The Big Present
When folks give me cash for my birthday, I like to roll it all into one super present. This year, wifey made up the short-fall – thanks, baby – and I opted for a piece of equipment for the radio shows.
It’s a Hercules DJ Control MP3. It’s a twin-deck USB controller, basically it’s a Hercules DJ Console with the internal sound card ripped out. That suits me, ‘cos I’ve already got a soundcard, and it was almost £50 cheaper.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work with DJPlay, which is the software I use to mix my streams for the show. I’d naívely assumed that if it was a stripped down version, it would be generating the same event codes. Well, that was wrong. So with the help of the DJPlay team head developer, we managed to get some working code together, which has now been committed to CVS.
All the controls work, the only thing left to get working is the LEDs. We’ll see how long that takes.
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Nerd!
:) If you’re that serious I might just have to listen to some of your shows. Let the Awen flow mate, let it flow…
I’m living the life mate. That what one of my friends told me, they dream of geeky projects, I seem to occassionally carry them out :)
Tune in dude, it’s uknova.com Radio, the listening links are on their front page. We’re on just after the JimJeroo show, Tuesday’s from 6pm till 7pm.