![]() which is getting pretty old and slow so I am going to retire that one for the new one I mentioned It's really a lot different here, nobody wants to be chained to a desk, if you even have room for a real desk in your apartment. a work machine which I only use for my day job, a peronal/work machine that I use for my music, personal stuff and any personal programming projects or side jobs, and a machine I take with me as a remote for my processor on the sound system and for stuff like that. But right now I've got three laptops going. com startup culture I learned to love having a single laptop as my main machine. ![]() But when I moved to NYC and got into the. I'm a computer programmer for a living and used to have bunches of computers and servers running in the house. Yea I hear that, I've got bunches of old computers too but they're all laptops! One old desktop remains that I am going to junk as soon as I get everything off its drive. I have other projects I’m working on at the same time. Not sure how much time I’ll have for this project today. I’ve been using it as a Linux computer in my Art Studio because I wanted to use some Linux tools that are not available for Windows. It’s actually a 1U rack-mounted computer I used to DJ with, but it had Windows 7 on it back then. I have another more powerful Linux computer I can use to see if the Key change issue is a computer problem or a software problem. I used the Auto DJ function last night and it worked flawlessly. I’ll also need to try building a new crate and playlist while a track is playing. I’ll need to add some new tracks that have not been analyzed to see if it will analyze a track as it’s loaded in one deck while playing another track without skipping. All my tracks were already analyzed from before. Now, last night was not the best test because Mixxx found all the crates, playlists, and tracks from my previous installation, even though I had removed the old version before installing the new one. I remember the reason I ditched this project the last time was because there were frequent pauses and skips when playing tracks, which made it essentially useless. I don’t know if the problem is due to having an underpowered computer, or whether it’s a software issue. Changing the key on a track totally messed it up, and I had to restart Mixxx to get tracks to play correctly again. I hope to do that today, but I did a little mixing with it and everything but the KEY change worked as you’d expect it should. There have been a TON of improvements over the last version I used. The new version of Mixxx works pretty good. I used to be a command line guy, but in my old age my memory ain’t what it used to be (and it was never very good), so I end up having to look up the syntax every time I want to do anything. It didn’t even require any command line entries like it used to. I installed the latest version of Mixxx from their site last night. They even have documentation for the installation and use of the MIDI map, which will be extremely helpful. I had already looked at the hardware compatibility list before I ever started down this road. Luckily your VMS 4.1 is one which is officially supported (Mixxx Certified) so you are good to go and should definitely try it. If anybody is currently using a Linux platform for DJing, I’d be VERY interested to hear your experiences? Post about your Linux DJ setup! Hopefully the new version will work out better. ![]() I tried an older version of Mixxx on this computer a while ago, and it wasn’t the best experience. It’s an Open Source application, so trying it costs nothing, and if it works out it still costs nothing. This will be my basic setup, and I can add an additional mixer to the setup if need be.įor software. I also have an American Audio VMS 4.1 that I LOVED, but it’s relegated to the storage bin since being replace by my current Denon MC6000MK2’s. It has an Intel i3 CPU and 4GB of RAM, so it’s a pretty low end computer, but it should be up to the task if I don’t try to use it for more than mixing music. I have a laptop with the Zorin (Linux) distribution installed. Android is still too limited IMO, so perhaps it’s time to give Linux a shot. ![]() I’m really getting fed up with Microsoft (Windows), and I’m not so thrilled with Apple either. However, I think I’m going to give it another go, and this time I’m gonna spend the time required to get it working. I have been wanting to use Linux on a DJ computer for quite some time, but have never gotten past installing the DJ software.
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