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i agree with you guys totally, xwax costs a lot of time, and if i spent the same amount of time working as i spent playing with xwax, i could buy serato and traktor and probably a few Qfos, but i like playing with code. i like playing with computers and electronics, but when my bike needs fixed i take it to a bike mechanic. i hate fixing bikes. the library in xwax is really a bit of a pig, when you start xwax you define a path for each crate, and it scans and loads them when xwax starts. if you’re organized and have your set list planned out perfectly then its ok, but you can't just plug in a usb key mid set. like the rest of the program it 'works' perfectly, but needs some more features. like rasteri says, mixxx does use the timecode engine from xwax, but you need a significantly faster computer to run it with decent latency. it's pretty good for controllers, and has a good library, but it lacks decent effects. i'm trying to learn beat juggling and i'll have to figure out a better way of dealing with relative vs absolute. i might be missing some details of exactly how it works. i spent this morning trying to beat juggle Apache by the incredible bongo band, with one timecode and one vinyl, having one timecode switching between relative and absolute and one real vinyl was a bit confusing. i was so absorbed in the experience that i missed the postman who was probably delivering my new timecodes, hot cues and loops via the keyboard shouldn't be hard, but i'm more interested in getting it working with my triggerfinger first. i've figured out how to control just about anything in xwax via sdl which is the library that xwax uses to draw the interface on screen and recieve input from the keyboard. i have managed to hack together something really cool with xwax that you can't do with traktor or serato. LIVE MICROPHONE INPUT SCRATCHING! if you all promise not to laugh at my pitiful scratching i'll make a video demo.

Silicone lube spray is best for fader rails since they actually need lubrification, or silicone grease in a tube. And switch cleaner spray for pots since the actual. Graphite contactsurface needs cleaning. All brands are pretty much the same stuff. What you want to avoid doing is cleaning the rail with switch cleaner, and covering the contact surface of the pot with non conductive lubricant. Optical faders don't need switch cleaner, just lube. And 'magnetic faders' how the fuck do they work?

true its almost completly devoid of features, but the ones you mention are all supported. xwax defaults to abolute mode, but switches to relative mode if you run past the end of the record or reset the start point (f2) or do something else which would cause chaos. there is no global abs/rel switch. cue points and loops are supported, but so far only for dicers, i'm hacking it to work with a triggerfinger, but its not working yet. check out the latest version. things you'll probably never see in xwax are such guilty pleasures as auto beatmatching, loop quantizing, effects, and mouse support. lacking mouse support may seem like a wtf but really its better of without it, mice aren't as immediate as keys.

yep, you can use serato or traktor timecodes and maybe mixvibes too. but serato works best because that's what the guy who writes it uses. its pretty basic compared to serato though, the file browser is a bit of a pig, and there are no effects. it does support dicers though. its definatly not easy to set up, but once you have it running its bomb proof. i don't think that Mark, the guy who writes it is particularly interested in mass market appeal, but its not one of the many projects that never get past beta. the released versions have all been totally stable. its not an understatement to say that it's one of the most stable programs i ever used. i have to say that i'm a sucker for the minimalist interface. as for audio interfaces it works with pretty much anything that works in linux, i think the developer uses a serato interface. theres a video of a guy cutting it up using xwax here aparently he's using the shitty built in sound card on his computer! i don't think that there is a distribution that has a ready built package of xwax, i run avlinux 6.0 and installed from source. i have avlinux installed on an 8gb sdcard, since i still use this computer for other stuff like controlling lights where my software only runs on windows. some people had it working on OSX but i don't know the details. while it is free, it will cost you a bit of time to get it running.

i'm fairly new here and it seems that everybody else is using serato and traktor. Am i the only one using xwax? my setup isn't quite ready yet as i'm still waiting for a seccond serato timecode to arrive in the mail, but my results are pretty good so far. i'm running xwax on a shitty old asus eeepc 901 but i've managed to get latency down to 2.9ms with no problems. i have a mixvibes umix44 interface.

hi i'm ewan, i'm from scotland and live in turin, italy, ive always been into technology and music, and always wanted to be able to scratch and beatjuggle, but never had the time or cash to dedicate to it, now at the tender age of 34 i finaly put together a decent setup: numark ttx1s and a stanton sk2f all bought broken and fixed up(not quite finnished yet), i don't buy new kit ever, instead i just hack and modify and fix broken stuff i find or buy for cheap. i hack opensource software for fun so the automatic choice of dvs for me was xwax, which i will probably be evangelising ad nauseum. in my day job i'm a circus performer/street performer, which may sound interesting but i'm actualy just an average nerd who juggles with stuff and balances on things. i'm totaly into all the performance aspects of turntablism, one day i hope to put together a scratch routine for my show. which is why i'm here.

you can download a copy of the serato control cd from the serato website, its a .wav. to get the track search thingy to work you need to use a specific program to burn the files to a cd

nice! i put a bit of heat shrink on the jack of my headphones with the cable folded over inside, so that when(not if) i trip on the cable it dosent rip the cable out of the jack. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_gsEVgQKS_2Zk1oZHVhaUZpTU0 might try this though it looks nice, shame i only have pink heatshrink tubing lying arround.