[apt-get]

Been using it for the past few years, nothing bad to say about it, lovely piece of software. Vendor lock-in is very present in this field, with different brands of controllers supported by a myriad of proprietary DJ applications all more interested in onboarding you to their music subscription services rather than implement useful features or support open protocols.

Meanwhile, Mixxx allows you to write your own adapter scripts for any controller you have (as long as it outputs MIDI), and there's a built-in library featuring scripts for the most common commercial controllers and MIDI devices out there.

[input_sh]

To be fair, every commercial competitor (like Rekordbox and Traktor) also supports mapping MIDI devices that are not officially supported.

But in my experience, you'll never be able to control the jogwheel as precisely as in officially-supported hardware-software combo.

[bfmalky]

In Rekordbox's case Pioneer have restricted the jogwheel mapping to Pioneer hardware only. So, you pretty much need Pioneer hardware to use Rekordbox. And seeing as Pioneer decks are almost industry standard in clubs and you need Rekordbox to organise your playlists, they have the DJ hardware market sewn up. Which is very frustrating because Rekordbox has to be the most resource intensive (& therefore inefficient) DJ software available.

[shermantanktop]

Is it latency? Or granularity? MIDI has upper limits on both…or is it a more subtle quality like ballistics?

[noman-land]

I tried it many years ago and this didn't work. Can Mixxx be used with the Rane mixers used with Serato back in the day?

[Mashimo]

Does the mixer speak midi? In that case probably.

Is there already a mapping for you device? Check the manual https://manual.mixxx.org/2.5/en/