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rustyryan
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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Cambridge, MA (Indianapolis, IN)

mixing on a barebones computer

hey all,
So here's my situation. In my basement, I have my setup with a mixer and two CDJs. I have a shit extra computer I setup down there. ~500mhz 192mb ram. Any decent mixing software won't run on it at any decent clip because it's so old. I want to use it as a third source into my mixer.

Winamp runs decently on it, and I was wondering if anyone had experience with mixing on winamp. I've found some very useful plugins for it, particularly DJ Helper, which has almost all the features of a basic turntable (pitch, tempo, speed, cue points, loud pause, bpm counter) and good keyboard shortcuts. The only thing it's missing is a wheel to turn. (I'm kind of curious about getting a Griffin PowerMate to work for this )

I've also played around with dual soundcards on it, and found a few plugins that with two winamps running will treat them like two decks that you can mix.

Which plugins have you all used for doing any mixing with winamp?

Are there any other DJ-oriented plugins (or completely different programs) that are meant to work on a barebones computer?

Goliath mixing programs like Ableton or Serato are just not an option.

tia,
rj

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Jul-20-2006 14:55 United States

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rustyryan
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Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Cambridge, MA (Indianapolis, IN)

update:

dj helper plugin

I just played with it last night, installed a second sound card in the crap computer, hooked both up to my mixer. It works pretty well for a winamp plugin. I guess the trick is just getting used to the keyboard shortcuts, but it has all the basics...

even non-winamp software suggestions are welcome, anything that's meant to run on less-than-ideal resources

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Jul-21-2006 16:17 United States

r5a
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Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Toronto

http://www.atomixmp3.com/

Maybe? It's not really resource heavy.

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rustyryan
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Cambridge, MA (Indianapolis, IN)

haha.. the "magic button" ... i love it

thanks for the suggestion

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Jul-21-2006 17:02 United States

rustyryan
Supreme tranceaddict

Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Cambridge, MA (Indianapolis, IN)

this may be an option. I just checked out the minimum requirements.

i'll have to give the demo version a try later tonight

that said, i'm definitely looking to do the dj'ing myself, not having some algorithm do it for me, b/c where's the fun in that??

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Minimum Requirements

In the worst configuration, you will have to set AtomixMP3 to hardware mode. Not every feature will be available, but you will be able to run AtomixMP3 with its core auto-mix and beat-matching features working.

* Hardware:
o Pentium 400 MHz
o 64 Mo RAM
* Sound Card:
o 16 bit
* Graphics Card:
o 800x600 16 Bit colours
* Software:
o Windows 95,98,Me,NT4,2000,XP
o DirectX 3.0

Recommended Requirements

This is the recommended configuration to use AtomixMP3 to its best.

* Hardware:
o Pentium 633 MHz
o 128 Mo RAM
* Sound Card:
o 3D PCI soundcard with WDM drivers
* Graphics Card:
o 1024x768 32 Bit colours
* Software:
o Windows 98,Me,XP
o DirectX 8.1