Mix desk

Shape it, then build it

The six engines the running mix draws from, with a desk on them. Work on one track until it sounds the way you want — then the same settings build the whole mix, every song, every engine.

The track Engine
Preset

The number decides the key, the pattern and the arrangement. The same one always gives the same track.

Cadence
BPM
Hear it

The desk

Six faders instead of one per part, because these are six different engines: what they all share is a kick, a snare, hats and a sub, so each fader moves whichever of an engine’s parts fall under it.

Kick drum

Macros

The same nine the studio has. Halfway is the preset exactly as it was written.

The mix

    Each song

    On a phone, pick shorter songs before you pick a longer mix. It is built one song at a time, so it is the song length that decides how much your device has to hold.

      Why only these six

      Every track in the studio with a kit in it was rendered at running tempo and scored on how far its loudness drops between one beat and the next. Four‑to‑the‑floor engines scored 15–32 dB; breakbeat ones managed 5–9, because a syncopated kick is a weaker pulse however loudly it is mixed. These six are the first group.

      If you want the other fifteen engines, the pads, the sound effects or the video maker, the studio has all of it. If you just want half an hour to run to without touching anything, the running mix is one button.