Mixman Debuts Mixman Studio Pro for MacintoshCreate and remix music with MIDI tools
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July 22, 1999
Mixman Technologies Inc. announced today the debut of Mixman® Studio Mac,
the company's first product for the MacOS platform. Mixman Studio is a virtual
DJ software environment that allows users to create or remix their own music,
or remix the latest music from major label recording artists, using D*Plates(tm),
Mixman's recently announced 'Internet singles'. In addition, Mixman Studio Mac
allows users the opportunity to integrate Mixman Studio Mac with their MIDI environment,
a capability not available on Mixman's Windows-based products. Mixman Studio for
the Mac offers the ability to control Studio Mac from a MIDI device, MIDI sync
(in/out), and the ability to run in background, enabling simultaneous use with
a sequencer, where Studio Mac functions as a sound module for the sequencer.
"The professional music community has been all over us to bring Mixman
Studio power to the Mac.," said Alexander Hoag, Sr. Vice President, Marketing
& Operations. "Several major recording artists simply refused to use
the software on a PC," Hoag added. "Apple's resurgent marketing and
exciting designs have ignited a level of demand we simply could not ignore."
User enthusiasm and the richness of the Macintosh architecture made it possible
to design a richer feature set, resulting in MIDI features designed to integrate
Mixman Studio with other professional audio gear typically found in serious musicians'
studios."
"No computer encourages creative freedom and artistic inspiration like
the Macintosh," said Clent Richardson, Vice President of Worldwide Developer
Relations of at Apple Computer Inc.. "Now, with the arrival of Mixman Studio
Mac, artists and creative users can experience the simple thrill of performing
remixing professional quality music without distracting complexity. We see this
product filling needs in web design, presentation, and education as well as serving
the dedicated professional music community."
Mixman will deliver Studio throughout the worldwide Macintosh channel. The
company plans to work with all of Apple major distribution partners to bring Mixman
Studio to stores by September 1999, with an estimated M.S.R.P. of $79.95.
Remixing is at the heart of global expansion of DJ culture: allowing musicians
to creatively explore, shape and arrange sounds to alter the character of a composition
or create entirely new works by combining original audio samples. DJs are a fixture
on most major bands' tours, to add energy, diversity and power to an audio performance,
adding, in effect, an additional musical instrument to performances.
Mixman Studio was designed to be a real-time performance instrument, simplifying
the technical expertise required to remix professionally, and making remixing
accessible to anyone with a passion or interest in music, while retaining professional
audio quality. Mixman Studio's focus on powerful simplicity offers critical real-time
music performance capabilities with 16 tracks of digital audio and unparalleled
control over pitch, tempo and beat., enabling users to remix up to 16 tracks of
digital audio, with unparalleled control over pitch and tempo. The remixing features
of Mixman Studio allow musicians to creatively explore, shape and arrange digital
audio to enhance a musical composition, or create entirely new works by combining
audio. Any composition can then be exported into MP3, AIFF, Real Audio G2, and
Mixman's high performance .trk files for use in virtually any application than
can import sound.
Mixman supplies Soundiscs(tm), a series of professional quality multi-format
sample discs, D*Plates(tm), remixable internet singles from major recording artists,
and Mixman Enhanced CDs, available from major recording companies, all of which
enable users to dramatically expand the creative range of the music made with
Studio. Mixman users can publish their music on the Internet via Radio Mixman(r)
at www.mixzone.com, Mixman's web radio station
where users can post their music and review other users' state of the art remix
music.
For more information, visit Mixman's web site at www.mixman.com. |
