I downloaded MixMeister Express from the MixMeister website, and it has both PC and OSX compatibility. Fusion has all the features of Studio topped off with some live performance functions such as headphone cue, Midi control, and manual beatmatching. The Studio edition features a more professional looking interface and extra editing features, along with the ability to host external VST plugins. Otherwise, upgrades range from $19.95 to $29.95, depending on how old your version is.MixMeister Express is the entry-level option in the MixMeister product tier, which includes MixMeister Studio and MixMeister Fusion. If a major software upgrade is made available within 30 days of your original purchase, it's free. Free of charge, users can join the MixMeister community,, which includes active MixMeister forums as well as articles with MixMeister software tips and techniques. In addition to the aforementioned multimedia tutorial, the software includes extensive digital help materials, which can be accessed via its Help menu. It took approximately three minutes to export a 25MB project to our hard drive and approximately five minutes to export the same project to a USB MP3 player or to CD using a 40X burner. All three processes went off without a hitch in testing. The software can export finished projects to your PC's hard drive, to a connected portable audio device, such as an iPod, or to CD using its integrated burning engine. Unfortunately, it can't export WMA files at higher bit rates, nor does it export to the MP3 format. It can export finished projects as 16-bit or 32-bit 44.1KHz WAV files or as WMA files at up to 128Kbps bit rate. Unlike many audio-editing applications, including the step-up versions of this software, MixMeister Express 6.0 does not support digital signal processing (DSP) plug-ins. MixMeister Express 6.0 allows importing of unprotected WMA, MP3, and WAV files into its library. The Undo feature makes for risk-free experiments. As with virtually all multitrack editors, you can zoom in on the waveforms for precise editing. You can cut, copy, and paste passages reverse selected song segments and adjust volume, bass, and treble levels. The Snap To Beat function helps ensure that your edits don't cause beat discrepancies. Here you can manually adjust the durations and locations of transitions between tracks. But if you're a novice or just want to create a quick workout mix, you can get perfectly good results without ever venturing into this pane. The Timeline pane, which offers basic waveform-style track editing, lets you take a more hands-on approach to creating your mixes. Another option is to select one of MixMeister's built-in sound effects, such as Whoosh, to help obscure any tonal maladies that occur during the transition. When one track sounded bad transitioning into another, we simply changed the playback order. When we created an ABBA mix, we worked around that limitation by being flexible about the order of tracks. A pitch-shifting feature would help match songs' keys as well as their tempos. The only obvious snag is that tonal clashes can occur when two songs in different keys overlap during a beat-mix transition. Lastly, the Crossfade function essentially creates a smooth volume transition from one track into another without adjusting the BPMs. It's worth noting that adjusting a track's tempo doesn't affect its pitch. The Beatmix options gradually adjust the tempos of two adjacent tracks so that during the four or eight measures when the two tracks overlap, their beats match up, resulting in a smooth, beat-matched DJ-style transition from one track to the next. The transition options include Short Beatmix (four measures/16 beats), Long Beatmix (eight measures/32 beats), and Crossfade. MixMeister's real magic lies in its automatic track transitions, which can be selected using the orange pull-down box beneath each track title in the Playlist pane. When the order of tracks changes in the Playlist pane, it automatically changes in the Timeline pane as well. You can drag and drop tracks within the Playlist to change their playback order in the project. Any time a track is added to the Playlist pane, it also appears in the Timeline. To begin creating a custom mix, you drag files from MixMeister's Library pane to the Playlist pane. A Timeline takes up the bottom half of the screen. MixMeister Express 6.0 features a simple layout, with a Library pane on the top left and a Playlist pane on the top right.
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