Cycling 74 » Topic: [sharing is fun] Simple DJ with jit.qt.movie and block controller http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/feed Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:26:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-47494 <![CDATA[[sharing is fun] Simple DJ with jit.qt.movie and block controller]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-47494 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:29:41 +0000 Peter Nyboer A friend is having a birthday party in a couple days, and asked if I could play some tunes. I had a couple options.
1.) just use itunes. [boring, no crossfader! no mixing!]
2.) learn how to use Traktor. [way more than i need]
3.) pack up turntables and mixer etc. [heavy, probably will get damaged]
4.) make a DJ patch that works with my block controller. YEAH!

This is a simple 2 deck DJ device, no preview channel. I do all my track organizing in iTunes, because it’s great for that, then right click and export the playlist as xml. This patch reads in the XML playlist, turns that into a coll that links to a cell block. You’ll need to change the path that the umenu links to to load the XML lists.
All audio is handled ungloriously by jit.qt.movie. You could add soc/spigot~ if you want previews.
It’s not the cleanest patch. Look for a cleaner version in the coming months!

I use the 2 left faders on the block to scroll (coarse/fine) through the cellblock. The far left 8 vertical buttons on the block load a clip from the cellblock into the left deck, similarly for the right deck and far right 8 vertical btns.

Top left knob (#1) is crossfader.
Top right knob (#8) is master volume.
Knob 6 and 7 are l/r scrub.

The function buttons are:
PlayL PlayR
StopL StopR

Shift

The Shift button turns the sliders into volumes for each deck.

http://lividserver.com/dl/block/simpleDJ.zip

The xml parsing was assisted by a nice patch from the dot collection (digital orchestra toolbox – http://www.idmil.org)

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-170885 <![CDATA[Re: [sharing is fun] Simple DJ with jit.qt.movie and block controller]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-170885 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:55:51 +0000 Kyred ! The JS files are not in your folders ….

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-170886 <![CDATA[Re: [sharing is fun] Simple DJ with jit.qt.movie and block controller]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-170886 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:09:32 +0000 Peter Nyboer derp. fixed, thanks.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-170887 <![CDATA[Re: [sharing is fun] Simple DJ with jit.qt.movie and block controller]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-170887 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:25:41 +0000 ladiaz Hey pnyboer…

how do you make your patch work?
I changed the file path name to my music folder where i saved the xml files
but I can’t manage to make your patch play.
can you please give some info on how to use it?

thanks!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-170888 <![CDATA[Re: [sharing is fun] Simple DJ with jit.qt.movie and block controller]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/sharing-is-fun-simple-dj-with-jit-qt-movie-and-block-controller/#post-170888 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:37:05 +0000 Anthony Palomba Yes, I downloaded it too, but could not figure out how to make it work.
So comments would help.

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