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Mixed in Key?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:37 pm
by two oh one
http://www.mixedinkey.com/
Anybody use this?
I mean, judging by what I'm sometimes hearing, no, but anyway...
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:16 am
by thesynthesist
wow.
Look at those "celebrity" endorsements...
Why dont they just all say "I really didnt care to learn any more about music (or what music im mixing), so I moved onto this..."
I mean, this is a product that is attempting to make it faster to dj, right? Know the keys for all your tracks, and you can just mix and mix, you dont have to know what track goes with another... You still have to determine what key your tracks are in.
Not to mention that this shit is so inaccurately advertised...
Just because you know what "key" something is in, doesnt mean it will mix well with something else in that "key". This is a classic product from djs who never learned any more than the basics about music, or they'd have realized that "mode" is as important when doing this type of mix.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:28 am
by auan
Doesn't the pitch shifting fuck up the key anyway?
(Knows nothing about mixing.)
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:30 am
by __________
same key does not always equal a good mix.
i can forsee people overusing this and only mixing tunes in the same key (if this software even works that is.) this isn't going to teach people anything imo, i think it will confuse people more than anything.
here we have my C mix, next week look out for my A minor mix, its gonna be a stonker, thanks to everyone that downloaded my E7#9 mix.
sounds like a load of toss. i'll check it out though, might be funny.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:05 am
by thesynthesist
£10 Bag wrote:here we have my C mix, next week look out for my A minor mix, its gonna be a stonker, thanks to everyone that downloaded my E7#9 mix.
Wow. I fear this. That sounds like a nightmare!
RUN AWAY!!
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:42 am
by slim
Surely your ears can tell if things sound good together, no? Why would people buy software that does that when you have some perfectly good freeware strapped to the side of your head?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:53 am
by djshiva
Slim wrote:Surely your ears can tell if things sound good together, no? Why would people buy software that does that when you have some perfectly good freeware strapped to the side of your head?
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:40 am
by manray
Key mixing is gay as fuck. This website is gay as fuck. Just look at the rainbow fucking wheel you need to mix. (watch the youtube video was some more gay music in the background) WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THAT WOMAN DANCING SO STRANGELY. KILL ME NOW I NEED NOT TO BE SEEING THIS CRAP AT 9:40 IN THE MORNING.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:19 pm
by two oh one
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:31 pm
by psyphon
manray wrote:Key mixing is gay as fuck.
ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY.
Talk about taking every single ounce of sense out of what should be a fun thing to do.
PR Person: Hello Mr Tong. Here's £15,000. Please endorse our fucking crap idea.
Mr Tong: Yes of course.
PR Person: Thanks. We'll be back next week for YOUR FUCKING SOUL!!!
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:49 pm
by AFL
I just read a review for this in Remix Magazine.
Here, I just found it online for anyone who is interested. I doubt I would go as far as to use this program but I do like what the article had to say.
http://remixmag.com/performance/dj_gear ... index.html
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:03 pm
by __________
quote from the remix mag:
Figuring out the key of a new record in the past involved 10 minutes of fiddling around on a piano and then marking the (often-incorrect) key you found on the record label.
10 minutes on a piano to figure out the key?
if it takes you ten minutes to find out what key a tune is in, this software is not going to save you
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:49 pm
by thesynthesist
Figuring out the key of a new record in the past involved 10 minutes of fiddling around on a piano and then marking the (often-incorrect) key you found on the record label.
Now it takes you 10 minutes of fiddling around on a piano and then marking the (often-incorrect) key you found on the
id3 tag.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:22 pm
by somejerk
i think that there are better products that could be invented than this.
this is right up there with software that beat matches for you.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:29 pm
by misk
manray wrote:Key mixing is gay as fuck. This website is gay as fuck. Just look at the rainbow fucking wheel you need to mix. (watch the youtube video was some more gay music in the background) WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THAT WOMAN DANCING SO STRANGELY. KILL ME NOW I NEED NOT TO BE SEEING THIS CRAP AT 9:40 IN THE MORNING.
key mixing is gay, until christine vaccine does it. then it is most definitely not gay.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:41 pm
by manray
somejerk wrote:i think that there are better products that could be invented than this.
this is right up there with software that beat matches for you.
Have you heard of mixalbum
http://www.mixalbum.com
do some demo mixes. it's a joke. most the time if you are mixing two likewise tunes its spot on. stnuc! it's not taken off because its shite as fuck and nobody cares.
Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:08 pm
by thesynthesist
somejerk wrote:i think that there are better products that could be invented than this.
this is right up there with software that beat matches for you.
This is a far cry from beatmatching software. At least that can take the art of mixing to a new level. This crap simply repackages crap thats been done time after time.
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:52 pm
by mb
who wants in-key-mixes anyway? i mean dubstep is not a genre that you listen to sitting in your living room purling from that audiophile system. it's D-U-B-S-T-E-P, it's supposed to smash bones coming to close to that badman soundsystem. if you hear it in a proper format nobody cares about fucking "in-key"ness. i don't think it's not even necessary when listening to radio mixes and such. when you are some weirdo lounge dj, do what you want. but imho dubstep has way more things to offer, than being mixed in key.
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:59 pm
by djelements
Damn, why don't we just get automixing.
Like... have robots do it. The DJs can make their own robots.
Hell yeah, great idea. Wait no, it's fucking stupid.
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:08 pm
by two oh one
So, what the two camps are saying is:
a) I am do already at mix them in keys use my ears yeah stoopid yeah
or
b) Mixing in key is teh geigh an I am do knot care cuz yeah 2 chords an tha troof yeah innit yeah?