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Please critique my friend's app!

That's a really impressive achievement. It's mostly let down by the choice of music included (you wouldn't use a site like that to listen to songs, so really the tracks should have been house, techno or DnB to allow a little more "turntablism").

If Mixbolt's developer is reading this, another worthwhile addition would be keyboard hot keys (eg [Q][W][E] raises the levels of the low, mid and hi's respectively, [A][S][D] lowers those levels). So you can use the keyboard as a rudimentary MIDI controller (plus a single mouse isn't great when a lot of DJing requires both hands on the rotaries / faders).

Hey, i am the developer. Yeah the music is abit narrow in genre but good music is hard to come by, especially without hefty licensing fees. In time this problem will go away :)

Yeah, definitely agree on the keyboard and midi controller. I am a solo developer of this project and i really wanted to get it out there so have not included alot of stuff i would like to! Again its all just a function of time!

> Hey, i am the developer. Yeah the music is abit narrow in genre but good music is hard to come by, especially without hefty licensing fees. In time this problem will go away :)

There's a lot of good free music out there. Music production forums where largely unknown artists give away their output and even whole communities dedicated to creative commons music. Some of the bigger names offer up tracks for free (Inigo Kennedy does, or at least used to).

I would offer up my own tracks for you, but most of them are 32 beat loops that I used for live sets in Ableton and the rest are either incomplete, dreadful or backed up safely on a HDD that I've since lost (facepalm).

> Yeah, definitely agree on the keyboard and midi controller. I am a solo developer of this project and i really wanted to get it out there so have not included alot of stuff i would like to! Again its all just a function of time!

I can relate to that one entirely. It's a fantastic establishment even without the extra thrills I suggested. I hope my comments were only seen as a possible constructive idea rather than a criticism because I really don't want to undermine the great work you've already done there (your post doesn't read like I've offended you, but I just wanted to make that clear)

No worries :) I have been trying to find some music on netlabel scene for a while and alot of it is not suitable for this (people really love producing minimal techno!). I came across Cut which don't have much in the catalogue but its very well made. Will have to have another search around, music as you said is very important for this.

Thanks for all the feedback, i have been very anxious after posting it out there so its great to get something back, especially helpful comments like yours :)

It's a pity this submission didn't gain more traction.

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