eJay is great fun. You move big, brightly coloured blocks of sound around on the screen and your tune makes itself in front of your eyes. It comes with a good selection of demo tunes to experiment with, so you can get creative straight away.
eJay comes in a few packages, depending on what kind of music you want to make. That's because it comes with a CD full of copyright-free samples you can use to make your first tunes. These will be tuned to the kind of music that you're making. Choose the Hip-Hop version, for example, and you'll get a selection of breaks, scratches and bass loops. There's also a dance version with samples more suited to that style of music.
Every version has facilities to write your own drum parts, lead melodies and bass lines.
eJay is also reasonably cheap - less than £30 - so it's not too much of a sacrifice to buy it as a starter kit and then move on to another package further down the line.
Uniquely, e-Jay is available for Playstation as well as stand-alone computers.
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