News and Announcements

Scratching with Mixxx

Sat 01 August 2009 Albert Santoni video, mixxx in the wild

A DJ tears it up with Mixxx and the SCS.3d.

Mixxx 1.7.0 Beta 2 Released!

Mon 20 July 2009 Albert Santoni 1.7, 1.7.0, beta, release announcement

The Mixxx team is pleased to announce the release of Mixxx 1.7.0 Beta 2! This is primarily a bugfix release that addresses issues from our previous beta.

We also recently discovered a critical issue in an external software library which affects Mixxx users on Ubuntu 9.04. Please …

Mixxx with the Stanton SCS.3d and SCS.1m

Fri 19 June 2009 Albert Santoni hardware, video

Sean Pappalardo's been busy again, this time working on support for the Stanton SCS.1m and improving our existing support for the SCS.3d. In this first video, Sean explains some of the neat features he's coded like fader-start, real-time feedback using the SCS.1m LED digit displays, and lots …

Mixxx 1.7.0 Beta1 for Windows x64 Now Available!

Thu 07 May 2009 Albert Santoni 1.7, 1.7.0, beta, windows, release announcement

The Mixxx team is pleased to announce the availability of a 64-Bit version of Mixxx 1.7.0 Beta1 for Windows.

In a dazzling display of masochism and borderline insanity, Sean Pappalardo has been working hard over the last month or so to get Mixxx to run natively on 64-bit …

Mixxx 1.7.0 Beta1 Released!

Thu 23 April 2009 Albert Santoni 1.7, 1.7.0, beta, release announcement

The Mixxx development team is proud to announce the first beta of Mixxx 1.7.0. This latest release is the culmination of six months of work by over a dozen contributors, and contains several exciting new features as well as many bug fixes.

• Some of the new changes in …

Hercules releases GPL Linux MIDI drivers & Mixxx 1.6.1+Herc is released

Thu 19 February 2009 GED 1.6, 1.6.1, hardware, development, release announcement

On Feb 16th, Hercules released GPL Linux MIDI drivers for their DJ Console / DJ Control series of MIDI input controllers (Mk2, RMX, MP3 Control, DJ Control Steel).

Mixxx is proud to support Hercules' great contribution by releasing Mixxx 1.6.1+Herc (Linux) and the +Herc MIDI mapping update packs …

MIDI Scripting and the Stanton SCS.3d (Videos)

Mon 09 February 2009 Albert Santoni hardware, videos, midi, development

One of Mixxx's newer developers, Sean Pappalardo (DJ Pegasus), has been hacking away at MIDI scripting for the past few months so that we can fully support more advanced MIDI controllers. One of the new controllers scripting will allow us to support is Stanton's SCS.3d (aka "DaScratch").

The Stanton …

Looking for a Community Coordinator

Wed 17 December 2008 Albert Santoni community

Are you a creative Mixxx enthusiast? Would you like volunteer with the project, but don't know how to code? If so, we might have found the role for you - We are officially looking for a Mixxx Community Coordinator .

As the Mixxx community grows, we're finding that we're spending more and …

Rewriting the Library

Wed 03 December 2008 Albert Santoni 1.6, development, library

This developer commentary explains the trials and tribulations of Mixxx's library code, and what the Mixxx developers are doing to improve it.

In the (long) development cycle between Mixxx 1.5.0 and 1.6.0, several changes were made to the library. Some of the more visible changes were …

Effects Progress

Mon 24 November 2008 Albert Santoni 1.6, development, effects

Since the 1.6.1 release, we've been hard at work integrating several new features that have been in the works for a while.

In our last user survey, many people told us that Mixxx needed some effects besides the flanger. In response to your feedback, we had Pawel Bartkiewicz …