• Ejay Music Software

Dance eJay is a program that lets users create their own songs and unique mixes. Dance eJay is designed specially for users who like dance music and want to make songs of their taste, or for those who want to become Disc Jockeys. With Dance eJay, users can remix and compose dance-style tracks with over 5,000 unique sound samples.

Dance eJay is an easy-to-use program that offers a nice, stylish and super-slick animated interface. With Dance eJay, composing a song is a simple matter of scrolling through a library of samples, then dragging and dropping them into the main track window, layering your drums, bass, vocals and other samples on top of each other. The virtual instruments of Dance eJay are managed differently for beginners and for advanced users, which makes sound creation easier for the beginners.

Dance eJay provides a comprehensive range of sound editors and synthesizers. Users can also alter certain properties of their composition, such as its speed, panning and volume, and can also edit the sample in a wonderfully simple way. Dance eJay also enables users to record their tracks directly to CD through thee CD burning option.

Hip-hop is his best. The legendary music software. The classic eJay. Now Windows 7, XP and Vista compatible. At an unbelievable entry-level price of. Im interested in mucking around making my own dance/clubbing music, is there any programs (preferably free) similar to eJay? Im not good with.

Dance eJay is a powerful yet easy tool and is freely available for a trial. Its price makes it a great choice for dance music lovers and wannabe DJs of any level of experience.

I have been using Dance Ejay, very assiduously(!) for several years and for boys with BESDs it's been a really good tool for developing a range of both composing and listening/appraising activities in an engaging way. Having spent time planning for next year with my colleague we have just found out that when our IT systems upgrade to Windows 7 in the summer holiday, DanceEjay will no longer be compatible. We need something very straighforward, easy to access and with the same sort of composing/mixing features as Dance Ejay.

I wondered whether anyone could suggest an alternative. I know lots of people like Band in a Box and Garage Band but we don't have Apple computers and BIAB isn't really an equivalent. I quite like the look of The Music Producer. What does anyone else use or think? Thanks so much!!! I have been using Dance Ejay, very assiduously(!) for several years and for boys with BESDs it's been a really good tool for developing a range of both composing and listening/appraising activities in an engaging way. Having spent time planning for next year with my colleague we have just found out that when our IT systems upgrade to Windows 7 in the summer holiday, DanceEjay will no longer be compatible.

We need something very straighforward, easy to access and with the same sort of composing/mixing features as Dance Ejay. I wondered whether anyone could suggest an alternative. I know lots of people like Band in a Box and Garage Band but we don't have Apple computers and BIAB isn't really an equivalent.

Ejay Music Software

I quite like the look of The Music Producer. What does anyone else use or think?

Thanks so much!!! Click to expand.Why? I'm sorry, I know this might not be very helpful, but I loathe Dance Ejay with a passion. After the novelty of a few lessons has worn off, it doesn't do anything for the kids at all.

It doesn't involve any musical skills whatsoever; you could train a monkey to use it. Everything ends up sounding the same. Kids use the same few loops, over and over and over and over and over again. If I hear 'shine on me forever' one more time I'll go absolutely nuts!

God forbid they should actually compose their own music rather than merely arranging someone else's! You'd be much better off with a woodblock each. Actually, you'd be much better off getting kids to just sing and clap - that would develop a lot more musicianship than arranging pretty colours on a computer screen. Admittedly, I don't know the nature of the BESDs you mention, which would obviously make a difference, but still, almost anything would have to be better than Dance Ejay. Don't fall into the trap of using technology just for the sake of it.

Remember, the greatest musicians of all time never had access to a computer! HI Your response seems a little harsh. As a music specialist in an infant school I completely agree that nothing could or should ever replace children using real instruments to create real music using their own imagination. However, we live in a world that uses technology for everything including music.

I cant help feeling that creating music using technology is an essential part of the music curriculum and although limited, e-jay is a good stating point to show the children that this style of music is made up of blocks of sequenced sound that they drag and drop onto a time line. Rearranging other peoples music is all part of this genre and in time will lead to them recording their music to edit in a similar way. As to what you could use instead I am also trying to find software that is simple but allows them to record their music and use in an e-jay type fashion so will be interested to hear any suggestions. I would suggest using Cakewalk.

It is a very user-friendly and extremely easy-to-use sequencing programme. Whilst it doesn't have the pre-recorded blocks that EJay does, there would be nothing stopping you creating some blocks of music in advance and then saving the file.

The children could then drag and drop some of the blocks you have created and as an extension the very musical ones could also have a go at making some very simple blocks of their own. You can even colour code the clips and name them. Try googling Cakewalk Professional 7. It's so old now it's available on free download.

I swear by it and use it with my Yr 6s to create music from scratch. It's extremely versatile - I used to use it to deliver the technology component for Edexcel music GCSE.

I have to say, I agree with Xanathar. Maybe it's been upgraded since I last used it, but I found it to be extremely limiting. Arranging blocks on a screen does not make a musical education.

I don't have a problem with Music Technology ( i used to teach it at A-Level), but Ejay is so primitive and unmusical - I don't know how you could show that students had made good progress with it. FL Studio would be better, or if you have the money and resources, get Macs with Garageband (it comes preinstalled).