MixMeister displays the tracks you add to the Playlist in the Timeline. The Timeline (in the lower half of the window) is a visual representation of the music in your Playlist. Each horizontal row in the Timeline represents an individual track; it also shows you where the tracks overlap. The hills and valleys (or the music plot) correspond to changes in volume.
Even if all you've done so far is dragged 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. So go ahead and
play your mix
Click the Play From
Beginning button at the top of the window.
MixMeister uses Standard Mixing as the default way to transition from one song to another. MixMeister overlaps the end of the outgoing song with the beginning of the incoming song. In this style of mixing, which is frequently used by radio DJs, MixMeister fades out the outgoing song and fades in the incoming song in the overlap.
To hear what the default
Playlist settings sound like, click the Play From Beginning button .
To stop playing, click the Stop button .
To jump ahead in the song, use the Timeline scroll bar to move to the transition between the first two tracks.
To start playing from a point in time
As you listen, watch the Timeline:
The green vertical line in the Timeline shows the current play position.
The music plot of the track you're playing is white, while the other tracks are blue.
During the transition, when two tracks overlap, both tracks are white.
Watch how the graph of the music plot goes up
and down with the music. The peaks in the graph are where the heaviest
beats in the music are. To get a closer look at the peaks, click the Zoom
In button .
See also Playing your mix