On paper, Music Maker is a comprehensive music production solution, but in reality, working with its buggy, old-fashioned interface is a frustrating experience that would infuriate a seasoned pro, never mind a beginner!Īnd despite the all-round instability and lack of quality, the program has the audacity to require connection to the internet once a month to validate the user license. So, it's pretty much useless, rather like Vocal Tune 2, which crashed the DAW every time we tried to use it. There's a randomise button for reassigning the slices, but there doesn't appear to be any way to manage the assignment yourself, and the manual doesn't cover the instrument at all, apart from mentioning that it's new. Vita Sampler is a sample playback instrument that automatically chops up audio dragged into it and maps the slices randomly to its eight drum pads. There are a couple of new instruments (including the surprisingly decent World Flutes patches for the included ROMpler, Vita), and the soundbank has been expanded to more than 6000 samples, but the biggest additions are the aforementioned Vita Sampler and Vocal Tune 2.

Crash courseįeatures-wise, the software doesn't seem to have changed much since we last saw it in 2012. There are plenty of other bugs and issues to contend with, too, including MIDI notes being sent when switching to the virtual keyboard view, the virtual keyboard graphics not appearing, pauses before playback, jitters on playback, and the Audio FX Rack's filter always outputting the dry signal in parallel with the wet. Thankfully, though, upon restarting, successfully scanned instruments were available. Eventually we managed to cajole the update into working, but then we were hit with another hurdle as the software tried to scan our VST folder, crashing or stalling every time.

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