Music Creator 6 is the latest version of the entry level music creation software from Cakewalk. It turns your computer into a personal recording studio and gives you everything that you need to begin creating, editing and publishing music with professional quality. Once you have polished your tunes you can burn your own CD or publish it to SoundCloud and from there to Facebook or Twitter.
Based on some of the same technology that goes into Calkwalk's high end professional editing software SONAR X1 it has a sound pedigree behind it. Since musical software does have certain needs for it to operate properly, you should examine the system requirements to confirm your system is ready to handle it.
To create music in Music Creator 6, you have what are called song construction kits – once you get comfortable with the building of songs, you can bypass these and work on your own. These give you the ability to create great sounding backing tracks through the use of over 1000 professionally recorded guitars, keyboards, drums, and more.
There are dozens of templates that include rock, hip-hop, orchestral, and more that will get you started. Once you find the musical loops that you want to use, you just drag and drop them into your project. You then arrange them in an order that you want, press play, listen, make adjustments, add more instruments, and repeat until your song is complete.
Do you play an instrument like keyboard or guitar? Perhaps you sing? You can use Music Creator to record vocals or any other instrument that can be recorded using a sound card, USB microphone, or Firewire audio interface. You can also record and edit MIDI using the Piano Roll View.
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1 - Spanalaskaman
Don't buy this product!! It's full of problems. Error messages and will not load and some even reported crashing the computer. I bought it and have about 7 redirects on a two hour phone call that got me part of the download. I took it back because I never could get it to load on vista, which it says it's compatible with. Ten thumbs down and I'll never waste my money or time on this product or any Cakewalk product ever again
2 - Spanalaskaman
I'm posting again as an update to my first st. I did get it to load on my laptop but when I try to open the program it will not open and causes my computer to crash. I'm not the only one this happens to. I'd advise everyone to go look at how many others this is happening to. Once you but this product, it's yours and nobody including the company will refund for this piece of crap. You get what you pay for and here's a prime example. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT OR YOU WILL BE SORRY YOU DID!!!!!!!!
3 - sasha
in response to spanalaskaman, this product works for me without error messages. Maybe it's your computer's problem. However, I don't like the sounds it comes with. And I have to pay $100 for the extension packs? Guess it's more worth it to buy a $500 dollar product rather than this $60 software that you will eventually spend more money on for better soft synths.
4 - djpfunk
It works best if you already have some vst's installed in your computer. This program works fine for me. I'm not sure what's wrong with your pc. But I'm sure that you will need tons of memory available in order to run this program effectively.
5 - John
Useless....do NOT buy this
6 - Dave The Music Man
I think the program is a giveaway and is best value on the market.
The softsynths alone are worth the cost. Quality is first class and good enough to make a world class CD
7 - Alan
Well Spanalaskaman, whats probably wrong is your computer. I havent bought this product, but i have bought windows Vista. THATS a piece of crap. I think Vista was one of the worst Windows ever.
Now, what i really want to know is:
for those who have used this product and are satisfied with it, does it have good sound, how much more did you spend on extra products for enhancement, etc. I want to know if this product is worth my time. This is because i have a Floor POD Plus, and ive heard many recordings with it and the Music Creator, and they sound fine. IS it worth it??
8 - Rick Holly
I have Music Creator 6 on my home studio PC and my Dell Latitude notebook and have no tech issues on either. I must state that knowing the heavy ram and processing requirements for Music Creator 6 I bought a new PC (put together a Tiger Direct "Bare Bones" system with 8 Gig of ram and a Quadcore processor)and added 2 Gig more ram to my notebook. This program needs a computer with a bare minimum 2 Gig of Ram and I recommend at least 4 gig if you really want it to run smoothly.
The program is great and loaded with a ton of really nice effects (delays,reverbs, compression, EQ, etc) and once you figure out how to use it you will be very impressed. I transfer tracks from my Tascam (2488) 24 track digital workstation and mix in the PC. I also just got a Behringer BCF2000 digital controller that works really well with Music Creator 6 so I have "hands on" experience with physical faders, pans, and other parameters.
My only complaint is the lack of documentation. There is no decent manual for this software. They only give you a very basic start up guide that is almost useless so a lot it was trial and error on my part based on past experiences with recording software.
9 - Rick Holly
As far as the sound goes: it's like the old computer nomenclature "GIGO" garbage in,garbage out. Music Creator records in perfect digital quality and replicates what comes into it perfectly. If the signal you give Music Creator is distorted, noisy or just not good acoustically, the program will record what it gets perfectly (crappy sound included). Plan on getting a break out USB preamp with the type of inputs you need (microphone, line etc.). No matter what you may read you won't get a good clean signal from your computers built in sound card with the 1/8 inch mic input or line input. Music Creator can give you pro results but only if you use a few semi-pro (and not too expensive) add on's like a good preamp (under $100.00) and a decent condenser mic (try an MXL 990 also under $100.00 as a starter). This is not a toy or game software, it is serious recording software that requires time and effort to learn and patience to get quality results. You'll be amazed at the end result.
10 - stebedos
It is my birthday on 6th feb 2013 I havn't got it yet but it sounds good to me!
Will it work on windows 7?
11 - Klaus
yes - works on windows 7