Traxxpad – your portable music studio

At the last Game Developer Conference (GDC), Eidos unveiled a new project called Traxxpad. A lot of PlayStation Portable owners were interested about the software and now we’ve got a load of info, screenshots, and a trailer about the upcoming music application.

Traxxpad allows professional DJs, music lovers, and just about anybody who owns a PSP to have a go at music mixing with their own portable music studio. It features sequencers, drums, and keyboards plus allows the user to sample their own tracks. In the trailer, even button mashing netted some sweet beats. Users can assign certain sounds to specific buttons. The application is intuitive and will be accessible to everyone since it “automatically associates the sound to the nearest 16th note, allowing immediate, great-sounding results.”

Traxxpad focuses on sequencing, song assemble (mixing), and melody creation. Out of the box, the application will come with a sound library with 1,000 stock sounds from drum beats to exotic instruments. Sampling will be done with the PSP’s microphone. Samples can be “tweaked” (trim, adjust gain, normalize or reverse the recording) with the use of the wave editor. Songs can be exported from .wav to .mp3 for easy sharing: transfer to an MP3 player or burned to a disk.

Interested? Traxxpad was developed by Definitive Studios and is set to hit the shelves in North America spring of this year. Check out the screenshots and the trailer and let us know if you like what you see – and hear.

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At the last Game Developer Conference (GDC), Eidos unveiled a new project called Traxxpad. A lot of PlayStation Portable owners were interested about the software and now we’ve got a load of info, screenshots, and a trailer about the upcoming music application.

Traxxpad allows professional DJs, music lovers, and just about anybody who owns a PSP to have a go at music mixing with their own portable music studio. It features sequencers, drums, and keyboards plus allows the user to sample their own tracks. In the trailer, even button mashing netted some sweet beats.

Users can assign certain sounds to specific buttons. The application is intuitive and will be accessible to everyone since it “automatically associates the sound to the nearest 16th note, allowing immediate, great-sounding results.”

Traxxpad focuses on sequencing, song assemble (mixing), and melody creation. Out of the box, the application will come with a sound library with 1,000 stock sounds from drum beats to exotic instruments. Sampling will be done with the PSP’s microphone. Samples can be “tweaked” (trim, adjust gain, normalize or reverse the recording) with the use of the wave editor. Songs can be exported from .wav to .mp3 for easy sharing: transfer to an MP3 player or burned to a disk.

Interested? Traxxpad was developed by Definitive Studios and is set to hit the shelves in North America spring of this year. Check out the screenshots and the trailer and let us know if you like what you see – and hear.

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