Hey Dj Rat...

Thats the types of mixed cd's I want to make as well and have asked before on what type of software is best. But usually when you speak to someone about mixing, they tell u "use VTT or pcdj" or some **** like that, what they don't understand is you don't want to make it "LIVE' you want to create a fully mixed cd from scratch using songs just on your computer.

I would love to know exactly what software to use. But right now I have Sound Forge to cut songs up, apply basic effects, etc., and I have Acid 2 Pro to mix. Acid is cool cause you can set a like 140bpm tempo, bring in a huge like 7 min trance song, then use the tempo slider to +/- the bpm of the song to you match the one u set in acid, and its all in real time, you don't gotta wait for it to calculate. Then you could layer effects and samples from other songs and **** on top. Also any loops you got, will automatically go to the bpm of the current set tempo, pretty kewl. Right now this is the only way I know how to do it.

I know a few people that just use SoundForge, which only has 1 track by the way, to mix a full length cd like we want to, which is nuts!!! but they get good results, but they can't go back and edit anything, because when u put a piece of sound over another piece its their for good, you can't go back and edit it. Then there are sequencers, synths, lada lada lada, so much **** you could use to compose your mix but for right now, I am going to try and use Acid cause that's the easiest thing I know how to use right now. Also look into CUBASE cause that is supposed to be awesome, but it doesn't do tempo matching like Acid does, so u will actually have to calculate the bpm of hte song and try to match it up that way...

Let me know if this was any help
::ReeBooT::

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Ryan Belisle aka "ReeBooT"
Multimedia Mixmaster and DJ
reeboot@reeboot.net
http://www.reeboot.net