Magix Music Maker 2017 Premium - Absolute Beginners Tutorial - Part 17 - Mixing MP3 and MIDI Video Lecture | Magix Music: A Comprehensive Tutorial for Beginners - Video & Sound Editing

hi everyone I've had a few subscribers
who have asked how they can save their
objects or stuff they've created using a
MIDI editor or the instruments as an
object itself
unfortunately MAGIX doesn't really allow
you to save an object but hopefully I'm
going to explain how you can save
something that you can reinsert into
another project ie it will appear as an
object so bear with me he goes what I'm
going to do is select the instruments
tab and I'm going to insert the D and E
bond synthesizer into the project click
on this arrow this brings up the D&E
synthesizer and it puts the default
track in on track 1 or whichever tracks
available click and highlight that and
delete it we don't want that just delete
it what I'm going to do now is select
from this synthesizer I'm going to go to
the tabs I'm going to select one that is
called crunchy there we go and I'm going
to record that and all I'm going to do
is record called C so let's start
recording and let's play chord C
and hold the keys down you need to keep
the keys held down longer than you
imagine and there's a reason for this
this I'll explain later
and you can let them go now and we'll
stop recording and we can shut that down
now because we've got the recording at
the top here now we have an object and
this spare space at the frontier is
where I wrote it before I press the keys
and the end there is before I press the
stop button if you highlight that object
click on the inspector tab and that will
show you this object at the moment you
can't see it because we're looking at
this blank space at the front here but
if we scroll across to the right there
is the object and those are the notes
that I played what I want to do is to
select all of those notes all three of
them so left click and drag and
highlight them hover over them until you
get the vertical and horizontal
double-arrow click and drag and drag
them to the start of the bar
scroll across and drag them if if you
keep moving them they'll play a
different chords but you need to keep it
on the C I was on C 3 for that middle
note so we'll keep that on the C scroll
across and the last one move them across
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now each one of these is a note and if
you click on it it'll play it right so
what I want to do now is to zoom out
slightly until I can get to the end of
these nose and again I'm going to
highlight the end of all of those notes
and I'm going to drag them all back to
the start
of the third beat let's just zoom in a
little bit sorry the third bar if we
look at the top here this shows you
where they are at the moment I want them
to go to this point here so if I dragged
this first click away check this first
one until it appears in approximately
the place you want it there's the first
pond now that is one two three four
beats I want it to be eight beats so
we're taking the one one two three four
and we'll do the same with this note and
the same with this note
so as you can see now that is actually
eight beats long you can't see it on the
screen because it's zoomed out but if we
zoom in eventually you will see that it
is 8 feet long
there we go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
zoom back out so we can see what we're
doing and I'm going to take all of this
wasted space back so hover over the end
of it till you get the double horizontal
arrow click and drag to the end of there
and we can play that tap spacebar
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if you notice that keeps playing and
fades away after the keys were released
and that's because the actual DNA one
synthesizer is controlling the sound and
I'll explain this shortly what I want to
do now is to copy that
highlight that object hold the control
key down click and drag and copy it and
what I want to do is to inspect this
object so we've got the inspector here
we can go back to the keyboard if you
want to but if you highlight an object
and click on the inspector this is now
that object and I want to change this to
G now in actual fact I think I'll change
it to F so I'm going to drop this bottom
on down to where I'll let's take that
one down to F take this one down to a
and take this one down to C
and if we play that now he sounds like
this
stop that and I want to copy that again
no object so hold the control key down
click and drag and copy that so and now
at the bottom of the screen on the
inspector this is that object and I want
to meet this G so I want to take this
bottom one up to G and I want this one
to be on a and I want this top one to be
on D is that right let's plate and find
out
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yeah that sounds about right so we've
got C F G and I want to go back to C so
what I'm going to do is take this first
object which was C hold the control key
down click and drag and copy that across
to there and what I need to do now is to
extend that wasted space that wasn't
used before and I'm just going to extend
it all the way out like so and now this
is the object of that object
so this is the inspector of the object
and what I want to do now is to make
this one seven notes long or seven notes
in length so this D here sorry this G I
want to take this down to c2 so I'm
going to hold the control key down click
and drag it down to c2 and I'm going to
drag this one down to D - sorry E - I'll
leave that on the G I'll leave that on
c3 that on III and I'm going to take
this one up to g3 and finally I'm going
to copy that one to c4 and I'm going to
do something novel here I'm going to
zoom in to the start of this and I'm
going to leave that C to where it is I'm
going to take this G back
half a beach if I can get all of it open
merrily okay I'm going to take this one
another quaver back this one
another way to back this one another way
to back this one another one and alas
see to their and I'm also going to
extend the end of the all of them so
although these are in different places
we went to line them all up I'm going to
zoom out because I want to extend all of
these as far as I can get them so let's
zoom out and what I'm going to do now is
click and drag and highlight all of
those and you can click on the end of
any of these and get that right arrow
which means it will extend but because
they're all selected all seven notes 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 you can click on any of them
click and drag and it will take all of
them as far as you want them and you can
keep going so I'm going to take them all
the way as far as I can get them
to the end of that bead which matches
this bar here that's the end marker and
there's Liam marker so if we now play
that
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okay we'll stop that let's go back to a
keyboard you click away from that and
one highlight everything yes you may
have slightly right we now have this
object and people want to save this as
an object but you can't so what I'm
going to do is to export this as an mp3
file click on the file menu click on
export export audio as mp3 and it's
going to I've actually told it where to
put it but I'm going to it's going to
call it new I'm going to click on the
Browse button here and I'm going to call
it crunchy mp3 and say ok it's going to
say do you want to work for write the
existing one I do because I've really
recorded it before so let's just
overwrite it it only takes a few seconds
to mix down an mp3 between 20 and 22
percent and it's done there we go
actually what I'm going to do here is
I'm going to reinsert this D anyone back
into the project and I'm going to delete
that for now again we don't need that
and I'm going to go to bank B and I'm
going to try and find a base let's go to
the base a minute and let's find a base
that sounds quite harsh here let's try
that let me just press the keyboard and
see what that sounds like what I'm going
to do then is record one of those so
let's just move this come on pick it up
out of the way thank you and let's just
start recording again
as you can see he plays the track watch
a recording so what I'm going to do is
just wait until it reaches somewhere
near the end
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and I'm going to hold that key down all
the way to the end
of that first MIDI recording
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and letting go and we'll stop that
recording and here now if we click on
the inspector tab for this object here
is that object and again I'm going to
drag this to at the moment on c1 which
is probably was a bit low so I might
take it up to c2 so let's take it a
little over and remove that excess at
the end take it back to there for
instance
what I'm going to do is drag and drop
this slightly over to the end of here
let's play that let's move this out the
waist lightly zoom in a little bit
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okay that's a little bit on the quiet
side so let's click on the effect for
that track and let's turn it off let's
put six decibels on it there we go and
let's play from here to see what it
sounds like okay let's have another
couple of decibels to it it is a little
bit louder but let's make it a little
bit more and let's play from there again
okay that'll do we can close this down
again
zoom out a little bit so you see it all
and we'll take this from the end of here
to the end of that first one now the
problem that you have is that you can't
fade a MIDI object so let's just English
back to the keyboard if you were to try
to fade this out alright so you would
expect it to go to that point and then
start fading out let's just mute this
second track but here you listen now it
won't fade let's play it
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as you can tell that is not fading stop
now so there is little point in trying
to fade your media objects however let's
try this let's unmute that one and what
I'll do now is I'll re render this or
react sport it export as mp3 and I'll
give it the same name again crunchy and
let's just render it yes I want to
overwrite it and once again it'll mix
down just let it finish about 20 22 %
usually there we go and it's mixed down
now surprisingly you have actually now
got an object in the form of an mp3
which represents this and what you can
do is to pick up that mp3 I've actually
defaulted to where I put it here and you
can drag and drop that into MAGIX
like so but what did you tell you is
that it contains no tempo or beat
information so did you say okay I need
to put it in there anyway alright so and
magics will play mp3s in fact if we mute
this channel in fact will not mute that
let's just play this one in solo and
start this from the start won't play and
just play that
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as you can see it represents the objects
that you put in at the start
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I say
but unlike the MIDI objects here that
you can't fade
you can now fade this mp3 object so by
going to the right hand side and get in
the double diagonal arrow click and drag
to a point where you want it to fade
let's play from the further long so we
don't have listened to all of it plate
from there you will now find that this
will fade
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there we go and we can take the solo off
this now and we can delete all of these
because you don't need them anymore just
delete them we can use this as the top
track if you want to any of these tracks
that are actually got various bits in
them if you hover over the number of the
track and right-click your mouse button
you can clean that track like so we can
move this one somewhere else because
this still thinks that it's going to
play the D anyone synthesizer
okay so we've now got an object which is
actually an mp3 file representing what
you had in the first place
what I'm going to do is actually shorten
this so like everything else in MAGIX
you can shorten them and I'm going to
fade that slightly so let's just see
what those sounds are
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okay it's not too bad right what I'm
going to do now is go back to the
instruments and I'm going to use the
cinematic synth here add that to the
project it'll put on the top track it'll
open up a cinematic synth and again he's
put a default track in there which we
don't want so I'm going to click and
delete that cause really don't want it
what I'm going to do here is drop down
this menu on the cinematic synth and I'm
looking for something just to go with
this so I'm going to pick out the the
synth go to the synth and I'm going to
go to the soft noise synth and again
playing the keyboard it sounds we're
always inspired this
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that's it let's use that bottom note so
what I'm going to do again now is record
and I'm just going to press this one
note does it matter where I press it but
I'm going to hold it down and leave it
there until it fades out
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let that go and let's just stop that
recording again at the top here we now
have an object and if we look at the
inspector
he's the object and again I'm going to
move this right back to the started be
the beat so
hard to say topia but it is in there and
what I want to do is to move this back
across if you remember we had in mp3 a
thump of a
no and what I want to do is to put this
approximately where that note started
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keep moving it across a bit in fact what
I want to do actually move that one
across I'll put a bit of space in that
one so that it's it comes in after the
first one let's just turn that up a
little bit not a lot just put a couple
of decibels on it no God no TVs and
we'll close this down we finish with
that and we'll go back to the keyboard
and just for a bit of interest just to
show you that you can actually mix stuff
from your sound loops with MIDI
instruments I'm going to go back to the
loops here and I'm going to use the
chill-out Blue Lagoon and I go to go to
the drums and I'm going to use Europa
drums B so let's just scroll down to
Europa drums B we're re here again just
play those like played please if you
will that's the kind of drum beat and
what I'm going to do is just track one
of those on to the screen where that
MIDI object is I started with before and
I'm going to drag that out to the end of
that I'm going to also take this back to
the end of there and I'm going to plug
that see what that sounds like
let's play it
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not only what I'm going to do now is
fade this top one out to match the
bottom line and I'm going to fade the
drums out too so click on the drums and
let's just fade those out that's so so
if we zoom into these tracks now as you
can see we've got three tracks we've got
an mp3 that we generated from MIDI
objects at the start we've now got the
MIDI object that we've just added from
the cinematic synth and I've just put
some drums in there so let's just play
this from the start
move the replay curse at the end marker
to the end there and let's just play
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and we'll stop that hopefully that's
given you an idea of how to mix down
MIDI insert MIDI objects and mix and
match your MIDI objects with existing
sound loops I hope it's been helpful
thanks for watching
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