Terry_42, post: 30256, member: 1843 wrote: Nice to play around and you can easily learn to DJ on it, but I think it is far from usable in a live environment.
I join in with DJ Quantum: What brings you to this conclusion? Had any bad experiences with it?
I’ve never used anything else since version 1.5.x and it’s always been running ultra-stable on my linux machine.
It sure lacks some advanced features and as far as i’ve heard the beat/tempo detection (which i have no use for as a rock dj anyway) isn’t the most reliable yet. The latter issue will improve drastically with the next major release, and for the time being they added a tool to manually adjust the beadgrids as a workaround.
Also, Mixxx in its current state is definitley not the tool of choice for the fans of beatjuggling and advanced button-acrobatics, but with its perfectly useable basic feature set it ticks all the necessary boxes for the more oldschool djs who just want to play great music to their audience.
You shoudn’t be afraid of maybe editing some configuration files though and it doesn’t wipe your ass for you in some situations, for example when updating to a newer version (you better backup your configuration and database files etc.). I never found this to be much of an obstacle but it might scare away some apple-spoiled beginners who never were confronted with the inner workings of their system (“What the hell is a file system? I just drag that stuff into iTunes and it does everything for me…”).
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I forgot to mention the biggest faux pas of the software: It lacks proper effects, especially a filter. Instead there’s only some flanger stuff that no one has any real use for. I personally don’t need effects, but again, if you need ’em then stay away from mixxx.
Afaik, theres a LADSPA plugin architecture in the works (LADSPA is kind of the VST-equivalent of the open source world), that should make it easy to implement existing effects libraries in the future.
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