MP3 Remix Player

• Version: 3.205
• Price: Free to try (Recording disabled, limited to free presets); $29.99 to buy
• Operating system: Windows Me/2000/XP/NT

Though it isn't powerful enough for professional audio work, MP3 Remix Player makes a fun little pickup for adding effects to your favorite songs. The program's interface is handsome and graphically rich, displaying two turntables with four effects pads on each. After you load and begin playing an MP3, the application will let you add or remove up to eight audio effects simultaneously. Loops fall into such categories as animal sounds, turntable scratches, and basslines. Each category contains a library of individual effects such as vocoders, wah-wah, and tablas. You can perform simple modifications to each sound, such as changing when it is triggered and how many times it repeats. MP3 Remix Player lets you adjust each effect's volume in the overall mix or configure the volume of all loops as a whole. Unfortunately, the demo won't let you record your new creations, so you'll have to download a third-party app to save them. More inexperienced users with a creative slant will find this program a good entry-level remixing tool.