For this Friday Mix Throwdown… I busted out the MidiFighters as people had been asking about those cool looking things with all the classic Sanwa arcade buttons sitting above my DJ mixer. I wanted to show folks that I can dj with these un-labeled buttons just like I do with Turntables.

Unfortunately the mapping I had loaded up was a little outdated as the Traktor DJ software has been updated a few times and some of the FX mappings were off and therefore some of the delay and beat stutter tricks did not work on this set. I have since corrected that as of today and the next MidiFighter set will be a bit more ‘Glitched Out’.

I’m still getting some drop outs/stutters while mixing and trying to capture video. I am continually trying to improve the stability of the streaming production on the 2015 MacBookPro. I’ve lowered the overall output video bitrate to 3000 from 3500. The following day from playing this set, I tried to bump down the overall video screen real estate resolution to 960×540 which I don’t really want to do for folks that DO like to put this up on their TVs… it will look a bit more pixelated. Audio tops out on Twitch at 160 kbps. but seems to sound pretty good to my ears, as long the computer doesn’t hit a CPU spike. I think another option I need to consider is to keep Chrome CLOSED and if there’s any chatting to do… type it out on my phone or an iPad instead. I can also view my Twitch statistics on the iOS app.

Anyway.. the music. why you are hopefully here… and co-incidentally.. this mix like my last one is also clocking in at 1 hr 48 minutes. This is mainly house vibe… goes kinda of deep with a bit of acid and techno bits thrown in. Starts mellow, builds up and ends deep. Had to go pick up the wife whom was bring home dinner!

Runtime: 1 hr 48 min

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