Hi
this is a known problem, and I am pretty sure that every new MIxxx user
will stumble over it sooner or later.
So we should take such report seriously.
I still like the idea to open the OS Mixer from Mixxx as a band aid for
this issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1440675
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/547
A more integrated solution is using PortMixer:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1440443
What else is a solution that meets the user expectations?
Kind regards,
Daniel
Am 26.11.2017 um 16:01 schrieb Josep Maria Antolin:
Hello Daniel.
So, If i understand you correctly, you connected the line output of
your soundcard to a power amplifier. I.e. A plain and simple amplifier
without any volume control on it.
In such scenario, you need to adjust the volume level on your soundcard.
The Xone-K2, as I see, does not have a volume knob on it, but I am
quite sure that you can control the volume either from the generic
Windows Mixer, or maybe the Xone drivers include a control panel where
you have access to a volume level.
The volume controls on Mixxx are really intended just as gain
adjustement, in situations where you need small gain changes (more in
line of correcting the target gain, and to prevent digital clipping),
and not as a way to control the output volume, or at least no more
than several dBs.
Else, you get the results that you describe, a negative effect over
the digital signal.
Nowadays, mixing software use different mechanisms to normalize audio.
In case of Mixxx, it uses ReplayGain.
This means that gain controls are not as much important as they used
to be, and basically the DJ only needs to make small adjustments over
the channel gains and rarely on the master gain to compensate for the
different volume levels of the tracks being played.
I briefly looked into the Mixxx manual, and I couldn't find a place
where it specifically talks about not overusing the master Gain
control. I was sure there was a place that said that, but maybe I
simply didn't look into the correct chapter.
There were some talks about incorporating a soundcard volume knob into
Mixxx window, but the problem was that each operating system does it
differently, and even different versions could implement it
differently, so it seemed like opening a can of worms for something
that could be better served by teaching users to use the system mixer.
So, overall, I don't think your problem could be considered a bug, but
an incorrect usage of the options.
If you have any suggestion on how to make this more obvious to other
users, or do you see any problem on doing what I've just described,
just tell us.
2017-11-26 14:49 GMT+01:00 Daniel Poelzleithner <poe...@poelzi.org
<mailto:poe...@poelzi.org>>:
Hi,
this weekend I djed on a friends birthday Party. Due broken
Hardware I had to hookup directly to a amplifier without any line
control after my hardware (Xone-K2) and the amplifier was unregulated.
I had to pull down the mater gain a lot so it was no too loud.
Now the problem with this is, that it makes mixxx unusable. You
basically loose the possibility to use headphone for listening to
master channel or anything in between because the levels become
very different.
On the evening I thought mixxx is broken in this aspect, I'm not
so sure now but at least then it's missing a second level meter.
Anyway, recordings done when the master know is used to limit the
loudness need massive afterwork to get to a decent loudness.
We either need a second master knob that sits just before the
signal is sent to the line out and after it is recorded and shown
after the master UV meter, or the master gain knob should only
regulate the volume after the master UV meter and recording and
you should adjust the gain on the channels instead on master.
Does somebody use the master know for anything else then reducing
the volume ? In which case I think it would be more useful.
kind regards
Daniel
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