http://www.magix.com/gb/samplitude-music-studio/detail/
 
seems like an excellent deal for only 99USD. A Daw with truck loads of instrument. Any opinion?

Got it with an introduction offer several months ago. Excellent DAW, great sounding instruments, nice FX, VST3 support... Just don't forget to add the entire Magix folder to exceptions list in your anti-virus program, particularly the windows defender, even if you had disabled it.

If you want to buy it directly from Magix go here and save $25

http://www.magix.com/index.php?gclid=Cj0KEQjw0MW9BRDxtYTn2_S699MBEiQAw33y4x1K5e92oOhv-no1EfDdIohq3Eko4msu7IK9BxG5RX8aAl3P8P8HAQ&id=22449&L=52&C=220&AffiliateID=92&pHash=A4489d5Dv6uWzgO6&ef_id=V2Gp6gAAAEKLwHGn:20160815110510:s
 
 

Thanks Soundwise and Larry. I managed to demo and test some of the instrument. I was impressed.

If you want the big boy it's highly underrated and immensely powerful
Samlitude Pro X2

http://www.magix.com/us/samplitude/

Sonar Platinum..own the best..leave the rest...now make music...Post it...gl

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I still have the 2015 version on one of my computers ...
That makes me a former Samplitude Music  Studio version user ...
Now I mostly use the full version of Samplitude Pro X 2 ...in it's place...
 
Even though I have X3 and Splat , I have used both Samplitude Pro X 2 and Samplitude Music Studio 2015  to create musical sections that have wound up in just about all my music .Many of these sections I have brought back into a parent project / mixing environment ..
Samplitude Music Studio has some very nice instruments included . I find them to be very usable and somewhat unique sounding ...The plugins are fantastic ..many of the plugs  you get is what comes in Samplitude Pro X 2 ...
The ability to customize the metering leaves most other DAW's in the dust  ...including a few well know favorites ...
Midi editing is very precise , Staff view is rather decent ..
Over all what I like the most is working in an object oriented musical environment ...nobody does that better than Samp ...
FWIW SONAR has been catching up a little ,  but doing precise object audio editing in SONAR is rather cumbersome
In any version of Samplitude is is very easy to do ...
For the past 11 years I have used various versions of Samplitude as my main audio editor . ...
 
IMHO , If you have SONAR and you pick up Samplitude Music Studio 2016 . Or when money permits Samplitude Pro X 2 ,  you may find that you will now have a very powerful synergistic platform to create music in ....
Both SONAR and Samplitude make a real nice pair because they both have very strong points in their functionality and I feel that they can complement each other rather well . IMHO the Same goes for the weaknesses ...
the individual areas where they may be weaker in ..the other DAW of the 2 picks up the slack 
 
Kenny
 
 

Looks like Magix is about to release the new version this fall
 

Thanks Kenny and Soundwise