The top tier of the default tab, Samples, features both player controls and five mixing decks, each with individual playlists and controls, including a small but useful turntable control for scratching and sampling.
The program's layout proved surprisingly attractive and manageable for this type of software or so it did after we'd dismissed the first of a regularly appearing series of nag screens. Setup also offered to import songs and playlists from iTunes or Add Initial Audio Files, but we clicked "Skip" since we like to see what a music library tool does before we turn our tunes loose! Disco XT's Speaker, Headphone, and Microphone setup tools let us select default devices from a menu of our system's sound cards and audio channels. Whether you click "Buy" or Continue with Disco XT's free Demo, we recommend clicking the Setup wizard's "Guide" button to open the Web-based manual. But despite these and other limitations in the Demo, we had no trouble trying Disco XT's features. Disco XT is free to try, though the Demo stops audio playback every 30 minutes and limits recording to 15 minutes with no Export and limited Save options. Disco XT is a bit of each, but unlike tools that try to be too many things at once, it succeeds. It's not a recording tool, though it can record and export high-quality audio nor is it a DJ console, though with five decks, mixing, effects, sampling, and more, it's ready for both the dance floor and studio. It's not a media player, though it can play, mix, and manage your music collection. Disco XT is an audio playback application for Windows.