I did this and it felt like a total scam. I used the $30voucher on a $9.99 item.. I didn't get to use the other $20.01 on anything else as the voucher was "Used" Feel ripped off as i got this voucher with a bundle i paid for.

If they stated that you can only buy 1 item at a time and you don't get to use the rest of the credit on anything else, i may have have bought something else.

When looking to contact MAGIX to discuss this the only option i have is to call them on the other side of the world. Which would be fine if i lived in the same country and used a landline phone. But i like many people who aren't in their 60s don't use landline anymore. So i'm not going to waste more time and money on a call.

How to redeem the promo?

I went to store on right corner,
I selected my soundpool and clicked purchase
I was able to create Magix account
Now I cant see where to Redeem coupon,
please help

Installed, followed directions in the Read Me, created Magix account. There is no option to "Redeem Coupon" under MY ACCOUNT: user data, my products, info service, product registration, create activation code, or my contracts. There is no option in the Help or Store tab or any other tab in the program to "Redeem Coupon." How is this done? Also, there is no Tech Support how does one get an answer?

Hi

Any one please help me out to activate the product.

I have installed this product and created MAGIX Account, but I don't know where to apply the coupon code to activate the product.

plz add more deeper base sounds lil more tracks . more tech tracks . but man i been wanting this program for a long time thank so very much i dg my self on my laptop and will love to make my own music thank you so much if you like to hear what i do plz find me on mixcloud.com/DJGIMIK again thank you so very much .. btw i do this for fun and i hope i can be better at my mixing with your program also i am disabled and this makes me feel normal again THANK YOU :) wow so awsum ty :D

It says that are an udate for medialpool crasch is that update involed in giveaway offer or will I lose the program if I install the update?

it stopped downloading after 70% saying the file was not found on server

Somehow fixed the "The file format of ... cannot be read by MAGIX Music Maker" error. Turns out the purchased sound loops only work when you are logged into the store through the program! God only knows why.

But as it turns out, the program is basically unusable. As I add loops on to the end of the timeline, 90% of the time the program does NOT recognize that the loop has been added, and plays about 1/2 second of the new piece then jumps back to the beginning. If you play around with the "red moving line" a lot, eventually you can get it to recognize the new extent of the timeline and have it play the whole thing. But it's unbelievably frustrating not to be able to build a song by adding pieces without having to deal with this annoying bug.

Plus, the "red moving line" seems to have a mind of its own. It appears you can place it at a starting point mid-song and start playing from there, but --- sometimes it will come back to that spot when the end is reached, and sometimes it will go back to the very beginning. Sometimes it disappears completely.

Also - there are ONLY EIGHT TRACKS! At least if there are more, I haven't figured out how to make the program add them. I deleted #8, and was able to add it back with "Add Track". But I couldn't add any more than that. That makes it IMPOSSIBLE to do any kind of sound layering by repeating, for example, the same short vocal loop offset in time across two or three tracks, and still have sufficient tracks left to create a rich sounding song.

But no matter - when I did that as an experiment, and had eight tracks occupied at once, the sound produced was full of clicks, pops and stutters, the hallmark of a piece of software which is not handling Windows sound correctly. This probably explains why it was limited to eight tracks.

Running this on i3 dual-core 3.7Mhz machine with 8GB ram, Windows 10.

Program crashed after 15 minutes, send error report box came up, pretty lousy.

Installed on my desktop and my laptop. Never did run on desktop. It freezes on Initializing program layout. Rebooted, uninstalled, reinstalled twice.... Still freezing on Music Maker screen that refuses to go away.
Ran on laptop one time, Played demos. Tried to load in a midi. Loaded but no sound. Now keeps getting error and will not continue...
NOT VERY HAPPY.
Oh yes... loaded directly from their website......

Will not install on win 10 system. Error message says:

"The installation of Music Maker requires one of the following versions of Windows or a newer version:

Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows 10"

I am running Win 10 Home Premium 64 bit.

Tried reboot but same problem. Did not try redownload as I have a 4Mb/sec DSL feed and it is a 35 minute download.

i have no sound.. sound works for everything else on the computer except this program??

One of the biggest problems I get from clients, ( I do IT repair and troubleshooting), is that clients who had older devices, at one time were able to record the sound emanating from the device's speakers. This was due in part because devices at one time had sound cards that were able to record, from streaming services like Pandora, I Heart, and many local radio stations around the world. This is another factor where music pirating came in, and many companies created hardware/software that would not allow the user to record streaming services.
So this too can be an issue with not hearing playbacks after recorded.

although it is a big file, i like this type of s/w.
i go for it after viewing the video.
from dl to run it on my system, no issue.
there are many stuffs, i need time to figure out.
thanks.

win10 x64 user.

Thanks for this Great Give Away!

Seems to have installed okay, the coupon purchase went smoothly, but I get no audio through the program. Something is supposedly playing, but I don't hear anything. And an online search and search of the help files hasn't yet revealed any real troubleshooting documentation, mostly tutorials. Helpfile crashed. I am sure this is a simple settings issue (my speakers working fine elsewhere). Can someone please help me sort this out? There is one post I found in their forum, but it appears to be for another version or something.

Indicators are all moving
But there is no sound! And what should I do?
What could be the reason?

He asking a serial key.. !!
I dont have serial key.
Can u give me serial key.??

Bought "No Time" soundpool with coupon. Try to load one of the sounds. Program displays error message:

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The file format of D:\ProgramData\MAGIX\Common\Soundpools\Shop\Rock Pop - No Time\Bass\Bergen Bass A 6.mxcOGG cannot be read by MAGIX Music Maker.

Please make sure that the drive is not full or write-protected.
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The drive is NOT write-protected or full.

I changed this from the default location when installing the problem. Is that causing the problem?

Can the program be re-installed with the default locations, retaining the ability to re-install the **purchased software**???

be nice if the coupon code didn't return an error. ("Please make sure you have entered the correct coupon code. ") I have tried several ways (through the program, online...etc), all return the same message. Since this is the free version you can download from the website, then the give away is the $30.00 promo code, and, since that isn't working, then this isn't much more than another ad.

What a superb GAOTD!

First, lets be upfront with regards to the biggest drawback concerning todays giveaway: it is a 680MB download. For me, on an 80Mbit fibre connection its not so bad (a couple of minutes), but I can see that anyone on a slow DSL connection this is an issue.

Once downloaded, unzip the software. Two files, the installer and a readme with the installations instructions, which are simple enough; double click on setup.exe and follow the on-screen prompts. Choose default or custom installation. Custom allows you to specify the installation directory, and directories for the software to store soundbanks, project files, etc. Very handy if you want the core program on your C: drive, for example, and sound files, project files, etc, stored elsewhere. In my case, I had the software installed into the usual C:\Program Files, and everything else on a different physical drive.

It doesn't appear to use the GAOTD wrapper - thankfully, as this has historically caused problems for many users, me included, on an irregular basis.

The program ran fine on my machine (Intel i3770K, 32GB RAM, Win 7 64bit). It opens on its own screen, using the full width of my desktop (dual monitors, 5120x1440), and on startup loaded the supplied example 'song' (? music? sequence? riff? I'm not a musician! Let's stick with 'song'). The supplied multi-track song is a great demonstration of the software: simple instrumental loops, including drums, bass, strings, and a vocal track showcase how easy it is to arrange groups of sounds to produce a song.

Easy, of course, if you have an ear for music. A few minutes of playing and I had very easily created a car-crash of a song of horrendous proportions. But I had fun doing so!

I did encounter one initial problem; no sound. Music Maker uses ASIO low-latency audio, installing the ASIO driver and defaulting to outputting it's audio to the ASIO device. I hadn't delved into the manual (and still haven't) to configure this to map to my speakers, so was getting no audio. A gear icon on the top menu bar opens the Configuration menu, Audio/MIDI tab has options for Audio playback, setting this to Direct Sound resulted in sound!

Looking at the interface, the program has a very simple menu layout on the top menu bar; new project, open project, save project and config icons, then standard menu items for File, Edit, Effects, View, Share, and Help. Each of these has just a few drop-down menu options, leading to a simple, clean, and slick interface. The menu tools cover what needs to be done, and rather than try to describe them, it's simpler to say that MM is like a text editor, but for music: cut, copy, duplicate, paste, insert for single objects (samples), ranges, or entire tracks. Change pitch, tempo, volume. There are some audio effects such as a 10-band equalizer, compressor, echo, reverb. And an interesting menu item called "Video Effects", which I haven't yet tried...

The Configuration menu, briefly touched on, has 4 tabs covering
General Options - how the Arranger works; project auto-save every x minutes; program UI options (dim the interface, hide/show news, text size); hints on/off; Medial Pool options

Import - sample previews; auto-stretch samples to match bpm; working with Remix Agent; pitch control of wav file; midi editing options; import formats (extensive!), VSTi synthesizers, MIDI files; preview of files (including audio, video, images, and 'soft' files)

Audio/MIDI - primary sound drive and advanced options (from 8bit mono at 11.025Khz to 16-bit stereo at 44.1KHz), support for pitch control, playback rate, sync, volume, L/R volume); audio driver selection (wave, direct sound, ASIO, WASAPI); audio buffer size; MIDI configuration and control; and options such as wave file size, undo size, MIDI keyboard

Folders - the locations of folders chosen by custom or default installation, in case you want to re-configure later.

Quick, clean, intuitive, and above all slick and easy-to-use.

Instruments, and loops, are controlled via a panel on the right hand side of the screen. Instruments are grouped by category, such as bass, drums, keys, strings, etc. Click on a category, and the sampled sounds for each are shown in a panel below. Clicking on an entry plays it. Drag a sample from here onto the multi-track screen drops it into your song. This really is drag-and-drop song creation, a visual music composer. Once on the track, samples can be edited, e.g. pitch changed, stretched, shortened, etc. Its actually so easy to use, it's a challenge to describe!

The real skill is of course, having a musical ear to drag, drop, arrange in a way that produces something pleasing at the end! But even if you are not a musician or a composer, this is simply endless hours of fun!

Finally, at the bottom of the screen is an on-screen keyboard. Guess what, clicking on a key produces a sound. Useful for keyboard composition. The sound produced depends on what sample is loaded.

Perhaps the most interesting feature of todays GAOTD is the $30 coupon. Instructions are included in the readme, but essentially clicking on the Store button loads the various extra soundbanks on offer. Excellent, one doesn't have to leave the software to purchase extra soundbanks. And there are lots of them. Lots and lots! The average price is $14.99 per bank, with some collections available for $34.99 - excellent value, as they consist of 5 standard packs.

The range of banks on offers is huge, including 80s (3 different banks), dubstep, R'n'B, pop, 'metal', techno, house, latin, just to name a few music categories, and atmospheric banks such as sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, 'forbidden', e.g. 'mood' tracks suitable for films. Each may be previewed, albeit with an - unobtrusive - audio watermark. I spent an hour just exploring and listening to these very high-quality samples. I'm spoiled for choice here!

All in all, I've only touched the surface of the software. It does what it says on the tin, and does it very very well. Hugely recommended. This is another fantastic GAOTD, so thanks to the team at GAOTD for securing it, and MAGIX for making it available, especially the $30 store credit.

LOL $30 credit but my app store is priced in £'s, whats the exchange rate :)

If you don't associate the brand name Magix with higher quality software, Magix has for some time been buying up select media-related software companies, in some cases folding the software into a Magix branded product line, e.g. Music Maker, other times keeping the name, e.g. Vegas & Samplitude. This allows [allowed] them to leapfrog their own development efforts, if you had experience with or remember their in-house music & video apps from the early 1/2 of the 2000s, which was generally more-or-less entry level stuff.

I **think** the idea behind Music Maker is similar to the marketing behind several other media apps, e.g. Hitfilm, attracting the novice with free or very low cost software, then letting them expand as their skills & interest grow. Music Maker [like Hitfilm] lets you purchase add-on capabilities, whereas brands like Presonus give away one version, hoping you'll later buy a more capable, and expensive product that still uses everything you've learned.

Music Maker itself will let you do pro level work, and while you can do editing etc., it's forte is making [creating] new music -- for editing the Magix app of choice would be one of the Sound Forge versions.

Music Maker lets you work with loops... I think the easiest way to explain how this works is to Google something like "creating music with loops" [w/out quotes], which brings up lots of articles & tutorials. It's quite common, even on stage, and used with quite a few hits. And Music Maker lets you use MIDI instruments.

Starting at probably around $50 & going [Way] up in price from there, a MIDI keyboard lets you tell the software what note you're playing, how -- features that mimic the expressiveness of a fine piano are available on more expensive keyboards, & that's very generally why some are more expensive than others. Music Maker *Plays* those notes using one of their software instruments -- think synthesizer with many controls to tailor the sound. The result can be anything from drums to something like a Moog synthesizer to a piano or organ to maybe a trumpet or guitar. Finer instruments like this use actual recordings of the real instrument.

You can buy things like loops & instruments in the Music Maker store [in app], or you can use VST plug-ins, though those come with a catch [that Magix should fix IMHO]. At least the free version of Music Maker requires you to put your VST plug-ins in one of the program's sub-folders, which is not standard practice -- normally you have one VST folder registered in or with Windows, so all apps that can use them find them & will, with better apps letting you add additional VST folders. The VST plug-ins that you buy in app are also a special format -- you can't use them in other brands of audio software. [You could probably use the loop packages you buy, but I never tried this.]

Music Maker itself will take some learning, but so will other brands of software with similar capabilities. If you want easier, check out the Acid apps that Magix bought from Sony along with Vegas. They focus on using loops.

One comment talks about recording... just recording audio is actually quite simple, and Music Maker can handle it, but it's not the software's forte. If you start really getting into recording vocals you'll probably want to use something else, at least for your vocal tracks. And apps like Acid would probably be better, or at least more flexible, if you wanted to record your own loops, easily letting you set or alter things like BPM. [Artists have used everything from rusted car door hinges to toilets flushing -- really any sort of sound you can thing of.]

Downloaded, installed and I'm going to have fun with some electro house tunes :D . Thanks!

Just restarted my computer and got a popup advertisement in the system tray. This is a deal breaker for me. Can this be turned off?

I installed the program, and the Music Maker logo started up, and so did the program, but the Music Maker logo did not and will not disappear. It has a message on the bottom left that says "updating program layout". After 15 minutes it said there is an update, so I updated it (after creating an account). I opened it up and the Music Maker logo is still on top and won't go away. I REINSTALLED the entire program, but with the same results. With some difficulty I was still able to creat an account. How do I make the Music Maker logo disappear and allow me to work with the program?

I don't wanna download this 700MB chunk. Can anyone give examples what's available for $30 from the in-app store?

There is a comprehensive manual (256 pages in pdf format) which does help.
Clear-out the garage & insulate Granny's floor!
You will acquire a nice pale colour, once you start using this impressive FREE program. Thanks GOTD.

Big download, sort of. Almost 700 MB, but it moved at a good speed.

Easy install & activation on Win 8.

This is a fun tool, reminds me a bit of apple's GarageBand in it's functionality. It's been about 6 or 7 years since I had a mac though and that may no longer be true.

Nice thing from the read me "The Coupon Code is valid from April 13 until May 31" - a rare approach and one I like!

I'm looking forward to making HORRIBLE music with this :) (only horrible because of my talent level - not because the software has flaws!).

FREE for everyone.

The free Music Maker full version
425 sounds & loops
1 Soundpool
3 software instruments
8 tracks
8 effects

What ISN'T usually free is the $30 free promocode for the 'In-App' Store

Looking at the Homepage, the version featured here (425 sounds etc) is free for everybody. So in what way is it a special GAoD offer?

Can this program, or any version of it, be used for live looping? I mean like recording loops live in performance and working with them?