And since all of the looping relies on an accurate BPM, MixVibes lets you. Like VirtualDJ, MixVibes can use VST plug-ins, but it also supports. Feb 16, 2017 Enhance your live shows with Remixvideo, the intuitive video sampler. Download: More info: Having.
We are thrilled to introduce to all of you the new version of Remixlive, available now for iOS and Android. Remixlive 5 debuts a few new features, including the Step Sequencer, one of our biggest leaps yet in making Remixlive a more complete, robust and powerful music creation app on mobile platforms.
The use of music apps on mobile devices has been growing significantly over the past few years, and as such we have added many features in the years since our first version such as the Drum Grid, Advanced Loop Launching, and now the Step Sequencer…
The decision to add the Step Sequencer became obvious after listening to feedback from our users. This new feature allows us to offer everyone the possibility to create their own patterns, making more complex music and stepping up their game by evolving their style.
Thanks to the seamless syncing of loops and sequences, there is no need to worry about clashing rhythms and melodies: everything will be synced to the beat. Just like you already can with loops, you can also transfer your sequences between the different packs.
On top of this robust new feature we’ve also introduced exciting performance and UI improvements, including an overhauled store and a beautiful new and more intuitive presentation for the Drum Grid.
Check out the update highlights below:
Step Sequencer
Create, customize your own sequences.
New 8×6 (6×4 on iPhone) grid for sequences.
Switch the play style of your sequences (loop, one shot, gate).
Grouped (Link) & exclusive (Shock) triggering of samples.
Route each pad to a mixer line — with its associated color.
User Interface improvements
Completely overhauled Store layout.
Brand new Drum Grid layout, new Sequence Grid.
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MixVibes 6 Pro
Developer:MixVibes 6 Platform: Windows Price: $320 Demo available: Yes Features
MixVibes Pro is no slouch for features. MixVibes comes in a number of flavors, but the overall feel of the app is consistent across them all. The default interface in version 6 isn't designed around a virtual turntable motif like the older versions; it's more like a rack of modules.
The MixVibes Pro interface with default skin. Click for full size.
You're seeing it there within Parallels Desktop for OS X, but only for this screenshot. None of the Windows audio programs work very well in Parallels since there is an audio latency and limited hardware support so all tests are from within Windows XP in Boot Camp.
Anyway, as you can see, MixVibes supports full-screen mode, but it's not exactly the best way to do it in my opinion and looks pretty clunky, with nothing fitting quite right. The crossfader sits below in a frame unrelated to the track decks and so it all feels like a bunch of Winamp plug-ins tossed into an HTML frame-happy web page, circa 1992. It's a shame since it distracts from all the nice rendering of the buttons and sliders and the frame thing doesn't work well for four (or more) decks. It's only going to get worse on a larger resolution screen since the decks are skinned at a fixed resolution—only the frames are going to get bigger.
Fortunately, beyond this untidiness MixVibes has a wealth of options and anyone coming from a more basic DJ program will appreciate the abundance of features. All the advanced stuff you'd expect are there: midi controller support, the right-click pitch bend trick, waveform preview, audible scrub, limiter, up to five cue points that save, bank of five loops with bar-length presets, autosync, three-band EQ with kills and Internet broadcasting. Also included are some additional nice touches: a knob-based EQ crossfade, built-in sampler, and a compressor, which is good for mastering mixed CDs or for controlling the sound for broadcasting.
I'm not the best judge of compressor quality, since I've never used one so I'm not going to comment on the one in MixVibes Pro. Still, no other program here has a rack like that one. Whew.
For the most part, interacting with MixVibes goes smoothly and there are a lot of tooltips to let you know what some of the more inscrutable buttons do. Timestretch is toggled by clicking the button above the pitch slider, which changes between pitch + tempo, just tempo (timestretch) and the odd ability to change key but not tempo, essential for those time you want to turn female vocalists into men without losing the dancefloor.
Pick a key, any key
Other than my aesthetic gripes, the issues with the MixVibes interface aren't dealbreakers, but they are worth mentioning: cueing in the waveform window is not very easy and feels buggy. You can't drag to scrub in the smaller track waveform and the top waveform scrub works backwards and it's too slow. Yes, backwards is a relative term, but there's a reason all audio apps scroll the way you drag: it's just intuitive that way. To make it all worse, the jog wheel just sucks and needs way too much care to get to scrub.
Fortunately that's the worst of it, but you also have to be careful where you click the EQs because MixVibes snaps to your position on the knobs. If you're not careful, you can end up dragging the bass down only to mash it all the way on by crossing the threshold to the right and everyone's bowels release with the sudden hammering of the low end.
In a similar mixed effort to make things more easily controlled, the scroll wheel controls active items, but if you mouse over to the tracklist and forgot that the main volume was the last thing you clicked, the innocent act of scrolling your playlist is going to deafen everyone in room. I learned that one the hard way in my headphones. There should be a way to turn these potentially not-so-helpful things off.
16 decks
MixVibes Pro has the option to use up to 16 decks at once. If you're like me, you're thinking 'when am I going to need 16 decks as well as a sampler?' More power to you if you need all 16 but the main problem with MixVibes' implementation though, apart from having to scroll a giant window of decks, is that the master tempo setting doesn't operate as a syncable clock, it just sets your tracks to the same tempo as a starting point.
The master tempo bar in MixVibes
So unless you get a separate hardware midi clock, you're left jumping around to constantly sync between two tracks, forcing one to be a pseudo master. This leaves a lot of room for error but the biggest problem with syncing multiple decks in MixVibes is that syncing is stupidly bound to the crossfader:
The numbers on either side is the assigned deck, affecting both output to the crossfader and what its BPM syncs.
The crossfader can only have two active decks at a time and changing the assignment changes audio input when you select the channel for syncing. This is an obvious holdover from when MixVibes only had two-deck support, and in a multideck scenario it's like tying your shoelaces to your arms, your fingers to your eyelids and then saying 'okay, let's box.' So without being able to lock a track to persistently match a specified channel or master tempo, syncing multiple decks becomes an ugly dance of changing your audio input on the crossfader—clicking 15 times if you want to get to that essential 16th deck—and mashing the Match button. The OMG16! decks in MixVibes Pro is definitely there just to beef up the résumé and confuse newbies into thinking that the competition is inadequate for not having 20. They would have been smarter to have done four right.
Cue points, looping
Cueing and looping in MixVibes is very standard, with 0.5/1/2/4/8/16-bar presets for loops. A 32-bar option is missing though, and I'm not sure why. Loops and cue points are saved with the profile files so you don't have to worry about redoing them, which is to be expected for a higher-end app aimed at professionals with organized DJ sets. Loop positions aren't editable though, so if you want to make some specific loops that interact, it's pretty key to get them to line up and that means getting them perfect the first time—easier said than done.
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The loop bank buttons don't have the same visual indicator for used banks as the cue points do, but if you mouse over them, a tooltip shows that it's used. And since all of the looping relies on an accurate BPM, MixVibes lets you manually set them. Thankfully wasn't needed too often as MixVibes' BPM detection is very good, even with the drum 'n' bass tracks I threw at it.
Filters
Like VirtualDJ, MixVibes can use VST plug-ins, but it also supports Direct-X audio filters. It's a great trend to see and hopefully it will motivate Native Instruments to open up Traktor to use external filter plug-ins and not just the hard-coded ones. To use filters in MixVibes, you have to right-click on the effects panel of the deck and select 'Effects.'
Filters can be stacked with up to six at a time and you can save sets of filters as preset to be loaded later.
As you can see in the shot above, you can toggle or tweak the first three filters from the main deck panel and it's nice to not have to use the larger control panel to just reduce the filter amount. You'll still have to use the main Effect deck if you're using more than three filters, but that should be rare, unless you're insane.
You can also use the filters within the sampler that comes with MixVibes. Basic operation is exactly the same and you can use the same expandable VST/Direct-X filters there too.
A third party VST plug-in in MixVibes' sampler deck.
Performance remained good with a bunch of active filters on each timestretched track and all in all, the filtering in MixVibes is pretty nice. The only issue was figuring out how to use them which leads me to the next section.
MixVibes missing features and bugs
MixVibes, for all its power and complexity trips up on a rather simple need: standard ID3 mp3 tags. It's a safe bet that it will lose some metadata from a good portion of your music; info that shows up fine in any other app.
Missing ID3 tag info for the author means that 42 found tracks for a search for 'mole' in iTunes turns into 4 for MixVibes. The ones that do appear show up with truncated track names.
This thread on their forum seems to confirm that it's a very common problem. Seeing as how you can't easily find all tracks by an artist if the artist's metadata isn't showing up at all and there's no logic to one file working over another, it's a glaring problem that needs to be fixed badly.
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Another problem I ran into is that autoloading of my profile—where all the song, cue/loop and setup data is stored—produces errors even though the profile loads fine from the recent file list.
You can't skip into the track until it's done a full analysis, which can be slow
Next to no documentation
The documentation for MixVibes is obviously not complete and seems to only focus on getting the timecoded vinyl and sound cards up and running, with a cursory explanation of what the interface parts are and no explanation of how to use them; the interface is often not very easily understood and things are often hidden in right-click menus, so it's a bit frustrating getting to know what's what in MixVibes. Even the parts of the documentation that show how to drag in tracks are with a completely different turntable-style interface from a previous version. The sparse 31-page PDF doesn't even mention the scripting engine or how to do recording.
What is in the docs: chuckles. Click for full size.
The software seems to presume you've used other software since none of the basics are covered (right-clicking to save a cue point, how to use auto beatsync, having to drag out of the sample button to get it to play fully, etc). All of these I had to pick up from goofing around and to figure out how to apply a filter (not obvious), I had to scour their support forum. After trying unsuccessfully for a half-hour to change the default length of the sampler recording or figure out how to load a sample from a file, I gave up since it wasn't on the web forum. Having no documentation is inexcusable for a complex product that costs over $300.
Last item on the complaint list: there's no way to mix the master and cue in the headphones monitor. This is a standard feature of DJ mixers so I don't think it's too much to ask that it make it into a professional DJ app.
Conclusion
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MixVibes Pro is a product with some potential but at this price, with the buggy metadata and lack of docs, there are better apps for professional use. If you're willing to drop over $300 to figure out MixVibes with no manual, then best of luck navigating its wall of undocumented buttons, but you'll still need to wait for a fix for the glaring bugs with it's metadata handling.
I hate to be so dismissive but I can't think of anything more problematic than a DJ program not reading track names or artists properly and lacking documentation. The way that multiple decks—which force your playlist into a horizontal sliver if you want to view them—are handled, the annoying cueing and the half-baked master tempo setup make this a poster boy for how a ton of things that look good on paper can be ruined by a bad interface and poor planning.
That said, the sum of MixVibes' included features and extendable filters make it an okay program for two-deck DJing and it offers a lot of professional tools even if delivered in a sloppy, undocumented interface. That's why I can't really say that MixVibes is bad, only that it's not that great. I'm giving the developer the benefit of the doubt that documentation will make it out within the next year or at least before version 7.
Pros
Cue and loop points are saved for files
Sampler with filter and timestretch options
BPM counter is accurate
Scriptable (I think)
Open plug-in options
Includes a compressor
Up to six stackable user-customizable filters which can be saved as a preset
Cons
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Abysmal documentation. Most application features aren't covered so you're left guessing at how to use them
Serious problems with basic mp3 tag info cripples usability
No master/cue mix for headphones monitor
Interface feels slapped together
Crossfader linking of audio and beatsync makes multiple decks frustrating to use