Alright, so say you’re serious about music and it is the love of your life. Consider this, have you ever wanted to be the life of a party, or just want to practice music mixing for free? Then DEFINITELY check this program out if you don’t already have a program similar to this one. It is free, open-source, runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, and comes with quite a bit of features. To the beginner it may look like its difficult to use, but it really isn’t. This program is backed by a great community of developers. I’ve been using this program for quite some time now and I have to say it is one of the coolest free music mixing programs out there, in my honest opinion. It allows you to do everything a professional DJ would do. Also, if you have an audio controller device with turntables or CDJ decks or whatever, you may also choose to use that with this program, as doing it with a mouse and keyboard really isn’t that great, but considering that its all I have to work with, that is what I use, as I assume most of you would also be using. Whats nice about this program is that you get waveform displays, so that you can beat match efficiently and easily, and also gives you a BPM display of how fast the song you loaded on one of the decks really is. Sometimes this can be a little off, so don’t completely rely on that display, use your own judgement as well. You also have the option of recording the mix you created to an AIFF or WAV file. Too bad you can’t produce an MP3 file, but I find it works well on WAV, as you can upload your saved mix file to wherever you saved it onto an iPod, not sure if it works with other devices, but you can give it a shot. Mixxx also comes with a variety of skins, so depending on your liking, and the features you want, choose the one that suits you best. There are only a few of them, but I suspect there will be more in the future, my current skin is Collusion (1280-WS) with the cyan color scheme, which I think is the best looking one in terms of appearance. If you want the auto pilot features of this program so you don’t have to worry about mixing anything and runs off of a playlist you create aka right clicking your track and then selecting “add to play queue”, then choose the “outline” skin and choose “next” on end of track mode to automatically load/play the next song onto your deck.

Mixxx isn’t for everyone, but if you’re a serious music enthusiast and want to entertain the idea of creating mixes, then definitely give this program a go. Feel free to expose me to your community Mixxx

To check Mixxx out for yourself, click your mouse here.

Starting price: $499. Unbelievable. Good thinking. Click the jump to continue reading.

They also got smart by adding a keyboard dock:

Pretty sweet, huh? iThink so.

The keyboard layout is pretty nice on this new device, a head turner actually:

Also, a case, I love how you can prop it up like so:

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That’s pretty much all I have to say. For more, just go to the link up there on the introductory paragraph. More goodness coming soon.

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