Audacity 2.2.0 Released

Re:Audacity 2.2.0 Released by tomc1985 on Friday November 03, 2017 @06:51PM (#15622742)

Compared to digital vinyl with Serato, I found Mixx to be laggy (and more importantly, lacking of a dedicated next/previous track keys) with a low-end Pioneer DDJ SB. Track controls are replaced with a "hot cue" function, which makes beatmatching without cuepoints unnecessarily cumbersome. Don't recall if the UI had a dedicated next/prev track button but remapping the control scheme meant diving into some javascript datastructure that I wasn't in the right mindset to do at the time. Really wanted to like Mixxx but I could not see how I could perform with it

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Re:Audacity 2.2.0 Released by marssaxman on Sunday November 05, 2017 @05:01PM (#15631917)

I've been using Mixxx for years, but I've never tried Serato. I'm curious, since I can't imagine what the point of "next/previous" keys would be - what do you do with them? Next/previous relative to what, exactly?

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Re:Audacity 2.2.0 Released by tomc1985 on Monday November 06, 2017 @12:43PM (#15637144)

I use the 'prev' key to fast-rewind to the beginning of a track, for really quick needle drops on a downbeat. I don't use a lot of cue points and usually find it easier to start my mixing into the feed from the first downbeat.

Workflow is: drop from beginning, play+tweak til roughly beatmatched, rewind to beginning and needle drop on first beat again, then begin fading into the mix

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Re:Audacity 2.2.0 Released by marssaxman on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:50PM (#15638442)

Ah, gotcha - I had been imagining you meant prev/next with respect to a playlist.

I think you can do that in Mixxx using the "cue" button. While playing, tapping "cue" will rewind to the beginning of the track and pause; pressing "cue" and holding it down will preview from the beginning. While previewing, you can press "play" before releasing "cue" in order to continue playing; otherwise, releasing "cue" will rewind to the beginning and pause.

So, you'd use a similar workflow: play from the beginning of the track and tweak until beatmatched, then press and hold "cue" to rewind to the beginning and start playing from the first beat. If it works, press "play", release "cue", and bring up the fader; if it didn't work, just release "cue" to rewind, then try again.

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Re:Audacity 2.2.0 Released by tomc1985 on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:05PM (#15647018)

I tried to get that working with cue but the modailty of it would mess me up. I suspect with practice it'd be easier. Wish the 'set cue' and 'play cue' buttons were different though

Thanks though! I still like Mixx, no hate here. I just need to spend some more time with it

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