
In fact, such as ACID which I first used many, many years ago, when it was released by Sony. If you can’t be bothered creating your own music there is even an automated song-generator that creates songs in a selected music genre. This works reasonably well though, in spite of a degree of ‘randomness’ to ensure that you don’t create the same song each time, I have to say that many of the songs do sound rather similar to one another. If you really can’t spare the time or effort to create a composition yourself, there is even an automatic song-maker that lets you pick a genre and a few instruments then automatically creates a multi-track song. In the jargon, this sort of software is sometimes known as a ‘Digital Audio Workstation’ or DAW. You can also change the volume, tempo and pitch or apply effects such as reverbs and delays. You can arrange clips so that the several bars of notes seamlessly transition into one another and harmonise with instruments arranged on other tracks. This lets you drag and drop clips from a variety of different musical instruments and genres, right onto tracks in a timeline. One solution is to use MAGIX Music Maker. With Music Maker you can drag per-recorded clips (loops) onto tracks in order to create a song. But on a PC?Ĭan’t write music? No problem. Or maybe you have the musicianship but no musicians – and what you really need is a violinist, a synth player and a saxophonist? So what do you do? If you are a Mac user you probably fire up Garageband and create your music by dragging and dropping bits of ready-to-go music (‘loops’) onto tracks.


So you want some music for a YouTube video? You need a theme tune for a promo video? Or you just want to create some music for your own pleasure? Only trouble is, you either have no musical training and wouldn’t know an interval from a semiquaver. (Regular price is quoted as £358.97 – this review is based on the software at the current offer price)
