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.
Waveform overviews now act as a progress bar for track analysis.
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
1280x800 WXGA
1280x1024 SXGA
1440x900 WXGA+
1920x1080 FullHD
1920x1200 WUXGA
LateNight / LateNightBlues
1280x800 WXGA
1280x1024 SXGA
1366x768 WXGA
Shade / ShadeDark
1024x600 Netbook
1024x768 XGA
Phoney / PhoneyDark
1600x1200 UXGA
1680x1050 WSXGA
Outline
1024x600 Netbook
1024x768 XGA
800x480 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
American Audio RADIUS 2000
(new)
American Audio VMS4
DJ-Tech i-Mix Reload
(new)
Hercules DJ Console Mk4
Hercules DJ Console RMX
Ion Discover DJ
Numark Total Control
Pioneer CDJ-2000
(new)
Pioneer CDJ-850
(new)
Reloop Digital Jockey 2
Stanton SCS.1m
Stanton SCS.3d
Vestax Typhoon
Wireless DJ
(new)
Hundreds of bug fixes and improvements!
GeneralVery user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 4.
Sample-based stereo audio engine, with import of sound samples in .wav, .au and .aiff formats.
Support of samples in compressed FLAC file.
Sequencer and mixerPattern-based sequencer, with unlimited number of patterns and ability to chain patterns into a song.
Up to 192 ticks per pattern with individual level per event and variable pattern length.
Unlimited instrument tracks with volume, mute, solo, pan capabilities.
Multi layer support for instruments (up to 16 samples for each instrument).
Sample Editor, with basic cut and loop functions.
(NEW)
Time-stretch and pitch functions via rubberband cli. Require the rubberband-cli package.
(NEW)
Play-lists with scripting function.
(NEW)
Advanced tab-tempo.
(NEW)
Director Window with a visual metronome and song position tags.
(NEW)
Time-line with variable tempo.
(NEW)
Single and stacked pattern mode.
(NEW)
Export/Import single patterns into song projects.
(NEW)
Midi learning via Shift+MouseClick on many gui-cotrollers combined with a midi settings editor.
(NEW)
Ability to import/export song files.
Unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.
Multiple patterns playing at once.
OtherJACK, ALSA, PortAudio and OSS audio drivers.
ALSA MIDI and PortMidi input with assignable midi-in channel (1..16, ALL).
Import/export of drumkits.
Export song to wav, aiff, flac or ogg file.
Export song to midi file.
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