I love Fusion, it's perfect for my needs but I'm always interested in having a backup solution, if for some reason it stops working on a new machine. Are there other good programs out there that beatmatch in this sequencer style layout, rather than the common two deck method used by Traktor, etc.

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Has anyone had good experience with Ableton? Can it handle mixing non-dance songs? Are there any good programs for the ipad of Android tablets? I've heard mention of this iDJ program, is that up there with Fusion? Ableton is in fact DAW software. So it ships with software synthesizer en allows to hook up other VST based software synthesizers. It can create non dance songs but note.

'create' Not as with mixmeister that deals with commercial tracks en auto mix very excellent. I can work with audio tracks but sure not as good as Mixmeister does it. But as Daw software, since software synths are involved is just another league. In fact, anno 2015 there is still no application that does the auto mixing and beat slicing that is reaching the quality of Mixmeister. IDj can be compared with CD players with adjustable bpm and mixing panel.

A bit easier with software. But far from Fusion. I never had a crash from Mixmeister studio and I use it alot.

Okay, a problem with the keycodes at this moment. But studio runs for the rest fine. Ableton is in fact DAW software. So it ships with software synthesizer en allows to hook up other VST based software synthesizers. It can create non dance songs but note. 'create' Not as with mixmeister that deals with commercial tracks en auto mix very excellent.

I can work with audio tracks but sure not as good as Mixmeister does it. But as Daw software, since software synths are involved is just another league. In fact, anno 2015 there is still no application that does the auto mixing and beat slicing that is reaching the quality of Mixmeister. IDj can be compared with CD players with adjustable bpm and mixing panel.

A bit easier with software. But far from Fusion. I never had a crash from Mixmeister studio and I use it alot. Okay, a problem with the keycodes at this moment. But studio runs for the rest fine.

It's crazy how another software manufacturer hasn't come up with a similar or improved version of Mixmeister. It's by far the best DJ software out there for people who aren't used to the old two deck way. Much more intuitive and easy to grasp. It's a shame that Numark aren't really behind this software anymore - just imagine how good it could if they'd carried on developing it over the years, we'd be on version 9 or 10 now.

It's still the best thing out there though, and I guess there are benefits to it being a 'secret' of sorts. It's crazy how another software manufacturer hasn't come up with a similar or improved version of Mixmeister. It's by far the best DJ software out there for people who aren't used to the old two deck way. Much more intuitive and easy to grasp. It's a shame that Numark aren't really behind this software anymore - just imagine how good it could if they'd carried on developing it over the years, we'd be on version 9 or 10 now. It's still the best thing out there though, and I guess there are benefits to it being a 'secret' of sorts.

Why would you use mixmeister for DJing? It's amazing for putting studio albums together but you can't recreate the feeling of a live mix on software. I've tried over and over again but when you mix a set with mixmeister it feels stale compared to using a pair of CDJs or even a software controller. Also you can get DJ controllers now that are push button only without the usual platter so if you are used to something like that then these with traktor or serato would be you best choice.

All of that said there is no alternative to mixmeister for putting together a mix without actually 'DJing'. I use it to put together stuff to listen to in the car etc.

But it isn't really DJing and you really wouldn't trully enjoy DJing unless you do it properly. Why would you use mixmeister for DJing? It's amazing for putting studio albums together but you can't recreate the feeling of a live mix on software. I've tried over and over again but when you mix a set with mixmeister it feels stale compared to using a pair of CDJs or even a software controller. Also you can get DJ controllers now that are push button only without the usual platter so if you are used to something like that then these with traktor or serato would be you best choice. All of that said there is no alternative to mixmeister for putting together a mix without actually 'DJing'. I use it to put together stuff to listen to in the car etc.

But it isn't really DJing and you really wouldn't trully enjoy DJing unless you do it properly. The problem with Mixmeister is that once you've fixed an edit or cut point, that edit is not always 'taken' by Mixmeister, which means the actual audio is often out-of-sync with what's displayed in the track interface. If you do any sort of complex re-cutting and mixing this will happen, has always happened for at least the past ten years with Mixmeister. I believe this relates to poor CPU threading and/or Disk I/O. For professional DJs, Numark hardware has always been a no-go zone. Cheaply-made mixers that carry phantom tones and distort easily, turntables that purport to support scratching but can't keep turning even with the slightest touch. When Numark bought Mixmeister I could have predicted the bugs would never, ever be fixed.

If anything, it's gotten much worse. The problem with Mixmeister is that once you've fixed an edit or cut point, that edit is not always 'taken' by Mixmeister, which means the actual audio is often out-of-sync with what's displayed in the track interface. If you do any sort of complex re-cutting and mixing this will happen, has always happened for at least the past ten years with Mixmeister. I believe this relates to poor CPU threading and/or Disk I/O. For professional DJs, Numark hardware has always been a no-go zone. Cheaply-made mixers that carry phantom tones and distort easily, turntables that purport to support scratching but can't keep turning even with the slightest touch.

When Numark bought Mixmeister I could have predicted the bugs would never, ever be fixed. If anything, it's gotten much worse. Well join the club. I have used mixmeister for over 15 year now and frankly inasmuch as I already was mixing music with Sony ACID Music Studio 7.0 before mixmeister ever did its thing, as I was doing it with that program. Than I went with Virtual DJ, than with Roxio, JetAudio, Steinberg Cubase AI 4, MixMeister Fusion, MixMeister Fusion Live, MixMeister.Fusion.plus.Video.v7.0.8-MelodY, and last I turn to Traktor.

All of the previous version of mixmeister have all collapsed when Mixmeister was taken over by inmusic store, which at first was called or owned by Numark. The Mixmeister tech staff has always been slow in responding to the problem I would encounter with it and frankly most of the time I would end up fixing the problems myself, which took a lot of my personal time.

The newest version of Mixmeister is 7.7 and you if had bought Fusion plus video in the past, which does not work any longer you can get 7.7 paying them 21 dollars. The down side to 7.7 is it comes with the Ilok program, which will not let you open mixmeister without having your license in it and the other problem with iLok is that you have to have an internet connection or it will not let you open any of your mixes and the other problem is that when you disconnect your laptop or any desktop computer you worked mixmeister in, mixmeister will not work and one has to reinstall it along with the ilok program and quickly connect to internet modem or a wireless adapter so it can pick up the internet signal towards the ilok program that controls mixmeister.

Oh my I have many years of work in my hard drives with mixmeister and I now feel that I will be held hostage to their whims just to keep my mixes working. So there you have it. I got tractor for free when I purchased the Numark mixer controller. I have not used it much, but its maybe somewhat like mixmeister in that you can ladder your playlist tracks on the timeline with their intros and outros transitions and move them laterally within the timeline.

I have never used the automix on mixmeister, because inasmuch as that was the purpose of mixmeister and I did try it at first maybe one or two would sound ok, but most of the time it didn't and I did not like it how they came out. I have master my transition work with mixmeister so now I am so use to it that it would be a shame if I could not use the program again. It’s not just the sound Arnold. Editing is a real drama. I have used MM Studio for many years but I dropped it now. The timeline does not work correctly, graphics are scrambled, plalists are obscured, collection is obscured, cropping clips does not work properly, extending/shortening does not work as it should. The lack of support from Numark started the minute they took over and has never changed since.

They should just give it back to it’s original developer. They addressed issues and fixed them. It’s basically dead now. Well join the club. I have used mixmeister for over 15 year now and frankly inasmuch as I already was mixing music with Sony ACID Music Studio 7.0 before mixmeister ever did its thing, as I was doing it with that program. Than I went with Virtual DJ, than with Roxio, JetAudio, Steinberg Cubase AI 4, MixMeister Fusion, MixMeister Fusion Live, MixMeister.Fusion.plus.Video.v7.0.8-MelodY, and last I turn to Traktor.

All of the previous version of mixmeister have all collapsed when Mixmeister was taken over by inmusic store, which at first was called or owned by Numark. The Mixmeister tech staff has always been slow in responding to the problem I would encounter with it and frankly most of the time I would end up fixing the problems myself, which took a lot of my personal time.

The newest version of Mixmeister is 7.7 and you if had bought Fusion plus video in the past, which does not work any longer you can get 7.7 paying them 21 dollars. The down side to 7.7 is it comes with the Ilok program, which will not let you open mixmeister without having your license in it and the other problem with iLok is that you have to have an internet connection or it will not let you open any of your mixes and the other problem is that when you disconnect your laptop or any desktop computer you worked mixmeister in, mixmeister will not work and one has to reinstall it along with the ilok program and quickly connect to internet modem or a wireless adapter so it can pick up the internet signal towards the ilok program that controls mixmeister. Oh my I have many years of work in my hard drives with mixmeister and I now feel that I will be held hostage to their whims just to keep my mixes working. So there you have it. I got tractor for free when I purchased the Numark mixer controller. I have not used it much, but its maybe somewhat like mixmeister in that you can ladder your playlist tracks on the timeline with their intros and outros transitions and move them laterally within the timeline.

I have never used the automix on mixmeister, because inasmuch as that was the purpose of mixmeister and I did try it at first maybe one or two would sound ok, but most of the time it didn't and I did not like it how they came out. I have master my transition work with mixmeister so now I am so use to it that it would be a shame if I could not use the program again. Ive used Sonic Foundry's Acid Music, which then became Sony Acid Music.

Was awesome software for making mixes, but definitely wasnt geared specifically towards being made for DJ mixes. I just twisted it to my needs to make my mixes and it worked out.

The most promising software I have only seen with what I envisioned as being best suited for Timeline based DJ mixing without me having to 'twist things around' in Sony Acid, was Mixmeister (which never seemed to work for me on my Mac), and MashUp 2 by MixedinKey. Both of these software had potential, but dropped the ball.

Ive been searching and hoping for over 10+ years now, but it looks like no one will ever make something amazing in this niche area. I will forever keep my fingers crossed, but I wouldnt hold my breath. Ive used Sonic Foundry's Acid Music, which then became Sony Acid Music. Was awesome software for making mixes, but definitely wasnt geared specifically towards being made for DJ mixes. I just twisted it to my needs to make my mixes and it worked out. The most promising software I have only seen with what I envisioned as being best suited for Timeline based DJ mixing without me having to 'twist things around' in Sony Acid, was Mixmeister (which never seemed to work for me on my Mac), and MashUp 2 by MixedinKey. Both of these software had potential, but dropped the ball.

Ive been searching and hoping for over 10+ years now, but it looks like no one will ever make something amazing in this niche area. I will forever keep my fingers crossed, but I wouldnt hold my breath. I actually found software called One.DJ which looked even more promising as it was full on DJ mixing software that you could jump back and forth between a DJ interface and a timeline interface. Problem is.theres no way to buy the software and the owners never respond.

It also hasnt been updated in a few years and they are trying to sell off the brand, so its pretty much a dead software atm. Mashup.I asked the owners if they planned on taking the software further, but they are too focused on their Captain Plugins software and said they cant put resources on Mashup because the demand isnt there. For me, Mashup cant handle my projects as they are too involved.

But I guess its ok for people that want to throw something quick and small together. A lot of people love Ableton for timeline DJing, but I dont have the time to learn new software that is that far beyond my element.

Besides, I checked out many videos and I dont see what is special about it. I guess the people who rave over it are people that used it from the start and never really worked in other software.? I gave in and started using Logic. Of course the sound quality is top notch, but it is also very frustrating to work in (mostly navigation for me. Even from a non DJing, music production stand point). But were all stuck out in open water as far as any hope of real DJ timeline software being produced.

Maybe I should just give up the DJing, start writing code, and make my own software. I actually found software called One.DJ which looked even more promising as it was full on DJ mixing software that you could jump back and forth between a DJ interface and a timeline interface. Problem is.theres no way to buy the software and the owners never respond. It also hasnt been updated in a few years and they are trying to sell off the brand, so its pretty much a dead software atm. Mashup.I asked the owners if they planned on taking the software further, but they are too focused on their Captain Plugins software and said they cant put resources on Mashup because the demand isnt there. For me, Mashup cant handle my projects as they are too involved.

But I guess its ok for people that want to throw something quick and small together. A lot of people love Ableton for timeline DJing, but I dont have the time to learn new software that is that far beyond my element. Besides, I checked out many videos and I dont see what is special about it.

I guess the people who rave over it are people that used it from the start and never really worked in other software.? I gave in and started using Logic. Of course the sound quality is top notch, but it is also very frustrating to work in (mostly navigation for me.

Even from a non DJing, music production stand point). But were all stuck out in open water as far as any hope of real DJ timeline software being produced. Maybe I should just give up the DJing, start writing code, and make my own software.

There's no point in sending anything to Apple. They do not provide support for any third-party products nor does the Discussions.

Unless you can provide some evidence that the problem is a bug in OS X then there's no point in reporting anything to the engineers. If this is a hardware peripheral then it may still no longer be compatible regardless of whether it uses third-party drivers or not. It runs on internal firmware that may no longer function with the newest version of OS X.

If you desire to send a report, however, you can do so at. I am having the same problem on my new Mac OS X 10.6.4.I have been using Mixmeister for 10yrs on a PC and have never had any problems until now. I upgraded to Fusion & bought the Numark DJ/IO that Mixmeister recommended for Previewing and I can't get it to work.I'm glad to see your message because I was going crazy trying to figure it out. So far I am not happy with Fusion for the Mac.Import is way to slow, It doesn't save your last screen config.

I have to reconfigure all columns every time I open the program. When using the Effects Rack: when you select the 'Show the Effect Control Panel' it will shut down the program.NOT GOOD! I'll be sending Mixmeister my Report.until then I will not be using Mixmeister on the Mac.

I just stumbled on your message. I had the same problem a few months ago, I thought it was an install problem bought an uninstall soft for mac etc. Still same problem moving columns would freeze the program. Eventually I contacted MMeister and was told after a few emails that. They were aware of the problem and that they had no current solution. Really pi@@%$ me off.

Like you have been using MM for years and bar some below the bar sound encoding and the nasty habit of MM to change my WMP library ID tags, the rest was perfect for my levels of skills. Knowing that they knew of the problem and still sold their program as mac ready really annoyed me. But I see you still have the problem hence not solved. Try traktor a bit hard to use but non of those problems on mac.

This is my first post. I apologize for how lengthy it may be, I'm new at this forum 'thing'. I DJ for fun and recently decided to upgrade my system to a digital program using MixMeister and I am not getting the results I was hoping for, as well. I just read the questions and replies for this discussion regarding MixMeister Fusion and Mac.

I still have the Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard and I am also experiencing application issues with MM Fusion such as freezing, unexpected quitting, slow response time or unable to preview with sound card using headphones while playing live. I doubled checked and the Installation requirements for MM Fusion does specify that Mac OS X v10.5 - v10.6 and up are compatible with MM Fusion v7.4.4. So why is this an issue for some of us?

Surely, there are success stories out there? I know that Apple does not answer questions for 3rd party vendors. I also am aware (from other posts) that the 3rd party vendor does know about the issues at hand and does not have an answer at this time.

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That is too bad! I am determined to take this a step further to research and find out why these unexpected predicaments keep happening.

I am in no way, shape, or form. A 'snazzy' computer 'wiz'.

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All I'm trying to do is think outside the box to remedy this situation for myself and other DJ's. So with that being said, there has to be something that we are missing? I found out that most external sound cards do not function well with Mac or have low audio quality. Most of the external sound cards you buy at the local electronic store are mainly intended for PC instead of Mac.

So I did a little experimenting and found out that (depending on what you want to spend) an external audio interface for recording music & lyrics may do the trick. I purchased the M-Audio MobilePre USB audio/recording device.

I installed the software, hooked it up to a USB port on my MacBook, and then hooked it up to my mixer board thru the headphones jack on the device. I was amazed at how much better the audio quality was compared to my original sound card. However, this did leave me with another problem, previewing a song while I'm playing live.

I plugged my headphones thru the headphone jack on the MacBook and couldn't get sound even when I re-configured the sound output to dual mode. So, I purchased a separate USB headphone set. (You can use wired or wireless USB headphones.) Still, the sound wasn't very loud in my preview ear, but it did do the trick. Finally, MM Fusion worked the way I wanted it to. After playing an hour or two in to my gig, I added a song to my playlist and adjusted the transition, when, all of a sudden the cursor went into a 'spinning gear (color wheel)' for several seconds. The song playing live actually finished out but didn't transition to the next one.

Then the MM Fusion application quit unexpectedly. Luckily I had a CD ready to play in my mixer. Things for me to consider? Close out any other apps that may be running. Allocate Memory appropriately or add more memory to my computer? Re-Install System Software and perform a clean installation may fix problems with extensions or plug-ins that become incompatible after updates?

Or Delete and Re-install the Application? Sometimes its necessary after a software update. I read on Apple support that sometimes not all software updates are compatible with older versions of some applications or vice versa. Use a completely different type of sound card or audio interface.

Use a more compatible Application for mixing my music live. These are just a few things that I'm still trying to figure out.

Maybe there is an answer here for someone? Any feedback would be good. At first I thought I had a solution, but later realized that I end up with more questions? Figured it out!!!! I am running Mixmeister Fusion 7.4.3 on my MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.7. I have no issues getting dual audio output to work with my Mac or my Mixmeister Control board.

I am using a Sabrent USB soundcard. It's plug and play no drivers are required. I have output audio going out of the USB card to external speakers and the MacBook Pro internal sound card as my preview. I had to go to the Audio MIDI setup to turn up the levels so I can hear the preview audio over the 'live' output but it works perfectly. Hope this helps. Terrence Pitts (Mid 2010 17' inch MacBook Pro, Mac OSX 10.7, 2.53 Ghz Intel Core i5, 8 GB RAM, 750 GB 7200 Hard Drive).

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