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Questions about Mixman

From: Karen Newcombe <kln@staralliance.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:48:01 -0800
Subject: Questions about Mixman
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Well, being of a skeptical nature and thinking the Mixman sounded like it
was too good to be true, I e-mailed them . . . for your enlightenment here
is the reply:

>Hi Karen,
>
>Thanks for the note.  The article in Newsweek is kind of confusing.
>
>You are right about the CD-ROMs we have.  You can only remix the songs that
>come on them.  Did you download the free demo to try it out?  We've found
>that lots of people asked if they could remix their own CDs but found out
>one of the Mixman CD-ROMs is many hours of fun too.
>
>With regards to remixing from your CDs, it is impossible to do.  All the
>tracks from the audio CD are mixed down into the two stereo channels.  It's
>impossible at that point to separate the tracks.  That's why we get the
>mulit-track recordings from the record labels so we can offer you the
>ability to remix the music with clean bass lines, synth, voices, etc.
>
>I recommend downloading the free demo to try it out and see what you think.

Oh well . . .

Karen  



Karen Newcombe  kln@staralliance.com

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