Ok so you may all already be aware of this but i wasn't. I
I saw a vid on youtube the other day with a guy using the oxygen 8 keyboard with traktor pro, serious lack of knobs but lots of buttons.
Basically my mate who is a bit of a noise maker (just hammers effects and twists sounds) wanted a cheap controller to start playing with traktor so we decide that the oxygen 8 maybe a decent start seen as new you can pick one up for about £60.00
The beatmasher being a love of his we started to wonder how he could use the beatmasher with the serious lack of knobs when they may be taken up for other things. The guy on the vid had a pretty neat idea which i think is actually quite good whether you have got knobs or not, "don't use knobs, use buttons!" Far more acurate control than using a knob !!
So it goes a little somethin like this.
One button mapped to load the beatmasher in as many effects slots as you want, possibly 6 if needed but i only did 3 (just one efx bank in chanined mode) Also map this same button to load the amounts you want each beatmasher slot set to, eg slot 1 @ 50%, Slot 2 @ 75%. Slot 3 @ 100%. Although for some reason you cant get this to all happen with one press you have to press it twice (no biggy)! Then have 3 more buttons mapped to the "on" button for each efx slot. Using these buttons you can now jump seamlessly and flawlessly between the 3 beatmasher settings, no need to worry about getting that knob to the exact right point anymore spot on every time
Now i know this won't be for all of you but i thought it was a pretty cool trick for someone with more buttons than knobs and thought if like me you hadnt seen the vid i saw it would be pretty useful info for some
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