Hi Owen,
It is true that what you are saying. Two people doing this will waste time.
Initially I thought of doing this project. Now that you are saying I will
read up some more ideas on the ideas page and let you know.
Thanks
Gayan
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Owen Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gayan,
>
> I'll defer to RJ about how best to have this feature implemented. I'm
> not sure that the synchronization project is actually big enough for two
> people to work on for the whole summer. Before you come up with your
> proposal, are there any other features on the GSOC list you'd be
> interested in working on? It may end up that we could use your help
> more on another aspect of the project.
>
> thanks,
> Owen Williams
>
>
> On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 19:58 +0530, Gayan Dhanushka wrote:
> > Hi Owen,
> >
> > Good to hear that you've started working on it. I looked at your GSoC
> > ideas page and thought about giving this a try. Since you've mentioned
> > it there isn't it possible to let a student develop this? I'll take
> > whatever the ideas that you are suggesting in the development process.
> > I'm pretty keen on doing this project both to support Mixxx and do
> > this for GSoC at the same time.
> > The sources that you have foreseen for the master clock are quite
> > good. I was thinking the same way about playback sync. But having BPM
> > and phase synchronization will be as of equal importance to make the
> > two tracks to be in sync.
> >
> > Since it is important build this important feature I will provide a
> > detailed proposal in the upcoming days. It is always good to have a
> > good plan before doing such an improvement.
> >
> > May be you can be my mentor in this project :)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Gayan
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Owen Williams <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I have already started working on Master Sync in my own
> > branch:
> > lp:~ywwg/mixxx/master_sync. While work is still very
> > preliminary, I
> > think we should decide how to organize this before we have two
> > completely different implementations. I'm still at the point
> > where I
> > wouldn't be totally opposed to throwing out what I have, but
> > I'd prefer
> > not to unless there's a major problem with the approach.
> >
> > I forsee several sources for a master sync clock:
> > * A specific deck
> > * A specific bpm
> > * Midi / JACK clock
> >
> > To start with I've been implementing deck sync -- a specific
> > deck is
> > designated as the master deck, and the slaves adjust their
> > speed to
> > match.
> >
> > For this first round I'm not worrying about /2, x2 bpm issues
> > or even
> > phase checking. Eventually there will need to be bpm pulses
> > that slaves
> > listen for so they can determine if they are out of sync, and
> > if
> > necessary, tweak their own playback rate to get back in sync.
> >
> > Since this is a big, important feature, it might be worth
> > sketching out
> > the whole thing ahead of time so we know it's theoretically
> > robust. I'd
> > also like to make sure it can scale significantly, to 16 or 24
> > decks for
> > ableton-like performances.
> >
> > Owen
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 14:19 +0530, Gayan Dhanushka wrote:
> > > Hi William,
> > >
> > > I am a lot familiar with DJ softwares for a few years now.
> > During my
> > > leisure time I use virtual DJ Pro and play around with it. I
> > am the
> > > official DJ of my batch and whenever there is a function
> > which needs
> > > music I am the guy that they always turn to. I love
> > listening to
> > > hiphop, rock and trance music and most of the songs that I
> > play fall
> > > into those categories. I'm not a professional I did those
> > for fun and
> > > I learned DJ'ing all by myself. I really love it that is why
> > I was
> > > really happy to see that a DJ software has been accepted by
> > GSoC and I
> > > decided to make some contribution.
> > >
> > > First of all thank you very much for the detailed
> > information. I am
> > > happy to say that I understood the things that you've
> > mentioned here.
> > >
> > > Instead of the SYNC button in virtual DJ they have what they
> > call a
> > > beat lock. When a track is added to deck 1 and before you
> > add a track
> > > to deck 2 you can hit the beat lock button and then add it.
> > The
> > > playing speed of the track on deck 2 changes accordingly to
> > the BPM of
> > > deck 1. But even there the decks do not check always with
> > one another
> > > and try to adjust the beats. The scenario that you've
> > mentioned
> > > through (1), (2) and (3) is correct. Those can take place
> > practically.
> > > But there might be a little problem. If this feature is
> > implemented
> > > say that the two tracks dynamically check for each others
> > BPM and try
> > > to synchronize the playing speeds of the songs can go
> > horribly fast or
> > > slow and it can jeopardize the whole DJ session.
> > >
> > > The master clock concept is more or less the same. instead
> > of
> > > synchronizing with the other deck this time the tracks are
> > > synchronized to a BPM set as the master clock.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the youtube link. I watched it and yes it will be
> > a cool
> > > function for a DJ to have. He/She will be able to sync the
> > two tracks
> > > very easily with it. When you said that the music was so
> > loud I
> > > thought it is a joke while listening to the guy who speaks
> > in a very
> > > low voice but when the song came up I came to know what you
> > meant :).
> > >
> > > I'm happy to tell you that I'm very much interested in this
> > idea and
> > > the project. I understand major requirements of this project
> > and I
> > > pretty much like to do this as a GSoC project.
> > >
> > > I'm a final year student of department of computer science
> > and
> > > engineering, university of Moratuwa, Srilanka. I'll be
> > downloading the
> > > code base and try to build it. I will update you about the
> > progress. I
> > > don't have prior knowledge of Bazaar and building code from
> > it. But
> > > I'm familiar with maven and ant builds. I hope that bazaar
> > would be
> > > the same.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Gayan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Gayan Dhanushka
> > > Undergraduate
> > > Computer Science & Engineering
> > > University of Moratuwa
> > >
> > >
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University of Moratuwa
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