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Table Of Contents

Copyright
Preface
Support
Before you start
- Package contents
- System requirements
- Serial number
- Installation
MAGIX News Center
Introduction
- What is Samplitude 11 Producer?
- What’s new in Samplitude 11 Producer?
- The features
Tutorial
- Create a virtual project (VIP)
- Recording with the multitrack recorder (MR-64)
- Arranging MAGIX Soundpool sound loops
- Add synthesizers
- Editing objects
- MIDI recordings
- Edit MIDI
- Mixer
- Effects
- Burn CD
Program desktop overview
- VIP window
- Transport control
- Track editor
- Track box
- Workspaces
Mouse functions and mouse modes
- Universal mode
- Curves / Object mode
- Range mode (safe mode)
- Curve mode
- Cut mode
- Pitchshift / Timestretch mode
- Draw volume mode
- Draw panorama mode
- Wave edit mode (only wave projects)
- Scrub mouse mode
- Zoom mode
Button overview
- Toolbar (left section)
- Toolbar (right section)
- Mouse mode bar
- Positioning bar (left)
- Position bar (right)
- Range bar
Functional overview
- Working with objects in the VIP
- Ranges
- Working in wave projects
- Using markers
- Volume
- Output mode
- Record
- Tips & tricks
Effects and effect plug-ins
- What effects are there, and how are they used?
- Saving effect parameters (preset mechanism)
- Dehisser
- Sound FX (object editor, mixer channels, mixmaster)
- Parametric equalizer (mixer channels, mix master)
- MAGIX Mastering Suite
- Vintage Effects Suite (track effects, mixer channels, mix ma
- Essential FX
- Vandal
- Track dynamics (track effects, mixer channels)
- Track delay/reverb (track effects)
- Elastic Audio easy
- Installation of VST plug-ins
- Effect calculations
- Samplitude 11 Producer as an external effects device
Automation
- Automation – Context menu
- Automation modes
- VST plug-in / VST parameter dialog
- Plug-in / Instrument screen
- Draw panorama mode
- Edit automation curves
- Move automation curve with audio / MIDI data
Mixer
- Overview
- Operating the mixer
- Channel strips
- Master section
- Global settings
- Buses and routing
- Embedding external effects devices
- Tips and tricks
MIDI in Samplitude 11 Producer
- What is MIDI?
- Connect external equipment
- Convert MIDI objects into audio files
- MIDI settings
- MIDI: Import, record, edit
- MIDI object editor
MIDI editor
- Notation display, movement, zoom
- Synchronized MIDI editor and VIP screen view
- MIDI editor multi-object editing (MO editing)
- Using the MIDI editor: Selecting events
- Editing events: Piano roll
- Controller editor
- List editor (midi event list)
- Drum editor
- Score editor
- Quantize to grid
- MIDI editor shortcuts
Software / VST instruments
- Installation of VST plug-ins
- Load instruments
- Routing settings during software instrument loading
- Load effects plug-ins
- Route MIDI instrument inputs
- Instruments with multi-channel outputs
- Adjust instrument parameters
- Play and monitor instruments live
- Routing of VST instruments using the VSTi manager.
- Preset management
- Freezing instruments (freeze)
- Tips on handling virtual instruments
- ReWire
Synth objects
- Working method
- Atmos
- BeatBox 2 plus
- Drum & Bass machine 2.0
- LiViD - Little Virtual Drummer
- Robota
- Vita
- Revolta 2
Auto Jam Session
- Open
- Handling
- Auto Jam Session modes
- Loop effects
- Enhanced Auto Jam Session dialog
Managers
- File manager
- Soundpool
- Object manager
- Track manager
- Marker manager
- Range manager
- Take manager
- VSTi manager
Surround sound
- Surround panorama module
- Stereo and mono signal processing with twin-channel Surround
- Automation of twin-channel Surround
Burning CDs
- Red Book
- Writing
- Burning CDs in Samplitude 11 Producer
- DSP display
File menu
- New Virtual Project (VIP)
- Open
- Load / Import
- Save project
- Save project as
- Save complete VIP in
- Save project as template
- Burn project backup on CD
- Save object
- Save session
- Rename project
- Delete HD wave project
- Delete virtual projects
- Export audio
- Make podcast
- Batch processing
- Connect to the Internet
- FTP download
- Send project via email
- Close project
- Exit
Edit menu
- Undo
- Redo
- Undo history
- Cut
- Delete
- Copy
- Paste from clip
- Extract
- Insert silence
- Append projects
- More
- Crossfade editor
- Auto crossfade active
- Delete curve handles
- Delete undo levels
Menu view
- Rebuild graphic data
- Sections
- Fix vertically
- Hide submix / AUX buses
- Overview mode
- Show grid
- Grid lines
- Units of measurement
- Snap to grid
- Snap and grid setup
- VIP display
- Store position and zoom level
- Get position and zoom level
- Horizontal
- Vertical
Track menu
- Insert new tracks
- Cut track(s)
- Copy track(s)
- Insert track(s)
- Delete track(s)
- Track properties
- Track settings
- Track effects
- Surround editor
- DirectX plug-Ins
- Maximize track
- Minimize none
- Track freeze
- Track unfreeze
- Activate next / Previous track
Object menu
- New object
- New synth object
- Cut objects
- Split objects
- Trim objects
- Group objects
- Lock objects
- Move object
- Mute objects
- Build loop object
- Hotspot
- Delete hotspot
- Select objects
- Group objects
- Ungroup objects
- Object color / name
- Object editor
- Object manager
- Take manager
- Wave editing
Range menu
- Range all
- Move play cursor
- Edit range
- Range length
- Split range
- Split range for video
- Store range
- Get range
- Get range length
- Save markers
- Get marker
- Markers on range borders
- Set markers on silence
- Delete marker
- Delete all markers
- Recall last range
- Range editor
- Range manager
- Edit time display
Effects menu
- Amplitude / Normalize
- Dynamics
- Frequency/Filter
- Delay / Reverb
- Time / Pitch
- Distortion
- Restoration
- Stereo / Phase
- Modulation / Special
- Sample manipulation
- Plug-ins
- Process only left (right) stereo channel
Tools menu
- Trackbouncing (internal mixdown)
- Range track bouncing
- Remove unused samples
- Delete freeze data
- Waveform generator
- Open new manager
- Managers
- Timestretch patcher
- Remix Agent
- Harmony Agent
- Harmony display
Playback / Record menu
- Play once
- Play loop
- Play in range
- Play with preload
- Play only selected objects
- Stop
- Stop and go to current position
- Change play direction
- Restart play
- Playback options
- Record
- Record options
- Record mode / Punch in
- Monitoring
- Auto Jam Session
Menu tempo
- Tempo / Time signature
- Set new tempo marker
- Set new beat marker
- Set new beat position marker
- Ignore all tempo markers, use only project tempo
- Metronome active
- Metronome settings
MIDI menu
- New MIDI object
- New MIDI track
- MIDI editor
- MIDI object editorCtrl + O
- Glue MIDI objects
- Trim MIDI objects
- MIDI bouncing
- Separate MIDI objects according to channels
- MIDI quantization (start and length)
- MIDI start quantization
- MIDI length quantization
- Cancel MIDI quantization
- Track information
- Track MIDI record
- VST instrument editor
- Metronome active
- Metronome settings
- MIDI settings
- MIDI record modes
- MIDI panic – All notes off
CD menu
- Load audio CD track(s)
- Set track
- Set subindex
- Set pause
- Set CD end
- Set track markers automatically
- Set track indices on object edges
- Remove index
- Remove all indices
- Make CD
- Show CD-R drive information
- Show CD-R disc information
- CD track options
- CD disc options
- CD text / MPEG ID3 editor
- Set pause time
- Set start pause time
- CD arrange mode
- Get CD info (FreeDB Internet)
- FreeDB options
- Audio ID
Options menu
- Project properties
- Project options
- Track information
- Synchronization
- Program settings
- System / Audio
Window menu
- Cascade
- Tile
- Untile
- Arrange icons
- Main toolbar
- Position bar
- Mouse mode toolbar
- Range bar
- Workspace bar
- Button bar
- Status bar
- Mixer
- Track editor
- Time display
- Visualization
- Transport control
- Managers
- Close all windows
- Iconize all wave projects
- Hide all wave projects
- Half height
Tasks menu
Online menu
- MAGIX Online World
- MAGIX Community
- MAGIX Blog Service
- Make podcast
Help menu
- Help
- Help index
- Context help
- About Samplitude 11 Producer
- Start selection / Tip of the day
- System information
- MAGIX auto-update
- MP3 Encoder activation
Preset keyboard shortcuts
- File menu
- Edit menu
- View menu
- Track menu
- Object menu
- Real-time effects menu
- Offline effects menu
- Range menu
- CD / DVD menu
- Tools menu
- Playback menu
- MIDI menu
- Options menu
- Window menu
- Help menu
- Mouse
General settings
- System / Audio
- Program
- Editing keyboard shortcuts and menus
- Design
- Easy setup
Project settings
- Project options
- Mixer setup
- Media link
- Synchronization / Synchronization settings
- Recording options
- Varipitch/practice mode
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Stop .............................................................................................408

Stop and go to current position.....................................................408

Store position and zoom level .......................................................337

Store range ..................................................................................359

Submit CD to FreeDB ...................................................................439

Submix buses...............................................................................170

Support..........................................................................................15

Surround editor ............................................................................343

Surround panorama module ................................................. 292, 296

Surround sound............................................................................292

Switch channels ...........................................................................382

Synchronization ............................................................................443

Synchronization / Synchronization settings....................................507

Synchronized MIDI editor and VIP screen view ..............................184

Synth objects ...............................................................................237

Synthesis models .........................................................................253

Synthesizer.............................................................................25, 248

System / Audio.....................................................................446, 473

System information.......................................................................461

System requirements......................................................................17

Take manager ......................................................................289, 353

Tape simulation ............................................................................386

Tape simulation (plug-in) ...............................................................121

Target format................................................................................318

Task assistant.................................................................................30

Tasks menu..................................................................................456

Tempo..........................................................................................275

Tempo / Time signature ................................................................418

The bass section (bottom half) ......................................................256

The best possible sound quality ......................................................24

The features ...................................................................................24

The object effects window ..............................................................79

The pitchshifting / timestretching window........................................80

The position / fades window ...........................................................79

The rhythm section (top half).........................................................255

The score .....................................................................................202

The Vita interface..........................................................................267

Thin out........................................................................................156

This is how activation works:.........................................................462

Tile ...............................................................................................447

Time / Pitch..................................................................................376

Time display .................................................................................449