.co.uk Review With the Dance 5 CD-ROM, home-music megacorp eJay produces what many of its admirers have long demanded: a nifty, inexpensive software kit devoted exclusively to making groovy dance tunes on your very own PC. As with all eJay products, the design is sleek but simple. A central control panel allows you to sample with an easy Drag and Drop; many of the 5000 trax encoded on disk. These riffs and vamps are premastered so as to happily synchronise with each other. An FX Studio positively encourages the user to thereafter modify and warp those samples (you can even alter the pitch and signature with the new Time and Tune facility); likewise, the Bass and Chord Generators permit you to add some beef to the musical baguette, while the Polyphonic and Groove Generators act as sequencers and synthesisers, allowing you to turn the most humdrum of borrowed trax into something intensely personal. And then you can export your tunes using the Web link-up--or indeed compare them with other efforts on the prelinked eJay Online Sound Archive. And when all that gets a tad boring, well then you can use the CD Grabber to rip some other sounds, or get creative with the 48 Track Arranger, or take on board the 3-D VJ Box to work up some psychedelic accompanying visuals. --Sean Thomas Review Best Music Package -- PC Explorer, 2001 P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); Manufacturer's Description Dance 5 heralds a new dimension in music creation thanks to its incredible new interface and the first-ever 3D engine used in this sector, plus a whole host of brand new features. At the same time Dance 5 remains easy to useLet your musical creativity flow with an astonishing 5,000 brand new royalty-free dance samples to choose from. Trance, techno, house and dance youll find the whole dance music spectrum covered! Dance eJay 5 not only offers the user the classic heritage of the infamous Dance series but also boasts great new instruments: enter a new dimension of music creation with the reworked Hyper Generator 5 (a polyphonic synthesizer), the Groove Generator (a drum computer for programming your own drum loops), not forgetting the brand new Chord Generator and Bass Generator for creating yet more cutting-edge dance sounds! Last but not least, prepare to be amazed by the brand new 3D VJ Box! Here you can arrange your own visuals to go with your mix, selecting from over 1000 3D objects. See more
A**N
Another Great eJay Product!
my advice to you is if you like this style of music and fancy yourself a creater, BUY IT! It is quite fantastic, with the FX Studio, which can modify any of the samples, the Vocoder, great new effect, the 1000's of samples available, and as always with eJay, so easy to use. Just one thing to watch out for- the RAM needs to be +160MB, if not it doesn't work... as I found out until I got a 512MB RAM computer!But, this aside, GET IT NOW! You won't regret it!
A**W
Great Software
Good music producing software that enables you to produce tunes that will rock the dancefloor! One real must have for a producer!
W**M
Five Stars
brilliant cd many thanks
A**E
One Star
awsome
C**S
Love it
Great for the small studio music producer, some great samples and loops, fantastic effects and all round good fun, Love it
C**S
Nothing more than a toy!
Dance eJay 5, and I expect the whole eJay range, is just toy music production software. It does nothing more than allow you to drag and drop ready made loops and samples onto a piano scroll, thus enabling you to piece together music jigsaw style. Even if you do manage to create something listenable, all the samples are copyrighted so only you can listen to it. To be fair I guess that is all you can expect for the price, but even if you are looking for something just for fun I would still recommend paying a little extra to get something more capable and flexible. This toy software gets boring after about 5 minutes.
S**S
Dance eJay 5
The 5th of the Dance eJay series, and IMHO, by far the best. I always loved the music played in Ibiza, and I wanted to make those kind of songs. But Dance eJay 1-4 never cut it for me. Now, with many trance samples, it is absolutely perfect. With so many tools incorporated into the program, you can so easily make top trance tunes with it. Want to see what you can do with it. There aren't any MP3s on the site yet, but I will get round to posting some, so that you can see what the program can do.Overall, this is an excellent product, well recommended! eJay have done it again!
K**S
you have been warned
i bought dance 6, but that was so riddled with problems i got rid of it and bought dance 5. again - total disappointment. real shame - cos i've got the early ejay programmes which are excellent - utterly intuitive, simple and ultimately great fun. (unreservedly recommend dance 2+, dance 3 and especially, techno 2 - they may seem initially quite dated, but are still powerful tools for creating some mad mad tunes). but it is absolutely no fun having a package that constantly crashes, strobes and stutters.due to the great impression that the initial ejay packages made - i will keep on trying to get this programme to work. hopefully i will be back on amazon giving this package a glowing report and 5 stars. but i post this to warm potential users - this programme does have its problems
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