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Summary: Good for kids 8 to 14
Review: A good and incredibly simple to use piece of software. My copy didn't come with a manual or a help file on the CD yet i made a few very nice songs. Though for anyone who really wants to play around and sample and make techno music Sonic Foundry sells much better titles which allow more manipulation and over all compatibility. Being very into music I found this title very limiting and in the end not worth using. However if you don't intend to spend time(5hours) regularly making music this may work for you.
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Summary: Great, especially for the price!
Review: Easy to install and use, Techno ejay comes with a huge variety of sounds. It's a drag and drop program that you can have numerous sounds going on at once, AND you can import your own wav files. That means, you can also add your own voice if you have a microphone adapter. Also, you can change all of the existing sounds as well as imported files to sound robotic, distorted, higher or lower pitch, echo effects and so much more. Effects can be used alone or combined! Mixes can be saved in a format that allows you to go back and edit and also one that saves it as a .wav file so you can burn it on a cd. This is a great product for someone who just wants to experiment with making their own music. AND it's inexpensive --- get it!
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Summary: Great, especially for the price!
Review: Easy to install and use, Techno ejay comes with a huge variety of sounds. It's a drag and drop program that you can have numerous sounds going on at once, AND you can import your own wav files. That means, you can also add your own voice if you have a microphone adapter. Also, you can change all of the existing sounds as well as imported files to sound robotic, distorted, higher or lower pitch, echo effects and so much more. Effects can be used alone or combined! Mixes can be saved in a format that allows you to go back and edit and also one that saves it as a .wav file so you can burn it on a cd. This is a great product for someone who just wants to experiment with making their own music. AND it's inexpensive --- get it!
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Summary: Anyone can make decent techno with techno EJay
Review: First off, Techno EJay can use WAV files. Now the functionality of the program is not at a proffesional level, but it does allow almost anyone to be aurally expressive. The volume can become an issue, but there are ways around this. The fact that it has fifteen tracks is amazing allowing for technially detailed songs. One interesting aspect of Techno EJay is that the included sound samples sound more like trance. What makes this even more ironic is the inclusion of a demo for Trance EJay on the disc. The sound loop creation tools are easy to use and very helpful. I would reccomend this product to anyone who likes techno, and anyone who wants to get some experience making electronica for a very [low] price, compared to similar sound loop sequencers.I had a lot of fun with this program and even have a CD worth of completed songs that have been well liked by all who have listened. Most people think that it is proffesional techno.
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Summary: Good God, Y'all!
Review: How much easier can it be to create techno grooves than this? Drag and drop any of 3000 tuned and timed samples on to any of 16 stereo tracks. Cut, copy, and paste with ease. The samples are divided in to various categories (e.g. loop, bass, drums, synthesizer, voice, etc.) Import .wav files with the click of a mouse, time-stretch them if necessary, and drop them anywhere. Record your own samples from CD, DVD (with appropriate hardware) or Microphone. Create your own loops with the 4 measure, 64 note, 500 sample, monophonic, 1 octave Groove Generator (sequencer), or drop in your own samples for "grooving". Drop any sample into the Effects Studio to add reverb, echo, distortion, white noise, filtering, change pitch, etc. Adjust the individual track volumes before saving your mix as a .wav file suitable for burning on to a CD (with appropriate hardware). The sound quality is amazing with the 16/20 bit DSP sound cards commonly available in PCs today. For best results, you'll want the 1/2 gigabyte 5000 sample Dance eJay 2 Mega pack (and other CD-Rom sample collections) as the basic samples grow wearisome after a while. A 1 CD burner + 1 CD/DVD reader setup works best as the original (or backup) program disk is needed to run the program. You'll also want to graduate to high quality computer speakers, such as the Monsoon M-2000, for best results...A 7 minute .wav takes up about 75meg of hard disk space. Let the beat kick...
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Summary: This is the coolest!
Review: I am a 30 yr. old, stay-at-home mom...not your targeted audience for this kind of thing, right? Well, think what you want, but I happen to LOVE techno music and thought this would be a great way to explore it. It is so easy to use that even my 3-yr-old mixes songs and we all dance around to the great beats, etc. I happen to be a musician but do NOT think those skills are necessary to use this program. I had a kick-@#$ song written within minutes of starting the program...you really can't screw it up. Now, I just need a cd-burner thingy so I can listen to my tunes anywhere...heck, maybe I'll host my own rave...LOL!
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Summary: Very cool!
Review: I checked out a demo of techno ejay and was hooked!!!! Anyone into electronic/club music should get this product. Hours of fun and the mixes sound professional. You could put your mixes on a cd and nobody would know that you created them on your pc.
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Summary: simple, fast ,and easy!
Review: i love this program anyone can use this. an easy instant gratification fix for the not so musicaly inclined.
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Summary: Great for beginners and useful to the experienced.
Review: I recommend this program to everyone who asks me how to start making their own Techno music. Techno Ejay has an easy interface that lines up the beats for you in the industry standard 140BPM, color-codes different types of loops, and requires no background in music theory. If you or your teenager are interested in trying your hand at making your own dance mixes, it's cheap enough that you won't have to worry about throwing your cash away on a phase. It may also get your child interested in practicing his/her instrument, for a change, (I did get an email that confirmed as much!) All of its features are only enhanced by the addition of an experienced musician, and the 3,000 pre-designed loops can be grouped by pitch or saved as wavs for use in other programs. I didn't start out to make this an ad for my website, but if you'd like to hear some examples of what you can do with Techno Ejay, all of the mixes I make that are labeled "techno" use Techno Ejay to some degree. On the "Yo Way Yo Remix" (on the Lexx Pages) and the "Happy, Happy, Joy Joy Remix", I used Techno EJay exclusively. I have a music theory background and 12 years of piano lessons (and other instruments) to my credit, so I could have written everything myself from scratch, but why do things the hard way if you don't have to? I gave it only 4 stars because of a few glitches, however. I have found that on reloading a mix, any imported samples copy themselves and fill up my list with duplicates. Deleting them before finishing your mix erases them from your music. Also, occasionally while playing a mix, it will skip or repeat bars. Once mixed down to a wav, this disappears, so it's more annoying than harmful. (....And if you're worried that Techno is somehow "musically low-brow", it's really just an electronic Fugue, much closer to classical music than rock! If it's good enough for Bach, it should be good enough for you or your children!) Pet ;D
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Summary: For creative techno lovers
Review: I went to CompUSA intending to buy the MTV music generator because I wanted to get started in writing my own techno music and I needed something inexpensive. Well, needless to say, I didn't buy it. I came out of the store with Techno Ejay and I have never regretted the $40 I paid for it! This is an awesome, easy to use program that has many worthy features. I was skeptical about just how good my music could be using a software program - but it was easy to use and very fun to play with. I can write a great sounding song in under 2 hours and then, export it as a wav file and burn my own album! Awesome! And the best part is, if you get tired of the massive 3,000 sound collection, you can import your own wav files! I recommend this product to anyone who wants to be a techno music composer, but can't afford expensive mixing equipment and synthesizers. I recommend buying Data Becker's 10,000 sound clips if you want more wav files to use with Techno Ejay.
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