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Mixed In Key 6 is out now and you can buy it from the Mixed In Key website.The video also offers a really quick (like, 90 second quick) introduction to key mixing in general, and Mixed In Key in particular, so take a peek if you haven’t already. But also, it’s also a good way for those who understand musical theory and are just using Mixed in Key to shortcut their harmonic detection tasks to quickly correct errors or check Mixed In Key’s work.Īnyway, I thought it was worth pointing this out, hence the little video showing it off. But on a broader scale (or should that be a broader note? It’s hard to avoid musical puns here!), it’s a nice feature to have.įirstly, it helps the curious (but non-musically minded) to start to work out what’s going on under the bonnet here. When you find a root note of a tune, you can then ask the software to play the major and minor chords based around that note, helping you to decide for yourself what key the tune is in. This is useful if you feel that Mixed In Key has “got it wrong”, as it’s then easy to switch to the right key. What Mixed In Key 6 has done is give you a built in keyboard that you can “play” over any tune in the software, just like the old days.

The notes of a piano keyboard have letters and # or b to indicate ‘sharp’ or ‘flat’ (think of this as ‘halfway between the letters’). Whichever sounds best determines whether the tune is in a major or minor key, and the root note is the letter (so “B minor”, “C major” etc.).

#Mixed in key 6 how to#

Once you have that, you need to know how to play two chords that are based around that root note – called major and minor, which are determined by the musical scale the tune follows.

How can you do that manually? Basically, by playing a tune on your DJ system, sitting down next to a piano or other keyboard, and bashing away until you find the “root” note (or to put it really basically, the note that seems to start/end the main verses and choruses, often played by the bass). Sure, it has a clever way of presenting that info so non-musical folk can easily produce awesome harmonic DJ mixes, but basically, it’s reason for existence is to work out a tune’s musical key. Keying music means determining its key, which is basically what Mixed In Key does. Watch it, then let me explain… How we used to “key” music Piano keyboard? Why would mixing software want a piano keyboard? Well, I made the short video above.

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But instead, the software – now up to Mixed In Key 6 – seems to have retained its niche, working closer with the Mixed In Key’s own Flow and Mashup products, incorporating “energy level” detection – and now coming full circle by adding a piano keyboard to the equation.

Many predicted the death of Mixed In Key when Traktor incorporated a harmonic detection system into its software (Serato still hasn’t, by the way).