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Customer Reviews of Techno eJay

Good product for the beginner
This is a simple and easy to use sequencer program, which makes it good for beginners and others who are unfamiliar with electronic dance music and or EDM creation software. That said, I would never recomend this product to anyone who is serious about making music and/or wants do to it professionally (or live). First strike: It uses proprietary ".pxd" files and doesn't import wav files. Cookie cutter dance music is what makes otherwise open minded people hate all electronica. Avoid anything that doesn't work with standard digital media files. (like .wav) Second strike: You can't manipulate their sound files in any meaningful way, mostly just sequence (arrange loops into song patterns). Third strike: it retails, {price] as of this writing. For the same money or a little more you can get software that's a lot more versatile and professional from vendors like Sonic Foundry.

Bottom line, The eJay software is a toy. It's a doinky-simple-casio-keyboard-from-radio-shack of the software world, which there are a lot of. Good for kids or someone for whom it's an amusement, not for someone intent on making serious electronic dance music. (or any other genre for that matter)

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Great for beginners and useful to the experienced.
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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good
my old friend brian had the se version which was not as good as this and i know this is gonna be great cuz its so easy to use