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Been using it for the past few years, nothing bad to say about it, lovely piece of software. Vendor lock-in is very present in this field, with different brands of controllers supported by a myriad of proprietary DJ applications all more interested in onboarding you to their music subscription services rather than implement useful features or support open protocols.

Meanwhile, Mixxx allows you to write your own adapter scripts for any controller you have (as long as it outputs MIDI), and there's a built-in library featuring scripts for the most common commercial controllers and MIDI devices out there.

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To be fair, every commercial competitor (like Rekordbox and Traktor) also supports mapping MIDI devices that are not officially supported.

But in my experience, you'll never be able to control the jogwheel as precisely as in officially-supported hardware-software combo.

Is it latency? Or granularity? MIDI has upper limits on both…or is it a more subtle quality like ballistics?

In Rekordbox's case Pioneer have restricted the jogwheel mapping to Pioneer hardware only. So, you pretty much need Pioneer hardware to use Rekordbox. And seeing as Pioneer decks are almost industry standard in clubs and you need Rekordbox to organise your playlists, they have the DJ hardware market sewn up. Which is very frustrating because Rekordbox has to be the most resource intensive (& therefore inefficient) DJ software available.

Resource intensive, and it's been crashing on me far too regularly to be relied on at all.

So many issues with Rekordbox and their vendor lock-in. I can't even reliably export songs on a flash drive and have it showing up in their CDJ. It's honestly time to take the Pioneer giant down.

I always thought the reason Rekordbox became the standard was to get around the 4GB limitation of FAT32-formatted USBs.

It’s amazing just how badly Technics dropped the ball.

At one point they were the industry standard but they shot themselves in the foot with their reluctance to release a CD turntable until after Pioneer had already got themselves into nearly every club.

Though I can’t say I’m surprised. I never thought 1210s was a particularly good vinyl turntable either.

A good retrospect on how Pioneer got here [0] and a 'feature' overview of CDJs pre/post buyout[1].

[0]: https://youtu.be/LcbKcmfFCc4

[1]: https://youtu.be/-4DZ47HCYWA

I tried it many years ago and this didn't work. Can Mixxx be used with the Rane mixers used with Serato back in the day?

Does the mixer speak midi? In that case probably.

Is there already a mapping for you device? Check the manual https://manual.mixxx.org/2.5/en/

specifically: https://manual.mixxx.org/2.5/en/hardware/manuals#hardware-ma...

and if not there, the forum might have one: https://mixxx.discourse.group/c/controller-mappings/10

I notice that HID is also supported: https://manual.mixxx.org/2.5/en/chapters/controlling_mixxx#c...

Even if there's not a mapping Mixxx has a "MIDI Learning Wizard" (I forget what they call it) where, assuming it speaks MIDI, you can plug it up, choose an action, and then move the control for that action and it will figure out how to wire it up. For simple configurations that don't require scripting (ie. no setting LEDs on the controller or what not) you can get a fully functional setup for a controller Mixxx has no knowledge of without writing any JavaScript or XML at all!

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