Starting in the year 2013, they changed the name to “Samplitude Music Studio 2013”, and each year thereafter, they simply use the release year as the version number (e.g.

Therefore, at times, they’ve changed the version # for the US market to be a more arbitrary version # (based on the release number, I presume). However, when they included the year as part of the version number, the US always appeared to be one year behind. At certain times in the past, they have used the same version numbers in both the US and European markets. Speaking of version numbers, in addition to name changes, Magix has also gone through a few rounds of changes with their method of versioning as well.

They also released a version 16 in Europe, but it was never released to the US market. They kept this name up through version 15 here in the US.

Starting with version 12, they combined the MIDI recording functionality into the Audio Studio and renamed it “Samplitude Music Studio”. Music Studio Deluxe started out as two separate programs–MIDI Studio and Audio Studio. Samplitude 11 Producer is a Multitrack Recording Software Application, and is the latest version of what used to be called “Magix Music Studio Deluxe” and subsequently “Samplitude Music Studio”.

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