Version 1.3 / 01.12.1999
Every Button has a Hint! By using X-Mix99, stay a while on a button and you can read it. This will help you.
Volume Control:
The slider has a range of 0% to 100% with 0%=Mute and 100%=loudest. You can set the volume for each device indepently.
Pitch Control:
Use the slider to change the pitch of the song, the default-range is 6 halftones or 24%. You can change the range in the Options dialog.
Fast-Forward/Rewind button:
Fast-Forward or Rewinds the song 5 seconds.
Time-Line:
The Time-Line shows you the actually songposition with a bright red line. If you positions the Mousepointer on the line (bright or dark) the hint will show the time at this point. If you click with the LEFT Mousebutton there, the song goes to this position.
Song Display : Songname:
Shows the current Songname
Song Display : Cue Point:
Shows the current Cue Point Position in min:sec:hds.
Song Display / Play:
if song is paused, Play will blinking.
Song Display / Time:
Shows the actually Song-Position.
Song Display / Remaining:
Shows the remaining time of the song.
Cue button:
Set the actually song-position to the cue-point. If song is playing, the song will be played from the cue-point immediately, if Song is paused, the song-position changed to cue-point already, but stay paused. For setting up the cue-point , use right Mousebutton. The actually songposition will be saved as cue-point . You can store a cue-point while the song plays.
Play button:
Press this Play button, and the song begin to play. If Song is paused, it will be played, too, also if you press <SPACE>.
Pause button:
Press this button, and the song will be paused. Press Pause button again to play the song. You can press the Play button alternatively, or use <SPACE>.
Skip-Button >| and |<:
Use these buttons to skip to next/previous song.
Change Cue Point buttons:
These buttons are for setting up the cue-point with an accuracy of 0.01 sec. Use it to set the cue-point exactly on the beginning of a base e.g.
Monitor Button:
Toggles Monitoring over the headphone. You can hear none, one or both songs in your Headphone.
Cross-Fader:
You can crossfade both songs. In the middle, both songs can be heared. By sliding the Fader right or left you can mix the songs or mute. Right you will hear the Device 2 only, left the Device 1. Attention! The Monitor (headphone) won't be crossfaded.
Monitor Volume Fader:
Use this Fader to change the Volume of the Monitor (headphone)
Output Volume Fader:
Use this Fader to change the Volume of the Output (Amp)
Options Dialog:
In the Options Dialog you can change the range of the pitch-slider in
the five ranges: 3,6,12,24 and 48 halftones. The default value is 6 halftones.
The other part of the dialog is the setting for the speed of the
forward and rewardbuttons. You can change the factor for speed-up or slow-down
playing of music.
Info Button:
An Info-Window appears where you can get the version of program, my homepage-URL or E-Mail.
Exit Button:
Exits the program. Attention! The program doesn't ask before!
Slower/Faster button:
Press these buttons to slow down or fasten the actually song a little bit, to bring both songs in rythm. The song is playing in other speed during pressing the LEFT mousebutton on it. If you lift up the button, the music is playing in normal speed (the speed you defined with the pitch-slider). You can change the factor for slower or faster playing in the Options dialog. If you press the buttons with the RIGHT mousebutton, you will see that the pitch is increasing ">" or decreasing "<" with an amount of 0.05. This is more precisely than using the slider. You can press both mousebuttons for playing in other speed and changing the pitch at the same time.
Device2:
The Controls for Device2 are the same as for Device1. If you want to use the keys for Device2, you have to set the Focus on Device2.
Focus Pointer:
The focus pointer shows, which Device will get the keys
Lock/Unlock-Button:
Store a Song:
Adjust Pitch to other Device:
If you have the BPM for both Songs, you
can adjust the pitch of the other Device in releation to the BPM's. Example :
You count 150Bpm for Device1 and 160Bpm for Device2. The pitch of Device1 and Device2
are both on 0,00. On Device1 you press the adjust Button. The pitch of Device2
will be go down to let play the Device2 on 150BPM! *WOW*
But if you would press the adjust on Device2, the pitch of Device1 will be go up, so
Device1 would be played with 160Bpm. Read more about it in the
Song-Database Tutorial.
BPM Extraction :
Before Counting, you have to set the pitch of the song to 0,00. You can count the beats by pressing the button with every beat, after two beats the Button will show the bpm. You have to count 10-15 beats for a good bpm (good means accuracy of ±2 bpm). You can press the key '1' (Device1) or '2' (Device2) instead to count the beats. It's recommended to use the keys. You haven't to set the Focus to count with the keys! One second after the last Count, the bpm will be 'forgotten' by X-Mix, so you can count the next song or the same song again.
Shortkeys:
The focus pointer shows, which Device will get the
keys
You can use following keys :
Cursor R/L | Swap the Focus to the other Device | |
Cursor UP | Increase the pitch of focused Device by 0.05 | |
Cursor Down | Decrease the pitch of focused Device by 0.05 | |
1 | Press to count the beats on Device1 | |
2 | Press to count the beats on Device2 | |
<SPACE> | Focused Device will be paused or played |