc.., and it has a cool layout to shorten or elongate a key.
With the Beatbox you can adjust the pre-made noises or create your own in a similar fashion to the way the keyboard interface works.
You can pull riffs and beats from what you are working on and tweak them in the above mention tools at any time in your song making and the above mentioned tools also offer the ability to randomized. They will throw a bunch of noise together for your pleasure. Does it super fast. You can listen to an endless amount of beats in no time, and they are structured in about 12 second blocks. If you like the last 5 seconds, edit it down to that sound or drop the snare if you don’t like it or feel it should be longer or in a different tone no problem. Can’t open or start one song and then open another save file song of yours into that song though.
All that being said once you get into your song interface window you encounter a problem. You can highlight a block, and loop that section which places all music in that block at the end of your song or you can copy and paste single beat inserts, but you can’t move sections. There is no select all so you can’t move the middle of your song to the front, even worse you can’t move a stack of beats to another portion of the song. You will have to copy it loop section by loop section which places it at the end. Doing this ends up with a 200 bar long song with the first 70 bars empty (cause you deleted it small beat by small beat). So you can’t copy paste sections only individual beats can be copied and moved around, or loop sections to the end of your song. Any good song I made had multiple levels of beats, and they didn’t sit on top of each other starting at the same time, some beats or riffs are 2 seconds other 10 seconds long, even 1 second. annouance but not a deal breaker for the dedicated music maker.
I had fun taking a pre-made 5 second beat and clipping it down to 1 second for the sound in the middle. As I just said, if you discover the middle of your song should be the beginning you will have to loop to the end and delete everything before it, or copy each level of beats and move them to the front, then delete the rest to start over with your new sound. Must be methodical and patient.
Another issue I have discovered is that there is a nasty problem with some beats (maybe 1 in a 100) endlessly echoing throughout the entire song. Imagine walking by someones office door, they say hello and that hello follows you the rest of the day. Whatever editing happened it made it echo endlessly. To diagnose this problem you have the ability to mute tracks, say 5 beats are on top of each other, you can mute any single beat line or all lines or just play only one instead.
After you create a song then you can open the Mixer and add a hall sound effect to your entire song or drop the bass line, slow the tempo or speed it up. The Mixer is the little thing DJ’s use between turntables.
You can do all sorts of crazy video editing with the stock images provided like make a mirror of the image, change color, make it spin in, fade in an image. When I say image many are short video clips as well.
Something fun to do is record the opening beat of a hip-hop song then record your own lyrics and place your lyrics or any other beat anywhere to your recorded sound. Limitation is that you can only record 30 seconds at a time, no free styling but you can copy and paste or pack on additional recordings or noises.
In the end the game is a techno beat maker or “funky” song maker. Fun to tool around with but song making is best left to those with a PC and actual music making software cause there is no way to export your music or mix it with other saved files. The fine tuning of editing is problematic to song creation but the basic beat editing in this game is incredibly complete and offers a suite of tweaking tools and stock noises to play with or pull apart and a kid or novice will find it user friendly and very cool.
Between Music Maker and this game the Deluxe Edition I have about 40 save files and of those about 14 actual good songs and countless hours of use. I liked the original Music Maker pre-made beats better. Deluxe Edition has a more techno tone and that makes it harder to turn them into hip-hop bass beats, extended use with keyboard and beatbox excluded. Stock guitar and piano noises are nothing to play with and the vocals are terrible. I had fun running them in reverse or clipping 75% of them which changed what they were saying after adding a deep reverb and extending the length, and changing the pitch of the frequency. If that sounds like fun this is the music making game for you.
Rating: 4 / 5
Its Not the computer software verison but its a good start for beginners
that want to get in music a hobby it lets you create or sample riffs loops vocies ect. it also let you use the mic to record your own voice or instruments……if you get this “game/beginners music studio” get the 128 memory card it only 20 bucks or so and it really helps so dont run out of space it the middle of a song ” will with the 8,16,32,64 trust me
Rating: 5 / 5
Music maker deluxe is a pretty basic program. You can do alot with it if you put in the work.
Rating: 3 / 5
Over all, this game is just okay. But it fills a niche need that us music makers out here like to fill. I have taped many recordings, using a microphone with my 4 year old son, and he giggles non-stop over his recorded voice. I would recommend this game for any frustrated couch musician or any closet rock star! Rock on!!!
MC White
Rating: 4 / 5
This game is great and very easy to use. When i first played this game it seemed so complicated but after a couple minutes i was making music and to this day i have been doing that. Theres so many sound samples and videos to add to your creation and plus if you have a mic you can sing along or make noises to add to it. This game is great, buy it you won’t regret it.
Rating: 5 / 5