Hit'n'Mix: RipX DAW PRO

There has been so much talk about AI and its uses, but I haven't come across many products that are practically useful within the scope of my daily work. There are many fun products out there for generating audio, lyrics, images, and more, but they all feel more like entertaining toys and less like professional tools. However, RipX DAW PRO is an application entirely responsive to the practical needs of actual musicians, songwriters, engineers, and producers. For anyone interested in learning how to play an instrument or improving their performance skills and ear training, RipX DAW PRO is a perfect tool. It can isolate tracks from a recording, allowing anyone to hear exactly what a given musician was doing, note-for-note. This is almost like being in the studio with a favorite musician as they rehearse and track their parts. The ability to create a single stem of a classic Miles Davis horn performance or a Joey DeFrancesco organ part is quick and satisfyingly useful. I had a blast while using RipX to remix some of my favorite records through some of my favorite plug-ins. Furthermore, the key signature of each individual stem can be quickly modified, and individual notes can be edited just like a MIDI performance. This allows for some interesting modal experimentation. RipX's simple user interface also makes it uncomplicated to remix, rearrange, isolate, and edit existing audio with a few clicks.

During the course of my review, it became apparent that RipX's uses are not only limited to education and fun. A few weeks ago, I had a catastrophic hard drive crash during a system reorganization and backup. As a result, I ended up with a few broken sessions and lost a handful of the associated audio files. As a person who takes care to keep duplicates of my digital life, this perfect storm was the realization of my own personal nightmare. After exhausting the expensive recovery options, much of the data on the drive remained lost or corrupted. While I had lost many individual tracks, I did have some bounced mixes of the lost sessions: RipX DAW PRO to the rescue! I was able to use this software to extract some of the lost stems and subsequently rebuild the corrupted sessions within a matter of minutes. The spatial qualities, harmonics, and sonic characteristics of the extracted audio were quite close to the original files, helping me to avoid re-recording a mountain of lost audio. Additionally, any oddness in the harmonics that occurred during processing was editable using RipX DAW Pro's repair tools and Harmonic Editor, allowing for impressive granularity and control when cleaning up the details. If that's not enough, RipX's sound manipulation tools allow for time-stretching, pitch adjustment, smoothing, cloning, note drawing, and more.

In no uncertain terms, RipX DAW PRO undoubtedly saved me countless hours and money. Whether you are a beginning student learning about music and audio recording or an experienced engineer and performer, you will find RipX extremely useful. This software aids in the sophisticated deconstruction of audio recordings, allowing users to virtually “sit in” on their favorite classic sessions, hearing (and seeing) what was recorded with impressive detail. With a wide array of fun and practical uses, RipX DAW PRO should be in the tool kit of musicians, producers, music students, and educators.