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Traxxpad: Portable Studio | 
 enlarge | From: Eidos Interactive
Category: Video Games
Buy New: $43.21
New (2) Used (5) from $27.82
Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3451
Platform: Sony Psp
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Sony PSP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.1 x 0.6
MPN: 40043
Model: 40043
UPC: 788687400435
EAN: 0788687700436
ASIN: B000PC8JUQ
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Work with 1,000 different different sound effects | | • | Sample additional sounds through the PSP's microphone | | • | Any composition can be exported into a WAV or MP3 file |
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Product Description
Traxxpad is an application that promises to transform Sony's PSP into a powerful piece of professional music studio equipment. Traxxpad blends the power of sequencers, drum machines, and keyboards, allowing anyone to create! Users can create, mix and sample tracks on the go and even helps out amateur musicians by tweaking tones to the nearest note.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Oh, come ON. March 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not a game and it is not a portable music studio. This is to music what fingerpainting is to Matisse. It is largely dense and inaccessible and, while pretty, nothing seems to make much sense.
I used the Music Maker on the old PS1 and had more fun and success than with this.
 BOOOOOOO! February 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game sucks...you can't play it very good...unless you THOUROUGHLY read the manual. I would reccomend NOT buying this game.
good but lacks to much February 19, 2008
I love this thing and no I'm not hating or anything. The traxx pad is great but if your looking for something that allows you to go all out and make something heave in detail and what not. Then don't get this I love music and all but when I get an idea for a beat, tone, song the traxxpad always lets me down. I love eastern music and underground and this contains everything a western or experienced mainstream lover would want. But for some one that makes crazy beats its a headache. do note that you can recored your own sounds and what not but need a microphone psp sound recording cam. and instruments.
 Pretty neat toy,,, November 30, 2007
I noticed Traxxpad some time ago but didn't make an impulse buy. I thought that it might me a neat "toy" for my husband and later tried to find it again, seaching in several different stores.
Amazon came through for me...and now my husband thinks he's the next big recording star.
Fun toy for curious non-musicians, crippling flaws prevent real application August 20, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Traxxpad is great in concept, and *so close* in execution that it's all the more frustrating to watch it fall short at every turn. It's a lovely program and all, with some decent content, but the problem remains: it's not a game per se, and won't offer the lasting fun of a good game, but it cuts too many corners to serve any actual purpose for the musicians/DJs it targets.
Most of the reviews online target gamers, and focus on whether or not fiddling with this application will be enjoyable. Maybe I've been working with music software too long to provide a meaningful opinion there. If I want to have fun, I'll play a game. I wanted to know whether Traxxpad would allow me to use the PSP to do any meaningful work where/when a desktop or even laptop would be too cumbersome. The verdict at this point is no. Here are the reasons, and it's a little sad to see them enumerated like this, as some could have been very easily addressed. (I wonder whether Eidos ever put this in the hands of actual musicians to get their feedback.)
- Quantization is primitive, and NOT OPTIONAL. Quantization is always on, always set to 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, or 1/32. Have fun programming triplets...
- No reverb. Obviously, a full suite of FX wouldn't be a realistic expectation for a program of this scope. But beats comprised of quantized runs of short samples (and the "sustained" variety have no fades) would benefit HUGELY from even the cheapest reverb algorithm. VST's of these, and likely source code as well, are available for FREE all over the web. Ommission of reverb was a senseless mistake and someone's ears should have alerted them to that.
- Major workflow problems that should have become apparent in testing. For instance, no Undo button and therefore, jumping through hoops to, well, undo anything you don't like. Samples are replaced, not on the sample page, but on the kit page, which is unintuitive and requires many more screens and button presses than necessary. Every change to a kit takes you through a sequence of confirmation screens and then dumps you back out to the main view, so if you need to build a custom kit, you can expect it to take more or less forever. Issues like these can be dealt with if you're endlessly patient and have no alternatives... but they're not really acceptable.
- No MIDI. Exporting your work for further refinement in other PC/Mac applications is a great angle. Do some work on the train, get home and see where Garage Band or Sonar or whatever takes you. Traxxpad touches on this by letting you export MP3, but really, who wants MP3s of comprimised 11K or 22KHz samples? If they'd used MIDI (and perhaps they even do, under the hood) and allowed the user to import/ export as such, there may have been further uses for this product.
- Tiny displays. Minor annoyance, but I can't imagine why they used so much of the screen for superfluous junk instead of making the actual work areas (timeline of beats etc) much larger.
High hopes for Traxxpad II, maybe? But as it stands, this is mainly just a curiosity.
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