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@cev Hate long fades :)

@xmanmonk All the long fades, forever!

@cev As a fairly unskilled DJ (cutting my teeth in the olden days on actual vinyl with a Technics SL-D2), I find modern equipment quite nice for things like beat matching. But long fades just kill it. They require too much work, and I'm inherently lazy (which is why I love programming). BTW, I'm one of the volunteer developers at mixxx.org.

@xmanmonk I learned on vinyl also; I bought my first turntables at Goodwill.

I find long fades easy with modern equipment. The problem is long fades will expose the difference in phrasing between two tracks. I'll often think two tracks have the same overall phrasing and find out I'm wrong mid-mix. *shrug*. Practice practice practice.

@cev Very true.

@xmanmonk I used mixxx for several (5?) years, playing out. My thinkpad x21 was just barely fast enough to play one track at a time without stuttering. As long as I turned off the waveform display. It worked well enough, but I eventually had to move on.

Mixxx is a good program, but I wish somebody would come along and optimize it a bit.

@cev There have been some optimizations lately. My fairly lame laptop does well enough with it that I've used it for live gigs.

@xmanmonk @cev i am as yet unaware of mixxx and am hoping it looks like uh traktor was it called and maybe will know how to communicate with my sad-in-the-wrong-hands vestax device

@nydel @cev The nice thing is that it's fairly easy to create a custom skin to make it look how you want, and also to create custom mappings for whatever device you use.