Recently got a mix board and have been learning on mixxx. If anyone has any general guides for learning to dj in mixxx I’d love to know. Honestly, I feel a little lacking in the fundamentals of digital audio so I’m probably going to focus on that before going too deep, but so far mixxx has been great! It was pretty hard for me to navigate, but that’s 100% because I have no idea what I’m doing. Curious to seeing if the update will help with discoverability.
The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
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#12I love Mixxx, I use it daily as a music player. I know it is a virtual DJ deck, but it is also a fantastic music player. That being said the following sentence makes me a bit concerned "The current user interface of Mixxx has served us well, but as technology evolves, so must we." As far as I know QWidget is neither deprecated nor are there any plans for that. I think Mixxx has one of the best UI's I ever encountered…
I recently looked and bought into the DJ tech today. I know mixxx, used it many times. And Rekordbox isn't perfect either. But you can't even compare. If the one is Dj Software, mixxx right now, is just a music player with DJ theme
An alternate view on this is Rekordbox is software that you have to pay for, tries to upsell you to a monthly subscription, has arbitrary limitations on what hardware it will work with and by default sends data about every track you play to some 3rd party service.
Mixxx doesn't do any of that and it's absolutely powerful enough to use for DJ sets.
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#13Mixxx is a great piece of software, even better that it's OSS and runs linux. Exciting to see a new major release.
I've been using it lately (2.x) just mixing internally and with cue points set up in my tracks, and using the laptop keyboard for shortcuts. Works really well. For the occasional xfade etc I do have an external MIDI controller mapped to the xfade, levels, and eq but could get away without it for my style of mixing.
Been DJing off and on for 25y and producing electronic music for 30y.
Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
#14This generally results in a bulky and oversized UI with excessive padding. The current UI is satisfactory and lightweight. Why fix something that's working well?
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#15I got out of DJing and into tech because of my love for dental insurance. For a while I tried to influence the direction of mixxx and was getting great feedback from other DJs but none from the developers.
This was my great introduction to why I will never be a great developer, and why open source will never be on par with paid professional software. I admire their efforts, but mixxx will always be a hobby project in my eyes.
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#16I got out of DJing and into tech because of my love for dental insurance. For a while I tried to influence the direction of mixxx and was getting great feedback from other DJs but none from the developers. This was my great introduction to why I will never be a great developer, and why open source will never be on par with paid professional software. I admire their efforts, but mixxx will always be a hobby project in…
What methods were you using to try and influence the direction of Mixxx?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recently looked and bought into the DJ tech today. I know mixxx, used it many times. And Rekordbox isn't perfect either. But you can't even compare. If the one is Dj Software, mixxx right now, is just a music player with DJ theme
I’d be interested to know what the main differences are
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#18I wish this had youtube video mixing support. This is something i cant find in other software.
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#19I wish this had youtube video mixing support. This is something i cant find in other software.
this went out of style a long time ago. when you play videos out, everyone just stares at the screens.
Re: The new shape of Mixxx 3.0 – Open Source DJing
#20I love Mixxx, I use it daily as a music player. I know it is a virtual DJ deck, but it is also a fantastic music player. That being said the following sentence makes me a bit concerned "The current user interface of Mixxx has served us well, but as technology evolves, so must we." As far as I know QWidget is neither deprecated nor are there any plans for that. I think Mixxx has one of the best UI's I ever encountered…
The one killer feature any DJ software can have - and it's a tough one - is....
Not crashing during playback.
But hey why refine and fix bugs when you can constantly iterate on new features no one asked for (sadly this applies to most open source software).