Mixman Studio

Being a bit of a drum'n'bass addict, I have been creating my own music for a few years with wav sequencers and samplers. These can be very expensive and very time consuming to use. I had a demo of this software on a magazine cover. Installed it, listened to the sample tracks and loved it! I liked it so much, I bought the software, £39.99 in Electonics Boutique. You can order it online from their website for £5 now. You are presented with two 'turntables' on screen that have eight track slots available. Double click on the tracks and pick from the multitude of samples and loops included with the CD. The track is inserted in the ...  Read the complete review

If you fancy yourself as a bit of a Fatboy Slim or Armand Van Helden, but don't have the gear to back up your gob, aslong as you have a PC, Mixman Studio maybe the software you're looking for. Mixman Studio generally is a DJ based remix tool, meaning you could probably pull off a basic remix project with this software alone, but the results wouldn't really be that great. It's main forte, indeed is as a DJ tool with samples instead of vinyls. The software interface itself couldn't be more obvious: you get two turn tables with 8 banks of sounds each (i.e. you can load upto 16 samples at a time), and a microphone to record your own sounds (if you ...  Read the complete review