xwax, the minimal open source DVS for Linux
xwax, the minimal open source DVS for Linux Posted on: 30.11.2012 by Kiyoko Wellisch 1.3 of xwax is out! xwax is really awesome. If you're a vinyl DJ and a linux user I certainly recommend checking it out The announcement email on the mailing list http://xwax.org/ - The homepage http://wiki.xwax.org/ - The wiki, containing useful getting started information | |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 09.02.2014 | Hey Monomer! I certainly do get around Good to see another redditor here. I missed your last post, how are you finding xwax? xwax 1.5 is out! Highlights of this release: * The music library is scanned in the background * Crates can be re-scanned during a session * Reduced CPU usage of the audio resampler Woop woop |
| Shara Ingebrigtsen 24.12.2013 | Just compiled 1.4 Have yet to test this out, I went from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04, and lost the previous xwax install (1.1?) I'm glad to see a wiki with a lot more explained, and more plugins! The install went smooth using an audio4dj, the only thing I forgot is that EVERYTHING is case-sensitive in Linux, and ~/music doesn't exist: but ~/Music indeed does. It's nice that it runs in the background in the terminal. Now all I need is some fresh Sereto records to get up and running, mine have seen better days. MrPopinjay, you get around eh? Shout out from /r/djs! |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 01.12.2013 | xwax 1.5 beta 1 is out for testing. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/m...sg_id=31689705 |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 19.07.2013 | The Audio 8 DJ is plug and play. It presents itself as 4 pairs of stereo inputs and there's a nice .asoundrc here which you may fine useful. http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/linuxdj/ You shouldn't need to install anything. I find that statement kind of odd- did you recompile your kernel? What do you mean by it shuts down? Yeah, xwax basically doesn't have midi. Yet. |
| Jonathan Chiuchiolo 19.07.2013 | 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. |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 19.07.2013 | 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 |
| Dj LsEx 20.07.2013 | 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. |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 11.06.2013 | 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. |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 18.05.2013 | 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 |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 22.04.2013 | http://www.reddit.com/r/Jolla/commen..._linux/c9kd1an Holy crap, soon I might be able to run xwax off a smart phone! :O |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 08.04.2013 | 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. |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 22.12.2012 | 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) |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 12.12.2012 | Code:
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 ~ $
I wonder how many decks I could have before I started to have problems :P |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 11.12.2012 | I'm currently using one super oem and one tech 1210. They are both fine turntables I slightly prefer the super oem though I believe most people are more into the technics. |
| Leota Dolney 11.12.2012 |
Originally Posted by MrPopinjay
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| Kiyoko Wellisch 11.12.2012 | It's plug and play The software mixer doesn't really work afaik but I've never used it, you can change from line to phono inputs with two lines I'll post below. It presents as 2 sub-devices, which I believe can cause some funny problems using it without an .asoundrc file with things like JACK and renoise if you want to use all the ins and outs but since xwax + ALSA wants device names for individual stereo pairs it works perfectly. To set it to phono: Code:
$ amixer -c Audio4DJ cset numid=1 0 Code:
$ amixer -c Audio4DJ cset numid=1 1 Personally I dream about getting all the fancy current gen club mixers up and running so xwax can become pretty much plug and play with them. Maybe even make an extensive unified .asoundrc file and fancy xwax startup script that detects what soundcard you currently have plugged in and then launches xwax with the appropriate flags. My laptop (which is my gigging machine) is a POS but it's wayyyy more than powerful enough for xwax. Code:
louis@louis-Lenovo-G550:~$ screenfetch
./+o+-
yyyyy- -yyyyyy+ louis@louis-Lenovo-G550
://+//////-yyyyyyo OS: Ubuntu precise i686
.++ .:/++++++/-.+sss/` Kernel: i686 Linux 3.2.0-34-generic
.:++o: /++++++++/:--:/- Uptime: 11h 51m
o:+o+:++.`..```.-/oo+++++/ Packages: 1795
.:+o:+o/. `+sssoo+/ Shell: bash
.++/+:+oo+o:` /sssooo. Resolution: 1366x768
/+++//+:`oo+o /::--:. DE: XFCE
\+/+o+++`o++o ++////. WM: Xfwm4
.++.o+++oo+:` /dddhhh. WM Theme: Greybird-compact
.+.o+oo:. `oddhhhh+ GTK2 Theme: Greybird
\+.++o+o``-````.:ohdhhhhh+ GTK3 Theme: Not Found
`:o+++ `ohhhhhhhhyo++os: Icon Theme: elementary-xfce-dark
.o:`.syhhhhhhh/.oo++o` Font: Droid Sans 10
/osyyyyyyo++ooo+++/ CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 900 @ 2.20GHz
````` +oo+++o\: RAM: 875MB / 1975MB
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| Leota Dolney 10.12.2012 |
Originally Posted by MrPopinjay
I see you use had (still have) the Audio 4. How do you find it, easy to use, install etc. on Linux? If I may ask, what are the hardware specs for your Linux machine? Thanks, |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 30.11.2012 | Hello guys! I made a short videyuh on compiling and installing xwax. edit: replaced with newer, better version. yeahh! |
| Edwina Fagel 30.11.2012 | I hope I will have time to test it this weekend. |
| Genoveva Bopp 30.11.2012 | Hello I don't run Xwax ( will check it out again soon) but I'm a opensource supporter so any news from the opensource crowd is good. |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 30.11.2012 | Hi oddworld Do you use xwax? |
| Genoveva Bopp 29.11.2012 | :-) |
| Kiyoko Wellisch 29.11.2012 | Ohh and I just got this email- exciting stuff http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/m...sg_id=30163070 |
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