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Billabong:

--- Quote ---For the turntables, could you do a mouse hack and use one axis for each turntable? If the turntable could freely spin 360 degrees, would it feel more realistic than if it had pots and had a limited rotation?
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True, I had thought of that. But, I couldn't figure out (in my mind anyway), how to assign an axis to a control in the player. And still retain a regular mouse to pick tracks with. Now comes the tricky part. My ideal way for it to work: If the platter is motionless, keep playing the track. If it is moving reverse, scan slowly backwards. If it's moving forward, scan forward. So, normally, the platter just sits there motionless. Basically, I'm trying to re-create the Pioneer CDJ-1000 without spending $1000. :) See here: http://www.pioneerprodj.com/products/cdj1000/cdj1000-intro.mv for more details.
Maybe have some sort of button that picks what the platter does. So, press or toggle one button, it is BPM. Another, it's scan fwd & rev, etc.

Don't know what variable affects the BPM. ArcadeFX is the 'software guy'. :)

Later,
Bill

ArcadeFX:
Coding a lot of this using VB or C++ proved to be too much of a headache so I am using a multimdia application like I did for ArcadeFX.  This has saved me tons of time and still allowed me to add enough scripting to make some real nice features.  

I have the cross fader working in my demo. It is very nice.  I am going on vacation on Wednesday so I will finish the DJ application when I return.

I have not decided if I will just add the DJ features to JukeboxFX or will create a new application. Either way it is going to be pretty cool.  

You will be the life of the party mixing mp3 for you friends on your arcade cabinet or PC.

Billabong:
Have fun on you vacation man!

enemyace:
I'd say you should make two versions of JukeboxFX, like JukeboxFX and JukeboxFX DJ. Most likely 95% of your users won't have any use for the DJ functions, and all that extra stuff would probably scare them away to something simpler. Also, the file size would be smaller without all the DJ features.

If you want to keep it all in one app, you could make it easy to hide all the extra features by default, and have an option to enable all the extra stuff if you want to DJ with it.

Or, maybe the degree of functionality could be determined by the skins that are used. Some skins could be normal skins with basic functions only, and some could be DJ skins with all the bells and whistles.

-EA

ArcadeFX:
If the file size is greatly increased then the DJ funtions  then it will be called in a new file. If the file isn't found then instructions wll be offered to download it.  

I expect that most people will play with it once then probably not use it much. I will say it is a lot of fun.  Ther are just too many controls to add key mapping to the DJ features so these will probably not be added.  Trackball or mouse is highly recommended.

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