Traktor mapping tips, tricks and questions.

Hey,

I just got my K2s today and went for a custom mapping. As I don´t need 3 layers, I just made two myself with the modifiers of Traktor. Basically I want to map the 4x4 matrix on the bottom pretty similar like the Kontrol x1 I am used to for a while. So what I did was mapping layer button as a Toggle for Modifier 1 from 0-1 and Modifier 2 from 0-1. I don´t have any problems with the controls themselves, they work perfect.

The point I get in trouble again is when I map the LED outputs. I mapped the Play/Pause to Red, the Cue/Cup/Beatjump in Amber and the In-/Outs to green, all with the Modifier Condition 1 to Value 1. It worked well, until I started to map the LEDs on the other Layer. Layer 2 in my case is the Hotcue Section, so I want to turn off all LEDs from Layer 1 and only light up the buttons, that are assigned with a Hotcue. Although I added the Conditions, this does not work.

I did mappings like this for a couple of times and finally thought, I got through all this and understand how to map LEDs but apparently I didn´t. I tried different settings on the Controller Range from 0-1 and 0-5 (like it is on the x1 default mapping), I tried with Modifier state for Mod 1 and Mod 2, Mod 1 solo, Mod 2 solo. Also tried different Blend and Invert settings, nothing worked.

No idea if I am totally confused now by almost mapping all day, but maybe you got a hint for me. I´ll add two screenshots on the mappings I did so far.

Maybe somebody of you can help me. Thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by Matthew

I've been itching to play around with EQ FX isolation after seeing the DJTT article and one of Stewe's great mappings. One thing I wanted to avoid, though, was the use of any modifier states to achieve EQ isolation. My setup is is X1 + Z1 + MF3D, and it's great to be able to use a single non-native mapping without worrying about modifiers/etc clashing.

After poking around a bit, I came up with two techniques. Both eat up the 3rd and 4th decks, so this still isn't a very good solution if you're mixing with 4 decks, remix decks, live input decks, etc.

Simple EQ Isolation

The first technique is a super simple method that uses four buttons per deck: Reset, High, Mid, Low. Each button sets all three EQ kills across both matched decks. I copy deck A->C and B->D on a bunch of inputs to maintain sync for each pair of decks. The risk with this mapping is losing sync with EQ still split between decks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thxVcs1hjBk

Advanced EQ Isolation

The second technique allows for individual EQ band selection (instead of a single toggle, you can put any combination of high/mid/low on Deck A, with Deck C always opposite). It also automatically maintains sync by watching beat phase and seek position; if anything drifts it re-copies the shadow deck.

To do this, I'm using the scripting capabilities in Lemur and having Lemur fire notes back to its Traktor mapping. I only picked Lemur up the other day, so I'm sure there's a more elegant solution than the one in the video, but I really love it so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgsCO5GENxs

Lemur is a paid piece of iOS software (currently $25 on holiday sale), and I'm actually using a wired connection with an iConnectMIDI2+ to stay away from wifi issues (it's an $80 device, but provides a TON of MIDI/audio routing capabilities).

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Just to clarify the title.

Modifiers in Spectra Isolate has been used mainly for controlling my animation separately from a button display. But then figured out if I would update that mapping and add some more controls those modifier toggles are also the base for other stuff. You are correct and don't need to use any modifiers because that reset button from spectra isolate is doing the trick by setting a new preset for you each time - it's just my personal preference to have this buttons as mappable positions when I'm setting All Ports and doing things in a single channel.

I think that Lemur technique you're using could be done with in traktor if you set duplicate deck command on loop encoder or pretty much any other analog control which keeps that isolator deck updated at any time. Pretty similar to my CNTRL:R mapping where my Isolator EQ was introduced. The difference here is that modifier is doing the Cut/Add feature of the RMX-1000.

Thanks for your feedback in the forum and please post the mapping for everybody.

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Originally Posted by Ryukyu

Hey,

I just got my K2s today and went for a custom mapping. As I don´t need 3 layers, I just made two myself with the modifiers of Traktor. Basically I want to map the 4x4 matrix on the bottom pretty similar like the Kontrol x1 I am used to for a while. So what I did was mapping layer button as a Toggle for Modifier 1 from 0-1 and Modifier 2 from 0-1. I don´t have any problems with the controls themselves, they work perfect.

The point I get in trouble again is when I map the LED outputs. I mapped the Play/Pause to Red, the Cue/Cup/Beatjump in Amber and the In-/Outs to green, all with the Modifier Condition 1 to Value 1. It worked well, until I started to map the LEDs on the other Layer. Layer 2 in my case is the Hotcue Section, so I want to turn off all LEDs from Layer 1 and only light up the buttons, that are assigned with a Hotcue. Although I added the Conditions, this does not work.

I did mappings like this for a couple of times and finally thought, I got through all this and understand how to map LEDs but apparently I didn´t. I tried different settings on the Controller Range from 0-1 and 0-5 (like it is on the x1 default mapping), I tried with Modifier state for Mod 1 and Mod 2, Mod 1 solo, Mod 2 solo. Also tried different Blend and Invert settings, nothing worked.

No idea if I am totally confused now by almost mapping all day, but maybe you got a hint for me. I´ll add two screenshots on the mappings I did so far.

Maybe somebody of you can help me. Thanks in advance.

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This happens because the K2 has the different colours on different channels instead of on different values.
To fix this, you need to assign a "Send Monitor State" input on the button you use to switch layers.

You will probably still get some issues when switching from one colour to another on the same LED, from some events in traktor (Like, trying to map different colours, for different clip states in remix decks). Unfortunately, there's currently no way to fix that.

Thanks for your help, just added the "Send Monitor State" command and it runs perfect for now! Awesome! No problems anymore, at least not in the first testing.. :)

Cheers,
Ryukyu

DDJ SX ON TRAKTOR

I'm trying to find a way to have better jogswheel for the ddj sx on traktor, i've tried to change the value but it's still not accurate.

Do you think i can just add more jog turn mapping with different value to get it more like serato.

If yes do you have a clue of what would be the best?

hey there, just started reading this thread, so sorry if this been discussed before.

so anyway i think not i'm alone dislike the default controls of remix decks (c and d) on NI Z2: when you press C or D button for the first time it takes you to this weird play-pause control thing on your C/D remix deck. and when you press C/D the second time - it goes to this super true one-shot mode, just what i need from the battle mixing.
i would rather prefer to switch this two modes so i don't need to push C/D twice to get my one-shots right away, but better i entirely delete this first play-pause mode and made the control over the second raw of each remix deck). i'm no good at mapping, and when i tryed onec i just messed up with this modifiers etc with no luck. maybe other battle dj's done this work already and we've got a perfect mapping solution for download? =)
instead i would rather pay some $ for this magic mapping =)

thanks!

I want to remap something on my Kontrol X1 MK2 but I can't get it right for some reason.

I tried to map a fine tempo adjust (0.01 bpm/1 click) to the combination of SYNC [Hold] + LOOPENCODER [Push + Turn] but it doesn't overwrite the factory setting. The factory setting does a very coarse tempo adjust with this button combination which is rather useless to me. Can anybody walk me through the process of remapping this?

I tried to map it to another combination (FLUX [Hold] + LOOP ENCODER [Turn]) on my X1 MK2 but it was way too awkward because the loop size would get messed with at the same time (which is the factory default for the LOOP ENCODER)

TL;DR
I want to change SYNC [Hold] + LOOPENCODER [Push + Turn] from a coarse TEMPO ADJUST to a fine TEMPO ADJUST but the factory default doesn't want to be overwritten. (I created a new template before i started messing with the mapping.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkvsxZFjlN0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Hello

I want to add eight cues in launchpad for every deck but I am not quite sure for what option to look for inside the controller manager.
Can you point me to the right direction?

Thank you

Track Deck > Cue > Select/Set+Store Hotcue

I downloaded Baeu-Brytes latest S2MK1 mapping, and it switched the Tempo Reset Button with the activating the Flux Mode ... how can I switch tempo reset back to normal? I don't care for flux mode at all.

PLEASE help me out that's all I need to know, thanks!

can anybody tell me if there is a way to get traktor 3 working with DDJ-SB' i got it working with traktor 2 but i only had a demo of that

Hi guys,


I'm using an s4 to play with Traktor and i'd like to use my MF Spectra and the F1 for the effects.
I like the instant gratification mapping for the Spectra, is it possible to map the F1 with the same setup (or even with another mapping)?
Then i'll use the spectra for decks A and C and the F1 for decks B and D

Thanks

hi,
is there any possible way to map slot mute to device target rather than a specific deck???

can anybody help me map slot mute to target device in traktor 2???????

I mapped 8 cue points for each deck to the 8 buttons on either side of the x1. A and B in normal and C and D on shift. I can make the LEDs light when I press a cue but I want them lit to represent that a track has say for example cues 1,2,4,and 7 set in the track.

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Originally Posted by crsbeatz

I mapped 8 cue points for each deck to the 8 buttons on either side of the x1. A and B in normal and C and D on shift. I can make the LEDs light when I press a cue but I want them lit to represent that a track has say for example cues 1,2,4,and 7 set in the track.

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Hi crsbeatz and welcome to forums. You can address each hotcue using the output command for that particular cue.

Add Out > Track Deck > Cue > Hotcue x Type

Thanks for the answer. I actually figured it out on my own. It took forever for my post to go through.

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Originally Posted by crsbeatz

Thanks for the answer. I actually figured it out on my own. It took forever for my post to go through.

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Cool - I'm glad you figure it out :thumbup1:

Anyone know how to map the instgrat combo:

Transpose Bmash
Press all 4 Bmash buttons triggers a Transpose

i can't figure it out how to get it to work.. :(
Or if anyone else has any other cool fx combo that works with the bmash?

Experiencing an issue with my Kontrol F1. To put it in simple words i'm mapping the 16 pads of the f1 to different effect combo's(Instant Press FX) similar to how most of the Midi Fighter Mappings are. Consider these two scenario's as examples on how my mapping is :

Scenario 1 - Pad 1 turns on(Hold) fx unit 4, selects single fx mode, selects Ramp Delay, adjusts the 3 knobs to different values & turns on button 3(Direct).

Scenario 2 - Pad 2 turns on(Toggle) fx unit 4, selects single fx mode, selects Delay, adjusts the 3 knobs to different values & turns on button 2(Toggle).

Somehow i'm unable to get this thing to run smoothly. What happens is when I hit Pad 1 for the first time it just loads up the effect setting to its right place & doesn't turn on(It actually turns on for a millisecond & goes off, As i can see it in the screen). It works fine when I hit it the 2nd time. Same Goes with Pad 2, first hit, it loads the settings to its right place, turns on for a second & goes off. When i follow this by a 2nd consecutive hit it works fine as its supposed to do. All hits after the second one works fine, provided the same effect is loaded. The moment i load some other effect manually or by pressing some other effect combo, it again takes 2 hits to get it working smooth.

This is annoying in a live scenario. Any takes ?

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Originally Posted by lothar

Experiencing an issue with my Kontrol F1. To put it in simple words i'm mapping the 16 pads of the f1 to different effect combo's(Instant Press FX) similar to how most of the Midi Fighter Mappings are. Consider these two scenario's as examples on how my mapping is :

Scenario 1 - Pad 1 turns on(Hold) fx unit 4, selects single fx mode, selects Ramp Delay, adjusts the 3 knobs to different values & turns on button 3(Direct).

Scenario 2 - Pad 2 turns on(Toggle) fx unit 4, selects single fx mode, selects Delay, adjusts the 3 knobs to different values & turns on button 2(Toggle).

Somehow i'm unable to get this thing to run smoothly. What happens is when I hit Pad 1 for the first time it just loads up the effect setting to its right place & doesn't turn on(It actually turns on for a millisecond & goes off, As i can see it in the screen). It works fine when I hit it the 2nd time. Same Goes with Pad 2, first hit, it loads the settings to its right place, turns on for a second & goes off. When i follow this by a 2nd consecutive hit it works fine as its supposed to do. All hits after the second one works fine, provided the same effect is loaded. The moment i load some other effect manually or by pressing some other effect combo, it again takes 2 hits to get it working smooth.

This is annoying in a live scenario. Any takes ?

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Yup, add the "Store Preset" command to your buttons - can be found in the FX tab.

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Originally Posted by lothar

Experiencing an issue with my Kontrol F1. To put it in simple words i'm mapping the 16 pads of the f1 to different effect combo's(Instant Press FX) similar to how most of the Midi Fighter Mappings are. Consider these two scenario's as examples on how my mapping is :

Scenario 1 - Pad 1 turns on(Hold) fx unit 4, selects single fx mode, selects Ramp Delay, adjusts the 3 knobs to different values & turns on button 3(Direct).

Scenario 2 - Pad 2 turns on(Toggle) fx unit 4, selects single fx mode, selects Delay, adjusts the 3 knobs to different values & turns on button 2(Toggle).

Somehow i'm unable to get this thing to run smoothly. What happens is when I hit Pad 1 for the first time it just loads up the effect setting to its right place & doesn't turn on(It actually turns on for a millisecond & goes off, As i can see it in the screen). It works fine when I hit it the 2nd time. Same Goes with Pad 2, first hit, it loads the settings to its right place, turns on for a second & goes off. When i follow this by a 2nd consecutive hit it works fine as its supposed to do. All hits after the second one works fine, provided the same effect is loaded. The moment i load some other effect manually or by pressing some other effect combo, it again takes 2 hits to get it working smooth.

This is annoying in a live scenario. Any takes ?

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Originally Posted by Stewe

Yup, add the "Store Preset" command to your buttons - can be found in the FX tab.

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Thanks Stewe. However this is not 100% effective for scenario 2. When the FX unit 4 setting is in single mode it works fine but if the unit is in group mode it takes 2 hits(As per my Previous post) to fully function.

Its working perfect for scenario 1 though. The only difference between both are that the "FX UNIT 4 ON" Button in scenario 1 is mapped to work in "Hold" mode. Scenario 2 is meant to work in "Toggle" Mode.

This should work fine. Did you test your toggle button without modifiers? Currently it sounds that "FX unit" modifier is assigned to single as a value.

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Originally Posted by Stewe

This should work fine. Did you test your toggle button without modifiers? Currently it sounds that "FX unit" modifier is assigned to single as a value.

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Haven't used any modifiers mate. Here's a screenshot of the mapping for that particular pad. You can see all the commands there

Attachment 22590

Could it be that pad is set 'toggle' in the controller editor?

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Originally Posted by Stewe

Could it be that pad is set 'toggle' in the controller editor?

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Its in Gate mode. Here
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Btw, Anything wrong with my mapping ?

Must say that my knowledge of NI controllers is pretty limited since I don't have any of them - you should definitely try out other button options and see what happens. The mapping looks fine btw.

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Originally Posted by Stewe

Must say that my knowledge of NI controllers is pretty limited since I don't have any of them - you should definitely try out other button options and see what happens. The mapping looks fine btw.

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Such a bummer.. There are only 2 options for CC Messages. Gate & Toggle.. However you think changing the pad type to "Note" will be any different ?

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Originally Posted by lothar

Such a bummer.. There are only 2 options for CC Messages. Gate & Toggle.. However you think changing the pad type to "Note" will be any different ?

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That's a rhetorical question. If I had an F1 you'd probably get a proper response from me.

Since your mapping looks correct let's hope this isn't a hardware glitch - however you can try other controllers or even a keyboard device to be sure.

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Originally Posted by Stewe

That's a rhetorical question. If I had an F1 you'd probably get a proper response from me.

Since your mapping looks correct let's hope this isn't a hardware glitch - however you can try other controllers or even a keyboard device to be sure.

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Was just thinking to do that.. Will try it on my CMD-MM1 & get back. Thanks a lot mate, Really appreciate it :)

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Originally Posted by lothar

Was just thinking to do that.. Will try it on my CMD-MM1 & get back. Thanks a lot mate, Really appreciate it :)

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Sounds good. Please do keep posted about this - really curious to find out what's causing this issue.

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Originally Posted by Stewe

Sounds good. Please do keep posted about this - really curious to find out what's causing this issue.

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Just checked with the CMD-MM1.. Same issue. When FX UNIT 4 is in single mode it works in a single hit, when in group mode, it takes 2 hits to function.

Really weird :(

Do you mind sharing your MM-1 file? I can test it here and see what's up.

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Originally Posted by Stewe

Do you mind sharing your MM-1 file? I can test it here and see what's up.

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Here you go : http://www.sendspace.com/file/1hjapg

Originally this is the Under Construction F1 Mapping which i was developing.. I've just re-learnt the commands for that particular function which was giving me a problem. Its mapped to the "1st CUE" button of the MM-1. The one on the left hand side of the controller.

The single mode is triggering fine but can't see anything in there mapped for the group FX mode that you had trouble with?

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Originally Posted by Stewe

The single mode is triggering fine but can't see anything in there mapped for the group FX mode that you had trouble with?

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Well, I haven't mapped it yet.. My next step with the mapping was to map some pads to a couple of effects in the group mode. As of now, I was just going to the group mode manually using my mouse to test it.

I hope going to group mode manually wasn't the thing creating an issue ?

EDIT : Just checked, Entering the group mode manually or via midi doesn't really affect anything.

Any takes ? Anyone ?

Is it possible to map a button to increase the value of an effect from 0 to 100 slowly(Not in 1 go) ? If yes, How to do it ?

Tried doing it with the little knowledge I have. Failed.

Set interaction mode to 'Inc' and check the 'Auto Repeat' box. Then you'd be able to choose from different resolutions.