Random Monday : Orange Mixer
Read this on the Friends of EML blog next week and have been playing with this nifty little Flash application for the whole of last week 
Orange Mixer allows you to arrange preloaded samples into tracks (max 16 samples per mix) and then apply effects to each individual track like fading and panning (switch to Advanced mode, add points and drag – a bit like drawing and tweaking Bezier curves in drawing applications). Each mix can consist of up to 20 bars which means a song can be up to close to 7 minutes for hip-hop or close to 4 minutes for drum n’ bass.
The included audio samples comprise drum, bass, percussion, music (piano, guitar), sfx, some really hair-raising vocals as well of some of the Chemical Brothers’ bleepy electro stuff.
Electro (above) and drum n’ bass (below) mixes
Here’s my 1 minute long efforts – dnb and electro – hack jobs done in a few minutes which shows how easy it is to create your own stuff from the included samples even for a amateur like me Try my 30 seconds funky house mix too
Before you dismiss this as an application for electronic music only, here’s an absolutely cringe-worthy rock mix to show the possibilities of making non-electronic music – click here for a truly awful experience 
The above samples were recorded into .WAV and then converted to MP3 with Audacity. You can also save your mix online and finalize it as MP3 although I find the former process more convenient.
Pros
- Free! Free! Free! Registration is required though.
- Very easy to use.
- Preloaded with audio samples from multiple genres, all samples in the particular being at the same tempo to eliminate the need to adjust the BPM for each sample
Cons
- Unable to load own samples makes it a little boring after a while as there will always be samples that you won’t like and will never use which limits you to reusing the same few samples after making a few mixes:(
- Cannot mix and match samples from different genres due to different BPM for samples of each genre.
- Playback cannot commence from the middle of a bar, only from the start of a bar.
- For an application made in the UK, there’s no breaks samples. WTF!!
Then again, you can’t really fault the application for the cons when it’s such a user-friendly application with such a low learning curve (plus it’s free too!!)
Play the Orange Mixer.
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few years ago i purchased ejay same limtations in terms of beat, but you could with some jiggery pokery import samples…. that set me back a pretty penny but it was ridden with bugs and crashed more often than not
this is pretty clever and quite a good way of reintroducing myself to mixing samples…. great find Roys…
ejay seems interesting but it’s not free
Maybe I’ll just download the demo and play around with it.
Orange’s really cool huh?