![]() In Mixxx you can have several playlists to organize your tracks and I find the playlist manager very useful. I hope that in the future there will be support for some DJ Consoles, like the very popular Hercules DJ Console. In Mixxx you can select as input device a joystick, two mice and also other hardware. Mixxx can also be used as a desktop media player when coupled with Prokyon3. A very useful thing in some cases (depends on the music you are mixing) is that you can set Mixxx to display an average BPM (beat per minute) or the instant BPM of the track. Furthermore, you can control the increment in speed by the temporary and permanent pitch buttons. ![]() You can control how much pitch shifting is allowed with the rate slider. In the GUI tab, there are several useful thins to set. Unfortunately, the support for ALSA is preliminary, has to be enabled at compile time and you have to make a special device that it can use. The turnover is that it has lower performances than ALSA. OSS is very stable and it is very likely that is will work in any situation. Other sound APIs are supported as well, such as ALSA and OSS. To achieve a low latency you must run it with root privileges. If you use JACK, it is important to know that the latency is now controlled by it. The lower the latency, the higher the sound quality is and more processing power is needed. Mixxx gives you the option to configure the sound quality and the latency. But hey, it is Linux what are we talking about here, not Pioneer's CDJ-1000. Professional needs are not satisfied by this software. Mixxx is designed for semi-professional and beginner users, but not for professionals. The subject is open for discussion however, because of another software product, Ultramixer 2. Mixxx might be the best DJ software for Linux. I also suggest that you use a frontend like qjackctl. It is a must when you use advanced audio applications in Linux. JACK was designed from the grounds up for professional audio work, and its design focuses on two key areas: synchronous execution of all clients, and low latency operation. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves. It is a low-latency audio server that can run on almost everything based on UNIX. Before I begin presenting Mixxx it is very important to know something about what makes advanced music software products possible in Linux: JACK.
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