On Tuesday 23 September 2008 05:42:40 Gustavo Homem wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2008 14:37, Mark Glines wrote: > > On Thursday 18 September 2008 02:34:42 Gustavo Homem wrote: > > > I'm unsure which controller the Numark Total Control refers to: > > > > > > http://www.numark.com/computerdjvj > > > > Numark Total Control is: > > > > http://www.numark.com/totalcontrol > > > > I have one, and I like it. Can't speak for the others, but I can > > answer any questions you might have about this one. > > I'd basically would like to know which features work well on Linux > and if usage is stable with mix 1.6.
Basic mixing works, and usage is stable for me with version 1.6. With the default XML map installed as /usr/share/mixxx/midi/Numark\ Total\ Control.midi.xml, and using the "traktor" label card as suggested in the xml file, most functions on the numark unit work as expected. The xml file is "loosely based" on the traktor label card... a couple of buttons have been repurposed. Things which don't work or are surprising: * Minimal effects support yet. The total control has 4 effects buttons and knobs for each channel... currently the #1 button turns on and off the flanger for that channel, and none of the knobs and none of the other buttons do anything. [1] * The "key" button does not currently do anything. In traktor, this is meant to toggle the behavior of the tempo slider - whether it changes tempo independently of pitch, or changes both at once. * The "loop" button has been repurposed in the XML file: it toggles reverse play mode. The behavior of that is a little weird, because the jog wheels do not switch direction accordingly. When the channel is playing backwards, jogging right speeds it up (same as when it is playing forwards)... I think jogging right should slow it down and jogging left should speed it up. The jog wheels still behave normally when the track is paused, regardless of the state of the reverse play button. So when the channel is in reverse, that means you need to switch jog direction when you pause and resume playback. > Can we do something like this already? > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXZBSoQgm_E Nice hardware there. I think mixxx only has support for one cue marker... I know the total control does not have separate buttons for additional cue points, the way those CDJs did. Though if mixxx does support multiple cue markers, you could repurpose some of the numark's effects buttons to use them (by editing the xml file). > I'm curious if the CUE function works as desired (usage via Keyboard > is not working - I started a different thread on that subject). The cue function works for me with the total control and 1.6. It has 4 buttons related to this: * cue play: return to the cue point and resume playing * cue pause: return to the cue point and pause * set cue: drop a cue marker at the current position * play: play from the current position (or unpause) They all work as expected. Hope this helps, Mark [1]. There is a commented out section in the XML file which would allow the #1 knob to control the flanger LFO period. There is a comment in the XML file indicating they were commented out because it would allow the setting to escape the minimum/maximum bounds for that value. It wouldn't be hard to map a couple more knobs to the depth and delay, too. Both sides would control the same value; mixxx does not seem to have separate flanger controls for the left and right sides. In addition to the builtin flanger, midi support for ladspa plugins would be useful. I saw elsewhere on this list list that some work is needed before ladspa plugins are midi-controllable. However, I suspect my laptop has some additional setup issues here... I think I've installed everything I need, but when I open the effects dialog, the list of effects is empty. I'm pretty clueless about ladspa stuff, so that might just be user error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
