It was going to be a short demo but ended up as the full song complete with EQ and a basic mastering to give you an indication of the sound quality and also to demonstrate that you can create songs easily which is testament to the capability and usability of MuLab. The audio from the project titled Deep Tech is embedded from bandcamp below. I’ve included a couple of screenshots from songs I’ve been working on as part of this review below.

I’ve not noticed any latency issues and the software has been very stable. I’ve been using it as my main DAW to write songs and carry out this review for 3 weeks and I’m really starting to get to grips with it. There is a learning curve when switching DAWs but it’s not really that steep due to the intuitive nature of MuLab. Compared to the last MUX Plug-In 7, this is a big update as MUX Plug-In 8.2 also includes all features of M8.0 & M8.1 thus including audio sequences, time stretching and spectral filtering.

Together with MuLab 8.2, also MUX Modular Plug-In version 8.2 is released.

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Look below to compare and contrast over 20 leading DAWs and some key points.

Other interesting MuLab alternatives are FL Studio (Paid), Ardour (Freemium, Open Source), Reaper (Paid) and Ableton.

If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to MuLab so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. The most popular alternative is LMMS, which is both free and Open Source. A detailed list of improvements and new features implemented in MuLab 7 is available here. There are many other minor improvements as well, including a new random parameter generator, swing mode, a pitch bend generator module, improved piano roll, etc. MuLab 7 comes with a large number of new features and improvements, the most important of which are the simplified audio recording workflow (something that used to confuse many new MuLab users) and the fantastic new step sequencer (you can see it in action in the demo video below).

Mulab 7 review