MrPopinjay's xwax Setup :)

[MrPopinjay]

16:9 720p just isn't enough horizontal screen real estate. with 1080p I can have two documents fit besides each other which would greatly increase my productivity when working on a laptop.

And a larger resolution doesn't mean webpages are going to put more stress on a network, you're still designing the webpages for the lowest common denominator (most web pages don't even use all the horizontal in a 16:9 720p monitor). Hell I'd be annoyed if they decided to make everything wider since I'd have to continue to have one web page taking up my entire god damn screen.
And even if you did proportionally make them wider I doubt the jump from 720p to 1080p (or even to 1800p) would really require you to use vectors instead of bitmap images, it's a pretty small jump. Hell, websites don't even use as many images as they do these days, it's all clean block colours and text.

The difference is going to be absolutely minuscule. Streaming 1080p is now a normal thing, making images twice as large is not an issue :P

[synthet1c]

i spose it's a good thing as when the web breaks it just means more work for designers responsive design is pretty good and easy enough to do, the only problem is that you can query the size of the window in pixels but that doesn't give you the actual size of the screen to know how large text and images should be... that means that even with responsive design techniques you just aren't going to be able to read the text without zooming, therefore the responsive design you have is pointless. There would have to be an addition to javascript to see what the device is and how much of the pixel real estate is actually usable. The issue is that because the internet is so large and been around for a long time change happens very slowly so the old stuff doesn't break.
sorry for hijacking your thread popin

[MrPopinjay]

Just design it to fit on 720p and then leave it up to them to set their default scaling a little higher if they feel the need to make the text larger

Hey I don't care. There's not much to talk about with my setup unless you're really into the LPD8 :P

[synthet1c]

The one thing I don't like about the LPD and MPK is the stupid LED's can be controlled by software to turn on and off, but whenever you press the pads if the light is on it will automatically turn off.. Otherwise they are pretty decent at what they do especially for the price, but you may want to invest in some bigger knobs and some superglue to hold them tight so you can use them a little easier..

has anyone made a driver for an Audio 8 on linux yet? I have been playing with backtrack lately and love the linux OS but unfortunately decent DJ hardware is rarely supported as it usually means someone much smarter than your average DJ needs to reverse engineer the manufactures driver in their spare time.

[MrPopinjay]

You don't need a custom driver for the Audio8DJ, it works out of the box with the normal ALSA driver. (in fact most USB interfaces are plug and play). By default it presents as 4 stereo pairs so you'll probably want to make an .asoundrc file in order to combine it into one address for use with something like a DAW or JACK but stereo pairs is perfect for xwax + ALSA. Mark has one on his little soundcard page, I've not tested it though. I did test the Audio4DJ one and it didn't work

http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/linuxdj/
http://wiki.xwax.org/list_of_soundcards

Wait, so you can control the LPD8 LEDs via the software? :O
I stuck korg nanokontrol knobs on my LPD8, they work nicely.

[synthet1c]

yep you can control them with software... to get around the native behavior I just made them blink when they were supposed to be on, so pressing them did turn it off, but it will start up again after the predefined amount of time and continue blinking. You should ask Mark to add in blinking unless you know the C language then you could probably do it yourself as it's open source.

[MrPopinjay]

No way! I couldn't find any documentation on controlling the LEDs via midi. Do you have any you could share with me?

So if I set it to be a solid colour hitting the pad turns it off? Couldn't I just get xwax to tell it to turn back on again after it receives the note off value?

[synthet1c]

you and zestoi think alike LOL

yep, you could do that but you need to introduce a delay before the note on for the LED will work, I tried it in VDJ but won't have a delay until version 8 so couldn't get it to work. Zestoi did get it to work using his midimasher with traktor but I can't remember the delay time that he used.

[MrPopinjay]

Well this is FOSS so anything is possible!

So do you have info on how to make the LEDs flash and such or am I going to have to find a good way to throw random notes at it and work it out through trial and error?

[MrPopinjay]

I've been playing with the LPD8, how did you make them flash? is it a VDJ feature?
Also did you manage to get the program change bank to flash?