So the auto beat matcher thing is pretty much by default, garbage. You CAN however, edit the beatpoints for each track on the waveform though.
Maybe not to the average person on a dancefloor, but it needs to be manually adjusted to sync up right in a lot of cases. It analyzes the waveforms for the peaks and assumes those are the beats to match, sometimes it just screws up horribly and says the 140 bpm track, hard trance with a prominent bassline (thus a thicker waveform) is 70bpm.
thats fine though because the guys at m-audio knew this would happen occasionally and built right in to the software is a nice lil double or half bpm feature that will edit the .tqd file that this program generates for each track that it analyzes.
Other than that I'm having too much fun with the built in effects.
my favorite so far are "strobe" and "repeat"
you can set the sample length for the repeat effect, and it will standby to record. push the button and it will snag a sample based on the size you specified. from 2 bars down to 1/128th of a bar (good god, why?)
at this point you have a wet/dry knob which you can assign to either "send" or "insert"
taking a nice lil vocal sample from earlier in the track, setting it to send and wetting the wet/dry mix to 50% produces a nice little "ghost singing in the background" effect, and you can carry it right on in to the next song if you so choose.
Strobe, basically a computer controlled fader cut. You can wet/dry this too, for some fun "woosh" volume effects. again you can assign the frequency/duration to be something from 1/4 up to 1/128
of course it has the regular fixins that seems to come with every fx set too, reverb, flange, delay, phaser.
it's nice.
heres the kicker, I got this for 100$
I picked it up on ebay from henrismusic (out of Wisconsin)
winning bid 150$ but they listed it as the combo pack with the convrol cd/vinyl.
they made a mistake because it was only the control unit, so they refunded me 50$ to go buy my own control vinyl with
