PowerMix

Descrizione

PowerMix is a 3D sound mixer in the spirit of 3dmiX, the mixer that came with BeOS 5. Each track of a mix stands as a column on a floor in front of the listener: drag a track left or right to pan it, nearer or farther to make it louder or quieter, and hear where it sits. The columns pulse with the music.

Below the 3D view, tracks are arranged in lanes of looping clips, with a time ruler, tempo ticks and a sound editor with echo, chorus, metal, fade and compression. PowerMix opens and saves 3dmiX's .3dmix projects, including the sample mixes that came with BeOS 5, and saves the mix as a WAVE file.

It also has an optional modern look: a dark layout with a toolbar, a track list with mute and solo, the 3D stage drawn as smooth translucent columns over a glowing floor, and an inspector for the selected track. Recording and floor-automated "moves" (as in Ardour) are supported where the platform allows it.

PowerMix is a new program written from a study of the original; it contains none of Be's code, images or sounds.