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Install Mixxx 1.11.0 in Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04/10.04

Mixxx is free, open source DJ software that gives you everything you need to DJ and mix music live at your next party or club gig. The Mixxx development team finally announced Mixxx 1.11.0 after over a year of hard work.
Here’s the skinny on all the new features in Mixxx 1.11.0:

  • colored, 3-band Waveforms;
  • brand New Beat Detector;
  • HID and Bulk Controller Support, with HID presets for: EKS Otus, Traktor Kontrol F1, Hercules DJ Console Mk1, Mk2 and MP3 e2, Nintendo Wiimote, Pioneer CDJ 850/900/2000 and Sony SixxAxis;
  • session history;
  • new effect, “Beatloop Rolls”, that works just like a beatloop except when you release the button the deck jumps to where it would have been if you hadn’t started the loop;
  • Preview Deck: preview tracks in your headphones without having to load them into a main deck;
  • advanced search, e.g.: find all tracks between 100 and 120 BMP with a rating greater than 4 using “bpm:100-120 rating:>4″. More about this in the Mixxx manual;
  • improved AutoDJ;
  • point-and-click MIDI mapping;
  • new Sample Grid skin;
  • time widgets;
  • Sample Deck Improvements;
  • improved user manual;
  • new controller support: Mixxx certified: Allen & Heath Xone K2, EKS Otus, Keith McMillen Instruments QuNeo and Vestax VCI-400 but there’s also community support for Akai LPD8, American Audio VMS2, Hercules DJ Console Mk1, Hercules DJ Control AIR, Nintendo Wiimote, Traktor Kontrol F1 and mano thers;
  • Read full changes and bugfixes.
Install Mixxx 1.11.0:
The “Mixxx Release Managers” team ppa provides the latest packages for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 12.10 Quantal, 12.04 Precise, 11.10 Oneiric, 11.04 Natty, and 10.04 Lucid.
Hit Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, copy and paste following 3 commands and run one by one to add the ppa and install Mixxx.
add the ppa repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mixxx/mixxx
update app repository:
sudo apt-get update
install mixxx:
sudo apt-get install mixxx libportaudio2
Enjoy!
Mixxx-Ubuntu

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