Music Creator 2

3.1 | 9 ratings

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Last update: 12-16-2024

About this item

Record audio and MIDI tracks using any instrument, vocals, or audio loops
Write music for CDs, sheet music, home videos, and the Internet
Edit, arrange, and mix music; make loops out of any MP3 or WAV file
Integrates seamlessly with Cakewalk Kinetic and other Rewire synths
Includes Pyro Express CD Maker and WAV Ripper

Top reviews from the United States

J. Hertl

They can't improve on this one

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2015

The classic version of Music Creator by Cakewalk, before many improvements for very advanced users. As a beginning program, this is the best. It works flawlessly on Windows 8 and 10, even though it is a contemporary of Windows ME (2001).

Mrs. Fred

Good but watch out for echos....

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2005

I am really pleased with this product for its notation and composition elements as I am working on piano scores; however, there are a few things that were not that great. Because of the echo on my keyboard, I can't play realtime and have the program score what I am playing. Rather, I am scoring by clicking in each note which is pretty time-consuming. There were a few suggestions in the manual as to how to get rid of the echo (which BTW creates double notes all over your score) but none of them worked on my particular keyboard. Also, you can only create a "pedal" marking by physically pressing the pedal (creating a midi event) but this didn't work for me (See above problem). Also, the lyric function (Adding lyrics to your score) is very limiting because you can only tie one word to one note unless you hyphenate it and sometimes this is not possible. Overall, I have been able to score 6 songs successfully but am recording them in a separate studio b/c the quality of playback isn't that great with this program. Hope this helps you!

Z. deScathach

An appended review....

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2004

To be honest, I had previously written a scathing review of this product. I have decided in the light of recent events to append it. I am giving this prog 4 stars,(unfortunately, the ranking can't be changed in an appended review).If your soundcard has both WDM and ASIO drivers, this software will automatically detect the WMD's, resulting in latency probs. Manually connecting to the ASIO drivers within the program solves the problem, thus the appended review. The dxi soft synths in this prog are quite lame, and the sounds rather poor. However, it get's high marks for it's combination of low price and a very full featured loopintg and recording system. It also has great plugin flexibility. For what you pay for it, it's a sweet little program. It only get's 4 stars due to it's lack of decent soft synths, but beyond that, an excellent prog.

Jenny Walsh

Music Majors Will Pull Out Their Hair With his Program!

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2006

As a former music major who writes instrumental and vocal music, and who is not creating a CD or music video for her music at this time, this program drove me CRAZY!!! In spite of great searching, I was unable to see both tracks for a song at the same time in a standand layout except while in Print Preview Mode. All other times, it just continued scrolling indefinitely! I could not change a note to an accidental unless I used Piano scroll mode (a huge grid with a piano keyboard sideways on the left). I could not insert a repeat sign or a fermata to save my life. These may be available, but the program certainly was not intuitive, nor accessible using the help options I used. While many wannabee rock star composers could not care less about these things, people with serious music backgrounds will sorely miss an accessible way to write musical notations. In spite of it being marketed as ideal software for all music writers, it seems this program was designed for music creators who do not know how to write music to captured their music in a variety of ways, modify it, and prepare their own CDs and videos.

I purchased this program less than a year ago, and have not been able to complete the tortuous process of inputing (by hand) even one song with this program. I am now looking for a new program that meets the needs of musicians who understand musical notation and want a computer to help provide neat, printed copies of their music.

Ren Hoek

Buy something else instead.

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2006

This program about made me go crazy just trying to get it to work. All I wanted was something with which I could record bass and guitar tracks and add prerecorded drum tracks to those so I could record some demos for my band, but apparently that was asking too much. This program refused to work on my laptop, it kept saying something about how the MIDI interface wasn't supported. Gee really? I wounder how the heck Guitar Pro 4 works on my laptop them since that uses MIDIs too? And for some reason, because it refused to use the MIDI on my soundcard, I couldn't record real instruments. Now, I'm no expert, but what do MIDIs have to do with actual audio tracks? And why couldn't I record any bass or guitar parts and play them back? I guess that uses MIDI too, amazing. I had someone who works on computers for a living look at it and they were dumbfounded at why it was doing what it was doing. Then I tried to use this program on my parents desktop, but I had lost the slip that the CD came in, which had the needed code to install on it. So basicly I ended up throwing $40 down the drain. I should've put that money towards a decent program or wasted it on something fun at least, like fireworks or strippers.

Amazonian

Newbie Beware

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2006

If you are new to creating music on computer, and just want to delve lightly into the process, stay far away from any software developed by this company. (I bought Music Creator 3.) Newbies beware - never venture here! I am not, nor will I ever be, a high-end user like the other reviewers. I produce multimedia not music. I just need straightforward tools to create music for presentations (so I can quit buying readymade music/MIDI clips). Unfortunately (?), I used my child's MAC and Garage Band before using Cakewalk. I was tainted by instructions that made sense, an intuitive software interface, and music actually coming out of the computer.

Dash Riprock

Absolutely Worthless!

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2007

I bought this as a girt for my wife a year ago. It has done nothing but confuse and frustrate both of us. The instructions may have well been written in Martian. Leave this alone! If you get it for free you have still paid too much.

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