Allow me to part with a dirty little secret. Well, not “dirty,” per se, as much as more insight into my quirks than you probably wanted or needed to know.
I’m the kind of guy that uses a particular software for a particular task and am usually unwilling to try something new, something that takes me out of my comfort zone of what I am familiar with. It’s not that there may be something easier or better available, but I get used to working with the specific nuances of a software and I know how to do what I want to do with it. As such, new software tends to frightens me. Don’t think for a minute that I suffer from any kind of technophobia, because that is not the case. On the contrary, I typically suffer from techno-joy, although not to the same degree as some. I just get comfortable in a particular “zone.”
So, when I was asked to review Muse 2.0, a music composition software, I immediately thought, “I already am well acquainted with Soundtrack Pro and Garage Band…I don’t need to learn any other software.”
To my pleasant surprise, however, I found Muse 2.0 to be a wonderful tool.
Abaltat Muse 2.0 is a tool designed to aid you in breathing life into your film through music. Muse 2.0 is designed to be a user friendly composing tool in which much of the guesswork is taken out.
The control panels are simple to navigate and simple to understand for those that have some editing experience. The basic layout is very simple to comprehend and it is even simpler to pull your video into the timeline – just drag your video file to the Muse icon on your desktop and the software opens and places your video perfectly within the timeline.
Admittedly, I had two things in my corner when it came to understanding the software: One, I'm fairly computer literate. And two, I was being walked through all the essentials by someone who was intimately acquainted with the software. With that said, if you love to play with software then you will be able to figure out and discover many applications for Muse 2.0. While any software of such a technical nature is often several levels deep and fairly complicated, Muse 2.0 manages to be fairly easy to navigate and grasp even for new users.
