This is a desirable set of tools for work encountered by many mastering engineers, so you'd assume it would be included in the top-of-the-range Samplitude Pro. Another notable offering among the new releases, placed second in the roll-call in the Samplitude manual, is a new Cleaning & Restoration Suite, which includes a De-clicker/De-crackler, a De-clipper, a De-noiser with Noise Print Wizard, and a Brilliance Enhancer to help "compensate for losses incurred during MP3 coding", all available as real-time effects.
However, a couple of considerations made me pause to wonder what the Magix party line really is. The other addition, the forbiddingly complex Am-munition dynamics plug-in, has clearly been designed as a programme compressor/limiter, not fundamentally a track-level processor. In this new version, automation capability has been added to Samplitude's own suite of high-quality processors, pretty much making the use of any but the very best offerings from other manufacturers quite unnecessary. Although plug-in automation has been available for quite a while in Samplitude, it only applied to third-party plug-ins. The philosophy behind these last two major additions would seem obviously to be to make Samplitude 10 as self-contained as possible, encompassing all processes from initial recording or programming to final mastering. The answer seems to be to offer a number of enhancements to existing capabilities, including MIDI/VST(i) features, routing, hardware control and better 'smart' dithering options, plus a number of new functions in the 'useful but minor' category, and on top of that, two humdinger new elements: Samplitude 10 features excellent automation functions which make creative and professional results much easier to achieve, and benefits from one superb new mastering plug-in.
As it is, in the box, and as it says on the box, it will enable you to record, edit and mix your music to a professional level." So how much more could be made possible in the newest version? What could be done to tempt new customers to Samplitude 10, and to persuade existing users to cough up £201 for the upgrade? What do you add to the DAW that has everything? In the case of Samplitude 10, a complex new mastering compressor and some excellent automation features are among the highlights.Īt the end of my review of the previous incarnation of Samplitude (version 9, SOS Janary 2007) I said: "I'm not really sure how you can go wrong with this new edition of Samplitude.
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