What is MixMeister 4.0?

Welcome!

Want to create a heart-pounding mix for a party or a tempo-controlled mix for your aerobics class, but hate those awkward fades, jumping volume, or worsegaps of silence? MixMeister 4.0 can help. Using its intuitive graphical user interface, you can create a mix that's second to none in no time at all.

The steps to a great MixMeister mix are relatively simple:

Import your music into the Catalog where MixMeister keeps a list of all the music files you've imported. The Catalog, which you can organize the way you wantit's searchable, tooserves as the music source for your Playlist.

Build your Playlist.  You simply drag songs from the Catalog and drop them into the Playlist. MixMeister plays the songs (or tracks) in the order they're listed.

Create your mix.  The Timeline (in the lower half of the MixMeister window) gives you a visual representation of each song in your Playlist.

Important note MixMeister uses non-destructive editing. This means that no matter how much you edit a track in the Timeline, you never really change the original music file; you can always get back to it. With this approach, your onscreen editing goes much faster than if you were working on the original file, and your working files are much smaller, saving space on your hard disk. In addition, MixMeister has a robust "Undo" feature that can undo almost anything you do in the Playlist and the Timeline (although not in the Catalog).

Listen to the mix. Even if all you've done is drag a few songs from the Catalog and dropped them onto your Playlist, MixMeister has automatically overlapped the ending of each song with the beginning of the next, making smooth transitions between songs.

Share your mix by burning an audio CD, setting it up for transfer to a handheld player, or for broadcast on the Web.

 If you're ready to get going but you'd like some help, we've put together a quick tutorial that leads you step by step through the process of creating your mix.