Curated DJ lessons

So you thought Rekordbox was powerful already? Wait until you start midi-mapping.
Essentially you can change pretty much every function of your controller.
Chris M explains this step by step, even add stems to a controller that doesn't have it.

House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, in the early 1980s. It is characterized by its four-on-the-floor rhythm, which features a steady beat of kick drum on each beat of the measure, and its use of electronic synthesizers and other production techniques to create a sound that is both repetitive and hypnotic. Over the years, house music has evolved...

I know I know, it's something we all have to do, and doing it quickly only hurts you and your sets, rushing along and you'll make mistakes.
But what if you could do it really quickly and just as effectively?

You'll cock it up, everyone does, and more than once.
So how do you fix a REALLY bad transition?

Most people on the dance floor won't notice or care, so fix it and just get on with it.
I quite like the low-cut echo fix.

So you have your tracks ordered properly right?
You might think so, but this one tiny hack/trick is awe inspiringly good and incredibly simple.

Create an empty silent track, use audicity or the like to do this.
Drop this empty track into a playlist and separate the tracks that work really well together with this empty track.

It'll look something like this.
Chris M - A.M.C's Secret Rekordbox...

Rekordbox has a really cool editing feature, it's slightly limited, it's free to use, though to save you have to pay a subscription. There are ways around that though ;)

If you're new to DJ'ing or wanting to start learning the mystical arts of being a DJ, then a good tutor is what you need.
You can always pay to learn, for that I can recommend Crossfader , but not everyone can afford to pay hundreds of £££'s to learn.
In that case you can still learn, and it's not hard, but someone like Chris M can really help you on your way.
Sure you might learn faster with...

Just installed
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Crossfader:

Digital DJ tips:

Mojaxx:

I've ordered mine, it should be here this time next week.

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I have seen no trailers, read no interviews or posts on blogs, forums, Reddit or newspapers. Hell, I didn't even know the show had started until it showed up in my news feed at the weekend.
I did know from various gaming sites that Pedro Pascal was to play Joel, and Merle Dandridge was making a return as Marlene. I also knew that it would start in January...

Exercise in preparation for a new season, so you're off to a bang before it starts.

UPDATE: Lets Encypt have an auto install bot and it’s a signed certificate, meaning no warning!

This is the LetsEncrypt Method:
sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-apache -t stretch-backports
sudo certbot --apache
sudo certbot --apache certonly
Test the automated update process.
sudo certbot renew --dry-run...

If you have little use for the 2GB of RAM in a Raspberry Pi, then you could always use 1GB of it for a SWAP drive, this should improve performance for anyone running their Pi on a SD card.

If you want to use a SSD or USB Drive then checkout my easy as Pi tutorials here:

As usual this is a quick and easy setup:
install ZRAM

sudo wget -O /usr/bin/zram.sh

Make it executable.

sudo chmod +x...

© - copyright
1ˢᵗ
2ⁿᵈ
3ʳᵈ
4ᵗʰ
α - alpha
ß - Beta
Ω - Omega
µ - Mu or micro
° - degree
€ - Euro
™ - Trademark
½ - Half
¼ - Quarter
¾ - three quarter

To directly input Ascii from a keyboard hold the ALT key

° is ALT 0176

™ is ALT 0153

† is ALT 01414

For fun
☠ ☯ ☢ ✠ ☮ ☭ ✌ ☣ ☤

Original review by me, a long time ago.

Save Wizard MAX PS4 Review

After several comments yesterday telling me I had my original review wrong, here I am trying to put right that wrong.

I was initially reviewing savewizard.com (AVOID unless you you only have access to US games on PSN). For me, it promised much and delivered nothing. And yesterday I was issued a refund at last.

Absolutely...

IF the resolution is too high and you can barely see the text, this is the fix.

I was able to set the resolution with a bootparameter in /etc/default/grub but when the tty loads, it gets overriden by something.
Then I found this: and I added / changed this:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= nomodeset
GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep

then do: sudo...

sudo apt install pkg-config

sudo apt install git cmake libusb-1.0-0-dev

apt-get install build-essentials

git clone git://git.osmocom.org/rtl-sdr.git

cd rtl_sdr
mkdir build

cmake /root/rtl-sdr -DINSTALL_UDEV_RULES=ON

make install

cp rtl-sdr.rules /etc/udev/rules.d

ldconfig

nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rtl.conf

Add this text
blacklist dvb_usb_rtl28xxu
blacklist...

By mixing a track, usually a really big banger, you can build energy just on anticipation alone. The idea is to take a small sample, one phrase or a few bars, mix in a distinctive sound or vocal over the playing track. Loop it and then cut it, drop it, or ignore it for a while.

Make sure you have the correct airspy software, I installed the 32bit version on debian 64bit and it crashed/failed constantly.

sudo apt install rtl-sdr librtlsdr-dev
mkdir spyserver
cd spyserver
wget -O spyserver.tgz
tar xvzf spyserver.tgz
nano spyserver.config
chmod +x spyserver
./spyserver

I managed a 5* gem in £275

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Rift Simulator

Yes the original DooM is now raytraced
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It kills the FPS as you can imagine, but 1080P is very playable at 40-50FPS.

There is a bug in firmware 1.10 that bricks the controller. DO NOT UPDATE THE RX3!!
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XDJ-RX3 corrupt firmware 1.10

Once you do update, you'll be left with a controller that will not work. Turn it off and on again and it'll tell you to insert a USB stick into top USB1. And that's it. That's all you can do.
I contacted the store I bought mine from and they contacted PioneerDJ reps...

I've only just started streaming live on twitch, and so far, its great, no copyright strikes like you get on youtube.
You do get silenced on video playback - after the stream ended, but that's no big deal.

What I've read and heard is the Twitch.TV is trying to build a live streaming platform for DJ's, so it's worth taking a look and trying it out for yourself.