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Traxxpad Walkthrough Strategy Guide (Video Game Walkthrough PSP)

With the extensive amount of homebrew and multimedia content available on PSP, it's odd we haven't seen more companies experimenting with different types of commercial software for the platform. Stranger still, game publisher Eidos is releasing Traxxpad, which has nothing to do with gaming, and everything to do with music production.

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Traxxpad is composed of four basic modes: R.T.I.S.T. (RealTime Interactive Sequencing Technology, i.e. where you create the beats), MeLOD (the melody maker), MyXxer (for live sequence triggering) and S.T.A.C. (Studio Through A Console, for assembling full songs). We were initially skeptical about what a PSP could accomplish compared to music hardware and digital workstations with comparable features, but after several hours of cranking out studioquality tracks, we walked away impressed.

Though difficult to decipher without the aid of the manual at first, Traxxpad's floral menu system makes it a breeze to select options and sounds once you learn the layout. The quantized recording and matrix sequencing is also a snap to learn. However since you use every button on PSP, it may take a while to become familiar with the controls.

Traxxpad also sounds amazing. With our iPod inear headphones, Ultimate Ears super.fi 5 Pros, and the auxiliary in of an aftermarket car sound system, the highs were clean, the mids full, and the lows booming. Each of the hundreds of included samples may not be perfectly clean, but the overall sound quality is solid given the breadth and range of included sounds. Though we haven't gotten a chance to try it yet, you can also record samples using an external microphone/headset and edit the raw waveforms in the Chop Shop.