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Ok I toyed with it a bit.... using paint to modify the size of the Darkgray version I could only get it 1280x917 with out making the circles into ovals... asside from that I can live with 1280x917 at least it would fill my screen from left to right....

How are you determining the X's and Y's for positioning decks and so forth... also what are you using for editing or creating the graphics... ms paint sucks as it pretty much screws with the text already there so I'm looking to probably build my own background.... but pain sucks for shadowing and such...

Bare in mind I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on a graphics editor just to get this done on my own.

Would something like Photshop Elements get the job done or is there something much much cheaper that would work as well?

Keep in mind I'm artistically challenged... I like the Darkgray skin just want to modify it to be wider and have a bigger autoplaylist area.... and have the library section double as a search area... or is that not possible?

I want to tweak before I buy just so that I know I will like the outcome... know what I mean?
 
Yeah I definately need something more powerful then MS Paint to do this right... something that does higher resolutions and is good with shading... I really want it to look like virtual gear rather than some child like set of blocks...

The graphic editing is way more advanced than what MS Paint can do.
 
I'll make a beer themed one with bottle caps for knobs and stuff. Maybe, I don't know if it's worth all the work.

Hey Rick,

How come no pitch correction like VDJ? Or did I miss that? I'm not seeing much that sets this apart from the PCDJ Red I'm running. The URL thing is cool, but I wouldn't use it out at a gig.
 
How come no pitch correction like VDJ? Or did I miss that?
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Yeah, it has pitch control, as well as pitch bend -- they are on 3 of the original skins. I don't use it, so I remove them from the skins I do for myself.


I'm not seeing much that sets this apart from the PCDJ Red I'm running.
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The biggest difference, is Rockit actually works, and keeps on working :)

There's tons of stuff it does, that isn't available on other software. You have to play around with it, and read the manual to find much of it though... ;) :)
 
I want pitch correction. I have the same bender and control in what I'm using. I hate VDJ, but love the fact that when you increase the tempo, the pitch auto adjusts.

I have played around and I do like it. I wish I could say more, but my 8 year old program hasn't "stopped working" yet. The fact that I can tweak the skin is a big bonus, but only on a "user" level. Who's really going to see my custom skin?

All my woes in the beginning of going digital were machine related, not software. If I were going in to this today, I would choose Rockit over PCDJ. It's just not that alluring (for me) as a cross-over.

I love you though.:sqwink:
 
I just noticed that you can't re-arrange the automix playlist.... if you try to move tracks around or change the order they dissapear from the list and when you drag a track into the list it's always to the end.... can't this list be modified in that way?

Not even the request list allows for this type of modification..... hmmmm, this is not good for me.. I sometimes will change my mind when putting songs on a playlist.... sometimes on the spur of the moment...

thoughts?
 
Randy A said:
I had mentioned that before, so hopefully, Rick will have a fix in 4.1, preferably drag-n-drop function, but I could handle a hot key set-up.

But, you can always drop it in the list and right-click, and move accordingly.
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Your saying that once in the autoplaylist if I right click I get an option to move the track up or down in the list?

That's cool with me if that's the case... but it would be simpler to be able to grab the track and drag it up or down... just what I'm use to.
 
Also, don't forget the Playlist Editor... ;)


Neat little trick:

Let's say you dropped 50 songs into a queue, and you think it's good, but want to make some changes fast. Right click on the queue, Save as Playlist. It will then show under Playlists. Right click on it, Edit Playlist, and make whatever changes you want and save it. Trash the queue, then just drag your nice ordered playlist into the queue. :)
 
AGC

while playing with things I came accross an unchecked item ACG with a numeric setting below it of 80 i think....

so I checked this and thought this would adjust the gain as new songs start to match some magical gain setting therby keeping the music level and consistant from track to track

but....

this is not what happens I played a few songs and as it got to some elvis music there was a noticeable dip in audio output and required manual adjustment of the gain to bring it up to the same level of the previous song...

Is there a better way or good setting for AGC that keeps music level and keeps me from havng to ride my faders and gains? this is something that I love about OtsAV. And one of the things keeping me from buying Rockit over spending more money on OtsAV Pro.... which is the upgrade to my current player Ots DJ Boombox.

As I see it right now the only true feature that Rockit has over Ots DJ Boombox is the display of BPM

Believe me I like the Rockit product ... I'm just trying to justify one way or the other which product is going to be the one I go with....

So sell me O'Bi Won Kanobie... yur yung Paddiwon is in need of guidence...
 
The AGC (Auto Gain Control), is off by default on Rockit, because with the short sample time we use on the pre-processor, it doesn't always return a value that I thought was good enough for what people would expect it to do. That's not to say it doesn't work properly though...

What it does, is average out the samples we decode on pre-process, and measure against a known delta value, not the previous song playing. So, it could care less what the volume of the previous song was, and does not try to match them.

If for example, you have all your songs normalized or gained, it should do a relatively good job of making minor adjustments that are needed.


One thing I should mention...


Rockit is not designed to DJ for you, it is designed to make it easier for YOU to DJ your average wedding or party :)

OTS is a great program (although the interface sucks IMHO :D ), but its focus is totally different from ours. They are (IMHO), more focused on beat mixing and sound manipulation, whereas Rockit is focused on quickly finding songs, user scalability, remote control, etc.

I guess that's why they are from down under, and we are from up above -- and I don't mean that in a bad way... :sqbiggrin:
 
that explains the vast change in the gain from song to song... even though all of my mp3s have been normalized using compression.... they should be exactly the same overall average level... which is why the pedulum (sp?) like swing in the gain using AGC was astounding to me....

I turned it off and all is right with the world again...

Really I don't need the compressor/limiter that Ots has simply because my mixing software has that and does a better job anyway... thru PatchMix
 
SoftJock Rick said:
One thing I should mention...


Rockit is not designed to DJ for you, it is designed to make it easier for YOU to DJ your average wedding or party :)

....whereas Rockit is focused on quickly finding songs, user scalability, remote control, etc.
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That's exactly what brought me to choose RockIt!

I didn't need all the bells and whistles that I didn't need or want, that also required me to upgrade my system just to run their software.

Edit: Well, that was one of the many reasons! :)
 
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