Pacemaker mixdown
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deathboyOh, wait.
Did I just make the foolishly restrictive software accept the judiciously renamed and reintroduced dodgy tracks that I didn't provably own back into its own library and reconstruct the mix I made?
Mmmmmmmm.
Mayhaps I did.
MAYHAPS I DID.
The Software said, in a quirky fashion "Sorry, friend, but some of the files in this mix can't be found on your hard drive" (I paraphrase, but not the 'sorry, friend!' - the software addresses you as such throughout... and I kinda like it).
It then gave me a box to find the missing mp3s.
Which would have been impossible because they'd all been renamed to crazy filenames!
Except that I just ran Tag and Rename over the lot and made them all obey Artist - Album - Trackname format.
I identified all the tracks in the mix in about 2 minutes.
The softwarez was happy. It had tried to stop me being a pirate.
And now the quirky, but usable Tonium Pacemaker "Editor", which is somewhere between iTunes, Tracktor and MixMeister has allowed me to experimentally fix the first mix I made, which was VERY ragged.
It uses control points on a graph, like any editing software you'll have used already if you've ever tinkered with audio software and understand the waveform-over-time display.
The interface is shonky as fuck. Just like Mixmeister, Virtual DJ, Traktor, etc. So again, while far from perfect, it does all the things I want and is only as annoying as its competitors.
I only adjusted the first mix because a) it was really bad, and the only time I REALLY slipped up and had an out-of-beat track in the mix and b) I want to show the rest of the mix, wart-and-all, so you can see how close a drunk man with 3 days experience can make to a dance-floor-ready mix.
As I type this, it's rendering the whole set, including a PC-rendered recreation of the on-board effects (delay, double-roll, bitcrusher, EQ sweeps and cuts) to an OGG file (polite of them to choose an open format - there's no choice, but that's fine, I has a convertor and I like OGGs - might be a problem to other DJs though).
Just about to finish, I'll make a new post with the mix!
HooaH!
Did I just make the foolishly restrictive software accept the judiciously renamed and reintroduced dodgy tracks that I didn't provably own back into its own library and reconstruct the mix I made?
Mmmmmmmm.
Mayhaps I did.
MAYHAPS I DID.
The Software said, in a quirky fashion "Sorry, friend, but some of the files in this mix can't be found on your hard drive" (I paraphrase, but not the 'sorry, friend!' - the software addresses you as such throughout... and I kinda like it).
It then gave me a box to find the missing mp3s.
Which would have been impossible because they'd all been renamed to crazy filenames!
Except that I just ran Tag and Rename over the lot and made them all obey Artist - Album - Trackname format.
I identified all the tracks in the mix in about 2 minutes.
The softwarez was happy. It had tried to stop me being a pirate.
And now the quirky, but usable Tonium Pacemaker "Editor", which is somewhere between iTunes, Tracktor and MixMeister has allowed me to experimentally fix the first mix I made, which was VERY ragged.
It uses control points on a graph, like any editing software you'll have used already if you've ever tinkered with audio software and understand the waveform-over-time display.
The interface is shonky as fuck. Just like Mixmeister, Virtual DJ, Traktor, etc. So again, while far from perfect, it does all the things I want and is only as annoying as its competitors.
I only adjusted the first mix because a) it was really bad, and the only time I REALLY slipped up and had an out-of-beat track in the mix and b) I want to show the rest of the mix, wart-and-all, so you can see how close a drunk man with 3 days experience can make to a dance-floor-ready mix.
As I type this, it's rendering the whole set, including a PC-rendered recreation of the on-board effects (delay, double-roll, bitcrusher, EQ sweeps and cuts) to an OGG file (polite of them to choose an open format - there's no choice, but that's fine, I has a convertor and I like OGGs - might be a problem to other DJs though).
Just about to finish, I'll make a new post with the mix!
HooaH!
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Date: 2009-07-06 02:20 am (UTC)While I applaud your l33t skillz, I must respectfully decline on the pacemaker. Will stick to a laptop & traktor, I feel.
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Date: 2009-07-06 02:26 am (UTC)Teething problem.
It does enough things right that this is ok.
eh, let me show you over a beer - it's worth a look.