When it first arrived there was nothing like it for building tracks with loops. What I hope is that MAGIX see it as an opportunity to invest some badly needed development into these once great bits of software. So on the one hand MAGIX are completely capable of running a professional product line, on the other Samplitude has never penetrated very far into the DAW market. However, also hidden away in their portfolio is Samplitude Pro and Sequoia which are serious, professional DAW and post production tools that MAGIX acquired from German company SEK’D in 1999. Well, my initial reaction is to think “MAGIX Music Maker” or “MAGIX Video Easy” which are consumer level bits of cool, cheap software for fiddling about. So maybe the level of shouting has something to do with this transfer of ownership. ACID sadly has not seen an update in 5 years. Vegas is at times notoriously unstable but good enough to let you work around the issues because the workflow is so superior to any other non-linear video editor I’ve ever used. Sound Forge, although now at version 11, is largely unchanged from when I first started using it on Windows 95.

If you are a dedicated user of Sony Creative Software like me, then you’ll probably be aware of the frustration pouring out of the support forums over the lack of development in recent years.

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