#Nicecast traktor s8 upgrade#
#Nicecast traktor s8 software#
#Nicecast traktor s8 Pc#

The fact that it only needs a USB connection means the computer acts as the brain, doing all the audio and effects processing, but you don’t have to spend much time interacting with it. Rather than having two or three devices to achieve all this, here you get a single box. Of course when you DJ you need not just to control playback but also incorporate other sound sources like turntables or CD decks and get sound out to the PA as well as monitoring.

#Nicecast traktor s8 Pc#

Sound and data is sent back and forth to your Mac or PC down the USB connection but you can do much more than just play tracks without touching the computer: the S8 is also a standalone mixer and an audio and MIDI interface in its own right. It would seem to be designed to sit on a surface rather than being plumbed into a rack and to this end it has rubber feet and also six anchor points on the underside which allow it to be fixed down using screws. I'm currently in the process of moving my home network from Ubiquiti to an open solution with a few Mikrotik RBM11Gs to serve as APs, and will probably also replace my Netgate SG-3100 with pfSense with likely a PC Engines machine.Where some other high-end DJ controllers have had a chunky design so as to slot into equipment racks in clubs, the S8 is much flatter and shallower, just under 7cm thick in fact. All will probably be running OpenWrt, though if that's too limiting / buggy, I'll just use plain Linux or OpenBSD on them.

The major benefit of this setup is that you don't depend on some manufacturer for updates. Given Ubiquiti's and Netgate's recently hostile actions towards users and open source, this provides a great peace of mind.

#Nicecast traktor s8 upgrade#

The other benefit is that you're free to upgrade your hardware as needed, which particularly for WiFi cards is great to have. Right now I'm sticking with WiFi 5 because of the costs, but in the future upgrading to 6E would just be a matter of changing the cards (assuming they're supported by the OS). Speaking of cards, I went with Compex WLE1216V5-20, which have an Atheros chip and are thus much better supported on Linux than Broadcom, etc. Have you ever looked at VyOS ( )? IIRC EdgeOS was a fork of Vyatta and Vyatta became VyOS. Their LTS pricing doesn't work for small businesses, but the rolling release might be an option for home use. It's sad that everyone only wants to accept huge amounts of cash these days. The smallest licensing option they have is $6k per year for unlimited installs.

That makes it completely unobtainable for a person that I build firewalls for, so we don't even evaluate it.

#Nicecast traktor s8 software#

In terms of percentages, we could probably add about 15% to every firewall sold and that could be passed along to a software vendor. If we had a self serve portal where we could download LTS releases and generate lifetime licenses we'd send them 15% of our firewall (sales) revenue and they'd basically never hear from us. In real numbers that would be about $1-1.5k a year as long as we could pay per device as we sell/install them. Using pfSense as an example it'd be in the range of $10k since we started using pfSense and, in the last 5 years, I think I've only had 1 issue I couldn't figure out on my own where I had to go ask on their forum. I used to work on a product for secure small-biz Wifi, and so dogfooded my own product in my house.

When that was over and I took that out of my house, I had my eyes on Ubiquiti, and it is an impressive ecosystem.