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StikAx music/video mixer Now this is a joystick. Whether you're just a weekend mixologist or a club-hardened pro DJ, you'll want to get your hands around the Ministry of Sound StikAx ($99). Concoct your own music and video wonders by importing files into the TrakAx software, or use the 450 preloaded music loops and 100 video clips for practice fodder. The software is deep but has an easy learning curve, and it does as good a job as suites costing hundreds more. But the real fun is in the "stick" - connect it to your PC's USB port (sorry, no Mac support yet), and you can use its eight buttons for drag-and-drop editing on the fly. (It's way more intuitive and simple to master than a typical keyboard interface.) The extensive interactive tutorials will get you quickly to the multitask at hand. - Shannon McCarthy stikax.com/us/home.html

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