Wow, vinyl scratching is much improved - excellent! Been playing around with it over the weekend, initially i had some speed problems in Scratch Mode but I realised i just shouldnt be using that mode with Serato vinyl. Relative mode is solid.
I see you've got the pitch and Bpm display to adjust when the vinyl pitch is adjusted, very nice. One thing though (and i don't know if it was like this before but just masked) - its like theres 'noise' on the pitch. It continually and regularly oscillates in a range between approx -0.25 and +0.25 of whatever i'm at. Is this something you're seeing too? I find it quite offputting wrt the bpm display I love the on-screen Const or Relative toggle. One other thing i'm finding odd, but maybe i need to get used to it, is that when i touch the deck to slow it down a bit, the whole waveform display 'rubberbands' (for want of a better word) - whereas before it would simply slow down a touch, making it easy to line up the beats visually. Maybe this behaviour could be toggleable? Havent tried needle skip, i don't have a problem with skipping on my setup. Great stuff, a big step forward i feel rgds Owen (another one!) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Williams" <owen-b...@ywwg.com> To: <mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:44 AM Subject: [Mixxx-devel] resumed work on new vinyl control > At long last, I got off my butt and updated my features_xwax branch to > merge nicely with later versions of trunk. It should now be as > functional as it was back in may, and I've even fixed some of the UI > bugs that were in there. > > For those who aren't familiar with my branch, you can find it at > https://code.launchpad.net/~ywwg/mixxx/features_xwax2 > > (Note the "2": I had to basically start over since trunk had changed so > much, so I manually merged all of my patches in a new branch.) > > This branch: > * updates xwax to the latest version > * completely rewrites the vinyl control code for much more smooth, > reliable performance > * adds support in Mixxx for playpositions < 0, which means that you can > rewind tracks past the beginning for better syncing > * adds a few UI bells and whistles for better control > * adds per-deck vinyl enabling > * adds single-deck mode > * tweaks the library code so it doesn't delete v1.7 databases (so you > can run either 1.7 or 1.8 -- but make backups anyway) > > At this point, it's necessary to use my Trancer-DJO-3 skin to use the > branch. It's included in my tree. > > Here's the basic usage: > Once vinyl mode is enabled, a green box appears to indicate that vinyl > control is on. There are three modes of control: Absolute, Relative, > and Constant. Absolute mode follows the needle wherever it goes. > Relative mode only pays attention to the speed of the playback. > > Constant mode plays back at a constant speed. This may seem odd, but > this is useful when your control vinyl is shorter than your track. So, > you'll reach the end of the vinyl before the song is over. When this > happens, the green box starts blinking orange and control is > automatically turned over to CONST mode (which holds playback constant > at the last value). You can let the track play out in CONST, or you can > reposition the needle and switch to Relative mode if you want to > maintain control over the playback speed. Of course, there is no > interruption in playback. > > There's also some needle-skip detection, which is not wonderful but > works occasionally. If a skip is detected, the green box turns RED and > playback again goes to CONST mode. The idea is that you can blow on the > needle, put it back down, switch to REL mode again, and no one will know > the record skipped. > > Please give the code a try, and let me know how it works. There were > problems previously with CDJ control and looping, so I'd like to know if > those still apply. > > cheers, > Owen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program > Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users > worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and > speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 4429 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
