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Techno eJay 4 | 
| From: eJay
Category: Software
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 2958
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Xp, Windows Me, Windows Nt
Media: CD-ROM
EAN: 5017783559880
ASIN: B00009QH66
Release Date: May 23, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Techno eJay 4 August 25, 2004
Alan (Stafford, United Kingdom)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Techno 4 offers users the ability to create some very cool music, including either very slow, chillout or mysterious songs, club music or fast crazy beats. Either way, there are enough loops to be able to do this, and enough functions to be able to modify and tweak the sounds to how you would prefer to create that perfect song... or at least you would think so.brI think the longest amount of time I have been able to go onto a function such as the FX studio or Vocoder etc, or even the mixing desk, has been about 5 minutes, evidently not long enough to get what you want done sufficiently. This is either because an error appears or and error occurs and simply closes the program without warning. OK if you save every minute, but lets face it, you forget at times, espcially when you are in the middle of creating a potential masterpiece. Hence you lose your work, which obviously is not good. This is on XP incidentally.brHaving said that, the quality of standard loops and sounds are pretty high, so still you can create some pretty good stuff without the aid of any advancing functions. The only thing I would like to see more of are spheres (layers); there are few long spheres that take the style of chillout or uplifting, so you are limited when trying to create a slow song like this. But this aside, good music can be made from the presets.brIf you KNOW that you will use the advanced functions, then, unless you can trust your computer, steer clear because they may not work. If not, you might find yourself enjoying every minute of this potentially excellent package.
 Excellent December 29, 2003
Mr. A. C. Barrett (London, England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought Techno 4 as a bolt on to Dance 6 really - once Techno 4 is installed you can instantly and permanently import all 4,000 samples into Dance 6 - and you can do the same with the 5,000 samples from Dance 5 if you have that too - you never need to actually load and use Techno 4 ever again!pThe bank of samples at first glance appears a little restricting - there are no standard chord sequences as in Dance 5 and Dance 6 but of course this is what "rave" and "techno" tracks are all about - hard, thumping and relentless and once you get the hang of it you can produce some pretty amazing stuff and of course it gives you more freedom. As far as flexibility is concerned you can tell that T4 was released after D5 and then D6 was released after that as eJay software is getting more and more flexible. If you put the T4 samples together with D5 and D6 samples you can create some very effective club tracks and for the price it's an absolute bargain!pI run a P4 machine with 2.8 Ghz and 512mb RAM and XP and I have no problems running any of the software, D5 is a little bit unstable if you edit samples on the fly but D6 works like a dream and I've hardly used T4 as I access the samples from D6 but when I have used it it works fine.
Correcting inaccuracies December 4, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Firstly just had to correct the stability point in the one star review. Techno Ejay 4 is far more stable than Dance Ejay 5 (which is the real story from the Ejay forums)which has caused problmes for many people. It's a little buggy, with some things working very slowly, but nothing too serious for most people.pSo is it any good? Well it's OK. If constructing tunes from samples is your thing there's plenty to work with and the options for fiddling with samples have improved. This inclded Ejays first foray into providing a synth, though the Mophonix is rather limited in sounds, and you get the hypergenrator, groove generator and bass generator for writing your own stuff. These are fairly limited as well but are good introduction into basic pattern sequencing though I do wonder how many users bother to try. The dark interface isn't great.
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