Magix Music Maker Premium 2017 - Absolute Beginner's Tutorial Video Lecture | Magix Music: A Comprehensive Tutorial for Beginners - Video & Sound Editing

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hi everyone now I've never done a video
tutorial in my life so to all the
professional users of MAGIX Music make a
dream in 2017 please bear with me I'm
doing this purely for the benefit of the
absolute beginner when you start magics
you you're presented with this screen
the open screen is you want to create a
new project logo project or load a demo
song what we're going to do is just
create the new project say okay now all
I'm going to do is to make a piece of
music for you using three notes and
looking more just three major notes when
you've got the screen in front of you
you can ignore this top track here or
you can just click on the middle record
and turn it off ignore that that means
nothing down the left hand side here we
have tracks and this is where you put
each individual instrument on the right
hand side you have your music pools or
samples of the chord and then on the
right of that you have the instruments
available in that music pool just below
that you then have what they call a
pitch unfortunately MAGIX doesn't give
you a note to play it gives you a pitch
one two three four five six and seven
these actually represent the major notes
on the keyboard which is c d e f G a and
B which correspond to this click
keyboard c d e f G a and B and it goes
back to C again but I'm not going to
complicate things with any of that at
all all we're going to do is put a
simple piece of music down what I'm
going to do is select ambient interfaces
and we'll have the strings
we're going to do is select orchestral
strings
we're going to drag that into any track
you like you doesn't matter where you
can put it anywhere you like in any of
these tracks not all going to do then is
use number four and you can click and
drag one of those hold the left mouse
button down while you drag it as it
happened you don't have to select the
note and then the instrument you can
actually just drag the note onto the
screen as well alright so so we've now
got a 1 a 4 and a 5 on the orchestral
strings in the ambient interfaces and if
you play that spacebar it sounds
relatively like this
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that spacebot stop as you can see at the
top here it says C F and G what I'm
going to do now is just copy that six
times now to copy it in context you
notice here we're going to run out of
space on the screen to copy it if you
click anywhere away from the music it'll
put an eyeline anything there
if you left click and drag the highlight
cursor it will highlight the music for
you and if you then hold the control key
down on the keyboard and drag and drop
that to the end of the next star let it
go
drag and drop laps the end of the next
bar let it go
as you can see we sergeants run out of
space what you can do is see that you've
got a zoom level and if you hit the
enlarge time selection you can see more
zoom as you can see at the moment we've
copied one two so we want to copy this
piece again
so again hold the control key down and
copy it 3 put it up to the end make sure
it doesn't overlap if your overlaps it
will fade into the next piece it means
it three four five six much so what I
ought to mention at the moment is the
the actual amount of play time here is
at the top of the screen what will
happen when you play it it will place at
the end of this and then repeat it you
can drag this all the way to the end of
the screen that makes sure that it will
play the whole of this instrument
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Soviet space bar we get a complete
repetition of this okay that's simply
not now let's go to I don't know let's
pick another instrument
let's select keys and here again the
keys have a pitch 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 etc and
let's just select lullaby at the moment
it's playing on pitch ball so let's
select pitch 1 and let's drag and drop
one of those let's just stop that a
minute if you click it the second time
it stops it click it it plays it click
it and stops it if you remember here
we've got 1 4 5 1 4 5 1 and so on so all
I'm going to do is match every single
note of this to that what we're going to
do is just use pitch 1 click on that and
drag it to the same pitch 1 there 1 4 5
1 2 1 and then we'll have a fall and
then we'll have a 5 and they're going to
repeat that one all the way to the end
of here so let's click again highlight
that on screen hold the control key down
on the keyboard and copy that to the
other one copy attained copied again
copied again and again
what we have now what you can do here is
you can actually move where the players
are sort so just obvious careers online
here if you click there little plate
from that point rather than playing all
of it so let's just play that press the
spacebar
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and as you can hear
we know how the keys playing in the same
numbers now you may notice that this is
rather loud now I said I wasn't going to
go into any details but we need to
control the volume of each of the tracks
and on the right-hand side of each of
the track is an effects tap and because
this one is a little bit too loud if we
click on this effect tab drop it down
ignore all of these I just click on the
very top one audio effects wrap for that
track what it will do is bring up all
sorts of stuff that you can do here
ignore all these for now you can change
the frequency in the pitch and blah blah
blah what we need to do is to turn the
volume down slightly and here's the
master volume on the right hand side so
all we're going to do is drop that down
to say let's take it down to minus six
decibels
you can take it down further and close
it that will add that effect to this
track only and if you tap the spacebar
now and play it you'll find that that is
not quite as loud and you can hear this
keys track a little bit louder
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never have it
some instruments are Elisabet louder
than others and you do have to reduce
the the actual volume of the tracks once
you've actually set some effect on the
track you'll get this highlight here
that tells you that there is an effect
being applied to that track but don't
worry about it
this thing is just the highlight that
was the last piece of music are copied
makes no difference click away from me
anyway like and interests upon
highlighted what I do now is let's put
some drums in the click on the drum
section now you can select any of these
rooms if you click on them you get all
sorts of different sounds available to
you but what I'm going to use is
filigree a which is a lot worse and can
be from subtle big if you notice on the
drums they don't have a pitch because
the drums do not have a pitch
apart from kettle drums but I'm not
going to talk errata so what I'm going
to do is drag that to the first a the
first available a after the first one
highly the third a so we're going to
have that to run all the way through the
track now the any instrument that you
put down on MAGIX you can actually
extend it but if the screen is zoomed
out you can't get hold of all of these
pieces that are available to you if we
now assume insightly you can now see
more information on the tracks and on
that jump track that we just put down
you've got the hand there that actually
moves it you can move it wherever you
want it's important where you like but
once you've actually got more zoom if
you notice when you get to the edge you
can now get a horizontal arrow and you
can get a diagonal the diagonal arrow
will actually change the volume of that
instrument the horizontal arrow
will allow you to drag it all the way to
wherever you want to go so you can exact
that to the end of the tracks we've got
because these are repetitions all of the
tracks in MAGIX are repeated so even
though you put one little piece down
like any of these you can actually
change them and drag them and repeat
them as an example if I just copy this
down here for now I can actually expand
this one and it will repeat just
continuing repeat it's just fine like
that and delete it we don't do that at
the moment now let's zoom to the entire
project okay so this is the whole
project we now know that from this point
it sounds like this
and it changes notes there but let's try
playing from this point
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and let's just stop that as you can tell
now we've got a drum beat so we've got
some strings we've got some keys and
we've got some drums now let's try
putting a little date base in it and
what we'll do well actually put the bass
in the same place as the drums and put
the bass at the same starting point here
at the start of the drums so click on
the bass key click on the bass tab and
I'm going to use highway it sounds
strange on its own but let's try using
that one to stop that again you've got
pitched for the bass because a bass
guitar that obviously changes pitch
John's car so again let's use number one
and we'll put number one there we'll use
a four and we'll put it for there and a
five I will put a five there and you can
almost guess what we're going to do
again left click and drag then highlight
that I'm going to copy it again hold the
control key down on the keyboard and
drag it and copy it click it copy it
cagin copy drag and copy so now where
the drums started before click here
again and we've got a little bit of
background bass in there as well
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as you can tell that basic is nowhere
near as pronounced as you thought it was
going to be when you first played some
zone
let's stop that one I do now is either a
sequencing let's go to the sequences and
don't forget you can just add these from
anywhere you can pick these from any of
your samples I'm just making this very
simple by sticking to the one sample so
in the sequences with what various
different sounds in here what I'm going
to use is is plug in stop that and again
here we have one four five one four five
one four five one and what I'm going to
do is to put one of these below
sequences in the next one then again it
doesn't matter where you put it you can
put it in any of these layers that you
want any track you like
it's just simple just to drop it there
and magics doesn't care where you put it
there is no preference to the volume of
each track you control that yourself so
we've got a 1 1 a 4 and a 5 you don't
have to highlight all these like this
there's nothing stopping you going back
and put another one in there one of the
4 in there and the other five in the
sets etc but it's just easier to
actually click and drag hold the control
key down and copy it not saying
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so we now know we've got two drums and
bass there so let's put this star
pointer there and let's play from the
press spacebar
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okay let's stop that right let's add a
little bit of something else there this
is quite this Ridge just to show you how
to add instruments let's put a blocking
spear in it a little bit of a tinkle
again we've got one two three four five
we're still using one four five so we
want number one and let's put a
glockenspiel on that number one we still
know that we've got one four five one
four five one etcetera so we'll have a
four next to it and at five and then
we'll copy that again to the end pull
the control key down click and drag and
copy them can all copy that so now we'll
play from from this point here press
spacebar
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okay let's stop that at the moment move
up to one two three four five six six
instruments now there is actually an
instance right here and that is the
guitar and it's actually an AC chord
guitar and this sounds quite nice on its
own
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but it's very quiet let's stop that what
I'm going to do is put the guitar in the
same place as the glockenspiel so again
select pitch one click and drag put the
one then put a four for the five and
again clipping highlight left click ctrl
key and copy that click away from it now
let's put this knowledge play from here
again
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now if you notice that guitar is rather
quiet but it is noticeable let's stop
that early we could do be turning this
guitar up a little bit so if you click
on the effect rack here and go to the
audio effects for that track again
ignore all of this here we have the main
volume for it let's turn that up by sets
let's say 4 DVDs and then just close
that that will put an effect on that fan
to turn that guitar up so let's play it
again from there
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docile is repetitive
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now you may notice that that guitar is a
little bit delayed I it's a little bit
after the port let's play this back from
here if you play from if you listen the
guitar is very fractional delayed
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so it's a little bit after the initial
foot of the beat what you can do with
that is left-click your mouse port let's
select that guitar left click and drag
select the whole of that guitar now if
you click on the zoom button here this
one it will zoom and highlight only that
instrument that you've got so that is
the whole of that guitar sequence you've
just put in now what we want to do is to
make it play very slightly sooner than
it is so what we need to do is move this
across all four words now it's no good
movement like this because this is too
big this is the whole of the guitar
section we only need to move it a
fraction so what we need to do is click
on the zoom here and keep zooming and
don't worry about the fact the guitars
disappeared drag and click this slider
until you see the start of this guitar
you've still got the whole of the guitar
selective but it needs a very very fine
tweak again I've zoomed in and I've lost
it look scroll across and find it now
just click and drag that absolute
fraction to the left not to the whole
bar if you put it there the guitar will
play before the beat and then we can
zoom back out now let's play this again
let's go a little bit further along and
play from there what does that sound
like
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now that sounds a little bit better
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I will stop that I think you'll agree
that that guitar sounds much better
just for being infraction early not now
we're almost finished here we've
produced a piece of music with a few
tracks on it but if we go to the end
let's just get to play from those the
last one from the end
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and there it ends in slight abrupt end
so what I want to do is put another
guitar strum on the end of this and what
I'm going to do is to copy this one here
which is pitch one again control key
click and drag and I'm going to put that
onto the end of there so the end now
sounds a little bit like this
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okay that's fine booth is a little bit
bland so what I want to do is it put a
job on the end of it just to give it a
bit of at the end let's pick a drum out
that'll be let's put that on the end of
the drums and then we'll play that from
the very end and see what that sounds
like
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well nice Olivia about it let's zoom to
the entire project again let's play the
whole thing from the store click on the
very start here and let's play
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