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Posted by dj_sketchy2003 on Mar-08-2007 07:32:

best mixing software?

been out of the loop for a while (and ive searched with no luck)

whats the best software for?

Editing music ie cool edit pro 2.1

and mixing music ie artificial turntables and automatic beat matching etc

cheers.

Posted by ThatsMagic on Mar-08-2007 10:56:

never used it but most likey ableton live for mixing and editing.
other wise you can use soundforge (cut+paste add effects etc)

Posted by BOOsTER on Mar-08-2007 11:07:

hmmm the best thing to do is that you go around the websites of each software and download demos, try the whole bunch...

Leaders in the "traditional layout" PC mixing are Native Instruments Traktor and Virtual DJ.

non-traditional would be ruled by Ableton Live and maybe Mixmeister.

the traditional layout means having 2 decks and an emulation of a mixer.

the non-traditional layout is more like a sequencer where you either put tracks into a time-line or trigger them as clips.

Posted by T-Soma on Mar-08-2007 11:35:

My problem with Ableton is the fact that I have to prepare all of my songs before hand.
Ableton's not good if you like to be random and are not a well organised person.
My opinion anyways...

Posted by BOOsTER on Mar-08-2007 15:07:

I've never had problems to warp my tracks on the fly.

Posted by Beatflux on Mar-08-2007 18:20:

I've used Traktor 2.5 in the past for real time mixing. Right now I'm using Ableton to program a mix and it seems up to the task. One of the bigger challenges is correctly making a beat grid and in Ableton I'm able to do it quite easily with the help of the metronome. The metronome plays the beat of the set grid so in essense it's like beatmatching two tracks. I don't have to grid all tracks in this method Some tracks can be matched using the waveform. Please note that I mix trance only.