Looping works much like you’d expect in DJ software. When your mix is playing, you can either add EQ and effect automation live, or create markers to manipulate the sound. Adding your music to the timeline is drag n drop, and the files will have volume markers and mix transitions added automatically. There’s also a master tempo and your timeline zoom at the top. You can choose between having two, four, six or eight strips to work with. The timeline section is straightforward as well, EQs and loops on the far left and your decks (or strips) stacked across the rest of the middle of the window. They’re essentially independent from your A/B mixing, so you can drag them all around, change their length and whether they are synced with the mix. These are automatically added to the timeline as overlay tracks, changing how they are treated within the mix. There’s also a set of six sound effects sample slots for your one-shots and textures. The playlist window shows all your currently used music, along with what transition is set up for them and your global transport buttons. MixMeister Fusion is heavily reliant on your mouse for navigation, dragging and dropping files from one place to another, or for moving around your mix. The main two sections where you spend the most time would be the timeline and library. You’ve got four main parts to your window: the library, the playlist, the timeline and effects rack / song slicer. Not much has changed on the surface with the software. When I first tried it ten years ago, it was amazing, and while not perfect, it was fun. Software that helps you set up and record mixtapes, all beatmatched for you, with effects and EQing done as automation. To be fair to MixMeister, on paper it all seems like a great idea. There’s just so little need to have it installed, and all I got was a message reading ‘missing plugin’. This isn’t a game-stopper, but certainly an annoyance.įinally, a little gripe I’ve got is that the introductory tutorial is done in Flash, which while less common these days, will almost certainly be absent from any modern computers, particularly now that the major video streaming websites and browsers support HTML5. The best you can get is for the application window to maximise to the edges. Despite this, there’s no way to make MixMeister go completely fullscreen. In fact, since Mavericks, OS X has had a native system to allow apps to run fullscreen, in their own virtual desktop. When it comes to DJing, many of us work with our chosen software fullscreen to maximise real estate and help keep focus on the task at hand. I got a weird vibrating effect in the playlist when playing audio.Some weird issue where tempo markers wouldn’t delete.I found a typo on one of the options dialogue boxes.
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