You don’t have to be a professional recording engineer to make beautiful music. Cakewalk’s Music Creator 6 puts professional tools in your hands, allowing you to record, edit, and mix music from your own computer.
Available for Windows XP, Vista, and 7, Music Creator 6 provides a full suite of tools, housed under its Song Construction Kits. These kits contain music from every type of music, including bass, drums, guitars, and keyboards. Music Creator will record any sound you can make, from various instrumental tracks to backing vocals to lead vocals. Once your tracks have been recorded, you can use Music Creator to arrange music, continuing to play, pause, and rearrange until you find the best mix to create your overall sound. With Music Creator’s drag-and-drop functionality, editing music is easy for even the recording software novice.
In addition to its construction kits, Music Creator has project templates to help you find the sound you need with minimal effort. If you choose to use the templates, you can find loops that include “horn section,” “rock organ,” “rock guitar,” and others to insert into your music. With more than 1,000 audio loops, Music Creator is sure to have the sound you’re looking for.
With a smart tool that changes depending on what you are doing at the time, Music Creator lets you edit out errors, as well as make your song fade in or out. The software works with your PC’s peripherals, including your sound card, microphone, and speakers, to turn your computer into an all-in-one recording studio. You never imagined you could cut your next hit song in your pajamas.
Music Creator 6 is based on Cakewalk’s highly regarded professional studio software Sonar X1, with an easier-to-use interface. Music Creator’s access to the SoundCloud allows you to easily upload the music you create to social media sites Facebook and Twitter. Share your music with your friends and get instant feedback.
Even better, once you’ve worked with Music Creator 6 for a while, you can purchase expansion packs, which will add sounds to your collection. Whether you want a wide range of guitar sounds or to add orchestral strings to your already large collection of orchestra sounds, there’s likely a third-party expansion pack to meet your needs. Many of these packs are available through Cakewalk’s sound center for less than twenty dollars.
With Music Creator FX, you’ll be able to mix music like the professionals, with such features as EQ and chorus. Stereo Delay mimics professional Delay equipment, which can cost hundreds of dollars. The module also has pre-configured presets for sounds you’ll most likely use often, allowing you to focus on making music while the software does the technical work for you.
If you’re looking for professional recording software, Music Creator 6 will give you professional-quality mixing and recording at personal-use prices. The ability to put music together at home will give you hours of practice time, whether you want to turn that experience into a career in the industry or create your own CDs.
