Behringer CMD Series

What exactly IS going on with the LEDs? The decision for the off state of all of the leds to be a fully illuminated amber LED is different. Seems like a waste of a second LED in every button. What is the advantage? In addition to a waste, it would seems like the scalable brightness system would be stupid, unless it's set up as one LED, and fades from amber to blue as the value increases, which would be cool. Otherwise my guess would be that the amber turns off immediately at value 001, which would be stupid. I'm sure I'm missing something, I've been wondering since the change was announced.

You can turn them all off if you want to (at least on the ones I've tried with). They just default to amber when you turn them on.

There's no fancy fading or mixing colours though. There is two global brightness settings though, so you can turn all the LEDs down a bit if it's too bright in a dark room.

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Originally Posted by nem0nic

the more I look at it, the more I feel like moving the CUE section to the side (as is typical with DJ mixers).

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So would you make the MM-1 wider?

I was pretty sure that the off state was full amber... Do you mean they default to amber when you turn them off?

But you can control their brightness independently? So you could have outs mapped in traktor to toggle between both off, and both on? What does it look like? I imagine a weird purple color.

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Originally Posted by nem0nic

Those 2 buttons bracketing the browse knob on the MM-1 were never meant to indicate a loaded track, because it's only capable of indicating status of 2 decks on an obviously 4 deck device.

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I handle loading all four decks from MM-1 (a/b directly and c/d via shift) and rather use LOAD button at PL-1 for something else, that's why I found this important.

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Originally Posted by octostout

I was pretty sure that the off state was full amber... Do you mean they default to amber when you turn them off?

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All CMD except for LC-1 have amber as default. Meaning the LC-1 is only controller in line which displays no color in default state.

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But you can control their brightness independently? So you could have outs mapped in traktor to toggle between both off, and both on? What does it look like? I imagine a weird purple color.

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No can do far as I know... ?

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Originally Posted by octostout

I was pretty sure that the off state was full amber... Do you mean they default to amber when you turn them off?

But you can control their brightness independently? So you could have outs mapped in traktor to toggle between both off, and both on? What does it look like? I imagine a weird purple color.

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No, there's a totally off state too with no LEDs on :)

You can't control brightness anything other than globally and you can't control the LEDs independantly so you can't turn them both on at the same time, it's either one or the other. (or flashing blue. Or flashing whatever colour you want with the LC1 clip grid)

Oh, so there is an off state, but the default state is amber, so you have to specifically map it? Then this still seems like a stupid way of doing this.... total waste of an LED, and an annoyance, assuming you don't want your gear lit up light a christmas tree at all times.

SO, for everything but the LC-1, there's:

-Amber (default)
-Off
-Blue
-Blue flashing

right?
How does it handle different brightness messages (from traktor)?

-does off work inversely? As in can you set a value for off, and it fades the amber LED?
-I assume scaling works for blue like I said, as soon as it reads 001, it turns off the amber LED instantly, and then starts increasing blue brightness from there?

With LC-1:

Off - default
amber
amber flashing
blue
blue flashing
pink
pink flashing
green
green flashing

Seriously though am i waiting till summer for them to come out?

Off the the default for the clips? I thought amber was and you have to specify off?