Just waiting on new main board components. Pc1: Currently building my new computer based on RTX40 series and Intel i9 13th gen. Samplitude 11 Producer is a Multitrack Recording Software Application, and is the latest version of what used to be called “Magix Music Studio Deluxe” and subsequently “Samplitude Music Studio”.Friedrich Nietzsche: 'Without music, life would be a mistake.' Music Studio Deluxe started out as two separate programs–MIDI Studio and Audio Studio. Starting with version 12, they combined the MIDI recording functionality into the Audio Studio and renamed it “Samplitude Music Studio”. They kept this name up through version 15 here in the US. They also released a version 16 in Europe, but it was never released to the US market. Speaking of version numbers, in addition to name changes, Magix has also gone through a few rounds of changes with their method of versioning as well. At certain times in the past, they have used the same version numbers in both the US and European markets. However, when they included the year as part of the version number, the US always appeared to be one year behind. Therefore, at times, they’ve changed the version # for the US market to be a more arbitrary version # (based on the release number, I presume).

Starting in the year 2013, they changed the name to “Samplitude Music Studio 2013”, and each year thereafter, they simply use the release year as the version number (e.g.

To summarize, as near as I can figure, starting with Version 2000, here is how the versions have broken out over time and in the two major markets: Europe Samplitude Music Studio 2014, Samplitude Music Studio 2015, up to the current version as of my last edit to this article: Samplitude Music Studio 2020). Whatever name you’d like to call it by, past users have known for years that they were basically getting a “lite” version of Samplitude (which is one of the top-dog DAW’s on the market) for a fraction of the price.

Magix is a German company, and they also produce a lot of off-the-shelf software that you might see at Best Buy (MP3 Maker, Movie Edit Pro, etc.), but don’t be fooled.