Pitch Perfect Penguins

lvly daughters love the movie Pitch  Perfect. I suspect our XBl\/IC has played  it more than 100 times, and l'm not  exaggerating. Whether or not you  enjoy young-adult movies about singing  competitions and cartoon-like projectile  vomiting, |'ll admit it's a pretty fun  movie. The question my girls ask me  most often is about the audio-mixing  software the protagonist uses to make  her "sick beats".  Although Anna Kendrick uses a  l\/lacintosh in the movie, and the  software's name is obscured or changed  in close-ups, it's easy to tell the  software she uses is l\/lixxx. The cool  part for me is that while indeed l\/lixxx  application that works natively in Linux  as well. That means, in the eyes of my  daughters, Linux is now super-cool.  l\/lixxx is an editing package  with incredible visual tools  (httpz//www.mixxx.org). |t's designed  to "mix" several songs or rhythm tracks  and export a completed song. The very  nice GUI makes mixing audio easy to  understand, and the interface itself is  apparently cool enough for Hollywood.  So whether you want to make your own  "wicked tracks" or join an a cappella  group, I\/lixxx is just the tool for you.  Also, I recommend watching Pitch  Perfect, one or two of those XB|\/IC  viewings might have been my own!