Hi! My name is Andrea and I'm a digital-jockeying addicted, so addicted that I joined the DigitalJockey.it team since it was born! :D Someone might have already seen my name due to some VirtualDJ plugins, even if I like digging into the whole Net, thus someone might have seen my nickname elsewhere... I like any kind of electronic music, expecially Techno, Trance, Dance, Hardstyle, Psy/goa, Dubstep and all the related sub-styles. House styles aren't bad, even though I got bored of common borderline productions made nowadays. Oh, this is common in all music genres... and I always try to keep away from tracks lacking creativity or quality ;-) I like Do-it-Yourself projects, and I've already made some. The very first was GPMC, a MIDI 1.0 controller with 32 knobs and 96 (up to 128) pushbuttons. The second was a plugin card (profile image on the left) for a kids keyboard I've had since ~1994 - a Bontempi System 5 - which transformed it from a low-quality synth into an USB-MIDI controller with additional knobs and LCD display. The latest nice project I've made is WizardFX, another USB-MIDI controller which provides two distance sensors, used to modulate MIDI Pitch parameters by moving hands freely into the air. FYI, there's a video on YouTube whose description links to the whole documentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e07668QPBnY At the moment I'm a postgraduate Computer Engineering student at the "Politecnico di Milano" in Milan, Italy. I'll put all my effort to become an embedded systems engineer, or similar, and I dream to get so far. I hope to enjoy the World soon in the widest manner! Despite the wrong things that happen due to very very bad minds (death to them!), the Universe would be a great place to live!

Sun 17 Oct 10 @ 2:17 pm

Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (MSVCRT):
English x86 (32 bit): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84&displayLang=en
English x64 (64 bit): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bd512d9e-43c8-4655-81bf-9350143d5867&displayLang=en
Italiano x86 (32 bit): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a7b7a05e-6de6-4d3a-a423-37bf0912db84&displayLang=it
Italiano x64 (64 bit): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=BD512D9E-43C8-4655-81BF-9350143D5867&displayLang=it

Web Installer DirectX End-User Runtime:
English: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displayLang=en
Italiano: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2DA43D38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displayLang=it

Sun 09 Dec 07 @ 6:42 am

Carini questi CD-R in stile vinile venduti da Verbatim. Li ho trovati in fiera dell'elettronica a Cremona. Sarebbe fighissimo usarli come Timecoded-CD, stampando il logo di VDJ :D


(foto presa da Google Immagini)

Scusate la qualità delle prossime foto ma ho usato l'N70...





Ed ecco un'accoppiata stile Numark Cue:

Sun 03 Jun 07 @ 11:33 pm

This is my own MIDI controller!
It's 23.20 and I've just finished to build it!

It works like a charm! About 3 milliseconds between a refresh and another! Far better than my DJC Mk2 (~16ms refresh delay)!



Video taken @ official school presentation:

Sat 24 Feb 07 @ 3:23 pm

Fri 26 Jan 07 @ 4:57 pm

This is the teaser screen from the current alpha. Disabled controls aren't implemented yet.

Tue 06 Jun 06 @ 5:20 pm

Hello everyone!
I'm making my own MIDI console to br plugged trough the Joystick/MIDI Port (on soundcards, the yellow one).

It will handle up to 128 buttons and 32 potentiometers.


You can see some photos of the test circuit:

Mon 29 May 06 @ 4:35 pm

Il mio computer mi è costato 8 anni di attesa. Fino a novembre 2005 ho usato il mio fedelissimo PII 400MHz, con cui ci facevo di tutto. Poi i programmi hanno iniziato a non essere più compatibili, le 3Dfx non andavano più bene, M$ Winzoz 98 SE non era più supportato (ma rimane il migliore). Allora ho deciso i miei di comprare un piccì all'avanguardia...

Hardware

• AMD Athlon X2 4200+ (overclocked)
  
• Corsair TwinX 2-2-2-5 1 GB DDR (overclocked)
  
• ASUS A8N-E with nForce4
  
• ASUS GeForce 7800GTX 256MB DDR3 (overclocked)
  
• Maxtor DiamondMax 300GB SATA NCQ
  
• Samsung SyncMaster 930BF 19" TFT 4ms
  
• Case Advance X-Blade black
  
• Creative Cambridge SoundWorks MegaWorks THX 2.1 (150W + 2x 75W)
  
• Hercules DJ Console Mk2
  
• Creative ES1371
  
• Mixer Behringer Eurorack UB502
  
• Mouse Logitech MX 518 1600dpi
  
• M$ Digital Media Pro Keyboard
  
• HP PhotoSmart 433 3.1Mpx
  
• Trust Headphones + Microphone USB
  
• DVD drive
  
• DVD-RW drive
  
• Floppy drive (un must!)
  
• CoolerMaster Vortex TX (ventola CPU)
  
• 2x CoolerMaster ventola 120mm LED blu 1200rpm
  
• EverCool ventola 80mm LED blu
  
• Alimentatore 450W
  
• Cavi IDE "a tubo" (sembrano tubature del lavandino...)
  
• Modem 56k
  
• Ciabatta con interruttore e fusibile
  
• Sedia con schienale
  
• Lampada (rivolta verso l'alto che è meglio)
  

Software

• OS1: M$ Winzoz XP Professional + SP2
  
• OS2: Linux Fedora Core 4
  
• M$ Visual Studio 6.0 (1998...)
  
• M$ Visual Studio 2005
  
• Borland C/C++ Compiler 3.1
  
• UltraEdit32 9.0
  
• The GIMP
  
• HTML-Kit
  
• WinASM (+MASM)
  
• NASM
  
• Win MPASM
  
• PIC Simulator IDE
  
• Winamp
  
• SHOUTcast
  
• Audacity
  
• ModPlug Tracker
  
• Adobe Audition v1.5
  
• PowerArchiver
  
• VirtualDJ Professional (the best)
  
• Traktor 2
  
• Traktor 3
  
• M$ Live Messenger Plus
  
• Skype
  
• Mozilla Firefox
  
• Mozilla Thunderbird
  

Special

• TexZK's DJ Console Mapper
  
• TexZK's High Quality Flanger v2.0
  
• Wolfenstein 3D source codes modified by TexZK
  
• Myself (the most special piece)
  

Questa è la mia configurazione in VDJ 4.0: