Reviews & Tutorials

I will be developing a new TouchOSC template to take advantage of the new features really soon and I will also update the old Mixxx template to work on this new Mixxx. So stay tuned..

Mixxx is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Mixxx 1.10.0 Beta brings several hard-hitting features that are the culmination of a year’s worth of work by the development team.

What we’re packing in Mixxx 1.10.0 Beta:

Rewritten and Improved Vinyl Control Support

Completely rewritten vinyl-style pitch-bending for clean, analog-like sound.
Absolute, relative, and constant vinyl modes.
Rock-solid support for Serato Vinyl/CD or Traktor Vinyl at 33 or 45 RPM.
Single-deck Vinyl Control
End-of-record Mode
Improved needle skip prevention.
Can use different vinyl types on each deck!
Improved audio quality when scratching.
Support for track selection using the lead-in area of the vinyl and needle-drop hotcues.
Track lead-in for scratching before the start of songs.
Waveform smoothing to prevent wobbly waveforms.
New built-in vinyl signal analyzer.
4 Sampler Decks
Beatloops, Loop Halve/Double Buttons

Handy beatloop buttons let you quickly throw down an 8-beat loop as you transition from one song to the next.
Quantized Loops, Hotcues and Beatloops

Turn on quantization mode for a deck and all of your loops, hotcues, and beatloops will snap to the nearest beat when you place them.
Phase Synchronization

Sync button now synchronizes both the BPM and phase of beats.
Beatgrid Adjust Feature

Is your beatgrid misaligned? Easily adjust it with one click.
Microphone Support

Streaming and club DJs alike will love this feature. Plug in your microphone and MC your show, all without the need for an external mixer.
Spinning Turntable Widgets and Waveform Scratching

Skins now come with juicy spinning turntables that you can scratch to your heart’s delight.
If vinyl control is enabled, vinyl signal quality can also be rendered to the spinning widgets.
M4A Support for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users.

Mixxx previously could not support M4A on Windows due to licensing issues, but that restriction is now lifted with our new Windows Media Foundation M4A plugin. Mixxx on Mac OS X already supports M4A.
Library Improvements

Traktor Library Support.
New and improved Browse Mode.
Recording Improvements

Integrated with the library.
Automatically splits files into pieces to avoid large files.
CUE files of tracks played.
Much faster iTunes and Rhythmbox support.
Import and export of crates and playlists as M3U/PLS playlists.
Playlists and crates are lockable and rename-able.
Dragging to library sidebar auto-expands closed sections and is easier to aim.
Track play count is more accurately measured.
Reload track metadata from context menu in library.
Auto-scrolling in playlists is fixed.
Shuffle AutoDJ Queue feature.
Add Playlist to AutoDJ feature.
Brand New and Updated Skins

Deere

1280×800 WXGA
1280×1024 SXGA
1440×900 WXGA+
1920×1080 FullHD
1920×1200 WUXGA
LateNight / LateNightBlues

1280×800 WXGA
1280×1024 SXGA
1366×768 WXGA
Shade / ShadeDark

1024×600 Netbook
1024×768 XGA
Phoney / PhoneyDark

1600×1200 UXGA
1680×1050 WSXGA
Outline

1024×600 Netbook
1024×768 XGA
800×480 WVGA
Accessibility Improvements

Mixxx should play nicer with screen-readers now. It’s not perfect, but a step in the right direction.
Limited Support for Internationalization

Beta translations for Spanish, Catalan, French, German, Italian, Russian, Finnish, Czech, Dutch, Polish, and Japanese

Thanks so much to the awesome Launchpad translators!
Alpha translations for many other languages.
Better support for UTF-8 filenames.
Revamped and Rewritten User Manual
Mixing engine improvements

Major efficiency and latency improvements.

Netbook users report latency improvements of up to 4x.
Sound quality is now much improved.
Improved support for multiple soundcards. Synchronization problems should now only affect the headphone outputs. See Bug #667651 for more details.
Soft-takeover support for MIDI mappings.
JACK now recognizes ports as Mixxx instead of PortAudio.
Updated MIDI Mappings