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The advantages:
 Purchasing expensive synthesizers or effect devices is no longer necessary.
 An expensive sound card is no longer necessary for high-quality recordings
from external devices.
 VST instruments and VST/DirectX effects provided by lots of third party
providers are better value or are even made available as freeware.
The disadvantages: Each of these plug-ins uses up processor power. The
more a plug-in is used, the faster your computer should be. The required
processing power is, of course, also dependent on the size, state, and
complexity of the plug-in.
Using VST instruments
VST in
struments are loaded via the Media Pool. These appear in the area
below the "Synthesizer" setting (synthesizer track).
If you have just freshly installed MAGIX Music Maker MX Production Suite, then
you will not see any additional synthesizers here at first (other than those that
were included). You will have to enter the folder first in which Music Maker
should look for VST instruments. VST plug-ins may be installed in any folder on
your hard drive.
Click "Add" (on the right edge of the Media Pool) and find the VST folder. If you
use other programs with VST plug-ins or if you have already created a folder
for your VST plug-ins, you can enter the folder here. You can add another
extra folder at any time in case you you have installed additional plug-ins in
another folder; plug-ins that have already been "identified" will always be
located regardless of the path set. Pressing OK causes Music Maker to scan
the folder for usable plug-ins that are available in the Media Pool.
Vita and Revolta 2 (Premium version only) feature their own icon in
the Media Pool; all other VST instruments use a standard icon. To
use VST instruments, drag the VSTi Synth into a free track in the
arranger.
A preset MIDI object will appear in the track and the MIDI Editor will open.
You can open Vita and Revolta 2 (Premium version only) directly by
selecting one of their preset sounds in the instrument menu of the track
box. At the very bottom in the menu, a sub-menu is provided for
software instruments that lists the other VST instruments.
To use the MIDI objects and the MIDI Editor, please read the chapter MIDI
Objects (view page 94).