good software for making a mix?

just something for personal use, to get some mp3s into a nice, continuous hour long mix. easier to use the better.

traktor is the easiest i think but they all take a bit of work

acid... lol but true.

renoise

it doesn't get any easier than mixmeister fusion.

http://www.numark.com/mixmeisterfusion

I recommend Audacity:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

  Dragon said:

I recommend Audacity:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

if we're talking about a live mix here audacity is not the shit to use

are you making a DJ set where stuff is overlapped and beatmatched?

or just making sure the songs flow without a pause?

you could get a multi-tracker, try REAPER (free)

-create a new track

-import all the songs you want in the mix

-you can slide the tracks next to each other and do some simple crossfades. it'll do that automatically if you just make the tracks overlap.

then render a long wav and burn that

i am NOT doing a live dj set. again, this is for personal amusement. i think adjective is on the right track here. i'm just looking for something to do crossfades, layer tracks a bit, mess around generally. i'm just tired of listening to mixes i make that are just 12 tracks in a row, or something, without any kind of layering. i wouldn't mind learning how to beatmatch and really overlap things as well, so if there's room to grow with the program that would be cool.

acid 3

+ cool edit if necessary.

just to add to my post...

i can't really think of one but a multitracker with cd burning support would be a plus as well

i remember using a pirated copy of samplitude and you could drop track markers and cd text in the project and then burn a cd from the prog.

probably common in new DAWs?

but i haven't messed with that in a long while, so i don't know the new hotness

acid makes this stupid easy

traktor is more geared towards people who are used to mixing on decks

mixmeister

  chris moss acid said:

renoise

renoise can do this? i use renoise... could you explain or point to a tutorial?

Max MSP

  IRARI said:

  chris moss acid said:

renoise

 

renoise can do this? i use renoise... could you explain or point to a tutorial?

i was having a laugh, because this topic has been bought up a number of times before. i couldnt help but not take it seriously.

Csound omglolzz

Just use Traktor, it does a pretty good job analyzing tracks and is incredibly easy to use.

easiest by far is ableton live

ableton is piss easy to mix with, you can actually beatmatch without ever hearing the music just by banging the markers where you see the beats.

reaper is pretty good. i've used it for live mixing before

GET THE MIX APP FOR IPHONE, REALLY NICE BRO

I would say get to know Traktor and just use 4 decks. It takes a bit of getting used to, and you have to get your timing down, but I generally make mixes when I am very high and it is very enjoyable this way. The problem is that I always seem to manage to put Gza in the mix over tracks that I probably shouldn't be putting Gza over.

Reason

I found having to warp the tracks in Ableton kind of tedious work, Ableton sets seem to take more time to prepare as well compared to doing a Traktor set.

It took me about 10 minutes to get used to Traktor even though I'd been playing vinyl for more than 8 years.

  Adjective said:

you could get a multi-tracker, try REAPER (free)

-create a new track

-import all the songs you want in the mix

-you can slide the tracks next to each other and do some simple crossfades. it'll do that automatically if you just make the tracks overlap.

 

then render a long wav and burn that

  ezkerraldean said:

reaper is pretty good. i've used it for live mixing before

I also suggest Reaper