I think the idea is that the team from Mozilla wants to pursue this for
their upcoming music hackathon. No core developers will be allocating time
to this.
I agree that we have a lot more important things on our roadmap and this is
way too experimental to justify spending time on. Even if we were to
complete it and make it awesome -- you can't even buy popular tracks in
this format.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Albert Santoni <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just discovered following discussions and plans to potentially make
> Mixxx support mutli-track/channel audio files:
>
> http://mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3018
> http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/multi-channel_file_mixing
>
> As I posted on the forums, I think this is not a good idea because:
> 1) The sheer amount of work involved
> 2) The lack of multi-channel/track content. And I don't think you will
> ever see it because:
> 3) Every DAW on the planet already supports multi-track rendering to
> separate WAV files. This is even better than multi-track OGG/FLAC files
> because it's easier for every program to support.
>
> On top of that, Mixxx already DOES support mixing with these separate WAV
> files - Mixxx already has the sampler decks. If you want to pursue
> multi-track mixing, work on making the sampler decks more robust. There is
> something very fundamental here from a product perspective that we should
> know by now - The fundamental interface for DJing is the two-decks and a
> mixer paradigm. So if you want to implement fancier mixing and control of
> the sampler decks, figure out a way to work it into the two-deck paradigm.
> Whether that's slaving the control of the sampler decks to a single main
> deck, or making it so you can swap sampler decks with the main decks
> seamlessly, I don't know. But I think that's the problem that needs to be
> solved. If you don't solve it this way, you won't be able to use your
> Hercules MK2 or Technics 1200s to control your multi-track mixing.
>
> We have the interface, it's been established by every piece of DJing
> hardware for the last 30 years, so let's just figure out how to use that
> interface to control multiple tracks via the sampler decks. I think it'll
> save you a ridiculous amount of work and produce something that's much
> easier to use in the long run.
>
> Thanks,
> Albert
>
> --
> Albert Santoni
> Developer, Mixxx
> http://www.mixxx.org
> http://www.oscillicious.com
>
>
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