Because most electronic dance music tracks have a 4/4 time signature and a simple structure of 16-bar phrases, to align the phrases of two tracks it is often enough to start the track to be mixed in at a phrase boundary in the track currently playing.
Phrasing is an aspect of beat mixing, not a separate technique. It is accurate in matching the BPMs of your tracks but it's not very good at figuring out the best phrase to start and end the mix. It automatically puts the next track you drop from the playlist near the end of the previous song. I think it is a pretty smart way to lay out tracks for DJing. To get started with MixMeister, you grab an MP3 from the library and drop it on the playlist editor, which really resembles a standard sequencer. 1 : The main window in MixMeister Master Planned Mixes for Amateurs I have always had trouble figuring out the key of my tracks but this makes it super-easy.įig. Mixing in key is the new trend in DJing so it is great to be able to sort your tracks by key. When it finally does finish calculating your library, you notice that next to the title and artist you also have the BPM and key. I do have a lot of tracks on my hard drive so this is probably why. It took about four hours to analyze my library.
It takes a bit of prep work at first: you'll probably want to go out to dinner after you load your library into MixMeister as It takes quite a while to do the math and calculate the key and BPM of each of your songs. The cool thing is it starts with a prompt to watch some videos that could set you off in the right direction in getting to know the software.
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The system I tested it on is an IBM ThinkPad laptop with a 1.8GHZ Pentium Centrino processor and 2GB ram running Windows XP Professional. The first thing I noticed about MixMeister was that it started up pretty slowly. I could see how MixMeister could be a bit threatening to us "analogue" DJs.
Even when the best DJs make live tapes it seems there's always one or two off mixes that will remind you that no DJ is perfect. My doubts subsided a bit when I first watched the demo for MixMeister.
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I haven't yet found software that can match a really good DJ. I have tried more expensive DJ software aplications and none of them were really that great at determining and matching the correct BPMs of tracks. I have been a DJ for 13 years, and believe me, I was a little wary when I first heard about MixMeister.
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