xwax, the minimal open source DVS for Linux

[MrPopinjay]

I'm currently using one super oem and one tech 1210. They are both fine turntables

I slightly prefer the super oem though I think most people are more into the technics.

[MrPopinjay]

louis@Pinky-MKII ~ $ screenfetch 
 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmds+.        louis@Pinky-MKII
 MMm----::-://////////////oymNMd+`     OS: Mint maya x86_64
 MMd      /++                -sNMd:    Kernel: x86_64 Linux 3.2.0-23-generic
 MMNso/`  dMM    `.::-. .-::.` .hMN:   Uptime: 4h 42m
 ddddMMh  dMM   :hNMNMNhNMNMNh: `NMm   Packages: 2177
     NMm  dMM  .NMN/-+MMM+-/NMN` dMM   Shell: bash
     NMm  dMM  -MMm  `MMM   dMM. dMM   Resolution: 2560x1024
     NMm  dMM  -MMm  `MMM   dMM. dMM   DE: GNOME
     NMm  dMM  .mmd  `mmm   yMM. dMM   WM: Not Found
     NMm  dMM`  ..`   ...   ydm. dMM   WM Theme: Not Found
     hMM- +MMd/-------...-:sdds  dMM   GTK2 Theme: Mint-Z
     -NMm- :hNMNNNmdddddddddy/`  dMM   GTK3 Theme: Not Found
      -dMNs-``-::::-------.``    dMM   Icon Theme: Mint-X
       `/dMNmy+/:-------------:/yMMM   Font: Sans 10
          ./ydNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3220 CPU @ 3.30GHz
             \.MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM    RAM: 1681MB / 3894MB
louis@Pinky-MKII ~ $

That's my desktop, xwax with a buffer size of 8ms (the default), 2 decks in use and 7 min long tracks loaded into them xwax is using 12% of my processing power and using 170MB of RAM. Working happily while I surf the web and watch youtube videos at the same time (my buddy is mixing).

I wonder how many decks I could have before I started to have problems :P

[MrPopinjay]

Ewan made a video showing off xwax with his triggerfinger pretending to be a pair of dicers and scratching a live audio input using a few modified scripts (that he's kindly shared with us on the wiki)

[MrPopinjay]

There is now an xwax soundcloud group, currently it boasts an impressive 2 members

http://soundcloud.com/groups/xwax

If you're a user (or a fan) I recommend joining and posting some xwax-y goodness.

[MrPopinjay]

http://www.reddit.com/r/Jolla/commen..._linux/c9kd1an

Holy crap, soon I might be able to run xwax off a smart phone! :O

[MrPopinjay]

Ooooh, scalable UI. Whenever the rest of the industry catches up with Apple and starts releasing high resolutions displays we will be ready

edit: oh, and I made a facebook group. lol

[MrPopinjay]

1.4 is out

A relatively small update, especially when you look at the other stuff that has been in development, like the midi and cue point stuff. Still, we're ready for the retina-display revolution :P

I'd like to try and get xwax running on a raspberry pi soon. That'd be cool.

[PartyMcFly]

I was gifted an old Asus Eee netbook. Not knowing what else really to do with it, I installed Debian, since I find you can't have enough Linux boxes around the house... I always need one for something eventually. I'm really, really excited to try out Xwax with an old M-Audio Conectiv on this when I get back home next week.

If all I need is vinyl control of two decks with low enough latency to back cue and beatmatch, why shouldn't an Intel Atom and 2GB of memory will be sufficient? I don't play out regularly anymore, so why should I keep hundreds of dollars in hardware interfaces and software licenses around? Xwax and a orphaned netbook seems like the perfect thing to keep on my mixing table since all I want to do anymore is mix records to relax once in a while.

I'll be back in this thread to share thoughts after I get back home and run it a few times. Hope some other people feel like coming in here and sharing experiences with what looks like the most promising open source DJ software around.

[MrPopinjay]

And Intel Atom with 2GB RAM is more than enough. Requirements are Pentium III 600 and 512 MB of RAM. You'll smoke it. No problem!

Tell me how you find it. Ask me, the IRC channel or the mailing list for help if you need it

[synthet1c]

Hey popin, do you know anything about using an Audio 8 under linux? I have Installed the ASLA drivers and can play video's and music using it no problem, but when I tried it in mixxx it will shut down. I would try xwax but the midi isn't as good.