xwax

xwax
Developer(s) Mark Hills
Initial release 2006
Stable release 1.5 / February 9, 2014
Written in C[1]
Operating system Linux
License GNU General Public License
Website xwax: Digital Vinyl System for Linux

xwax is an open source vinyl emulation software.[2][3][4] It was initially developed in 2006 as proprietary software. In May 2007 xwax was licensed under the GNU General Public License,[5] making it the first open source software of this kind.

Unlike the software supplied with some proprietary packages for vinyl emulation, xwax is hardware independent. Notably, it can be used with the audio device and timecode recordings supplied with the Scratch Live[6] program, and older versions[7] of the Traktor Scratch program,[8] and the audio interface supplied with the original Final Scratch.[9]

The xwax source code is used to decode timecodes for vinyl control in Mixxx.[10][11]

Features

References

  1. xwax development: Guidelines, Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  2. "xwax: Digital Vinyl on Linux". Retrieved 2008-01-02.
  3. "Skratchworx: And for Linux users...". Retrieved 2013-08-11.
  4. "Create Digital Music: xwax: Vinyl Scratching Emulation on Linux". Retrieved 2007-05-24.
  5. "xwax development". Retrieved 2008-01-02.
  6. "Xwax - An open source DVS".
  7. "xwax: Overview". Retrieved 2014-09-08.
  8. "xwax: Overview".
  9. Hills, Mark (2007-09-04). "ALSA and the Rane SL 1 interface". xwax-devel (Mailing list).
  10. Santoni, Albert (2007-08-22). "Vinyl Control and New Audio Core in Trunk". mixxx-devel (Mailing list).
  11. "Vinyl Control - MixxxWiki". Retrieved 2008-01-02.
  12. Hills, Mark. "xwax-devel mailing list: xwax 1.2 release". Retrieved 30 November 2012.
  13. 13.0 13.1 Hills, Mark (2013-06-08). "xwax-devel mailing list: xwax 1.4 release". xwax-devel (Mailing list). Retrieved 2013-08-11.