One important use case for me, which is not covered is a "Loudness" EQ, the
thing, found on most living room amplifiers. This is very useful if you
play silent music at dinner time.
For me a perfect EQ would be a steep two band ISO for Mixing + a Loudness
effect on the Mid knob.
2017-01-18 13:51 GMT+01:00 Daniel Schürmann <dasch...@mixxx.org>:
> Yes, we should not follow Traktor to model N Type of hardware mixers. We
> may let us inspire from the solutions out there and build a well suited set
> of Mixxx EQs, that covers the most important use cases for Mixxx.
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> Providing a generic EQ builder sounds cool but it is ambiguous, since we
> are facing a lot of degrees of freedom. In case of Biquad EQ types, such a
> generic EQ will always be a chain of Filters. So your request is basically
> the same what Be has suggested with chaining other effects.
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> We could add a n-Pole parameter to our isolator EQs, but I am In doubt if
> we actually need to be that flexible. It will finally increase the number
> of possible EQs even more.
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> From my experiences from my past work on the current solution, most users
> just do not care about the EQ details. It is also interesting, that we had
> not a single complain about a missing conventional EQ option even though it
> is the most common one on Hardware. It seams that most users are pretty
> happy with an isolator type. This matches also what I can read in forums
> discussing EQs.
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> However, I still think we have some gaps in our EQ Zoo:
> * A XONE:92 like EQ
> * A conventional Biquad EQ (PR is pending)
> * A 12 dB/Oct isolator ??
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> Where the IMHO the XONE:92 is not famous because its 4 Band. It is famous,
> because it combines an 2 Band ISO with a 2 Band EQ, the best of two worlds.
> Interestingly this device is an icon, because the successors with 4-Bands
> do not offer full kill. Maybe the required hardware circuit was just too
> expensive or complicated.
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> A sweeping Bell EQ like the play differently could be also fun. An other
> use case for sweeping EQs is to ring out Microphones.
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> 2017-01-18 9:32 GMT+01:00 Ferran Pujol Camins <ferranpujolcam...@gmail.com
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>> I'm afraid we will end up with lots of EQs: generic EQs that only differ
>> on slope or number of bands + eqs that mimic a specific hardware mixer.
>> Thats confusing.
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>> AFAIK there's two kinds of EQ we are talking about:
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>> 1-EQs based on a crossover
>> 2-EQs that are a combination of filters low/hi pass, bell...)
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>> It's hard to fit both kinds under the same general structure. But maybe
>> we can think of providing a general type of EQ for each.
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>> 1) A crossover EQ parametrizable by number of bands and slope.
>> 2) A parametric EQ where filters of different kind can be added
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>> "xone 92 eq", "Model 1 eq" would then become presets of 2)
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>> What do you think? 2) is ambitious, but I think 1) is realistic and we
>> would already reduce the number of available EQs.
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>> On 17 Jan 2017 3:41 a.m., "Be" <b...@gmx.com> wrote:
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>>> In addition to emulating the Xone:92, it would be fun to have an EQ
>>> emulating the PLAYdifferently Model 1, which also uses 4 knobs:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/1581721
>>>
>>> On 01/16/2017 06:47 AM, Ferran Pujol Camins wrote:
>>> > Following discussion in https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/1007
>>> >
>>> > Reusing the Qick effect knob for the fourth EQ band, Is IMO very
>>> handy
>>> > because it works for the Controller and for the GUI. The GUI still
>>> > matches 1:1 to the controller.
>>> >
>>> > We have also discussed to use the gain knob as fourth EQ band. If
>>> we
>>> > consider that, we need to decouple the GUI/Controller form the
>>> > Internal CO values from the engine and allow to set a mapping form
>>> > the EQ preferences.
>>> >
>>> > I prefer this over scripting solution, since it will be "midi
>>> > leanable" and it do not requires to touch all mappings, except
>>> > changing the names to the new mappable knobs.
>>> >
>>> > But you loose either the gain knob or the Quick Effect knob. I want
>>> both
>>> > of them :)
>>> >
>>> > IMHO shrinking the knobs so they fit in the same space when n=4 is
>>> > possible. Again, Traktor does it.
>>> >
>>> > Suppose that the 4 knobs can satisfactorily be fit in each skin.
>>> > Wouldn't you prefer this over loosing gain or Quick Effect knob?
>>> >
>>> >
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