Jam Trax
on Wed, 06/01/2010 - 7:34pm
Does anyone remember an old mixing program called Jam Trax? Sony released it as a baseline product, and I came into a copy a couple years back for $20. It's very basic - prefabbed loops only, and extremely limited recording possibilities. (No metronome, no track control, no pan and no fast forwarding/rewinding.) Loops were limited at best, and set to a grid. Despite all this however, it is one of the funnest audio programs I have ever worked on, as the pressure to make something good, new and original is absent; you are there to relive the best (and worst) of the nineties.
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Sounds to me like the first peice of software I got my hands on when I had a Pentium 200Mhz, Techno Ejay 2. Limited, but had the option to import sounds, it was really hard to match the imported sounds to the right time code, and most of all Ejay promoted its own website to host the tracks where most of the contributors had nearly no originality as one would expect with a pre-packed and limited peice of software.
It was fun to play around with in my early stages, it taught me one of the most important things in production. Structure!
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