Music Maker 16

MAGIX Music Maker 16 turns making music into a real experience. Easily get started and make your own exciting songs from scratch! Use practical info videos and numerous support options to develop your own musical style right away--without any prior skills. Thousands of sounds, realistic instruments, and great effects to create explosive drums, crunchy basses, and super melodies--simply get started in the world of music production.

Create. Edit. Produce--Your songs. Your albums. Your sound. Click to enlarge.

Newest features to make your own sound

Sound archive with about 1,500 Sounds & Loops
The new sound package features new loops and samples from every musical genre, e.g. rock, pop, dance, hip hop, disco house, techno, chillout, ambient, film music, minimal electro, and many more! Over 1,500 professional sounds provide the ideal basis for your sound experiments.

All sound building blocks can be combined without any problems and adjust automatically to the current song tempo--this ensures that you'll always be on the beat to let you concentrate completely on making your own sound.

Vandal SE: Top-quality guitar sounds
With Vandal SE, the authentic guitar and bass amplifier, making music becomes a real experience.

Thanks to unbelievable sound fidelity and plenty of effects, your own songs become real hits with fantastic vintage sounds--that makes discovering new sounds a blast.

Helpful learning tools
Music programs often seem so technical and complicated that the fun of making music is usually left out. With MAGIX Musik Maker 16, it's a different story: To ensure a seamless start, you may request support starting from the very first step!

The useful Infobox and the new interactive training course help you get to know everything about the program in the shortest space of time. Simply switch it on by clicking it and learn even more about making music during the process!

Get professional audio effects
With the new essential FX effects series, any sound can be changed quickly and easily. Effects like chorus or flanger make exciting tones and real sound design a reality. Get the sound of the pros on your own PC--without any prior skills or technical knowledge.

Play any instrument right away with your PC keyboard
Get started right away with the new version--play and record all instruments directly via your PC keyboard. Recording your own melodies, basses, or drums and mixing them into your own songs is even easier now!

Create Your Own Music in Four Easy Steps.
	1. Select sounds
	2. Combine them
	3. Mix them
	4. Publish it

Practical tools
To make your own recordings easier to edit and perfect for your own music projects, every loop and sound can now be cut sample-exactly and positioned perfectly in the song with the object microscope. The object inspector also enables all settings and adjustments to be made directly in the Media Pool, which makes working with sound objects easier than ever before.

Simplified export dialog
Exporting a finished song or video is even easier now, since the new export dialog provides a clearly laid-out list of the most important export options!

Transfer your own songs to your MP3 player, cell phone, or post them online on MySpace, YouTube and even on your own website in minutes!

Easy-to-use music composition software

Create your own music: It's easy

• 1. Select sounds
  Preview and select sounds in the Media Pool--or import your favorite songs from CD or MP3 and use them in your own song project.
  
  
• 2. Combine them
  All sounds and loops can be easily cut, edited, copied, and arranged into your own song.
  
  
• 3. Mix them
  Easily add effects, vocals, and adjust volume with the new mixer.
  
  
• 4. Publish it
  Export the songs you create as MP3s, burn them to CD, or publish them on the web.

Easy mode
If you want, only the most important areas will be shown to make it immediately clear to you so that you won't have to wait too long to make your first songs!

PLUS! Practical help videos that help you make music like the pros in the shortest time possible.

Instruments and effects at a glance. Click to enlarge.

With Vandal SE, the authentic guitar and bass amplifier, making music becomes a real experience. Click to enlarge.

The useful Infobox and the new interactive training course help you get to know everything about the program in the shortest space of time. Click to enlarge.

Effects like chorus or flanger make exciting tones and real sound design a reality.

Over 1,500 Sound loops and samples

Sound archive
The new sound package features new loops and samples from every musical genre, e.g. rock, pop, dance, hip hop, disco house, techno, chillout, ambient, film music, minimal electro, and many more! Over 1,500 professional sounds provide the ideal basis for your sound experiments.

All sound building blocks can be combined without any problems and adjust automatically to the current song tempo--this ensures that you'll always be on the beat to let you concentrate completely on making your own sound.

What are loops?
Loops are audio building blocks that are edited so that they play over and over without interruption. Melodies or drums are often played in loops to repeat multiple bars.

With an audio program like MAGIX Music Maker 16, slightly different loops can be combined to create your own songs. That's how you can make your own hits in record time.

Virtual instruments: Drums, Keyboards, Strings and More

Virtual Instruments
MAGIX Music Maker 16 offers ultra-realistic simulations of real instruments like acoustic guitars, electric guitars, electric basses, bass, drums, grand pianos, electric pianos, power chords, synth bass, and much more

Thanks to the professional sound engine from Yellow Tools, making music with real sounds becomes an acoustic experience!

Get into the details when you want to
The practical MIDI editor enables melodies to be simply drawn in and changed! You'll also receive more exciting synthesizers like LiViD, the first-class virtual drummer.

NEW! Play any instrument right away with your PC keyboard

Music Mixing and Sound effect solution

Mixing & effects
Use the integrated studio-quality effects to get the most out of your smash hits!

Mix your music like a pro: All of the tracks can be adjusted to suit each other with the integrated mixer, and a click adds enriching real effects--that's how to make your sound brilliant, pumping, and crystal clear! TIP! Thanks to numerous effects and templates, which have been provided especially by pros, it's easy for everyone to find their own perfect sound.

Vintage Effects Suite
Vintage effects provide even more possibilities for your own sound!

Make music with a personal touch--thanks to typical effects for any musical style. Numerous professional effects templates make using the Vintage Effects Suite child's play, and exciting results are produced quickly.

Sound effects and custom guitar sounds

Top-quality guitar sounds
With Vandal SE, the authentic guitar and bass amplifier, making music becomes a real experience.

Thanks to unbelievable sound fidelity and plenty of effects, your own songs become real hits with fantastic vintage sounds--that makes discovering new sounds a blast.

Audio effects: essential FX
With the new essential FX effects series, any sound can be changed quickly and easily. Effects like chorus or flanger make exciting tones and real sound design a reality.

Get the sound of the pros on your own PC--without any prior skills or technical knowledge.

Great all purpose sound editing solution

Music for videos, photos, websites, and much more
MAGIX Music Maker lets everyone add their own unique polish to their work, without prior skill and without long learning period. You'll create perfect slideshows, video clips, and much more.

Who wouldn't like it? Hollywood-style cinematic sound, made by you and perfectly tailored to all of your needs. The songs you make will turn your own videos and slideshows into a unique experience.

TIP! Anyone who is already familiar with MAGIX photo and video software will be able to get started with MAGIX Music Maker quickly and easily.

Export your sounds and music to any source

Export and publish
Find new listeners quickly--who doesn't want that? Publish songs directly on the web, transfer them to an MP3 player, and create your own demo or album CDs. Everything is possible with one click.

Feature your own songs online on video portals like YouTube or NEW! MySpace--directly from within the program.

Online extras
Catooh--the Online Content Library is the online sound archive. Whatever you're looking for--drum loops, instruments, vocals, or sound effects. Direct connection to this massive sound library supports every song idea with the right material. Special tips about audio software are available at magix.info.

magix.info--the Multimedia Knowledge Community: Quick and direct answers to all of your questions about producing music: Simply write the question into the text window and submit it online--you won't have to wait long for the answer!

Fully compatible with Windows 7

MAGIX Music Maker 16 has been tested for operational conformity and functional security in Windows 7.

The advantage: If you switch to the new Windows operating system, you will be able to continue to use this product as usual.

Price: $59.99

Click here to buy from Amazon

Crayola Crayon Maker

The Crayola Crayon Maker turns crayon bits and pieces into new crayons in wild color combinations.  It's easy! Just mix in crayon bits, melt them down, pour into the mold and let harden. Now you're ready to color again with swirling crayon creations!

Price: $34.99

Click here to buy from Amazon

Panasonic SD-YD250 Automatic Bread Maker

Providing myriad options, this automatic bread maker embodies the marvels of 21st century electronic convenience and choice. Yes, it mixes, kneads, rises, and bakes bread in three loaf sizes up to 2-1/2 pounds. But its digital controls go much further, offering settings for white, whole wheat, multigrain, and French (crisp crust, open texture) breads, each made according to what's best for that particular style. Other settings permit rapid baking and baking sandwich bread with a soft crust. For raisin (or other dried-fruit) bread, a beeper signals when to add the fruit so it's not crushed during kneading. Crust color--dark or light--can be selected as well.

The machine automatically adds yeast at the proper time from a dispenser on the unit's lid. It also bakes non-yeast, quick breads-- like banana and gingerbread--and sweet cakes. And it mixes, kneads, and rises doughs for pizza, focaccia, croissants, and other pastries without baking them. A timer permits the machine to be programmed up to 13 hours in advance so fresh bread or cake is available for breakfast or dinner. For cleanup convenience, the baking pan is nonstick. Clad in metal and packing 550 watts of power, the machine measures 14 inches wide, 13.5 inches high, and 9 inches deep. Its instruction booklet is exceptionally easy to understand and includes recipes for 40 breads and doughs along with an insightful guide to baking basics and illustrated tips for making pastries. --Fred Brack

From the Manufacturer

There's nothing quite like the warm aroma of freshly baked homemade bread from the oven. With the help of this user-friendly bread machine, even those with a busy, on-the-go schedule can enjoy this simple pleasure--without the time-consuming hard work normally associated with baking bread. Just add ingredients, press a few buttons, and it takes care of the rest.

Soft-touch control panel with LCD digital display and 13-hour preset timer.

Easily Bake Bread or Create Dough

Bake loaves of white or whole wheat bread for slicing and slathering with butter and jam or for making sandwiches. Create croissant or pizza dough for shaping by hand and baking in the oven. Make the classic fruitcake to serve during the holidays. From basic recipes to custom creations, the bread machine produces delicious results--and without the additives and preservatives found in store-bought brands. A recipe book with over 50 original bread and dough recipes comes included.

Customizable Settings

The unit's top-access, soft-touch, push-button control panel with an LCD digital display helps ensure easy programming. Choose from three different loaf sizes (medium, large, or extra large) and the crust color (light, medium, or dark). It also offers up to six different types of bread or dough options--Basic, Whole Wheat, Multi-Grain, French, Pizza, and Cake. Baking modes include Bake Only (great for fruitcakes, gingerbread, and teacakes); Rapid Bake (reduces the baking time of basic and whole-wheat breads); Raisin (offers an audible beep to signal when to add raisins, dried fruits, or nuts into the dough); and Sandwich (produces bread with a soft crust). Dough modes include Pizza, Rolls, and Raisin Dough. Best of all, the appliance comes equipped with a digital timer, which can be set up to 13 hours in advance--great for waking up to the smell of freshly baked bread. Or set the timer before leaving for work in the morning so that a warm loaf will be ready and waiting after a long day at the office. Simply slice it up and serve with dinner.

Choose from 3 loaf sizes and 3 crust shades from light to dark.

Healthy and Nutritious

Baking bread at home allows for ultimate control over the finished product. By using only the freshest ingredients and making choices between a variety of options, homemade bread can be an important part of a well-balanced diet--for both young and older family members alike. High in fiber and low in fat, bread contains a wealth of beneficial components. It provides complex carbohydrates needed for energy, protein for strong muscles, and vitamins and minerals, including calcium and iron for healthy bones and teeth. Add nutrient-rich eggs to the recipe or choose whole-grain flour for an extra boost of fiber, iron, vitamins, and minerals. Mixing in nuts and dried fruits not only add to the pleasing consistency and taste of the finished product, but they're also another way to add to the overall health factor.

Yeast dispenser automatically adds yeast at optimal time to ensure perfect results.

Ultimate Convenience

Thoughtfully designed, the bread machine also supplies a YeastPro automatic yeast dispenser. Just add a measured amount of yeast into the holder on the unit's lid, and the machine will automatically dispense the yeast in with the other ingredients at the perfect time for optimal results. Even more, the unit's inner bake pan comes fitted with a wire handle (use an oven mitt when hot) for easily removing it from the appliance when the bread has finished baking. The pan's nonstick coating allows baked bread to slide easily out of the pan onto a cutting board or a wire rack to fully cool for easier slicing.

Inner bake pan offers built-in handle and nonstick coating for effortless bread removal.

Unique Design for Professional Results

Unlike other bread machines, the unit does not offer a viewing window. The absence of a viewing window allows a more even reflection of heat inside the unit, which offers the following three advantages: excellent crust, good rising, and even color. The machine also benefits from a unique temperature-control program that automatically optimizes the temperatures and times for each stage of the process. Its comprehensive microprocessor program makes slight adjustments as needed to ensure perfectly baked bread regardless of conditions like climate and room temperature.

Panasonic delivers excellent results regardless of different types of ingredients used, different seasons, and different room temperatures.

In addition to the recipe book, accessories include a measuring spoon, a measuring cup, and a kneading blade that fits onto the base of the inner pan for thoroughly mixing ingredients. Other highlights include a top-loading locking lid, a handy indicator light to show when the baking or dough cycle has completed, a safety fuse for peace of mind, and power-interruption protection that allows the baking process to resume even when there's an interruption in power for approximately 10 minutes or less. All parts should be hand washed only. The small appliance comes in a compact design that fits neatly on the kitchen countertop. Keep it out for everyday use or store it on a shelf or in the pantry when finished. Awarded the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, the 550-watt bread machine measures 13-3/8 by 9-1/16 by 14 inches, weighs about 15 pounds, and carries a one-year limited warranty.

Features

• 550-watt bread machine bakes medium-, large-, and extra-large-size loaves
• Light to dark crust color; 6 types of bread or dough options; automatic yeast dispenser
• Soft-touch, push-button control panel with LCD digital display; 13-hour digital timer
• Removable inner bake pan with wire handle and nonstick coating
• Includes measuring spoon, measuring cup, kneading blade, and recipe booklet
• Measures 13-3/8 by 9-1/16 by 14 inches; 1-year limited warranty

Technical Specifications

Model/Size Model number SD-YD250 Loaf Size Medium / Large / Extra-Large Design Color White Inner Pan Nonstick-Coated Inner Pan/Handle Cover Top-Loading Locking Lid Dispenser Top-Loading Yeast or Raisin Dispenser Display LCD Digital Display Performance Crust Control Dark - Medium - Light Bake/Dough Modes Bake Mode: Bake, Rapid Bake, Raisin, and Sandwich Dough Mode: Pizza, Rolls or Raisin Dough Bread Options Basic, Whole Wheat, Multi-Grain, French, Pizza, Cake Timer 13-Hour Preset Indicator Lights Baking or Dough Operation Completed

Convenience Recipe Booklet Yes Power-Interruption Protection Yes Accessories Measuring Spoon Yes Measuring Cup Yes Kneading Blade Yes Recipe Booklet Yes Power Supply 120 AC; 60Hz Cooking Setting 550 Watts Safety Fuse Yes Dimensions/Weight Unit (W x D x H) 13-3/8 by 9-1/16 by 14 inches Weight 15 Pounds

Price: $174.99

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Music Maker 16

MAGIX Music Maker 16 turns making music into a real experience. Easily get started and make your own exciting songs from scratch! Use practical info videos and numerous support options to develop your own musical style right away--without any prior skills. Thousands of sounds, realistic instruments, and great effects to create explosive drums, crunchy basses, and super melodies--simply get started in the world of music production.

Create. Edit. Produce--Your songs. Your albums. Your sound. Click to enlarge.

Newest features to make your own sound

Sound archive with about 1,500 Sounds & Loops
The new sound package features new loops and samples from every musical genre, e.g. rock, pop, dance, hip hop, disco house, techno, chillout, ambient, film music, minimal electro, and many more! Over 1,500 professional sounds provide the ideal basis for your sound experiments.

All sound building blocks can be combined without any problems and adjust automatically to the current song tempo--this ensures that you'll always be on the beat to let you concentrate completely on making your own sound.

Vandal SE: Top-quality guitar sounds
With Vandal SE, the authentic guitar and bass amplifier, making music becomes a real experience.

Thanks to unbelievable sound fidelity and plenty of effects, your own songs become real hits with fantastic vintage sounds--that makes discovering new sounds a blast.

Helpful learning tools
Music programs often seem so technical and complicated that the fun of making music is usually left out. With MAGIX Musik Maker 16, it's a different story: To ensure a seamless start, you may request support starting from the very first step!

The useful Infobox and the new interactive training course help you get to know everything about the program in the shortest space of time. Simply switch it on by clicking it and learn even more about making music during the process!

Get professional audio effects
With the new essential FX effects series, any sound can be changed quickly and easily. Effects like chorus or flanger make exciting tones and real sound design a reality. Get the sound of the pros on your own PC--without any prior skills or technical knowledge.

Play any instrument right away with your PC keyboard
Get started right away with the new version--play and record all instruments directly via your PC keyboard. Recording your own melodies, basses, or drums and mixing them into your own songs is even easier now!

Create Your Own Music in Four Easy Steps.
	1. Select sounds
	2. Combine them
	3. Mix them
	4. Publish it

Practical tools
To make your own recordings easier to edit and perfect for your own music projects, every loop and sound can now be cut sample-exactly and positioned perfectly in the song with the object microscope. The object inspector also enables all settings and adjustments to be made directly in the Media Pool, which makes working with sound objects easier than ever before.

Simplified export dialog
Exporting a finished song or video is even easier now, since the new export dialog provides a clearly laid-out list of the most important export options!

Transfer your own songs to your MP3 player, cell phone, or post them online on MySpace, YouTube and even on your own website in minutes!

Easy-to-use music composition software

Create your own music: It's easy

• 1. Select sounds
  Preview and select sounds in the Media Pool--or import your favorite songs from CD or MP3 and use them in your own song project.
  
  
• 2. Combine them
  All sounds and loops can be easily cut, edited, copied, and arranged into your own song.
  
  
• 3. Mix them
  Easily add effects, vocals, and adjust volume with the new mixer.
  
  
• 4. Publish it
  Export the songs you create as MP3s, burn them to CD, or publish them on the web.

Easy mode
If you want, only the most important areas will be shown to make it immediately clear to you so that you won't have to wait too long to make your first songs!

PLUS! Practical help videos that help you make music like the pros in the shortest time possible.

Instruments and effects at a glance. Click to enlarge.

With Vandal SE, the authentic guitar and bass amplifier, making music becomes a real experience. Click to enlarge.

The useful Infobox and the new interactive training course help you get to know everything about the program in the shortest space of time. Click to enlarge.

Effects like chorus or flanger make exciting tones and real sound design a reality.

Over 1,500 Sound loops and samples

Sound archive
The new sound package features new loops and samples from every musical genre, e.g. rock, pop, dance, hip hop, disco house, techno, chillout, ambient, film music, minimal electro, and many more! Over 1,500 professional sounds provide the ideal basis for your sound experiments.

All sound building blocks can be combined without any problems and adjust automatically to the current song tempo--this ensures that you'll always be on the beat to let you concentrate completely on making your own sound.

What are loops?
Loops are audio building blocks that are edited so that they play over and over without interruption. Melodies or drums are often played in loops to repeat multiple bars.

With an audio program like MAGIX Music Maker 16, slightly different loops can be combined to create your own songs. That's how you can make your own hits in record time.

Virtual instruments: Drums, Keyboards, Strings and More

Virtual Instruments
MAGIX Music Maker 16 offers ultra-realistic simulations of real instruments like acoustic guitars, electric guitars, electric basses, bass, drums, grand pianos, electric pianos, power chords, synth bass, and much more

Thanks to the professional sound engine from Yellow Tools, making music with real sounds becomes an acoustic experience!

Get into the details when you want to
The practical MIDI editor enables melodies to be simply drawn in and changed! You'll also receive more exciting synthesizers like LiViD, the first-class virtual drummer.

NEW! Play any instrument right away with your PC keyboard

Music Mixing and Sound effect solution

Mixing & effects
Use the integrated studio-quality effects to get the most out of your smash hits!

Mix your music like a pro: All of the tracks can be adjusted to suit each other with the integrated mixer, and a click adds enriching real effects--that's how to make your sound brilliant, pumping, and crystal clear! TIP! Thanks to numerous effects and templates, which have been provided especially by pros, it's easy for everyone to find their own perfect sound.

Vintage Effects Suite
Vintage effects provide even more possibilities for your own sound!

Make music with a personal touch--thanks to typical effects for any musical style. Numerous professional effects templates make using the Vintage Effects Suite child's play, and exciting results are produced quickly.

Sound effects and custom guitar sounds

Top-quality guitar sounds
With Vandal SE, the authentic guitar and bass amplifier, making music becomes a real experience.

Thanks to unbelievable sound fidelity and plenty of effects, your own songs become real hits with fantastic vintage sounds--that makes discovering new sounds a blast.

Audio effects: essential FX
With the new essential FX effects series, any sound can be changed quickly and easily. Effects like chorus or flanger make exciting tones and real sound design a reality.

Get the sound of the pros on your own PC--without any prior skills or technical knowledge.

Great all purpose sound editing solution

Music for videos, photos, websites, and much more
MAGIX Music Maker lets everyone add their own unique polish to their work, without prior skill and without long learning period. You'll create perfect slideshows, video clips, and much more.

Who wouldn't like it? Hollywood-style cinematic sound, made by you and perfectly tailored to all of your needs. The songs you make will turn your own videos and slideshows into a unique experience.

TIP! Anyone who is already familiar with MAGIX photo and video software will be able to get started with MAGIX Music Maker quickly and easily.

Export your sounds and music to any source

Export and publish
Find new listeners quickly--who doesn't want that? Publish songs directly on the web, transfer them to an MP3 player, and create your own demo or album CDs. Everything is possible with one click.

Feature your own songs online on video portals like YouTube or NEW! MySpace--directly from within the program.

Online extras
Catooh--the Online Content Library is the online sound archive. Whatever you're looking for--drum loops, instruments, vocals, or sound effects. Direct connection to this massive sound library supports every song idea with the right material. Special tips about audio software are available at magix.info.

magix.info--the Multimedia Knowledge Community: Quick and direct answers to all of your questions about producing music: Simply write the question into the text window and submit it online--you won't have to wait long for the answer!

Fully compatible with Windows 7

MAGIX Music Maker 16 has been tested for operational conformity and functional security in Windows 7.

The advantage: If you switch to the new Windows operating system, you will be able to continue to use this product as usual.

Price: $59.99

Click here to buy from Amazon

Quikrete 6921-32 Walk Maker

DIY mold for making walks, patios, courtyards, and terraces. No special skills required. Fill mold with concrete, smooth surface, and remove mold. Takes only minutes to complete a 2' x 2' section. One 80 lb. bag concrete mix will fill a 2' x 2' section of the Walk Maker. No. 6921 32: Country stone pattern No. 6921 34: European block

Price: $20.39

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Crayola Crayon Maker

The Crayola Crayon Maker lets you be the mad scientist of color, turning your crayon pieces into new color-swirled creations. By melting down different crayons in the Crayon Maker, kids get to make completely original crayons with mixed color combinations. Creating their own drawing utensils becomes a new step in the artistic process. Recommended for ages eight and up, the Crayon Maker lets kids get even more creative and more invested in their own masterpieces!

Crayon Maker Ages: 8+ Requires: 1 clear, colorless 60-watt candelabra light bulb, small base (not included) Requires adult supervision

What We Think Fun factor: Durability: Ease of assembly: Educational factor: Novelty factor: The Good: Encourages fun, creativity, and experimentation with color. The Challenging: Requires adult supervision In a Nutshell: Crayon maker turns crayon pieces into new swirled crayons

This wild crayon laboratory encourages kids to experiment with colors. View larger.

One Part Art, One Part Science
Built from durable blue-plastic construction, the Crayola Crayon Maker looks like a little laboratory, decorated with dripping ooze and scientific doodads. The kit comes with four classic-colored crayons, which you can break into pieces and mix together in the machine's melting trays.

When melting crayon pieces in the metal melt tray, the safety-latch lid stays locked for safe fun. And the lid is clear so kids and adults can watch while the crayons melt -- a hypnotic pleasure.

When the crayons have melted down and blended together, a yellow lever on the side of the Crayon Maker tilts the tray to pour the melted crayons into the molds. With two compartments, the melt tray allows you to pour two new color designs at a time. With four crayon molds, that's two of each. When hardened, the flexible plastic mold frame easily snaps open to reveal newly formed crayons with exciting color combinations. With their new homemade crayons in hand, kids will be ready and psyched to color like never before!

Encourage Experimentation
Kids love to play and experiment, and when it comes to the Crayola Crayon Maker, it's all about the process. It's fun to choose different crayon colors and watch as they melt down into neat new swirled designs. By the time kids get to coloring, they can be even more proud of their work knowing they made the crayons too!

While the Crayon Maker is designed well for child safety, adult supervision is still necessary and requires a little patience. Thankfully, this is a toy that parents can actually enjoy along with their children.

What's in the Box
Crayon maker unit, 8 crayons, 2 crayon holders, melt tray, and pre-assembled mold and frame.

The crayon maker allows you to create new, swirled crayon colors. View larger.

Price: $34.99

Click here to buy from Amazon

Music Maker 16

MAGIX Music Maker 16 turns making music into a real experience. Easily get started and make your own exciting songs from scratch! Use practical info videos and numerous support options to develop your own musical style right away--without any prior skills. Thousands of sounds, realistic instruments, and great effects to create explosive drums, crunchy basses, and super melodies--simply get started in the world of music production.

Create. Edit. Produce--Your songs. Your albums. Your sound. Click to enlarge.

Newest features to make your own sound

Sound archive with about 1,500 Sounds & Loops
The new sound package features new loops and samples from every musical genre, e.g. rock, pop, dance, hip hop, disco house, techno, chillout, ambient, film music, minimal electro, and many more! Over 1,500 professional sounds provide the ideal basis for your sound experiments.

All sound building blocks can be combined without any problems and adjust automatically to the current song tempo--this ensures that you'll always be on the beat to let you concentrate completely on making your own sound.

Vandal SE: Top-quality guitar sounds
With Vandal SE, the authentic guitar and bass amplifier, making music becomes a real experience.

Thanks to unbelievable sound fidelity and plenty of effects, your own songs become real hits with fantastic vintage sounds--that makes discovering new sounds a blast.

Helpful learning tools
Music programs often seem so technical and complicated that the fun of making music is usually left out. With MAGIX Musik Maker 16, it's a different story: To ensure a seamless start, you may request support starting from the very first step!

The useful Infobox and the new interactive training course help you get to know everything about the program in the shortest space of time. Simply switch it on by clicking it and learn even more about making music during the process!

Get professional audio effects
With the new essential FX effects series, any sound can be changed quickly and easily. Effects like chorus or flanger make exciting tones and real sound design a reality. Get the sound of the pros on your own PC--without any prior skills or technical knowledge.

Play any instrument right away with your PC keyboard
Get started right away with the new version--play and record all instruments directly via your PC keyboard. Recording your own melodies, basses, or drums and mixing them into your own songs is even easier now!

Create Your Own Music in Four Easy Steps.
	1. Select sounds
	2. Combine them
	3. Mix them
	4. Publish it

Practical tools
To make your own recordings easier to edit and perfect for your own music projects, every loop and sound can now be cut sample-exactly and positioned perfectly in the song with the object microscope. The object inspector also enables all settings and adjustments to be made directly in the Media Pool, which makes working with sound objects easier than ever before.

Simplified export dialog
Exporting a finished song or video is even easier now, since the new export dialog provides a clearly laid-out list of the most important export options!

Transfer your own songs to your MP3 player, cell phone, or post them online on MySpace, YouTube and even on your own website in minutes!

Easy-to-use music composition software

Create your own music: It's easy

• 1. Select sounds
  Preview and select sounds in the Media Pool--or import your favorite songs from CD or MP3 and use them in your own song project.
  
  
• 2. Combine them
  All sounds and loops can be easily cut, edited, copied, and arranged into your own song.
  
  
• 3. Mix them
  Easily add effects, vocals, and adjust volume with the new mixer.
  
  
• 4. Publish it
  Export the songs you create as MP3s, burn them to CD, or publish them on the web.

Easy mode
If you want, only the most important areas will be shown to make it immediately clear to you so that you won't have to wait too long to make your first songs!

PLUS! Practical help videos that help you make music like the pros in the shortest time possible.

Instruments and effects at a glance. Click to enlarge.

With Vandal SE, the authentic guitar and bass amplifier, making music becomes a real experience. Click to enlarge.

The useful Infobox and the new interactive training course help you get to know everything about the program in the shortest space of time. Click to enlarge.

Effects like chorus or flanger make exciting tones and real sound design a reality.

Over 1,500 Sound loops and samples

Sound archive
The new sound package features new loops and samples from every musical genre, e.g. rock, pop, dance, hip hop, disco house, techno, chillout, ambient, film music, minimal electro, and many more! Over 1,500 professional sounds provide the ideal basis for your sound experiments.

All sound building blocks can be combined without any problems and adjust automatically to the current song tempo--this ensures that you'll always be on the beat to let you concentrate completely on making your own sound.

What are loops?
Loops are audio building blocks that are edited so that they play over and over without interruption. Melodies or drums are often played in loops to repeat multiple bars.

With an audio program like MAGIX Music Maker 16, slightly different loops can be combined to create your own songs. That's how you can make your own hits in record time.

Virtual instruments: Drums, Keyboards, Strings and More

Virtual Instruments
MAGIX Music Maker 16 offers ultra-realistic simulations of real instruments like acoustic guitars, electric guitars, electric basses, bass, drums, grand pianos, electric pianos, power chords, synth bass, and much more

Thanks to the professional sound engine from Yellow Tools, making music with real sounds becomes an acoustic experience!

Get into the details when you want to
The practical MIDI editor enables melodies to be simply drawn in and changed! You'll also receive more exciting synthesizers like LiViD, the first-class virtual drummer.

NEW! Play any instrument right away with your PC keyboard

Music Mixing and Sound effect solution

Mixing & effects
Use the integrated studio-quality effects to get the most out of your smash hits!

Mix your music like a pro: All of the tracks can be adjusted to suit each other with the integrated mixer, and a click adds enriching real effects--that's how to make your sound brilliant, pumping, and crystal clear! TIP! Thanks to numerous effects and templates, which have been provided especially by pros, it's easy for everyone to find their own perfect sound.

Vintage Effects Suite
Vintage effects provide even more possibilities for your own sound!

Make music with a personal touch--thanks to typical effects for any musical style. Numerous professional effects templates make using the Vintage Effects Suite child's play, and exciting results are produced quickly.

Sound effects and custom guitar sounds

Top-quality guitar sounds
With Vandal SE, the authentic guitar and bass amplifier, making music becomes a real experience.

Thanks to unbelievable sound fidelity and plenty of effects, your own songs become real hits with fantastic vintage sounds--that makes discovering new sounds a blast.

Audio effects: essential FX
With the new essential FX effects series, any sound can be changed quickly and easily. Effects like chorus or flanger make exciting tones and real sound design a reality.

Get the sound of the pros on your own PC--without any prior skills or technical knowledge.

Great all purpose sound editing solution

Music for videos, photos, websites, and much more
MAGIX Music Maker lets everyone add their own unique polish to their work, without prior skill and without long learning period. You'll create perfect slideshows, video clips, and much more.

Who wouldn't like it? Hollywood-style cinematic sound, made by you and perfectly tailored to all of your needs. The songs you make will turn your own videos and slideshows into a unique experience.

TIP! Anyone who is already familiar with MAGIX photo and video software will be able to get started with MAGIX Music Maker quickly and easily.

Export your sounds and music to any source

Export and publish
Find new listeners quickly--who doesn't want that? Publish songs directly on the web, transfer them to an MP3 player, and create your own demo or album CDs. Everything is possible with one click.

Feature your own songs online on video portals like YouTube or NEW! MySpace--directly from within the program.

Online extras
Catooh--the Online Content Library is the online sound archive. Whatever you're looking for--drum loops, instruments, vocals, or sound effects. Direct connection to this massive sound library supports every song idea with the right material. Special tips about audio software are available at magix.info.

magix.info--the Multimedia Knowledge Community: Quick and direct answers to all of your questions about producing music: Simply write the question into the text window and submit it online--you won't have to wait long for the answer!

Fully compatible with Windows 7

MAGIX Music Maker 16 has been tested for operational conformity and functional security in Windows 7.

The advantage: If you switch to the new Windows operating system, you will be able to continue to use this product as usual.

Price: $59.99

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