Music Mixing

[Magistrate]

I remember seeing a Dragons Den episode years ago with a guy who had invented a software program which could mix the ending of a track with the start of another automatically (i.e. without needing to manually align the tracks).

Does anyone know of software that can do this? Or even better, an app for the iphone?

I know there is plenty of software that you can manually do this with, but that's too much messing around for me, I want it to do this automatically.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[Fatman2]

Magistrate said:

I remember seeing a Dragons Den episode years ago with a guy who had invented a software program which could mix the ending of a track with the start of another automatically (i.e. without needing to manually align the tracks).

Does anyone know of software that can do this? Or even better, an app for the iphone?

I know there is plenty of software that you can manually do this with, but that's too much messing around for me, I want it to do this automatically.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Sorry, the only thing's I know of are the manual ones. I use Virtual DJ and that's as easy as it gets if you're not on a set of 1210's (althoug I find 1210's more user friendly tbh).

Trouble is though, mixing is more than just sticking the start of one track on the end of another. As good as the concept is I very much doubt it would result in particularly inspiring CD's and won't work with all tracks due to bpm variations. Good luck though.

[Egg Chaser]

Fatman2 said:

won't work with all tracks due to bpm variations.

This.

Unless all of the tracks are the same BPM, which is probably unlikely depending on what kind of music you're mixing, it won't beatmatch them properly.

[dudleybloke]

the problem is the software struggles with anything other than a simple 4/4 beat.
simple stuff like poncey house it might have a go with but anything with a break and complex rhythms it will struggle to get its head round it.
plus a lot of the skill of being a dj is the creative element and software will never reproduce that.