[Edit: the official release of MixEmergency 3.2.0 is out now.]
Hi folks,
I’m releasing this as a public beta version to get feedback on any potential issues before it is released as the final version of MixEmergency 3.2.0. Please be aware that, while this has been thoroughly tested, it is still a beta version, and should be treated as such. I highly recommend that you keep a copy of MixEmergency 3.1.1 on your computer in case you need to revert to this.
If you notice any new issues with this version, please e-mail your feedback to support@inklen.com, or add your comment to this discussion.
The list of changes in this public beta of MixEmergency 3.2.0 are:
- Added playback of MixEmergency Media Sequences.
- Added Media Sequence Editor.
- Added collapsable sections to the Overlays window.
- Added Blend Modes for the NDI and Syphon Overlays.
- Added Phoenix and Glow Blend Modes.
- Added custom dimensions for NDI output.
- Added options to the pop-up menus of the Sample Player to add NDI and Syphon inputs.
- Added support for relative paths in all Preset types.
- Updated NDI to use the latest v2 SDK.
- Reduced the minimum dimensions of the Preview windows.
- Reduced CPU usage when crossfading.
- Fixed an issue that would cause Serato DJ XML metadata to not be read in some cases.
- Fixed a potential crash when using the Text Overlay.
- Fixed a bug where the a connected screen could not be used if it had the same name as another screen.
- Fixed a potential locking issue when starting MixEmergency.
- Fixed a bug where memory available to the GPU was incorrectly reported when it was over 2GB.
- Fixed a bug where the full list of Blend Modes was not available to the Sample Player.
- Fixed a bug where MIDI increment/decrement would not work for the control mode of MixEmergency's effects.
- Correctly set the minimum macOS version to 10.8.
- Fixed small memory leaks.
[Download link removed. Please use the official release version availble from our website.]
Comments
can we save presets in the presets bank to make it easy to recall?
Blend modes for NDI and syphon got me smiling bigtime!
what am i doing wrong?
the visuals are h.264 encoded mov files
What's the beat drop menu option for then?
1. Say the native BPM of the loaded clip is 100 what happens
2. Say the BPM of the playing Serato track is 85 what happens
3. If change the drop down from BPM to Beats (default is 8 bpm) what is meant to happen?
Btw when I changed from BPM to Beats I get just still images as against movie clip.
1) If the video is 100 BPM, and the audio is playing at 120 BPM, then the video will play at 1.2x speed.
2) If the Serato track slows down to 85 BPM, then this 100 BPM video will then play at 0.85x speed.
3) The "Beats" allows you to set the duration of the clip in beats. So, if the video is exactly 2 seconds long, and you set the Beats value to 4 (that is, telling MixEmergency that the video has 4 beats over 2 seconds), then MixEmergency treats this video as though it is 120 BPM.
so the 120 bpm that is written has no bearing on the bpm of the loaded clip?
many of my clip visuals don't have audio tracks, so i dont know the bpm.
Another question how do i wipe ME midi. I'm trying to map a new controller and even before inputting anything some of the buttons are triggering events in ME.
To reset all MIDI controls in ME... go to the menu bar, select "Window", then "MIDI", then push the "Reset" button on the MIDI window that opens.
Specs
MacBook pro 15"
Mid 17
2.9ghz CUP
16GB Ram
4gb GPU
High Sierra 10.13.2
Serato DJ 1.9.10
Denon MC6000MKII
Pioneer DDJ XP1 (mapped to Mixemergency)
Outputting to the club HDMI matrix via a 50 ft HDMI over LAN set up.
Besides that issue I used it live for 4 hours last night and it was stable and I experienced no crashes.
I have a thunderbolt 2 dock and the dock has HDMI, USB A etc
It's a powered dock...Elgato Thunderbolt 2 dock.
I connect it to my laptop using the official Apple Thunderbolt 3/USB Type C to Thunderbolt 2 adapter dongle
I'm still on Sierra on my work laptop and didn't notice anything different apart from the load on the CPU. Drastically reduced. The ability to reduce the preview windows is a welcome bonus and will come in very useful for Serato DJ Pro where the spare screen space has been used up with the new deck design.
Just got my head around the new Media Sequences and this will be very useful.
So thanks Nick, awesome work as per! Looking forward to putting it thorough it's paces!
Keefy
@Jsierra1 There is no firm release date - essentially it's when I feel that it's ready.
@djpoproxxx Can you try via the Thunderbolt port?
Any chance we can get vertical scrolling for images this round?
any chances of having a text saving options?, meaning we can save multiple texts that we can load any time we need them.
Im still doing preliminary test looking solid so far.
thanks for what you are doing
best regards
one question for the media sequence editor.
ok i drop some media (images video etc) it all seem to work fine
i save the media sequence on my hard drive
how do you use this?
i did drop the sequence into the preview window of deck 2 while playing an audio track and it was fine.
i saw that i can drop the media sequence into the media bank also great.
is there another way of using this that i am missing
also if i drop an image file it while display 8 beats of the audio track on the deck?
sorry if my english is not very clear.
thank a lot
Yes, it uses the beats of the audio track to give the position within the Media Sequence, so 8 beats of an image will align with 8 beats from the track.
Thanks a lot for you time, and workd.
2 Extra questions and one general comment
Question 1 can you add more medias to the media sequence?
(i am not in front of the soft, but i believe you can only put like 6 medias in the sequence)
Question 2 : is it possible to do maybe that the Media bank can play another media of the bank if the first is over?
For example i play an audio song of 4minutes.
in my media bank i have one media of 1minute , one of 2minutes, one of 3 ...
at this time ME will play for example one video randomly and loop it.
but it cannont swicth. Right?
If you can make it swith you will not need to add more medias to the media sequence, because i will save several medias sequences and put them on the media bank.
Comment :
But this is not related to ME or Serato, but probably more with macs
and i already said this to serato, i am surprised that sometimes it freezes or lags when i lunch internet or turn on off wifi...
I mean, and please do not take these personal for people loving mac :
i used do be on a pc : i5, 16g ram, graphic video nvidia 2g ram. serato + serato video. You can turn wifi on , off, launch photoshop at the same time etc etc... perfect worked like a charm for 8 years!
Plus i mixed under the direct sun, hyper hot, all fine. Mixed on clubs hyper hot, horrible but worked.
i switched to mac a year ago, only becase a piece of my pc broke and cannot be fixed so i decided to switch and have mixemergency instead of serato video. (love what ME can do in terms of mixing video).
macbook pro , i7, 16g ram + amd graphic 2g ram.
And you have random cuts or lags if you turn off on wifi....
Cannot play under the sun, cannont play if it is too hot...
i have to admit that sometimes i am worry before some sets when i go with the mac...
My pc costed 8 years ago much less than what the mac cost, but as you can see the pc was well equiped for that time. so there is a bit of desappointement, and the only confort i have is using ME.
thanks
I found a bug when playing 2 videos and try to load text overlays or change from one to another ME crash instantly I got to close the software and reopen it every time it happens
on the media sequence editor,
if i choose length and i want to click on the little pencil to change it is only possible for medias 4, 5 ..
but not for 1,2,3
Question 2: why not use a media sequence for this?
1) Go to the Mac OS X Finder.
2) Hold down the "option" key then in the menu bar select "Go" > Library.
3) In the window that opens, navigate to the folder named "Logs", and within this "DiagnosticReports".
4) Send any files that begin with MixEmergency, or com.inklen.MixEmergency back to me in an e-mail.
Mine doesn't crash very often but where it has, i've been up and running within 2-3 mins tops
If you're having heat issues, I recommend this app: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23049/smcfancontrol
I'm having major crash issues. It may be my ddjsr because that's where i'm having the most issues but i have felt the music stutter a few times using Pio mixers and my ddjsz.
Are you having the crashes with Serato DJ or with MixEmergency?
Hi Nick - do we know when this beta will go live? Also, any plans to add some new transitions?
Not yet. There have been a few authorisation issues/fixes that have gone into a new version that I hope to get out as 3.2 before 3.3 is ready.
As for new transitions - there are things being worked on, but I can't really say anything more than this.
When is the beta becoming official lol or can we just assume it's official. I've been using it weekly since January and no bugs to report.
There are still some very minor fixes coming (mostly just to fix an authorisation issue that a couple of users have encountered), but otherwise this release is pretty stable and finished. MixEmergency 3.3 is on the way too, haha - so if that's finished first, an official 3.2 release may be skipped.
3.3 even better.
All good. I use twice a week at gigs. Happy to test betas.
please release soon?
i think that GPU bug is killing the 2018 mb pros
fast cue point play is really delayed. overall, a lot of latency/lag on video playback for me
love you guys, thank you!
me 3.1
high sierra 10.13.6
mb pro
2.9 ghz
32gb
radeon pro 560x 4096 mb
intel uhd 630 1536 mb
Hola estoy probando la beta 3.2 en mojave cero problemas lo unico que al conectar con adaptador thunderbolt (2) a VGA y mi disco lacie en el otro puerto los waderform se traban en fotma exajerada el problema tiende a solucionarse al conectar solo salida en el puerto HDMI.
Que configuracion me recomiendan en video
estoy con Rane 62
Nombre del modelo: MacBook Pro
Identificador del modelo: MacBookPro11,3
Nombre del procesador: Intel Core i7
Velocidad del procesador: 2,3 GHz
Cantidad de procesadores: 1
Cantidad total de núcleos: 4
Caché de nivel 2 (por núcleo): 256 KB
Caché de nivel 3: 6 MB
Memoria: 16 GB
Versión de la ROM de arranque: MBP112.0146.B00
Versión SMC (sistema): 2.19f12
SSD 512
LACIE THUNDERBOLT 2 1 TERA
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
Hi Nick,
Thanks for all the info and updates! Looking forward to the new version!
With that in mind,
Is is possible to add a feature/preference that is along the lines of: "Use Media Bank Only"
This feature would in essence OVERRIDE the song's video and use the Media Bank instead. But, if the song already does not have a video or media attached it would still just use the media bank like it does already.
This feature would be ideal for myself since some nights I have gigs where the venue doesn't want an actual music video of a song being shown on the screens/LED panels, but still wants visuals on screen. I realize that I could download a non-video version of the song or strip the audio of a song but I would prefer to not do this since I would just add redundant files to my libraries.
Any Ideas?
Thanks!
That's an interesting idea (and not hard to implement). I wonder how many people would use this?
I personally do this with the sample player that I have hooked up to a midi controller. However, This feature would be very useful if it ran through the media bank (playing all the selected folder videos randomly) as opposed to looping just one until the track is changed.
Is it possible to fix the issue that if you're playing something from the media bank and you switch bank numbers, it stops playing what is playing?
Do you mean the Sample Player? I don't think that I will be able to do this, as there would be cases where the videos could get stuck (for example, if it was set to loop forever and you switched banks).
Yeah - shame we can't have maybe more sample screens per page. Thanks for the reply tho
+1 on the feature request to use media bank irrespective if the song has a video.
+1 on the feature request to use media bank images to override the video playing (I've had many times where someone wanted a slideshow to play during a dinner set or during prom wanted a slide show playing vs my music videos)
i had to hook-up a second computer and video switcher to override
Just letting everyone know that 3.2.0 has been officially released now, so you should upgrade from this beta version if you're still using it.
So when is 3.3 out
Haha... shouldn't be too long, I hope.