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MixMeister is a program for disk jockeying, but not as we know it. DJs use devices that play songs, and add a mixer in order to make transitions. No spinning turntable, no sound. Stop the turntable to throw on another record and you’ve got to have something else playing to avoid the dreaded silence.
MixMeister does away with this interface ‘metaphor’, and adopts a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) approach to DJing. Instead of a ‘deck’ playing a track, you lay out tracks in a beat-gridded display (“timeline” in DAWnese) and use traditional multi-track DAW transport controls to navigate, balance and transfer between songs. Each track has a segmented line following it for each of volume, bass, mids and treble – adjusting their respective volumes.