Steinberg Remix Audio Sequencer Software

Great leaps forward aren't that frequent in the world of home music software but with Remix the German software company Steinberg can claim to have staked out a chunk of interesting new ground.

The new angle is that, with Remix, you are able to make and mix your DIY sounds in "real time": in other words you can bring in moods and grooves from other DJs, real musicians, the TV or radio, even your sister playing her snare drum in the bedroom next door--and then you can weave these fresh sounds into your normal computer-generated sonic tapestry. These samples can be continuously matched for tempo, resonance, and pitch, with the stuff you are generating electronically. It doesn't even matter if the tempo of your sample changes mid-riff: the software will still sort this out. Other facilities enable you to mix in some nifty real-time effects, or paste and move all samples without interrupting the groove; meanwhile a splendid editing interface allows you to alter the session with that 20-20 musical hindsight. You can also use some of the 500 on-disk samples to nudge things along if the creative juices run dry.