December 27th, 2011· 4 Sampler Decks
· Revamped and Rewritten User Manual
· Hundreds of bug fixes and improvements
Rewritten and Improved Vinyl Control Support:
· Completely rewritten vinyl-style pitch-bending for clean, analog-like sound.
· Absolute, relative, and constant vinyl modes.
· Rock-solid support for Serato Vinyl/CD or Traktor Vinyl at 33 or 45 RPM.
· Single-deck Vinyl Control
· End-of-record Mode
· Improved needle skip prevention.
· Can use different vinyl types on each deck!
· Improved audio quality when scratching.
· Support for track selection using the lead-in area of the vinyl and needle-drop hotcues.
· Track lead-in for scratching before the start of songs.
· Waveform smoothing to prevent wobbly waveforms.
· New built-in vinyl signal analyzer.
Beatloops, Loop Halve/Double Buttons:
· Handy beatloop buttons let you quickly throw down an 8-beat loop as you transition from one song to the next.
Quantized Loops, Hotcues and Beatloops:
· Turn on quantization mode for a deck and all of your loops, hotcues, and beatloops will snap to the nearest beat when you place them.
Phase Synchronization:
· Sync button now synchronizes both the BPM and phase of beats.
Beatgrid Adjust Feature:
· Is your beatgrid misaligned? Easily adjust it with one click.
Microphone Support:
· Streaming and club DJs alike will love this feature. Plug in your microphone and MC your show, all without the need for an external mixer.
Spinning Turntable Widgets and Waveform Scratching:
· Skins now come with juicy spinning turntables that you can scratch to your heart's delight.
· If vinyl control is enabled, vinyl signal quality can also be rendered to the spinning widgets.
· Waveform overviews now act as a progress bar for track analysis.
M4A Support for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users:
· Mixxx previously could not support M4A on Windows due to licensing issues, but that restriction is now lifted with our new Windows Media Foundation M4A plugin. Mixxx on Mac OS X already supports M4A.
Library Improvements:
· Traktor Library Support.
· New and improved Browse Mode.
· Recording Improvements: integrated with the library, automatically splits files into pieces to avoid large files, CUE files of tracks played.
· Much faster iTunes and Rhythmbox support.
· Import and export of crates and playlists as M3U/PLS playlists.
· Playlists and crates are lockable and rename-able.
· Dragging to library sidebar auto-expands closed sections and is easier to aim.
· Track play count is more accurately measured.
· Reload track metadata from context menu in library.
· Auto-scrolling in playlists is fixed.
· Shuffle AutoDJ Queue feature.
· Add Playlist to AutoDJ feature.
Brand New and Updated Skins:
· Deere
· LateNight / LateNightBlues
· Shade / ShadeDark
· Phoney / PhoneyDark
· Outline
Accessibility Improvements:
· Mixxx should play nicer with screen-readers now. It's not perfect, but a step in the right direction.
Limited Support for Internationalization:
· Beta translations for Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Dutch, Polish, and Japanese (thanks so much to the awesome Launchpad translators!)
· Alpha translations for many other languages.
· Better support for UTF-8 filenames.
Mixing engine improvements:
· Major efficiency and latency improvements: Netbook users report latency improvements of up to 4x.
· Sound quality is now much improved.
· Improved support for multiple soundcards. Synchronization problems should now only affect the headphone outputs. See Bug #667651 for more details.
· Soft-takeover support for MIDI mappings.
· JACK now recognizes ports as Mixxx instead of PortAudio.
Updated MIDI Mappings:
· American Audio RADIUS 2000 (new)
· American Audio VMS4
· DJ-Tech i-Mix Reload (new)
· Hercules DJ Console Mk4
· Hercules DJ Console RMX
· Ion Discover DJ
· Numark Total Control
· Pioneer CDJ-2000 (new)
· Pioneer CDJ-850 (new)
· Reloop Digital Jockey 2
· Stanton SCS.1m
· Stanton SCS.3d
· Vestax Typhoon
· Wireless DJ (new)
November 15th, 2011Rewritten and Improved Vinyl Control Support:
· Completely rewritten vinyl-style pitch-bending for clean, analog-like sound.
· Absolute, relative, and constant vinyl modes.
· Rock-solid support for Serato Vinyl/CD or Traktor Vinyl at 33 or 45 RPM.
· Single-deck Vinyl Control
· End-of-record Mode
· Improved needle skip prevention.
· Can use different vinyl types on each deck!
· Improved audio quality when scratching.
· Support for track selection using the lead-in area of the vinyl and needle-drop hotcues.
· Track lead-in for scratching before the start of songs.
· Waveform smoothing to prevent wobbly waveforms.
· New built-in vinyl signal analyzer.
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4 Sampler Decks
Beatloops, Loop Halve/Double Buttons:
· Handy beatloop buttons let you quickly throw down an 8-beat loop as you transition from one song to the next.
Quantized Loops, Hotcues and Beatloops:
· Turn on quantization mode for a deck and all of your loops, hotcues, and beatloops will snap to the nearest beat when you place them.
Phase Synchronization:
· Sync button now synchronizes both the BPM and phase of beats.
Beatgrid Adjust Feature:
· Is your beatgrid misaligned? Easily adjust it with one click.
Microphone Support:
· Streaming and club DJs alike will love this feature. Plug in your microphone and MC your show, all without the need for an external mixer.
Spinning Turntable Widgets and Waveform Scratching:
· Skins now come with juicy spinning turntables that you can scratch to your heart's delight.
· If vinyl control is enabled, vinyl signal quality can also be rendered to the spinning widgets.
M4A Support for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users:
· Mixxx previously could not support M4A on Windows due to licensing issues, but that restriction is now lifted with our new Windows Media Foundation M4A plugin.
Library Improvements:
· Traktor Library Support.
· New and improved Browse Mode.
·
Recording Improvements
· Integrated with the library.
· Automatically splits files into pieces to avoid large files.
· CUE files of tracks played.
· Much faster iTunes and Rhythmbox support.
· Import and export of crates and playlists as M3U/PLS playlists.
· Playlists and crates are lockable and rename-able.
· Dragging to library sidebar auto-expands closed sections and is easier to aim.
· Track play count is more accurately measured.
· Reload track metadata from context menu in library.
· Auto-scrolling in playlists is fixed.
· Shuffle AutoDJ Queue feature.
· Add Playlist to AutoDJ feature.
Brand New and Updated Skins:
·
Deere
· 1280x800 WXGA
· 1280x1024 SXGA
· 1440x900 WXGA+
· 1920x1080 FullHD
· 1920x1200 WUXGA
·
LateNight / LateNightBlues
· 1280x800 WXGA
· 1280x1024 SXGA
· 1366x768 WXGA
·
Shade / ShadeDark
· 1024x600 Netbook
· 1024x768 XGA
·
Phoney / PhoneyDark
· 1600x1200 UXGA
· 1680x1050 WSXGA
·
Outline
· 1024x600 Netbook
· 1024x768 XGA
· 800x480 WVGA
Accessibility Improvements:
· Mixxx should play nicer with screen-readers now. It's not perfect, but a step in the right direction.
Limited Support for Internationalization:
· Beta translations for Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Dutch, Polish, and Japanese
·
Revamped and Rewritten User Manual
Mixing engine improvements:
· Major efficiency and latency improvements - Netbook users report latency improvements of up to 4x.
· Sound quality is now much improved.
· Improved support for multiple soundcards. Synchronization problems should now only affect the headphone outputs. See Bug #667651 for more details.
· Soft-takeover support for MIDI mappings.
· JACK now recognizes ports as Mixxx instead of PortAudio.
Updated MIDI Mappings:
· Hercules DJ Console RMX
· Reloop Digital Jockey 2
· Stanton SCS.1m
· Stanton SCS.3d
· Vestax Typhoon
· American Audio VMS4
· Wireless DJ (new)
February 27th, 2011· Shoutcast / Icecast support
· Mixxx can now broadcast over the internet (heavily requested feature)
· External Mixer Support
· The new Sound Hardware preferences pane allows you to route each playback deck separately, which allows you to use Mixxx with an external mixer.
· ReplayGain normalization
· A user from our forum worked closely with our developers to fully implement volume normalization, including performing the ReplayGain analysis for tracks which are not tagged.
· Waveform Gain
· The scrolling waveforms now scale according to the channel gain for better visual feedback.
· Key lock buttons
· Formerly known as "pitch-independent time stretch", there are now easily accessible key-lock buttons for each for deck.
· Revamped default skin
· Since the original source material for the Outline Netbook skin was lost eons ago, our artist completely redid it from scratch and tweaked it for better visibility. The new skin has also added EQ kill switches.
· HSS1394 support (Windows, OS X)
· Mixxx now supports firewire HSS1394 MIDI devices such as the Stanton SCS.1 series.
· Improved FLAC support
· We're now using libFLAC directly for smoother FLAC decoding.
· Revamped metadata parsing
· Integration of TagLib allows Mixxx to parse more metadata from songs, and do it more consistently.
· Metadata writing
· Mixxx can now write changes in song metadata back to disk. This feature is off by default, and can be enabled in the Library preferences pane.
· Millisecond time display
· The time counters in Mixxx now have an extra millisecond display.
Library improvements:
· Played column - The library now indicates whether a song has been played in the current session already, and also counts the total number of times the song has been played.
· Ratings column - 5 stars, no stars, or anywhere in between.
· Better search - Search now searches in more columns, and by-term instead of by-phrase.
· Revamped iTunes integration - A rewrite yielded a significant speedup of iTunes parsing.
· Faster library scanning - The library scanner should perform much better on large libraries.
· Inline Editing - Double click any item in the track table to edit its contents.
· Recording to MP3/Ogg - Now your recordings can be saved in either MP3 or Ogg/Vorbis format.
New MIDI mappings:
· Vestax Typhoon
· Vestax Spin
· Hercules DJ Console Mk4
· Numark MIXTRACK
· Pioneer CDJ-350
Updated MIDI mappings:
· Hercules DJ Control MP3
· Hercules DJ Control e2
· Hercules DJ Control Steel
· Hercules MK2
· Vestax VCI-100
· Reloop Digital Jockey 2
· M-Audio Xponent
December 6th, 2010· Bugfix in AutoDJ playlist
· Fullscreen shortcut fix on OSX
· Able to MIDI-Map hotcues 5-32
· Fix loop-indicator on waveform to be correct on track load
· Fix waveform overview to update loops details on track load
· Allow multiple MIDI mappings per control.
· Fix some memory leaks
· Fix bug where removing items from playlist removes only half the selection
· Improve button responsiveness of cues, hotcues, and loops.
· Add backwards-compatible support to schema
· Performance improvements in core mixing engine
· Fix browse-mode on Windows so '..' works.
· New MIDI mappings: Vestax Typhoon, Hercules DJ Console Mk4, Numark MIXTRACK, Pioneer CDJ-350
· Updated MIDI mappings: Hercules DJ Control MP3, Hercules DJ Control e2, Hercules DJ Control Steel, Vestax VCI-100
October 19th, 2010· Reduce glitches on track load (major improvement for some users)
· Waveform generation speed drastically improved on Windows
· Stability fix when using vinyl emulation
· Adjustable EQ shelves can no longer be equal
· UTF-8 fixes for Rhythmbox track source
· Fixed duplicate promotional tracks from appearing in library
· Fixed minor delay in setting hot cues with MIDI controllers during playback
· BPM tap activates on mouse-down instead of mouse-up.
· Read ID3 tags in FLAC files on Windows
· Reduce crackling during playback for some Windows users
October 15th, 2010Looping:
· Loop-in, Loop-out, and Reloop/Exit buttons added to our main skins.
· Loop point indicators on main waveforms and waveform summary displays.
Hot cues:
· Most of our skins gained 4 hot cue buttons, and Mixxx now internally supports up to 32 hot cues per deck.
A brand new database-powered library, with:
· iTunes library and playlists access
· A brand new, faster library scanner
· Crates!
· A simple Auto DJ mode, which crossfades to the next track in the Auto DJ queue.
· Analyze view, which allows you to run bulk BPM detection on your songs
· Featured Artists bundle
· Revamped Song Properties dialog
· Re-arrangeable, hide-able columns
Tons of new artwork:
· New Deere, Shade, Phoney, and LateNight skins
· Better descriptions in tooltips and snazzy new look
MIDI:
· New PortMidi-based MIDI device backend, supports using multiple devices at once
· Timers in the MIDI scripting engine
New MIDI mappings:
· Hercules DJ Control e2
· DJ TechTools MIDI Fighter
· Reloop Digital Jockey2
Updated MIDI mappings:
· Hercules DJ Control MP3, RMX, MK2
· Stanton SCS.3d, SCS.3m
· M-Audio Xponent
· Behringer BCD3000
· Vestax VCI-100
· MixMan DM2
Other stuff:
· A massive rewrite of our internal mixing engine
· More intelligent disk access to help optimize audio latency
· Optimized waveform rendering at 30 fps
· Ramping pitch-bend option, smoothly applies temporary pitch adjustment for nudging
· Import comment tags from MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC/WAV metadata.
· New library and preferences icons
· Improvements to UTF-8 handling
· Over 50 bug fixes and more.
July 2nd, 2010Library:
Massive optimization of the new SQLite database-powered library, including:
· Faster searches
· In-memory caching layer which minimizes hard disk access
· Faster library scanning
· Fixed some Auto DJ bugs
· Added tooltips to library table
· Polished up song Properties dialog
· Library search now looks at album names too
· Fixed minor library rescanning bugs
· Fixed crate and playlist creation bugs
· Fixed drag-and-drop from network shares on Windows
· Show iTunes playlists as sorted
Audio:
· Added plugin architecture for audio playback
· Fixed some cueing bugs with pitch-independent time stretch
· Improvements to vinyl emulation sound quality
· Improved performance by optimizing hard disk access for audio decoding
· Legacy 1.7 library importer now imports cue points
· Faster MP3 loading
· Improved reliability with certain MP3s and OGGs
MIDI:
· Improved scratching with the SCS.3d
· Timers now available in MIDI scripts
· Fullscreen key changed to F11 to conform to de-facto standard.
· Tons of other bug fixes!
February 5th, 2010· After many months of planning and development, we're finally approaching a beta release of Mixxx 1.8. Since our last release, several major new features have matured and are almost ready for public testing.
· Our main focus for 1.8 has been improving the library, which is a direct result of continued feedback from our users. We're also excited to have been able to address several other major feature requests, and we think 1.8 is a big step in the right direction.
· Library
The brand new database-powered library is not only faster, but much more flexible as well. The new library features include:
· Keep your library organized by sorting your tracks into crates.
· Need to take a break for a few minutes? Throw some tracks into the Auto DJ playlist and let Mixxx cover you.
· The new Analyze view lets you peek at your recently added tracks and perform batch BPM detection.
· A brand new intelligent library scanning algorithm is both quick and accurate at importing new tracks when you launch Mixxx. The library scanner is even smart enough to notice when you've moved tracks around inside your library and preserves any extra metadata you've added in Mixxx like comments and BPMs.
· Looping and Ramping Pitch Bend
· A major rework of our audio engine also brings looping to the next release of Mixxx. Running out of time to find that perfect next track for your mix? Lay down a loop and buy yourself more time. Unlike the competition, Mixxx has no limitations on the length of your loop, so you can be as creative as you want to be.
· Additional work on our mixing engine has lead to a new feature we call ramping pitch bend. Ramping pitch bend helps you add extra smoothness to your mixes by making temporary pitch bends accelerate rather than jump suddenly.
· MIDI Enhancements
· A brand new MIDI backend completes the rewrite of Mixxx's MIDI code, the first part of which was included in 1.7 and enabled innovative new features like our MIDI scripting engine. The hot new addition for 1.8 is integrated multiple MIDI device support.
· AAC and iTunes Support
· Mixxx 1.8 can playback DRM-free AAC/M4A files on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. On Windows and OS X, Mixxx can also now see your iTunes library and let you play tracks from it without importing them.
· In addition to a 1.8 beta, we're also preparing a 1.7.2 bug fix release. This release will fix MIDI on OS X and improve stability for certain hardware configurations.
· 2009 has been an exciting year for Mixxx, and 2010 is shaping up to be even better. As the year closes, we'd like to thank all of our generous contributors and supporters. We hope you're looking forward to next year as much as we are!
January 4th, 2010· Fixed a memory leak causing degraded performance during long sets.
· The headphone "main" cue now takes master balance into effect.
· Fixed a rare issue with the Hercules DJ Control MP3 on Windows.
· Some Stanton SCS.3d bugfixes and improvements to the SCS.1m mapping
August 7th, 2009Improved MIDI device support:
· MIDI learning wizard
· MIDI mapping editor
· Upgraded, faster mapping system
· MIDI output now fully supported
· QtScript/JavaScript-based MIDI Scripting Environment - Script complex behaviour for your MIDI controller!
· Added full support for the Stanton SCS.3d and SCS.1m on all platforms.
· Hercules MK2 and RMX improvements
· Added Mixman DM2 mappings for Linux and OS X.
Vinyl Control:
· Scratching responsiveness improved, with needle-skip prevention option added.
· Signal quality indicators added to vinyl control preferences.
· Improved support for soundcards with multiple stereo inputs
Convenience features:
· The default skin is now widescreen, and fits nicely on netbook sized screens.
· Stereo master VU meter added.
· Cue points are now saved in the library for each track, with "auto-recall" cue option added to preferences.
· Support for more platforms: 64-Bit Windows and a Universal OS X package for 10.4+!
· Over 100 bug fixes and more!
October 3rd, 2008· The waveform view now zooms instead of speeding up when the pitch is adjusted. This allows the beat ticks to align when songs are beatmatched, and was a feature request we heard many times after the 1.6.0 release.
· FLAC support for Windows users! (Another much requested feature, and you can thank Michael Pujos for his hard work on this.)
· Fixed a problem where the waveform view went unresponsive (thanks to Mark Glines for the patch)
· Properly read artist and title names from FLAC files (another one from Mark)
· Fixed drag-and-drop on Windows with the "Simple" display mode.
· Fixed a Hercules RMX problem with its MIDI mapping.
· Fix for songs with short artist names.
June 30th, 2008· Added BPM reading from MP3/OGG files which have it embedded in them (ID3)
· Various accuracy improvements to the BPM detection
· Added preliminary support for multiple inputs with vinyl control (consecutive channel pairs only - eg. 1/2 and 3/4)
· Support for the Hercules DJ Console RMX
· Hercules DJ Console MK2 bug fixes
· Support for the Hercules DJ Console Mac Edition
· Support for the Behringer BCD3000, including LEDs
· Support for the Akai MPD24
· Improvements to the vinyl emulation and pitch-independent time stretch sound quality
· LADSPA effects support is rapidly improving, but is not compiled in by default yet (scons ladspa=1)
· Finished adding recording support
· Performance improvements while using vinyl control
· Support for 96000 Hz samplerates with Serato vinyls
· Build flags are now cached automatically
· Improved flanger effect
· Configurable cue behaviour, which now defaults to CDJ-style cueing.
· Enabled realtime priority with ALSA, improves performance with Linux RT kernels.
December 27th, 2007· New MIDI mappings for Tascam US-428, M-Audio X-Session Pro, Evolution X-Session, FaderFox DJ2, and the M-Audio Torq Xponent
· ALSA Sequencer MIDI support
· A couple of MIDI bug fixes (knobs now center properly)
· Added support for 14-bit MIDI pitch wheel controllers Hercules support on Linux improved (jog wheels work again)
· New nCut skin
· Big stability improvements (3 bug fixes)
· Multiple soundcards can now be used for output (master/headphones), in case you don't have a soundcard with 4 outputs on it.
· Adam's wicked colour scheme support for skins
· Can now change skins without restarting Mixxx
· Channel VU meters are now pre-fader
· VU meters are now much more smooth
· Added clipping indicators
· Higher quality EQs and other sound quality improvements
· New MIDI mapping format now in XML, supports controlling LEDs
· Better Hercules support on Windows and Linux
· Initial support for recording output
· New BPM detection algorithm
· New media library
· LADSPA effects support
· BPM Tap tempo
· Library search function
· Ported to QT4 (!)
· Moved build system to SCONS
· Redesigned preferences dialogs
· Rewritten audio core
· Vinyl control support for Serato, Traktor Scratch, and FinalScratch (FS needs work, but the others are good)
· Software preamp for vinyl control (can use turntables without a preamp)
· Track info editor (double-click in library)
· New library browse mode
· Starts in fullscreen mode if launched with the -f flag.
· Several MP3 decoder performance and stability improvements
· Support for merengue
· Reorganized "File" menu
· NEXT mode now works as expected (plays the next track in the table)
· Partial play queue
· Lots of little OS X improvements
· Improved consistency of fullscreen mode
· Customizable constant power crossfader curve
· Slow fade and fast cut crossfader curves
April 13th, 2007· Pitch independant time stretch
· Less bugs!
· Support for ASIO on windows
· Since the last beta we've mainly fixed user interface issues.
· We're also now using portaudio v19 instead of v18.
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