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dj goes digital

Time to mix it up

Your best friend is an ultra hip DJ with a problem: his vinyl
collection is now so large that he can’t carry it all around I‛m dumping vinyl and
from club to club anymore. He’s decided to digitize his entire going digital. Can you help
collection, put it on his laptop, and mix his sounds from there. me write my software?
His problem is that commercial mixing software costs a fortune I need to be able to start
and he doesn’t like any of the free alternatives. He has his and stop a track.
own ideas for the mixing software he wants.
What with spending all his time mixing music, he’s never
learned how to program his computer... and that’s where you
come in. If you help him to write the software he needs, he
promises to showcase your work at the upcoming World Music
Mixing Expo.

Let’s build the mixing software bit-by-bit based on the DJ’s
requirements.

All of this has to go.

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