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| Hercules DJ Control w/ PreSonus Audiobox w/ MixMeister |
Author:
Peroxadic ::
Posted:
Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:29 pm
Hi everyone!
I've been a long time lurker on these forums and have learned a LOT reading and watching all of the tutorial videos. It has inspired me to tinker around with the MixMeister Fusion program that is loaded onto my school laptop. I want to know how I would go about connecting the following audio equipment to my laptop.
I already own the following:
PreSonus Audiobox USB
M-Audio BX5a Monitor Speakers
MixMeister Fusion
I was looking around at DJ mixers and controllers and was at a loss of what to buy. I was looking at the following controller:
Hercules DJ Control MP3 E2 PC/MAC USB Controller (on pssl)
My question is:
1) If I purchase that controller, how would I go about hooking it all up with the equipment I currently own? Specifically, what would I connect to what to get the sound working? Currently my monitors link to the audiobox which is hooked via usb to my laptop. If I need more equipment, what is it I need?
2) For a beginner as myself, who is aiming to make dance mixes (typically trance/progressive/house) in my room, just as a hobby and discipline, is there another mixer/controller that you could recommend? I am willing to pay 50-150$$
3) Could I get dual-output from my laptop using my internal audio card and my external PreSonus Audiobox (is this an external sound card? I don't even know that haha..) I've tried to mess around with the settings but I could not get the preview mode to come out of the headphones connected to the internal sound card.
I feel as if my questions have very obvious answers, almost too obvious, which was why I could not find answers when looking through the forums and through search. All the guides talk about turntables/vinyls/CDs all of which I am not interested in.
Any help, thoughts, suggestions are greatly appreciated!
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| A dime and a penny gets you Blockbuster stock |
Author:
DJ Andre ::
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Tue Aug 31, 2010 12:14 am
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A dime and a penny gets you Blockbuster stock
Posted by James Lileks
This is more of a business story than a pop-culture tidbit, but it affects pop-culture: if these guys go under, the entire DVD store-based distribution network disappears. If only we had a backup alternative:
Video rental giant Blockbuster is planning to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in mid-September to restructure its nearly $1 billion in debt and escape leases on several hundred stores.
It’s Chapter 11, not 7. So they’ll figure out a way to rejigger things so the corpse can stagger around for another year. How bad is their situation? In 1994, it sold for $8.4 billion. Today the stock goes for 11 cents and the market value is $24 million. The company hopes to turn things around with Blockbuster kiosks that rent for a buck, just like Redbox, and that’s great. They already have 6,000 kiosks out there, the LA Times says. |
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Blockbuster Inc., the video rental giant which began putting mom-and-pop size rental stores out of business over a decade ago with its more efficient business model, is seeing the same thing happen to it, experts say.
Having lost $1.1 billion since 2008, the company is reportedly preparing to file for bankruptcy next month, closing between 500 and 800 of its 3,425 stores nationwide in hopes of restructuring its debt.
“What happened is that Netflix and others have simply built a better mousetrap,” says Paul Dergarabedian, movie analyst for Hollywood.com. “In the same way that iTunes and filesharing have killed the major record chains, technology is changing everything for movie rentals,” he says.
Change a long time coming
With movies available at home by mail in one day, or on demand to computers and TV nearly instantly, the alternative of driving to a video store twice, paying more, and worrying over late fees is increasingly being avoided.
“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have Netflix,” says Karie Bible, box office analyst for Exhibitor Relations, a Hollywood-based movie-industry analysis firm. In addition to Netflix and Redbox kiosks available in malls and grocery stores, she says there has been a large growth of niche websites such as GreenCine, which specializes in independent and foreign films, and others which specialize in old silents.
“My friends increasingly don’t even understand why anyone would drive to a video store, anymore,” she says.
Blockbuster’s fall in fortunes is a “triumph of convenience,” says George Haley, director of the Center for International Industry Competitiveness. In addition to the problem of driving to a store, he says the unknown of whether popular titles will be sold out, or if older titles will be available at all, is stacked against the old model.
“I’ve never gone to Netflix and been told, ‘hey it’s sold out, try back later.’” But efficiency and optimal delivery of wider selection aren’t the only considerations for society, say others.
Small stores have their loyal fans
Portland's "Movie Madness" beats Netflix any day for SEIU Local 503 communications director Edward Hershey. He says he frequents the video store for its uniqueness, personalized service, and its role as a community hangout. “I love going to this store,” he says, noting that it signs up 30 new customers on any given weekday and upwards of 80 over weekends.
Besides displaying memorabilia from the film industry – a fu dog featured in “Citizen Kane,” for instance – the store specializes in hard-to-find movies, documentaries and foreign films. And it categorizes them in several ways – by director, actor, or studio, in addition to the conventional genres.
“You might come for a film by Barry Levinson and it’s gone but find another you didn’t even know he made,” says Mr. Hershey. He also loves the fact that the owner is a film buff who really knows his stuff.
“He can tell you what the good movies are and you can establish a relationship with him that is real flesh and blood,” says Hershey. “With Netflix all you get is some computer-generated algorithm which says things liked, ‘people who liked this movie, liked this one, too.' No conversation. No heart.”
Hybrid outfits survive
Mr. Haley, the marketing expert, says consumer preferences are in a constant state of change, and the most successful companies have been those who straddle both an Internet availability and so-called brick and mortar presence.
Traditional bookstores took a major hit when online giant Amazon.com arrived on the scene in the mid 90s. But both Borders and Barnes & Noble combined the vast resources of an online storefront with the convenience of a local outlet. “These have worked very hard to be good at both and are being heavily rewarded for it,” says Haley. "That seems to cover what most Americans want."
Blockbuster has branched out to a Netflix-like mail-order service, and has rolled out a network of kiosks that rent DVDs for $1 per night, just like Redbox. It will continue to venture into movie streaming and downloads for mobile phones, computers, and Internet-connected televisions, observers say. |
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| Fluctuating tempo in Express 7 |
Author:
la1137 ::
Posted:
Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:41 pm
My tempo keeps fluctuating throughout my songs.
I have the master BPM set at 128. I've gone through each song, edited the tag, and put 128 in the BPM box. I've also added tempo markers and changed those; however the tempo changes (literally) from second to second. How can I get it to be one constant tempo? This is so frustrating!
I have mixmeister express 7
Thank you in advance to anyone who responds!
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| Passwords Need at Least 12 Characters to Be Safe, Study Find |
Author:
DJ Andre ::
Posted:
Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:23 pm
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By Stuart Fox, TechNewsDaily Staff Writer
16 August 2010 3:56 PM ET
Thanks to rapid increases in computing power, your confidential information is probably not safe unless you use a 12-digit randomized password, experts say.
Recent research from the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) indicates that to defeat a new generation of encryption cracking software, passwords need a length of at least 12 randomized characters consisting of letters, numbers and symbols. Anything else — a keyword, a birthday or a pattern of symbols — makes you an easy mark.
“Eight-character passwords are inadequate now ... If eight characters is all you use, and if you restrict your characters to only alphabetic letters, it can be cracked in minutes,” said Richard Boyd, a senior researcher at GTRI.
The need for increasingly complex security measures comes from two weapons in the hacker arsenal: commercial quality code breaking software and the supercomputer power of graphics cards and botnets, said Joshua Davis, a research scientists at GTRI.
Code breaking software uses two techniques to break through password protections. The first is a vast dictionary of common password phrases, which can crack simplistic passwords like “12345” and similar patterns. The other, brute force, simply tries every possible eight-character combination until it hits the right one. Brute force invasion used to require an unreasonable amount of time, but increasing computing power has allowed off the shelf computers to accomplish that task, Davis said.
Nevertheless, a password of 12 random characters that includes symbols is still an effective barrier to the brute force method.
“If you have a 12 character password, and if your password is a combination of just gobbledygook letters, I think only an intelligence agency or some well funded organization would be able to break it in a reasonable amount of time,” Boyd said.
Unfortunately, even a password of 12 random characters may soon become too weak to provide adequate protection. Computers will soon reach the power needed to crack 12 character random passwords, and certain kinds of computer viruses that monitor data directly from the keyboard can break a password of any size and complexity.
“If you have a Trojan that records keystrokes, you’re screwed,” Davis said.
But like every aspect of computer security, password protection is a game of cat and mouse between hackers and security experts. Some banks in Europe have already begun issuing their customers special handheld devices that generates single use passwords, Davis said. By constantly rotating the password, the device defends against Trojans, and alleviates the need to memorize multiple random passwords.
Of course, it’s only a matter of time until hackers figure out how to beat that technique as well.
“Any technique that’s in common use," Boyd said, "people have made some headway in cracking.” click here for more info |
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