The Db-7X7 is your entrance into the DJ world. You use it in conjunction with our remixable songs, to actively create your own composition, remixes, or DJ sets of songs you could only enjoy passively before. Don't like that bass line? Throw it out, boost the kick, and shake the walls. You can even save your mix and share it with your friends-legally.
2) How to use the Db-7X7
Launch the mixer.
Double-click on the Db-7X7 icon to launch the mixer.
Select a song to mix.
The Db-7X7 comes with a free song, "Sweet Talker." Use the mouse icon (it will change to a hand) and turn the dial, located beneath the 'Select' button, until you see the song title in the display next to the dial. You will see the title of the song, the copyright holder, the size of the song file, and the style of music. Click the 'Select' button to load the song into the mixer.
Mix the song.
After the song has loaded into the Db-7X7, you are presented with the mixing console-the DJ Board 7X7. Now it is time to mix. The song is separated into 8 different components, such as drums (DRMS), or keyboard (KBRD), percussion (PERC), etc. Any one of these elements can be played individually, or together to make your own mix. 'Trigger,' 'Loop,' 'Solo,' and 'Mute' are all toggle buttons, meaning that pressing them once will cause one action, pressing them again will reset their original effects.
Trigger
'Trigger' starts that particular musical selection or individual instrument. 'Trigger' also re-synchronizes all other selections (loops) so that they all play in concert. If you want avoid this re-synchronization effect; use the 'Mute' button, described below.
Loop
'Loop' lets you play the musical selection continuously, or you can choose to only play it once. The default setting is continuous play, and pressing the 'Loop' button will allow you to play the selection only once. Pressing 'Loop' again will reset it to continuous play.
Solo
Pressing 'Solo' will mute all the other loops currently playing and continue the selected loop as a solo instrument. Pressing 'Solo' again will un-mute the other loops and continue with the music. 'Solo' is a cool feature if you want to insert a "break" into your composition.
Mute
Pressing 'Mute' will mute that selected element only. A nice way not to interrupt your composition is to mute all the loops in the beginning, press 'Trigger' to start the music, and then un-mute the individual sound selections. This way you can avoid having your music interrupted from re-synchronization.
Volume Fader
The Volume Fader for each music loop is located below the loop description (DRMS, KBRD...). Moving it up increases the volume for the loop, moving it down decreases the volume. You can use it to boost the volume on the kick-drum for example, to give your mix that extra punch. It's also a nice way to slowly bring in the sound of an instrument. Use it for fading-in or fading-out.
XFADER
The XFADER (cross-fader) allows you to seamlessly go back and forth between two loops. You assign the loops (channels 1-8) by turning the knobs on either side of the XFADER until you locate the desired number for the loop you want to assign.
Mix another song.
If you would like to mix another song stored on your hard drive, click the 'Cancel' button, located above the rotary dial. This returns you to the start-up Db-7X7 screen. Now you can select a new song to mix. Make sure that you have loaded the song into your playlist (explained below, see 'Song List') beforehand, otherwise it will not show up in your selection menu.
3) The Db-7X7 Menu
Db-7X7
Credit (Crtl+C)
Gives you information on SS7X7.COM, Inc.
Quit (CTRL+Q)
Quits the Db-7X7 mixer application.
Song List
Add a song (Ctrl+A)
Allows you to add new songs that you have purchased into the Db-7X7. Mixer songs can be identified by their '.dbl' extensions.
Remove a song (Ctrl+E)
Removes a song from the Db-7X7 song-availability list (but does not delete the song off your hard disk).
Online
Register this mixer (Ctrl+M)
The Db-7X7 is a free software application. In exchange we ask only that you register the mixer with us.
View all available songs for this mixer (Ctrl+V)
Sends you to the SS7X7.COM store and shows you all the remixable songs that are available.
Check out SS7X7.COM new releases (Ctrl+N)
Sends you to the SS7X7.COM new releases section, where you can see all the new material we have added.
Visit WWW.SS7X7.COM (Ctrl+X)
Sends you to our home page, where you can check out all our mixers, and other musical selections.
4) Mixer Automation
The Db-7X7 allows you to save your personal mix, but it doesn't save the music, an important distinction in the copyright world. When saving your mix, the Db-7X7 records your slider movements and button pushes only, and saves that information to a file (identifiable by the '.dbm' extension). The benefits are two-fold: Firstly, you do not infringe any copyrights, your mix is perfectly legal, and you can share your mix with other people (provided they have the Db-7X7) without braking any laws. And secondly, the file size of your mix is significantly smaller than if you had saved the music as well.
Record
Pressing 'Record' immediately starts a recording session. All channels are automatically turned on and volume sliders set to no-volume. Any mixer manipulation from thereon is recorded until you stop recording (recording does NOT stop when you stop mixing). Make sure to press 'Stop' to end your recording session. At this point the mix resides in your computer's memory, but is not yet saved (see 'Save to File').
Stop
The 'Stop' button...
* ends your current mixer recording session.
* ends the playback of a recorded mix.
* stops any music from playing.
Playback
'Playback' plays the mix that is currently loaded into memory. You can play the mix you just recorded, whether it is saved or not, or you can load into memory a previously saved mix. Loading a preexisting mix will replace whichever mix you have currently loaded. Therefore, make sure you have saved your recorded mix before loading another mix, should you want to keep it for later retrieval.
Save to File
After stopping a recording, and if you are happy with your mix, you might want to save the mix for later listening. Pressing 'Save to File' saves the mix to a file. You will be presented with a dialog box where you have to name your mix, and then can save it to the desired directory or folder.
Load from File
'Load from File' allows you to retrieve any of your previously saved mixes for the particular song you have currently loaded. Mixes are identified by their '.dbm' extension.
5) Buy Song
Go to the Store
'Go to the Store' sends you to our store for further perusal of our remixable songs.
