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Understanding Drum Beats

2008-08-29T16:17:43+00:00

Hi Everyone,

We have just published our first weblog in our new educational weblog series.

It is an interesting blog about beat mixing, understanding drum beats and counting beats. It also contains an article called “Beat Mixing: Understanding Drum Beats” by Rob Wegner which is very informative. Finally, there is a video by A1partydj’s explaining beat counting and beat mixing. We hope you’ve found these resources useful and check back next week for the second installment.

You can find the weblog at the following link:

http://www.trakax.com/software/about/comments/understanding_drum_beats/

DJ mixes for August and September

2008-08-29T10:20:24+00:00

Hi Everyone,

I have added some mixes I made over the last couple of months. They have a little bit of electro house and tech house. If its not your style music apologies but if your into dance music I hope you all enjoy. Tracklistings are all available below the mix links.

And remember if you have created any cool mixes, please post them so we can all enjoy them.

Laters,

1st Mix: http://www.mixupload.com/media-FortheFaintHearted

1. 0:00 Heater (Original Mix) - Samim
2. 5.24 Dark Flower (Joris Voorn Magnolia Mix) - Robert Babicz
3. 12.50 Miami Push (Original Mix) - Boris Rush
4. 16.45 California Gold (Original Mix) - Adam Beyer & Agaric
5. 21.17 Jack is Back (Original Mix) - Patrick Skoog
6. 26.42 Tight Laces (Original Mix) - Loco Dice
7. 31.27 Fog (Original Mix) - The Cheapers
8. 38.27 Space (Original Mix) - Minilogue
9. 45.26 Duo Cad Sordid (Original Mix) - Deadmau5
10. 51.10 A Cause des Garcons (Tepr Remix) - Yelle

2nd Mix: http://www.mixupload.com/media-LiqoriceAllsorts-MayO8

1. 0:00 Altes Kamuffel (Original Mix) Paul Kalkbrenner
2. 5.32 Dark Style Deluxe (Sean Grieve Remix) - Scope
3. 9.34 Love Sweet Sound (Extended 12” Mix) - Groove Armada
4. 14.06 Fifths (Original Mix) - Deadmau5
5. 19.10 Down and Dirty (Hy2rogen Remix) - Rupert Romaro
6. 24.32 The Things You Say (Critical Mass) - (Dirty South Remix) - Cicada
7. 30.19 Better Day feat Rudy (Adam K & Addy Remix) - Dirty South - Paul Harris
8. 34.50 It’s True (Dabruck & Klein Remix) - Axwell & Sebastian Ingrosso & Salem Al Fakir
9. 40.54 The Reward Is Cheese (Original Mix) - Jelo & Deadmau5
10. 45.51 I Like Rhythem (Hotbox Digital) - Adam K & Soha
11. 52.58 BIG 9 (BugEyed Records) (Original Mix) - Donald Glaude

New Club Mix - April 08

2008-04-02T16:41:48+00:00

Hi Everyone here is my new Club mix i created (No Rest for the Wicked Mix).

This one is a bit more heavy and for those serious techhouse/techno/electro lovers out there. Hope you all enjoy, even if its not your favourite style of music and all comments welcome.

http://www.mixupload.com/cbno1

Here is the track listing:

1. Sweet Lullaby (Original Mix) - Ramon Tapia
2. Good God (Original Mix) - Funkerman, Baggi Begovic
3. After the Crash (Original Mix) - Zander VT
4. Bottom Heavy 2008 (Phunk Investigation Instrumental DJ Mix) - Danny Tenaglia
5. Offroad Camping (Original Mix) - Zander VT
6. Your Face is a Mess (Mark Broom Remix) - Gel Abril
7. Wear Your Scars Like Medals (Original Mix) - Sian
8. Sofa King (Mark Mendes Remix) - John Acquaviva, Oliver Giacomotto
9. Albertino (Original Mix) - Guido Schneider, Andre Galluzzi
10.Testarossa (SebastiAn Mix) - Kavinsky
11.Square Surf (Original Mix) - Mr. Oizo

Feature Wishlist

2007-08-23T11:42:00+00:00

Post here to add what you would like to see in future releases of trakAxMobile.

Recording in stereo?

2008-08-25T20:35:57+00:00

It seems if I use the microphone to record my voice…
It only records on Mono…

Is there something I can do so that it records in stereo?

By the way....
love the TracAx system...really quite excellent!

Thanks…

Cazzy

Error…..

2008-08-18T19:05:27+00:00

Firstly I want to say what a great program this is....I downloaded it last night and was up until 5 am....sad I know but I just couldn’t help myself!

Anyway, to the problem at hand...the program was working fine on my (rather old) laptop until suddenly
I received a message saying something like “An error occurred while retrieving data from the clipboard”. I don’t know why this has suddenly happened, but it may have something to do with the fact that the program and all my media is on a external hard-drive rather than installed on the computer itself.

I really hope its me being stupid but I have tried a few things which haven’t worked.
Thanks in advance, wp142.

100 Awesome Music Videos

2008-08-22T12:32:02+00:00

Hi Everyone,

With the release of the new version of trakAxPC coming very soon, the trakAx team thought we might try and get some of your creative juices flowing. Pitchfork, the music magazine, have put together a great collection of music videos, which they call “100 Awesome Music Videos”. Hopefully, these videos can inspire some of you creative geniuses out there to produce some top notch music videos of your own. Hope you all enjoy….PS some absolute classics in there.

Please follow the Link:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36588-100-awesome-music-videos

Elements of a Tune - Loopmasters

2008-08-20T15:21:20+00:00

Loopmasters (whose pro loops and beats are available on trakax.com) have made some interesting tech articles available on their site.

One that I sound interesting was ‘Elements of a Tune’ - Davide Carbone discusses that having a non-restrictive structure will actually help you create a track. He explains the five elements required for any good track:

1. Drums
2. Bass
3. Energy
4. Vive
5. Character

Although some elements such as Vibe and Character are quite difficult concepts to pin down, Carbone gives a good insight into how these are are vital components and how to find your own style.

Check our our huge library of Loopmaster Content on the trakPacks area - starting at $1.99 for Bundles of 10 loops, this is super value and allows you to experiment with tons of genres without breaking the bank.

200 jpg files import at once

2008-08-12T10:30:00+00:00

Hi, i was wondering if it’s possible to import +/- 200 jpg-files in trakaxpc at once so it makes a movie like an animation automatic?

if not:
Does anyone know if there is freeware to make a movie(avi) file from +/- 200 jpg-files? (tried windows movie maker, maybe doing something wrong?)
Number of frames per second change must be included.

greetings tom

Radiohead - House of Cards - Making of.

2008-08-07T10:24:16+00:00

Hey Everyone

Thought I would post a behind the scene’s video of Radiohead’s House of Cards.

The video was shot without any Cameras just a new scanner which is I think a very interesting new direction.

The video and song are lovely also. Check them out:

Making of Video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyQoTGdQywY&feature=user[/youtube]

Finished Video:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTFjVm9sTQ&feature=user[/youtube]

Cormac