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Media Pool
MAGIX Music Maker MX Production Suite's Media Pool lets you access,
preview, and load all supported media types, online and offline, e.g. with
included sound and video loops, audio CDs, MP3 songs, synthesizers, or
effects.
All media types are loaded into an arrangement from local drives or directly
from the Internet via double-click or drag & drop.
The upper edge of the Media Pool contains seven buttons which operate the
Media pool in different ways:
 The setting Soundpools offers a database view of all Soundpools.
 The File manager is very similar to Windows Explorer. It controls and loads
media files of all types located on the hard drive.
 The Keyboard enables software synthesizers to be played and recorded
directly via the on-screen keyboard.
 The object Inspector offers quick access to properties of objects, e.g. audio
effects for audio objects. For MIDI objects (view page 94), a smaller version of
th
e MIDI Editor is shown, which allows you to edit the selected object.
 The Synthesizer setting displays a list of the available synthesizers (view page
121).
 Templates (v
iew page 55) provides effects presets for all kinds of audio,
vid
eo, and titling effects.
 Catooh connects you directly to Catooh (view page 299).
Preview function
There is a preview function for all files: By simply clicking an audio object, the
pre-listening function starts via the sound card. Video, graphics and text
objects are shown on the video screen.
As the arrangement plays on, you can experiment with sounds from the Media
Pool (see Smart Preview (view page 73)).
Note: Even while previewing, audio files are adapted to the current tempo
using timestretching (you can deactivate this in the "Audio/Video options"
menu).