Program For Dj Mixing

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Mixxxintegrates the tools DJs need to perform creative live mixes with digital music files.

Whether you are a new DJ with just a laptop or an experienced turntablist, Mixxx can support your style and techniques of mixing.

Built-in mappings for DJ controller hardware gives you hands-on control of Mixxx's features. Use the programmable mapping system to customize your workflow and add support for any MIDI or HID device.

Use turntables with timecode vinyl records to control playback and scratch your digital music files as if they were pressed on vinyl. Mix music vinyls into your set by toggling vinyl passthrough mode.

The Mixxx developers started the year with good intentions and therefore imposed some deadlines on themselves.That is why only three months after version 2.4, version 2.4.1 has been released.This version delivers solutions for minor bugs and issues that came with 2.4.

You can get involved with Mixxx today by reporting bugs and suggesting features, making a controller mapping, adding features & fixing bugs, helping with translations, or working on one of our other starter tasks.

The District has developed this new pilot incentive program to target the installation of electric feed mixing equipment and further reduce diesel emissions from tractors and other mobile equipment and vehicles at Valley dairies and other confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). The primary emission reductions from this program will be from the elimination of existing ag tractors that mix and deliver feed, the elimination or reduction in usage of on-road trucks used to deliver feed, and reduction in usage of any remaining off-road equipment used in the feeding process. Further emission reductions and cost-savings to Valley dairies and CAFO's will be achieved through increased efficiencies of the new systems that result in an overall reduction in feed mixing equipment usage. Due to the complexity of this program, it is strongly advised that interested applicants speak with program staff to ensure proper submittal of an application.

This program will provide an incentive in the amount of 65% of the total cost of eligible equipment and infrastructure, up to a maximum cost effectiveness of $30,000 per ton of emissions reduced. The total incentive is a sum of the following 3 components: mobile off-road tractors, mobile on-road trucks, and infrastructure and new electric equipment. A detailed listing of the maximum amounts per component can be found in the Program Guidelines.

I am trying to create a program that would allow a user to create a colour using 3 level faders for each of the rgb channels. Once a colour has been created it should ask the user to name the colour. Scroll through letters using the red fader. Use save button to advance cursor. Once colour has been named save a text file to a sd card as "Colourname.txt". In the file store the RGB values as "R,red value,G,green value,B,blue value" ie. "R,134,G,255,B,003".

Not really understanding what is wrong with this? Some explanation would be greatly appreciated. In the initialization of the inputs I declared the save button as an input with a pull up resistor so would this not trigger the save function when the button was pressed and the pin pulled to ground?

Most of the stuff I've seen is more focused on time-code based events (music videos, etc.) I need software that can, for example, have continuous music playback with gradual volume increase and then be able to drive recorded dialog over that music with variable timing (the recorded dialog will interact with an actor on the stage).

Hey Phil, one question. I assume someone will be mixing the elements night after night?, or do you want it to be automated and start with 1 button at the start of the performance. I have never done theater work, but like others I have done some complex playback that interacts with the on camera performers, and there are a number of ways to do this, but of course this needs a person to operate the system.

The last time I ran sound in the theater (I could make some joke here about tin-sheet "thunder" efx but I won't!) it was all midi files and a sequential controller. The designer set it up, I just pushed the buttons on cue from the SM. Sorry I can't be more help, but it was definately midi. Check out a great shareware application that supports midi; Reaper. It's my new favorite for playback and even has a dead-on accurate TC generator too boot. F**k Pro Tools!

If you can setup a way to play tracks completely independantly of one another (im wondering about maybe a piece of DJing software? they allow simultaneous cueing of multiple tracks with stop/play/pause functionality) you could let the music play underneath and then play and pause the voice track on the other side in time with the actor.

the other option of course is two playbacks, maybe one linear one (like an MD, CD or similar system) and one non linear (like PC multitrack based system, im wondering about Ableton Live maybe) - you can use the linear for music and feed it to your desk to ride the gain if you cant premix this for the show, and then use the PC to cue off the voice tracks.

I want it to be as automated as possible, but someone will still have to hit the cues manually because of the interactions with the actors on stage (which makes for some of the "excitement" when working with live theater). ;-)

Thanks old school... I think probably the only weakness would be flexibility if the actor messes up, that could be where software like ableton could be very cool in picking up mistakes. This is a tricky application, I guess the method will very much be defined by the parameters of the show.

In one of my other lives I'm a theatrical sound designer. There has been until recently only one program used for sound playback: SFX by Stage Research ( ). It's used everywhere, it's fairly expensive, and somewhat hostile to program and work with in rehearsals (IMHO, apologies to those who feel otherwise). SFX is PC-based.

But I've designed two off-Broadway musicals and a score of off-off-Broadway plays and dance pieces using Q-Lab, a new program which has a perfectly working and usable "free" version of it ( ). It runs on Mac OSX 10.4 or greater. Since switching to Q-Lab I've never looked back to SFX.

I can't say enough good about Qlab. The fellow who wrote it is very responsive, the software has been very stable, it's very simple to write cues with it. Stage managers love it. Knock on wood, I've never had a failure during a performance. Everyone I've turned onto it -- sound designers, stage managers, etc., have loved it. Did I mention that it's free?

In the theater ( ) where I have my studio, we have a Mac Mini running Q-Lab and we keep the computer on the network so that I can write sound cues in the studio and upload them to the Mini up in the theater. That system so far has worked great (we just installed it for the "Estrogenious Festival" which is 20 short plays, another dozen solo works, and who-knows how many other "one off" plays and musical performances for the month). We'll have at least 5 sound designers working with that system, so we'll give it a real workout.

For someone doing complex playback with multiple cues in film Q-Lab might be helpful. Personally, I've never run into the need for that kind of playback on a film or TV set (and I typically use the Mac on my cart for Metacorder). But for those who have those kinds of needs, check it out!

I looked into Q-Lab, not because I have any direct need for it at the moment, but I love to hear about really well designed and functional software. It does look to be a terrific application and I am pleased that you have had such good results with it.

Thanks all for the feedback and suggestions. Looks like I'm going to have to accelerate my Mac purchase for both Boom Recorder and now Q-Lab. I wonder if I can still get a refurbed iBook for cheap. ;-)

One thing that remains the same in theatre from the old reel to reel days is that Stage Management will expect you to be hitting a "GO" button on their cue. Outside of the huge and expensive shows that repeat for years on end (like Cirque) the use of time-code and other automated "GO" functions for audio playback is still quite rare in live theatre.

As a side note, many folks are still running theatre sound cues off of CD players. You will need a professional player that offers the "advance to the next cue and auto-pause" feature, but if your show is nailed down as far as sound cues go, a high quality CD player is quite common as a live playback device. Tascam CD players are quite common for this purpose.

If you are thinking of going the DJ software route, I would recomend PC-DJ. Easy to use software, and your cues get preloaded into your RAM, and playback is instantaneous when you hit the space bar. I used to use pro CD players, but this playback seems even faster.

I beleive it can also trigger lighting effects, through your PC, if you need to. (But you may be stepping on other department toes with that one.) and with the newest version of the software you can also mix video !

Auxiliary Send and Return provides control of the final AUX send mix, as well as two auxiliary returns, as defined in the Show Profile. The returns can be assigned to a program bus. These options are defined in

a Show Profile and controlled as needed by the user. Individual sources can be assigned to feed one or all

AUX Send buses from the Channel Options Aux Send screen.

Mic, Codec and Phone sources can be sweetened with Voice Dynamics from Omnia. Expansion, Compression and De-Essing are part of the toolkit; Like EQ, dynamics settings can be adjusted at will or preset and saved with sources for automatic recall.

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