Re: A new toy on Darktrain.jp!
 

This is cool. Time to dig out the old talkingheads and mix up some fresh lyrics for it :)

Thanks Matt!

- Matt.. another one

Re: A new toy on Darktrain.jp!
 

I just wanted to let everyone know that I have made a couple of improvements to the mixer.

First, I added "hotkey" control for some of the buttons - thanks Jan!

Mute buttons 1-8 --> number keys `1`-`8` *
Master mute --> number key `9`
Start button --> <Spacebar>
Stop button --> <Enter> (uh oh...Macs have "Return" keys don`t they :O)

* Just a note about the mute button "hotkeys": If you hit 2 keys simultaneously, they function as they should (turning 2 mute buttons on/off). Anything more, and one key stroke may not be recognized. What I did is sort of got a finger roll down with a few milliseconds between each hit and it worked fine. I`ve only tested this on 2 machines, so it might work better for some than others. It might also have to do with the "keyboard" reponse settings in your OS.

Second, I added a small workaround to help the sync problem some people have had. A couple of loops may still be off by a little, but it appears to have greatly improved the syncing!

Please let me know if you have any problems with it. Once I get this version working pretty solid, I`m going to move onto phase 2 of this project ;)

Matt

Re: A new toy on Darktrain.jp!
 

matt works great!..

tried it on my computer (xp/using ie 7)..

could you change the version on the standalone page also?

thanks again..

later
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I just made the changes to the standalone version!

Sorry for the delay, but my hosting company was doing some maintenance to the server, so I couldn`t upload for a couple of days!

Re: A new toy on Darktrain.jp!
 

My suggestion for the next one: Cowgirl with Karaoke option.

Re: A new toy on Darktrain.jp!
 

Matt,you spent this work very much in time.
I heard that you considerably had a hard time.Thank you.
Everybody seems to enjoy your toy.


Naturally the "Karaoke" is the culture that is popular for people in my contry.
There is some of karaoke machine supply maker, and the people can sing the music of the UW.
The people can sing music of NUXX,NUXX2003,Two Months Off,Jumbo (but all 4 songs only short radio edit ver).
I don't know karaoke circumstances of other countries well, but the person who sang music of UW, please teach what music can you sing? I am interested in the karaoke of other countries.


Matt,Will we do a karaoke in "BOUNENKAI" of the end of the year?

Chino

Re: A new toy on Darktrain.jp!
 

phaseblue, this is simply amazing!

Re: A new toy on Darktrain.jp!
 

それはいいアイディアだね！

TheBang,

The karaoke idea sounds great! The only problem is that I don`t know how to bring external audio inputs into Flash or how to add effects to them (compression, reverb, etc...). However, I`m sure this could easily be done with another specialized application running at the same time!:)
I exported all the sounds as fairly good quality mp3s, so they should sound decent on a loud stereo/PA system!

Re: A new toy on Darktrain.jp!
 

Hello Everyone!

I`ve been hard at work on the new "darktrain" mixer (DTM-2)!
This version of the mixer will allow the runtime loading of individual tracks (bass, synth, etc...)
from various Underworld songs via a tree list box, thereby increasing the fun level by a
significant amout :) It is quite an involved Flash application, but I should have a beta up soon
(barring any unexpected development problems/bugs)!

Does anyone know of a good mp3 encoder that has the option to remove the silence that most
programs add to the end of the file? I need to remove the silence so that the mp3 files will loop
seamlessly. Of course, software like iTunes is useless in this regard!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Matt

Re: A new toy on Darktrain.jp!
 

a free and simple one is Audacity