8 Magix Samplitude Pro X

Features: Make ideas a reality. Shape your sound.

Samplitude Pro X offers recording and mixing engineers useful features that revolutionize classic DAW workflows. Edit while recording. Apply effects individually to individual clips. Visualize volume, frequency and phase for selected tracks. Take advantage of customizable interfaces and automations that will redefine efficiency in your own personal workflow!

Recording

Samplitude works using full bit transparency for absolute sound neutrality. The consistent use of floating point calculations ensures that your sound retains its character, even after extensive digital processing. The result – transparency, neutrality, retention of transients and spatiality.

Sophisticated recording
Samplitude Pro X8 stands for the highest level of audio quality and stability, even in complex recording sessions. With a total of 999 tracks and up to 256 physical inputs and outputs, working on large projects is no problem at all. Use common audio formats from 16-bit to 32-bit floating point as well as sample rates up to 384 kHz.

Take Composer
The Take Composer clearly displays all the recordings of a passage. This feature offers a specially optimized cutting tool to combine the takes in the context of the arrangement to get a perfect end result.

Editing

Editing is one of the core competencies in Samplitude. With time-saving workflows, flexible docking options and ultra-precise tools, users can work in a production environment that’s perfectly customized to their needs so they can concentrate fully on projects.

Edit objects in the arranger
In addition to standard options for track-related editing, Samplitude also features object-based editing options. Set fades with customized curves, decrease or increase volume using the mouse, and trim or stretch sections. For detailed editing options, you can double-click to open the object editor to discover even more possibilities for modifying your sound.

Virtual effects for individual files: Object editor
Focus on the object level and integrate individual clips in the mix. This way, you don’t need to create new tracks for short sections that are in projects with complex arrangements and longer duration. Apply effects or route objects to AUX and Surround busses. From fades to effect and pitch editing, all edits you make are non-destructive and are calculated during playback. So there’s plenty of room for experimentation.

Precise crossfade editing
The crossfade editor has been completely redesigned and now features an impressively efficient and modern design. It provides you with an optimal overview of all essential parameters, which you can access even faster through snapshots. You can also benefit from the new audio object view, which can be edited directly in the editor.

ARA2 support
Edit projects on a whole new level of musicality. ARA supports integration of Celemony Melodyne and others and enables the direct transfer of tempo and pitch values as well as volume and intonation. The new ARA2 lets you work faster and more efficiently in realtime, for simultaneous editing of multiple tracks and clean transitions between clips without crossfades.

Celemony Melodyne essential
Melodyne essential allows for pitch correction at the top level of quality. Specialized algorithms enable you to manipulate acoustic character, timing, duration and pitch for individual notes within your recordings.

Automation Shapes
Set curve types to simplify your workflow further. Use Automation Shapes to build gradual transitions between two points in an automation. Are there still issues with the audio? Not any more with Samplitude.

zplane algorithm
Use the latest zplane algorithm, élastique Pro v3, for time stretching and pitch shifting. This algorithm uses the latest findings from signal processing theory and combines these with psycho-acoustic models. Higher, wider or faster – great sound is always the result.

Copy content across projects
Easily copy tracks, even across projects. Switch between tabs for open projects and start copying content. Simply use the checklist to choose which settings you want to transfer – for instance VST plug-ins, AUX busses, or submix busses. This makes your arranging and editing workflow much more streamlined.

Custom modifications
You can customize the interface in Samplitude to suit your own workflow. For instance, VST instruments can now be renamed to simplify your workflow, regardless of manufacturer specifications. You can now also select multiple tracks at once and adjust their height simultaneously.

Music production

Discover a source of creative inspiration that never runs dry – with practical aids for composition, plus a huge range of tools for creating and modulating sound. Extensive options for producing scores and MIDI editing as well as numerous virtual instruments: There’s plenty here to inspire your productions.

Virtual instruments in Samplitude Pro X8

Samplitude Pro X8 includes a huge range of modern and classic software instruments that can be used to create professional arrangements and offer whole new creative possibilities. Produce music with groove boxes, synthesizers and authentic sampler instruments from a variety of countries and eras.

2 plucked and stringed instruments

• Power Guitar (exclusively in the Suite version): Massive power chords, squealing slides and powerful overdrives – everything you need for rich guitar sounds.
• Jazz Guitar: The warm semi-acoustic tones blend harmoniously into any recording.

2 orchestral sounds

• Cello: Just as convincing on its own as in an ensemble: the cello. Masters nuances from sensitive to expressive.
• Orchestral Ensemble: The different ensembles and playing styles are impressive – ideal for film music.

2 keyboard instruments

• Electric Piano: Whether for jazz, melodic blue notes, or funky riffs full of overdrive, this piano is versatile.
• Century Keys: A premium collection of pianos and concert grand pianos – perfect for pop, rock, jazz, hip hop, soul, RnB or house.

6 synthesizer

• NEW! Lead Synth: A powerful synthesizer for creating cool electro and bass sounds.
• NEW! Bass Machine: Perfect basslines and cone-rattling tones can’t make a Bass Machine more powerful than this one.
• Analog Synths 2: From analog to digital, from classic to modern: These special synths refine every piece of music.
• Cinematic Synth: A driving bass in a dark combination with epic organs, mallets and dancing keys.
• DN-e1: With driving electro sounds and vibrating bass, the DN-e1 is ready for the club.
• Revolta 2: An electronic dance track with an animating beat and playful synthesizer figures.

10 Drums, Percussions & Drum Machines

• NEW! Jazz Drums: Broom drumsticks, tom toms, ride cymbals and hi-hats provide a groovy jazz feel.
• NEW! Rock Drums: Dynamic snares, powerful kicks and precise hi-hats. Supported by a cracking electric guitar.
• Pop Drums: Soft drum rhythms, booming trap beats, pumping techno grooves or a furious double bass in a metal style.
• Bongos: The drums, which originate from Cuba, provide gripping rhythms and create a hot salsa feeling.
• Congas: When the congas kick in, there’s no stopping you.
• Shaker: Pop, jazz or Latin: The shaker can be used in any genre and provides inimitable grooves.
• Taiko: Drum sounds straight from Japan: for the background of action-packed fight scenes and great dramaturgy.
• Loop Designer: Playful ease in creating your own drum loops and bass figures.
• Robota: A classic and four-voice drum machine for powerful drums, distorted rhythms or dark synth sounds.
• BeatBox 2: Bombastic sounds and lots of possibilities as well as effects for sound shaping for drums.

Other instruments

• Upright Bass: Adds character to all recordings – from classic to funky or rock sounds.
• Vita 2: Orchestral horns, electric basses and funky electric pianos – set accents and weird leads with Vita 2.
• Vita Sampler: With Vita Sampler, you play each loop like an instrument.

MIDI in Samplitude

A combination of extensive MIDI functionality and smooth workflows enables you to bring musical ideas to life on a professional level.

Support for MIDI VST plug-ins
The new Samplitude Pro X8 now allows you to use MIDI plug-ins. This opens up brand-new possibilities for music production. Make use of the wide variety of MIDI plug-ins available and combine as many plug-ins as you want. In addition, the new plug-in support allows you to freely route MIDI signals.

MIDI Polyphonic Expression
Add expression: MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE for short) transmits only a single note per channel, but with all parameters. This way, compatible controllers such as the ROLI Seaboard can output at their full potential. Want to create a more rhythmic solo, or lower harmonies with sustain? MPE makes it easy.

Advanced MIDI controller editing
Transfer the extremely detailed modulation curves from your best takes to other controller lanes. Select the desired sections, e.g., for volume, and paste them onto any sub-tracks you want. Enjoy more creative freedom for highly expressive compositions.

MIDI editor
The MIDI editor integrates various applications, views, ranges, and tools. The MIDI parameter editing tool can be accessed here at all times: Selected events (e.g. velocity or pitch bend) can be moved, stretched or compressed and scaled in relation to each other in various ways. MIDI quantization is also possible without any additional steps.

Music notation
From initial idea to finished score: Music notation in Samplitude Pro X5 displays MIDI data as notes in realtime. Your edits are transferred directly to the MIDI editor. Notations can be edited using the parameters pitch, velocity and length. When you’re finished, you can publish the data as sheet music. If you import a MIDI file with lyric markers, the text is displayed in the score.

Drum Editor
This alternative to the classic piano roll view has been specially designed for programming drums. Transfer note settings to other channel strips and quantize individual elements or assign them a new output channel if necessary. The editor can be displayed in Matrix mode with conventional parameters or in cell mode. This way, quantization for note length and snapping to grid can be implemented more easily.

Mixing

Intuitive mixing, flexible routing and new automation functions for complex recording tasks – on up to 999 tracks. Practical for all productions, ideal for larger arrangements. Now with the improved Pan/Surround dialog!

Monitoring Section
A central hardware controller with a plethora of cables are now a thing of the past. The new Monitoring Section in Samplitude Pro X6 offers unprecedented flexibility. You can now access multiple monitoring paths, with or without additional effects. Play back your configurations and integrate talkback if you want – this can be done easily using the mouse or shortcuts.

Tempo Track
Tempo now has its own track and offers extra functions. You can automate tempo in a free and uninhibited way, whether to create a wild transition between a slow introduction passage and a faster verse, or build sound throughout a symphony in an inspiring way. Buttons above act as helpful markers for beat and tempo change.

Flexible rendering of project material with track output recording
When you record the output of a track, you usually record what you hear, not what you feed into the track. Samplitude saves your project material cleanly, giving you total control over the next steps. Enjoy full flexibility for rendering your project material and for experimenting with effects afterwards.

Easily search for and locate presets in the plug-in browser
The plug-in browser extension means you can now access the right sounds directly and quickly. Use the search function to find suitable plug-in presets for your sound. Save your favorites for easy access in the future and display all available instruments and effects using keywords and filters. Rediscover the potential of your entire plug-in collection – simply search, locate and then shape your own custom sound.

Improved user-friendliness
The mixer and plug-in browser can now be docked, making all elements easily and quickly accessible. They also scale to fit any window size. Not only can you now enjoy a clearer interface, but can drag & drop your plug-ins from the plug-in browser into your project.

Integrate external hardware effects as plug-ins
Samplitude Pro X8 enables you to make the most of new connectivity for external hardware effects, which can be integrated into your project as effect plug-ins. Not only does this simplify working with effect devices, you can also import as many external effects as you want into your project via the plug-in browser. You’ll also experience more creative possibilities and enhanced flexibility for routing, too.

Automation Lanes with advanced copy functions
Track automation in Samplitude Pro X6 can now be displayed across several sub-tracks, known as “lanes”. You can display and edit any number of track parameters such as volume, panorama or effect settings simultaneously. Select particularly detailed or complex curves and copy them simultaneously to any number of automation lanes on other tracks. For example, you can assign identical volume curves to any grouped instruments.

Vandal
Every component of the guitar and bass amplifier, from the tube to the speaker coils, is virtualized right down to the last detail. Physical modeling technology guarantees great sound without compromise. Vandal SE contains four stomp boxes, 50 presets and three different miking arrangements.

The essentialFX Suite
The essentialFX Suite contains a collection of 11 professional mixing plug-ins for modulation and dynamic effects. This collection contains both standard effects, such as flanger, tremolo and chorus, as well as special plug-ins for optimizing speech and vocal recordings, and a high-quality compressor.

Analogue Modelling Suite Plus
In the tonal tradition of analog compressors, am|track can be used to add tape saturation. Also included in Samplitude Pro X8 Suite: The am|phibia tube pre-amp, the am|pulse transient designer for influencing the signal envelope of percussive audio material, plus the am|munition dynamics tool with compressor, limiter, clipper and M/S editing are all included.

essentialFX Suite
The essentialFX Suite contains a collection of 11 professional mixing plug-ins for modulation and dynamic effects. This collection contains both standard effects, such as flanger, tremolo and chorus, as well as special plug-ins for optimizing speech and vocal recordings, and a high-quality compressor.

Vintage Effects Suite
The Vintage Effects Suite offer a trinity of components: Filtox is an Oberheim filter and controls the frequency response of a modulation source. This allows you to create effects like the wah-wah effect. Ecox realistically emulates echoes from analog tape devices, which are caused by tracking fluctuations. The Corvex plug-in modulates analog-sounding chorus and flanger effects.

Cleaning effects
Exclusive in Samplitude Pro X6 Suite: Samplitude Pro X6 Suite includes a track-level frequency-based cleaning tool in the form of spectral editing. Remove unwanted sounds like coughing or clapping, without affecting the original signal audibly. Noise interference is now displayed in color, so it can be quickly located and removed right away. Additional cleaning effects include the DeHisser, DeClipper and DeNoiser plug-ins. These can also be found in Samplitude Pro X6 (Classic).

Mastering

Mastering is where Samplitude really comes into its own as a high-quality and reliable audio toolkit. All effects included in the program have been specially optimized for mastering tasks. Easily visualize important signal properties such as peak, loudness, frequency response and phase coherence. Meters can be customized for the task you use them for.

Shape your own unique sound with dynamicEQ
Thanks to dynamicEQ, mixing is now easier and more precise – apply frequency cuts and boosts exactly where it will enhance your audio. Dynamically boost, attenuate, and shape sounds throughout your project with the maximum precision and level control. The multiple filter options for EQ band configuration enable significantly more precise options when editing, which allows for surgical precision in your audio tracks (as well as all tracks containing virtual instruments).

Achieve the highest quality with the best resampling engine
Thanks to the newly integrated resampling engine, you can work with any sample rate in your project. The engine can be freely configured and ensures that you always output the highest quality and achieve maximum results from your media in real time, without prior conversion.

Visualizations
Samplitude Pro X6 offers a variety of precision meters and analyzers that provide optimal support during production and the mastering process. Browse visualizations such as bit meter, tuner spectrogram or mono compatibility tool to find the one you need. You can also combine them to set up your own custom interface for more detailed examination of frequencies or the stereo and Surround distribution. You can choose between different arrangements or your own customized layouts and save them for later use.

Comparisonics & WaveColor
The Comparisonics and WaveColor tools make frequency curves visible by using colors to depict their waveform. This way you can identify pitch and sound characteristics according to their color and saturation level. Unwanted noise and other anomalies can even be located even before previewing the track.

sMax11 brickwall limiter
Take your mix to the limit. Select how aggressive limiting should be with a variety of modes. 

Mastering & authoring
With Samplitude Pro X6, create masters according to the Red Book standard and burn them directly from the arrangement into all formats – uncompressed (linear PCM) or in compressed formats and on all forms of blank disc. 

MP3/AAC audition plug-in
Exclusive in the Samplitude Pro X6 Suite: The preview plug-in enables you to hear the results before export.
You can use this to check for compression artifacts or loss of highs and adjust parameters to fix them. The encoder plug-in enable you to fulfil all requirements for export, for instance “Mastered for iTunes” requirements.

Improved export workflow
Audio file export is a core function of any DAW. Samplitude’s export workflow has been improved, so you can now work even faster and more efficiently. The new clear structure and modern design offer you an optimal overview of the essential options. It also improves access to your favorite export formats.

All MAGIX programs are developed with user-friendliness in mind so that all the basic features run smoothly and can be fully controlled, even on low-performance computers. Some advanced program features demand more of your computer’s processing power. To get the most from these features, your system should at least meet the recommended requirements. The technical data for your computer can be found in the control panel of your operating system.

Operating systems

• Windows 10
• Windows 11

Minimum system requirements

• Processor: 2 GHz RAM: 2 GB (32-bit), 4 GB (64-bit)
• RAM: 32-bit system: 2 GB, 64-bit system: 4 GB
• Graphics card: Onboard, minimum resolution 1280 x 1024
• Available drive space: 4 GB for program installation, 20 GB for Samplitude Pro X8, 100 GB for Samplitude Pro X6 Suite
• Sound card: Onboard
  Program languages: English, Deutsch, Français, Español
• Internet connection: Required for registering and validating the program, as well as for some program features. Software requires one-time registration.

File Formats

Audio Import

• AAC*
• AIFF
• FLAC
• MIDI standard formats (MID, GM, GS, XG)
• MP3
• OGG Vorbis
• SD2
• WAV
• WAV with codec
• WMA

Audio Export

• AIFF
• FLAC
• MIDI standard formats (MID, GM, GS, XG)
• MP3**
• OGG Vorbis
• WAV
• WAV with codec
• WMA

Video Import

• AVC-Intra¹
• DV-AVI
• DVCPRO¹
• H.264
• HDV HD1
• HDV HD2
• MPEG-1
• MPEG-2
• MPEG-4
• MXV
• WMV(HD)

Other Import/Export

• Audio CD
• Data CD/DVD
• DDP

*Free Activation

What’s new in Samplitude Pro X8

• AudioWarp – Advanced time-stretch algorithms ensure excellent sound quality and let you deliver perfect results in no time at all – regardless of whether the band is still in the studio, or already back on the stage.
• multi-codec export – An efficient solution for multi-codec export allows you to simultaneously export different target formats in seconds. The fast and clear configuration means that the user only needs to start the export process once to automatically export the project with all selected codecs.
• Marker Track – With the new Marker Track you can now organize your projects even more efficiently. Markers now display on multiple lines, enabling you to keep all important project information in focus.
• MIDI display – The optimized MIDI display offers a significantly improved overview of your MIDI productions.

What’s new in Samplitude Pro X6

Magix focused on your individual workflows. That’s why they developed new features with the knowledge gained through years of experience and – most importantly – your feedback. Benefit from new search functions, extended automation, flexible editing and efficient interface and windows organization throughout your whole project. Samplitude Pro X6 Suite unites everything to achieve your perfect sound: You get SOUND FORGE Pro 14, the latest Steinberg SpectraLayers Pro 7 (and 8 on it’s release), iZotope Ozone 9 Elements and iZotope RX8 Elements and even more great-sounding instruments.

• Search & find your presets in the Plug-in browser – With the Plug-in browser extension, you can now access plug-in presets directly and quickly. Mark your favorites for quick access and take advantage of the keywords and filters. Rediscover the potential of your entire plug-in collection!
  
• Use dynamicEQ to shape your sound – dynamicEQ makes mixing easier and more precise – apply frequency cuts and boosts only where your material will benefit. You can dynamically boost, attenuate and shape your sounds across your entire project. Multiple filter options for each EQ band allow you to edit your tracks with surgical precision.
• Create flexible automation with the new Central Automation Control – Write and edit automations immediately and exactly where they are needed. Edit complex arrangements and make adjustments in preview mode without interruption. Advanced editing capabilities let you keep your focus – see which curves are in read, preview, or write mode to set the automation state for the entire project.
• Keep your orientation during every step of your project – With the dockable track editor you have access to all the important functions of a track at any time – from audio and AUX settings to plug-ins, mixer settings, and equalizers. Organize your project views flexibly – whether on a different monitor, with a different program window layout or in portrait or landscape format. Use the track editor to control faders and routings easily, bring track settings and information into focus and experience even more agility in your workflow.