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Hi @bjtap, You have asked a number of interesting questions which will be answered as people trial/purchase the software. I have yet to download the trial in fear it's installation may overwrite my MMS2024. I noticed in your previous post, you

Music Maker

20 answers, most recent on 4/5/2026

Music Maker 2026 Frozen at SetViews during startup

Hi, When I installed Music Maker 2026 Premium a while back, it worked fine. I kept 2025 as well as that is now allowed. It also kept working. A few weeks ago when I started it up, I go the -59 error. The remedy as instructed by Magix: Uninstall the

Rescue Your Videotapes!

7 answers, most recent on 12/2/2025

RE: DRIVER DOWNLOAD

@jonathan-m Here are the links to updated drivers. But it could very well be the case that these are no longer compatible with Windows 11. You can get pretty affordable USB video grabbers on websites like Amazon. These one should work fine with

Rescue Your Videotapes!

20 answers, most recent on 11/23/2025

RE: Windows does not find drivers for the video grabber usb device

@Atte-Tahvanainen Hi . . . . black K0065 . . . . The drivers for this device are no longer available from Magix. If you have an install disc: In Device Manager, right-click on each of the Video Grabber entries, in turn, and choose the option to

SOUND FORGE

6 answers, most recent on 4/25/2024

[Solved] Sound Forge Audio Studio 17 - won't open on Dell Laptop Windows 11

Hi - can anyone help me please? It has installed correctly but won't open. Gets stuck on the screen with the picture of the girl wearing headphones which says "initialising audio engine", and then it disappears and nothing. Have also tried right

Music Maker

3 answers, most recent on 4/3/2026

RE: Installation Gets Stuck

Update: I have found that I have Music Maker 2026 installed and working on my pc. The only bug was that the setup exe was freezing like shown in the first post. So TLDR: Setup seems to work. Setup.exe seem to freeze forever but gets the job done.

Movie Studio

29 answers, most recent on 5/21/2026

RE: Fonts not displaying; can't use certain style fonts

I did have an issue with a different 'older' TTF font which showed the same behaviour as you are getting, the only solution was to convert it to an OpenType Font format. Solution: I downloaded the same font from Dafont:

Other products

2 answers, most recent on 11/19/2025

RE: [Solved] I want to download Independence Free but get taken to the wrong page

@Christopher-Burke You have Windows, correct? Magix sold some apps to Boris FX, for example Samplitude, but they didn't sell Independence to them. So it's odd they redirect the link to Boris FX. Maybe a mistake from the Website editor. But the

ACID

9 answers, most recent on 11/25/2024

RE: Install Error -2147163964

@Ayo You need to uninstall the 2013 C++ Redistributables. For some reason the installer cannot continue if they are already on your computer. The installer will install them again.

Music Maker

3 answers, most recent on 4/3/2026

Installation Gets Stuck

I have recently purchased Music Maker 2026 Premium edition and downloaded its setup exe from my products section. When I run it it gets stuck at Stage 2 of 11 forever (Left it overnight and it was sill at the same position next morning). Some info

Video Pro X

46 answers, most recent on 5/14/2025

RE: VPX16 plays Sony XAVC with no sound

@Can-Dive I know you installed these filters because you admit it yourself in this post from last year. In my defence, how was I to know K-Lite included the LAV filters/decoders? And I did say earlier that I had some other "freebees" installed. 😉👍

Movie Studio

7 answers, most recent on 11/15/2023

[Solved] New purchase is crashing

I've just bought Movie Studio 2024 Platinum and it crashed when I open it. I have a version of Movie Studio 14 Platinum on my PC, which I can't uninstall, and has the error "The is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A DLL required for

Other products

One answer, on 1/4/2026

[Closed] Sony Vegas Pro Error Code 24

Essentially I installed Sony Vegas Pro, now I can't render because it's saying I'm on the wrong email address but I'm not. I got my code from humble bundle. please help asap.

Music Maker

7 answers, most recent on 6/13/2024

[Solved] I keep getting error message "audio engine inactive " from VST plugin.

Hi, I use Magix Music Maker 24 Premium and have Superior Drummer 3 installed as VST plugin. It always worked fine, until I updated MM. Now there is no sound from the plugin and the message "audio engine inactive check your audio device" pops up in

Music Maker

20 answers, most recent on 1/28/2026

RE: Music Maker update 33.1.1.19

Hello @smthng, When you install MMM2026, you'll have the option to install it alongside MMM2025. You can then work in either MM2025 or MMM2026. As far as I can tell, all MMM2025 VSTs and plugins work in MMM2026. Best regards,Rob

Music Maker

3 answers, most recent on 5/26/2025

RE: trying to activate MMM Premium edition

@cresswell Hi KEV, Thanks for the additional information (every little detail helps!) Do you have the installer for MMM 2019 Premium, or are you trying to use the installer for the latest, 2025 version? If the latter, that will not work, sorry; you

Other products

2 answers, most recent on 12/19/2023

RE: [Solved] Registered new product and account at same time, used wrong email

Nevermind, I got it worked out. I logged in using the incorrect email, the one listed under the about section of my installation, then I moved the email on that to another email in my name.

SOUND FORGE

8 answers, most recent on 4/25/2024

[Solved] Sound Forge VST Plugins

I'm willing to try out Sound Forge Audio Studio 14/15, however, I can't find reliable free VST plugins. I installed the trial version with ReaPlugs, but the program crashes when I try using the plugins. I'm using Windows 11 22H2 x64, and these

Movie Studio

3 answers, most recent on 1/22/2025

RE: Move Movie Studio 2025 Platinum to new PC

@Craig-Newbould Welcome to the Magix user to user forums. If your account, My products, shows a valid key and link for the installer for MMS 2025 Platinum, there is no need to do anything other than download and install it! Each version is a

Music Maker

2 answers, most recent on 7/26/2024

[Solved] Inputting activation code not upgrading past trial version

I have a Serial Number for MX Premium from years ago. The previous version of Music Maker allowed me to input my code into the trial version to upgrade it's features. Music Maker 2025 Premium tells me that all those instruments are already owned and

Other products

5 answers, most recent on 9/30/2025

[Solved] Independence Pro 3.5

I purchased Independence Pro when it was originally Yellow Tools. The software was originally 3.1 then you had to manually upgrade to version 3.3. Somewhere down the line when the software was upgraded to 3.5 something went terribly wrong as I

SOUND FORGE

14 answers, most recent on 8/29/2025

[Solved] where is spectralayers pro??

I just purchased Sound Forge Pro 17 Suite. I decided to go with the Suite version because it said SpectraLayers Pro 10 is included. But I cannot find it anywhere. During the installation process, Melodyne was installed (also included with the Suite

Music Maker

7 answers, most recent on 10/20/2025

RE: MMM 2014 fresh reinstall from website

@Eleyan You can also check the folder C:\Users\*YourWindowsUsername*\Documents\Magix Downloads\Installationsmanager\ on your Windows 7 computer. Maybe it still has a backup copy of the Music Maker 2014 installer.

Video Pro X

12 answers, most recent on 11/16/2025

RE: Mapper

to be honest. I can turn off one drive and I will NOT be disappointed. It also said the article cannot be reached. Once i shut it off. do i need to re install anything?