Roland’s new R_MIX audio editing software centers around a real-time visualization of the sound, or what Roland calls “color coded clouds of energy and harmonic matter.”
But lets put aside corporate concocted buzz phrases for the moment. The Roland demo video above is full of them, but starting around 1:40 you will find some impressive demonstrations of the programs power and ease of use. Just drag a box over an energy cloud and start manipulating that part of the audio mix. You can quickly find and isolate instruments, changing pitch and speed for learning a complex guitar lead for example, and even creating minus one, vocal-free songs.
Want to pan the recorded singer left while you harmonize in the right channel? No problem. Draw a box around her undulating harmonic matter (!) and you can drag her around to stereo field as you like.
A “simplified version” called R_MIX Tab is available for iPad in the App Store. So far it is gathering mixed reviews.
