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Table Of Contents

Copyright
Preface
Support
- Europe
- North America
Before you start
- Package contents
- System requirements
- Serial number
- Installation
More about MAGIX
- myGOYA
- MAGIX Premium Club
- MAGIX News Center
Introduction
- What is Samplitude 11.5 Producer?
- What’s new in Samplitude 11.5 Producer?
- The features
Tutorial
- Step-by-step mode
- Switch workspace
- Recording in the Arranger
  - Recording the first track
  - Record another track
- Integrate audio material
- VIP and wave projects
- Arranging MAGIX Soundpool sound loops
- Add synthesizers
- Editing objects
- MIDI recordings
- Edit MIDI
- Effects
  - Calculating audio 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
  - Volume and panorama rubber band
  - Volume and panorama gradients for the whole track
- 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
- Position bar (left side)
- Position bar (right)
- Range bar
Functional overview
- Working with objects in the VIP
- Ranges
- Working in wave projects
  - Virtual wave editing
- 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 (track effects, mixer channels, Mixmaster)
- MAGIX Mastering Suite (Mixmaster)
- Vintage Effects Suite (track effects, mixer channels, mix master)
- Essential FX
- Vandal SE
- Track dynamics
- Track delay/reverb
- Elastic Audio Easy
- Installing VST plug-ins
- Effect calculations
- Samplitude 11.5 Producer as an external effects device
Automation
- Automation – context menu
- Automation modes
- VST plug-in/VST parameters dialog
- Recording automation in "Read" mode
- "Draw" 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
  - Routing the signal
- Tips and tricks
MIDI in Samplitude 11.5 Producer
- What is MIDI?
- Connect external equipment
  - Interface connection
  - MIDI cabling
- Convert MIDI objects into audio files
- MIDI settings
- MIDI: Import, record, edit
- MIDI object editor
MIDI editor
- Notation display, movement, zoom
  - Notation display in piano roll and controller editor (with velocity curves)
  - Moving and zooming
- Synchronized MIDI editor and VIP screen view
- Multi-object editing (MO editing)
- Using the MIDI editor: Selecting events
  - Selection of MIDI events (piano roll, drum editor, controller editor, list editor, score editor)
  - Special selection options in the piano roll
- Editing events: Piano roll
- Controller editor
- List editor (midi event list)
- Drum editor
- Score editor
- Quantize
  - Quantization grid ("Snap")
  - Quantization settings
- MIDI editor shortcuts
Software / VST instruments
- Installing VST plug-ins
- Load instruments
- Loading routing settings with software instruments
  - Advanced options
- Load effects plug-ins
- Route MIDI instrument inputs
- Instruments with multi-channel outputs
  - Distributing sounds on multiple single tracks
  - Addressing an instriment on several MIDI channels
- Adjust instrument parameters
  - Instrument panel and parameter dialog
  - Dialog menu
- Play and monitor instruments live
- Routing VST instruments using the VSTi manager
- Preset management
- Freezing instruments (freeze)
- Tips on handling virtual instruments
- ReWire
Surround sound
- Surround panorama module
- Stereo and mono signal processing with twin-channel Surround
- Automation of twin-channel Surround
Synchronization
- Synchronization formats
- Synchronization / Synchronization settings
Burning CDs
- Red Book
- Writing
- Burning CDs in Samplitude 11.5 Producer
- DSP display
  - DSP display and writing speed
Tools and wizards
- Load audio CD track(s)
- Batch processing
- Crossfade Editor
- Remix Agent
- Harmony Agent
  - Check and correct the automatic harmony recognition
  - Use harmony recognition
- Track settings
  - Audio
  - MIDI
- Managers
- SMPTE Generator
- Solo JamSession
- Synth objects
- Timestretch patcher
- Make CD
File menu
- New Virtual Project (VIP)
- Open
- Load / Import
- Save project
- Save project as
- Save project as template
- Save object
- Save session
- Export
- Trackbouncing (internal mixdown)
- MIDI bouncing
- Range trackbouncing
- Rename project
- Clean up
- Close project
- Project properties
- Program settings
- Exit
- Recently opened files
Edit menu
- VIP mouse mode
- Wave Project mouse mode
- Object mode
- Undo
- Redo
- Undo History
- Delete undo levels
- Copy
- Cut
  - Cut
- Split
- Insert
- Delete
  - Delete
  - Extract
- Silence
  - Insert silence
  - Set silence
- Tempo
- Range
- Crossfade
  - Crossfade Editor
  - Auto crossfade active
Track menu
- Insert new tracks
- Copy track(s)
- Insert track(s)
- Delete track(s)
- Track type
  - AUX bus
  - Submix bus
- Input
- Track size
  - Minimize none
  - Maximize track
- Track Freeze
  - Track freeze
  - Track unfreeze
- Track effect settings
- Track information
- More
Object menu
- Object editor
- MIDI editor
- Wave editing
- Edit
- Quantization
- Object effects
- Select objects
- Groups
  - Group objects
  - Ungroup objects
- Move object
- Snap point (Hotspot)
  - Hotspot
  - Delete hotspot
- Object color / name
- Tempo and beat recognition
- Harmony Agent
- Harmony display
- Audio ID
- Timestretch/pitchshift patcher
Playback / Record menu
- Play once
- Play loop
- Play in range
- Play with preload
- Play only selected objects
- Restart play
- Stop
- Stop and go to current position
- Playback mode
  - Change play direction
  - Loop mode
- Playback options
- Record
- Record mode / Punch in
- Record options
- Monitoring
- Move play cursor
- Marker
- Solo JamSession
- MIDI record modes
- MIDI panic – All notes off
Automation menu
- First entries in the automation context menu
- Editing curves
- Delete all curves
- Automation mode
- Do not display automation.
- Display track automation (default setting)
- Display selected curves only
- Display unselected curves (cannot be activated) (Default setting)
- Display unselected curves (can be activated)
Effects menu
- Amplitude / Normalize
- Dynamics
- Frequency/Filter
- Delay / Reverb
- Time / Pitch
  - Resample / Timestretching
  - Elastic Audio easy
- Distortion
- Restoration
- Stereo / Phase
- Modulation / Special
- Sample manipulation
- Plug-ins
- Essential FX
- MAGIX Plug-ins
- Process only left (right) stereo channel
- Waveform Generator
- SMPTE Generator
- Apply effects offline
CD menu
- Load audio CD tracks
- Make CD
- Indices (Track markers)
- CD track/index manager
- 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
  - Submit CD to FreeDB
  - Clear FreeDB cache
- Show CD-R drive information
- Show CD-R disc information
- Audio ID
View Menu
- Mixer
- Multitrack recorder MR-64
- Mastering Suite
- Transport control
- Time display
- Visualization
  - Peak meter
  - Oscilloscope
  - Phase correlation
  - Spectroscope
  - Spectrogramme
  - Tuner
- Export tool
- Managers
- Track editor
- Rebuild graphic data
- Sections
- Hide submix / AUX buses
- Grid view
  - Show grid
  - Grid lines
  - Units of measurement
  - Snap to grid
  - Snap and Grid Setup
- VIP display
  - Definition
  - Mode 1
  - Mode 2
  - Change mode
- Overview mode
- Horizontal
- Vertical
- Cascade
- Tile
- Untile
- Window
  - Arrange icons
  - Close all windows
  - Iconize all wave projects
  - Hide all wave projects
  - Half height
- Toolbars
  - Main toolbar
  - Position bar
  - Mouse mode toolbar
  - Range bar
  - Workspace bar
  - Button bar
  - Tabs toolbar
  - Menu search
  - Internet bar
  - Status bar
Tasks menu
Online menu
- Catooh – the Online Content Library
- MAGIX Online Album
- magix.info
- More online services
  - MAGIX Website Maker
- MAGIX Screenshare
  - Register as host for a screen transfer
  - Register as guest of a screen session
- Manage login details
- Upload song to Soundcloud
Help menu
- Help
- Help index
- Context help
- About Samplitude 11.5 Producer
- Watch the introductory video
- System information
- MAGIX auto-update
- MP3 Encoder activation
Preset keyboard shortcuts
- Mouse
General settings
- System / Audio
- Program
- Edit keyboard shortcuts and menus
- Design
  - Display options
  - Colors
- Easy setup
Project settings
- Project options
- Mixer setup
- Synchronization
- Recording options
- Varipitch/practice mode
Index

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