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Magix
Samplitude 9
Digital Audio Workstation Software for Windows

Samplitude from Magix is now one of the more established names in the music technology market place, with a growing and dedicated band of followers, especially in Europe, using it for recording, editing, mixing and mastering. This growth might in part be a trickle down effect from the recent rise in the use of Sequoia, Samplitude's bigger – and very much more expensive – dedicated mastering cousin. Even just a couple of years ago Sequoia was still being described in professional circles as a `relative newcomer', as an upstart

Over the last few years, Magix's Sequioa and Samplitude have quitely been establishing a name for themselves in the mastering and recording communities, and the new version 9 of Samplitude looks set to win more friends.

challenger to the then world-wide dominance of Sonic Solutions and SADiE systems, but it now boasts many top-rung mastering engineers as recent converts. My own facility had been a loyal SADiE supporter for many years, but then the narrowing gap of functionality (especially in terms of classical

classical editing capabilities) and an increasing gap in price made us look again at native-based editing technology, and when we came to think about replacing our SADiE 4 system a year or so ago we too took the plunge for Sequoia, keeping SADiE in commission mainly for its suite of CEDAR noise-