On Monday 06 October 2008 13:53:04 Nick Guenther wrote: > I haven't played with bpmdj, what's it like? If Mixxx's beatdetecting > is so bad why do you still use it (i.e. what does Mixxx give you that > bpmdj doesn't?).
Hi Nick, As far as I can tell, bpmdj is a fancy playlist generator, intended for automatic (unattended) mixing, whereas mixxx is a live DJ mixer. I think they serve different purposes, and I use mixxx because it provides the kind of direct control I want (and does it very well). I haven't really used the playback features of bpmdj very much; I've only been using it for this BPM stuff because it has a nice graphical, interactive way to get very accurate BPM measurements. The idea is, it shows you a square bitmap with one measure per column of pixels, and each pixel shows you the volume level (or some wavelet power thing) of that part of the song. If your song has 4 beats per bar, you'll see 4 horizontal lines in the graph when you have the BPM right, but the lines will be diagonal if the BPM is a bit off. So you can see clearly whether the automatic BPM detection got it wrong, and you can adjust some course/fine sliders until the beat lines are perfectly horizontal. -- Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
