Seeking First Purchase Advice

Smash2 wrote on 12/26/2020, 3:11 AM

Hi!
I'm new to Music Maker.

I got it from Humble Bundle along with a $40 Music Maker store coupon a while back. Now I wanna spend it before it expires this week and I was surprised with the amount of things you could buy in the store, which are mostly very interesting stuff.

I don't have experience making music or anything that has much to do with sound, but I'm very interested.
Could you suggest things to get from the store? like must-get essentials if there's such a thing? I don't mind very obscure stuff. I might become interested in really niche stuff if I ever get to learn of their existence.

If it helps to know, I'm a huge fan of rock music, Yanni, Hans Zimmer, Dead Mouse (deadmou5?), Jake Chudnow (soundtrack for VSauce), the music of many fantasy movies and video games, I'm also interested in boring stuff like those short sounds that communicate a meaning by culture or psychology.
I'm all over the place. I don't mind discovering niches I've never heard of for sound/music making. 

I'll keep visiting the store later on, but I'm wondering what the essentials or the doors to new niches could be for me, and I wanna spend this coupon on the most useful thing. I don't mind boring useful stuff.

Any thoughts?

I appreciate any help

Comments

SP. wrote on 12/27/2020, 11:22 AM

@Smash2 Your coupon is only for one Soundpool purchase. So the best idea is to get a soundpool collection for $40 to get most out of this coupon. There are only a handfull of collections for this price and they are premade so you don't have much free choice. Sort the pools by price to find them more easily. https://www.producerplanet.com/us/audio/loops-samples-250/?label[]=magix&sort=price_desc

You can get a monthly subscription to download all soundpools and use them for non-commercial stuff. Then you can test every Soundpool you want.

I think the most usefull things are the features packs and instruments because then you can make your own music. But you cannot use your coupon for these things. And I would not even compose MIDI in Music Maker since it is very buggy and not really for programming MIDIs.

I would use at least Samplitude Music Studio which already has about 30 instruments that are offered in the store. https://www.magix.com/us/music/samplitude/samplitude-music-studio/

And I highly recommend to get Independence Sampler Pro Premium with a lot more instruments. At the moment it is reduced by 75% and this sale only happens like one time a year. I think for this price it is the best sample library you can get. You can use it in any music program that supports VST instruments. https://www.producerplanet.com/us/article/independence-pro-premium-suite-3121/ (listen to all the previews!)

In the end it depends on what you want. If you don't want to compose your own music because you find it to hard or time consuming just get a Soundpool collection for $40 and see what you can do with Music Maker. If you like it, try getting the plus or premium version and a subscription for all other Soundpools.

If you want to make your own music get Samplitude Music Studio (or any other DAW with VST instrument support) and Independence Sampler Pro Premium.

Smash2 wrote on 12/31/2020, 4:03 PM

Hi @SP. Thank you for the answer. That's juicy information for me as a newbie. I know which tools to look at now.
Are you sure the code I have is only for Soundpool purchases though? It says $40 Store Credit
I think I'll get a soundpool anyway because I have instruments and tools and so on on another software, and the soundpools on Producerplanet store sound really nice anyway.
Thank you for the info! Happy new year!