[Release] cmdr - Controller Manager done right

I've started an unofficial TSI editor for Windows. It's an open source project on codeplex. You'll find some documentation, instructions and the latest compiled version at https://cmdr.codeplex.com/.
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If you like this piece of software, please make a donation and help it survive.
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Disclaimer
This software is still under active development, comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and may contain bugs. If you find one please create an issue. Until the software has reached a stable state, it is recommended to work on copies of your TSI files.
cmdr is NOT RELATED TO Native Instruments, but an unofficial software.

Licence

• cmdr is developed and released under the GPL v3 licence.
• Used libraries:
  
  • Xceed AvalonDock, Copyright (c) 2007-2013, Xceed Software Inc. http://avalondock.codeplex.com/
  • Pure Midi, Copyright (c) 2004 Slawomir Cichon https://puremidi.codeplex.com/

Requirements

• Microsoft Windows
• NET Framework V4.5, download at https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/down....aspx?id=30653

Installation
No installation needed, cmdr is portable.

Usage
Please go to the documentation section on codeplex.

Credits

• Ivan Zlatev, for reverse engineering large parts of the TSI structure. Visit his project at https://github.com/ivanz/Traktor.Mapping.
• Native Instruments for providing the powerful DJ software Traktor Pro. Please visit http://www.native-instruments.com/.
• My colleague and friend Acid Buddha for testing and support.

Please contribute and give it a try. Tell me what you think about it.

Happy Mapping!:)

This is amazing - thanks for your hard work!

This looks terribly exciting!

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batch editing here we go: if you select multiple commands the details section will only show you the controls you can edit for all of them. get used to it, you´ll like it. this is true for the conditions, the settings and the MIDI binding as well.

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You are not wrong, mate! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Thank you friend!

Awesome!

I'll get this later!!
I have a question, I have a map from a post 2.5 version of traktor, can I save it out as an older pre 2.5 version?
Reason being, my less powerful backup lappy uses 2.3, while my main lappy is using a 2.8 version. I have an awesome launchpad map for 2.8 but want to use it on 2.3, but the tsi won't work due to the upgrade changes in 2.5... if your app can do this, it would be incredible..

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Sorry, but I can only analyze the current state of TSI files, not the history of their specification. So I don't know what has changed after 2.3. But this tool helps you to split your TSI into smaller parts and check which exact mapping entries cause the incompatibility.

Done!
The app works really nice.
Just a little heads up! To save TSI you have to press Ctrl+Shift+S. The document on the site is stated Cntrl+S.

Thanks, Stewe :)
Actually, Ctrl+S should be 'save', Ctrl+Shift+S should be 'save as'.

• Drag & drop of files and folders onto application window to open TSI files. Dropping folders opens contained files recursively.
• Read list and order of effects from "Traktor Settings.tsi" dynamically (needed for effect selector commands, as not the effect itself, but its index in this list is stored in the TSI file).
• Conditions:
  
  • Selecting mappings and changing conditions should be a bit faster now.
  • Setting new conditions was missing initialization, so that wrong values occurred sometimes.
  
  
• Update comments while typing. No need to move focus in order to apply changes.
• Moved Override Factory Map to "Mapped to" section
• New style for numeric up/down controls in controller settings.
• Added application settings, editor window and corresponding menu entry. Settings:
  
  • default workspace (where you save your mappings)
  • NI folder (folder containing Traktor versions)
  • Traktor version and option to manually override it (version is written into TSI files)
  
  
• Traktor folder is derived from NI folder and version, and is needed for loading "Traktor Settings.tsi"
• some refactoring and cosmetics
• see https://cmdr.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets for more details.

Downloaded V6. Drag and drop a TSi file worked. Marked over 200 commands and changed my #8=7 in to #8=4. Saved and imported back to 2.10.2 with all changes applied. Awesome!
However, I can't get Ctrl+S to work. Also the 'save' is not available ether from drop menu. Any ideas on why the option is grayed out like that?

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Usually, it's grayed out if there is no change and thus nothing to save. So you never see an asterisk behind the title too?

Freshly loaded file vs. After changing a value:
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I'm in the middle of reworking the way effect selector commands (in and out) are handled in cmdr. It's pretty cumbersome how Traktor handles these commands, strictly speaking those that use concrete values (In: interaction mode direct or hold, Out: controller range min and max). Instead of saving the id of a selected effect, its position in a list of pre-selected effects is saved (see Traktor preferences->Effects).
Such a list is not only saved in the 'Traktor Settings.tsi' file but also in mapping files that use effects. This is one reason why many tsi files must be imported with the big import button. The main drawback of this approach is that it gets very complicated if you have a setup where several controllers are supposed to control effects, because their corresponding mapping files may overwrite each other's effect list.

I cannot influence the way Traktor handles effect selector commands, but I want to simplify working with them anyway. So in order to do so I plan to:

• Allow users to customize the effect list from Traktor settings in cmdr
• Allow users to consolidate effect lists of mapping files with their effect list from Traktor settings
• Only save effects in the effect list of [STRIKE]newly created[/STRIKE] Non-"Traktor Settings.tsi" mapping files that are actually used by these files (which also minimizes the effort of consolidation)

Before implementing these features, I have two questions:

• Do you have any concerns about this approach?
• Does anyone use the effect selector out command with a controller range length other than 0 (single effect) or 43 (all effects)?

• cmdr is now the first tool that enables you to copy and paste mappings directly from and to your Traktor Settings
• Completely reworked the handling of effect selector commands and their related TSI files, even those that do not specify an effect list/snapshots
• Added status bar, indicating long running activities. Long running activities made asynchronous
• Preparation for creating new TSI files for proprietary devices
• Changed application settings and added explanations
• New (partly undocumented) commands
• New conditions
• Encoder control now initialized with Interaction Mode Relative
• some fixes, refactoring and cosmetics
• see Changesets for more details.

I haven't tried this (my set-up is in pieces at the moment) but I am SUPER excited about this tool.

Im fkn loving this.
Great work.

Wow, thank you SO much. Your program makes Traktor mapping much less cumbersome.

• Creation of mappings for proprietary devices including "Notes". This feature is based on the folder of default mappings (see settings). Entries of default mappings can be included. This also enables the usage of templates.
• New mapping list control:
  Drag & drop within a list and between lists. Hold ctrl to copy.
  Stats (selected/total mappings)
  Trimmed texts have a ToolTip containing the full text
  Selection of multiple items, e.g. when pasting or moving to another list
• Adding and pasting items at the current position (not the end of the list anymore)
• Complete rework of conditions editor:
  New option "Selected Conditions"
  Changed handling of unknown conditions on UI
• Changed default file name to "Untitled"
• Menus for adding commands are sorted alphabetically (folders on top)
• some minor fixes, refactoring and cosmetics
• see Changesets for more details.

Hi TakTraum,

First of all thanks for the new updates! I have a question in regards to command menus - currently we have all groups sorted out in alphabetical order. In my opinion it would be better if cmdr menu would look just like in Controller Manager in Traktor because people are already used to one patern for a long time. I found myself having to learn and memorize new positions for many commands which wouldn't be an issue if cmdr was already built in to Traktor :)

My backup DJ lappy is not very powerful, and uses Traktor 2.3.
My main one is pretty good, and uses 2.8, I've had issues where if I update mapping on my devices that I can't import them to the backup machine, (pre 2.5).
Does this prog differentiate between versions of Traktor? Or would this prog make it possible to integrate my new maps into my older version!?

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Cancel! Found answer on another thread!! nice one TakTraum! Gonna give this a whirl on monday. Excellent

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Cancel! Found answer on another thread!! nice one TakTraum! Gonna give this a whirl on monday. Excellent

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May I ask, what is your solution for that (or a link? )

AMAZING TOOL this is exactly what traktor was missing

A huge thanks from the community

Will donate :)

Special thanks and bugs and suggestions:

1. Awesome tool. Thanks for the work and enthusiasm you put into it. I love it!

2. 'Learn' MIDI notes sometimes causes CTD. I can avoid it by using it within an almost empty device.

3. a) Two seperate columns for the two conditions would be a cool thing. I like to be able to sort by condition 1 as well as by condition 2.
b) It would be awesome to be able to mark different commands, including MIDI In/Out assignments, and then change their MIDI channel, for all of them, without changing their actual MIDI-Note.

Anyway, it's an awesome tool already and a great help in mapping.

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Originally Posted by trabz

AMAZING TOOL this is exactly what traktor was missing

A huge thanks from the community

Will donate :)

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Special thanks and bugs and suggestions:

1. Awesome tool. Thanks for the work and enthusiasm you put into it. I love it!
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Anyway, it's an awesome tool already and a great help in mapping.

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Thanks. Waiting for donations :)

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Originally Posted by Sulherokhh

Special thanks and bugs and suggestions:
2. 'Learn' MIDI notes sometimes causes CTD. I can avoid it by using it within an almost empty device.

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Already fixed for v0.9. Will be released in the next few days.

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Originally Posted by Sulherokhh

Special thanks and bugs and suggestions:
3. [...] b) It would be awesome to be able to mark different commands, including MIDI In/Out assignments, and then change their MIDI channel, for all of them, without changing their actual MIDI-Note.

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Already implemented for v0.9.

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Originally Posted by Sulherokhh

Special thanks and bugs and suggestions:
3. a) Two seperate columns for the two conditions would be a cool thing. I like to be able to sort by condition 1 as well as by condition 2.

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I rather plan to somehow abstract the condition handling by combining both conditions into tuples which can be named. This will make it easier to keep track of the conditions ("What does M1=0 mean again?") and will also abstract their order as it doesn't matter. What do you all think about that?

X-Mas in July. :)

I am happy to test the tuple naming. I hope you enjoy working on this tool as much as i do using it... ;)

Encoder Mode:

• [fix] Encoder modes are now processed and stored correctly.
• Encoder mode is now a devicewide setting, thus moved to device editor pane (only shown for generic midi devices).
• Copy&paste / drag&drop for mappings take encoder modes into account: they are adapted to the target device.

Midi Binding:

• In and Out commands can be mapped at the same time if there is an intersection of valid definitions (e.g. it's not possible to map a 'Level Meter' note to an In command). For generic midi devices this is always possible. For proprietary devices it depends on the note definitions.
• Allow changing channel for various selected notes
• Allow changing note for various selected channels
• Added context menu items for selected channels and notes (as with conditions)
• [fix] Issue 627: Exception on MIDI learn
• [fix] Simultaneous MIDI learn of multiple mappings

Devices:

• Added drag&drop between devices. Hovering over a device while dragging selects the device. If there is no device in the target file, an appropriate device is added automatically.
• Added drag&drop for devices: one device at a time within file or between files.
• [fix] Initial mapping selection when switching the selected device.
• [fix] Keep selection of mappings when switching the selected device.
• Added the number of devices to Device list

Advanced Options Menu:

• Added to Mapping Editor
• Added advanced option "Change Assignment", which changes the selected mappings' assignment as well as their condition assignments, if all selected mappings have the same assignment beforehand.

Miscellaneous:

• Added option to add corresponding Out command to selected In command. Assignment, Conditions and Binding are taken from selected In command.
• Added metadata to devices. Will be used for assigning names to condition sets in the future.
• Renamed "Details" pane to "Mapping Editor" (naming consistency)
  
• [fix] Issue 631: Opening files with empty FX selection list
• [fix] Sorting of context menu items
• [fix] Inline editing of comments

see Changesets for more details

I'm excited. This will be battle tested... :p

Before i write anything else. This tool is already so much better than the editor by NI.

On to the bug list:
- working on factory maps, the checkbox 'Override Factory Map' has an inverted display. If it's checked then it's actually unchecked and vice versa.
- If i load a map with a 'relative' encoder set to 0%, cmdr automatically sets it to 100%. Don't ask why i would want to have it at 0%. In short, it's about circumventing an NI bug... :p

Both have only been tested on a factory map for an s4mk1.

Thanks for the feedback. I've added your issues here. This way I can work on them from inside of Visual Studio.

It's all about circumventing NI bugs...:p!

Update: I have already fixed the latter, but I cannot confirm the first issue. Can you send me your affected s4mk1 mapping?

Hey TakTraum,
This one is kinda wild but If I click on the folder icon (see pic) cmdr starts to open up new windows to the eternity :D

Can you please try to reproduce this?
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I tried with every folder/file open dialog in cmdr, but I cannot reproduce this. Sorry :blink:

Hi Tak, here is the S4 factory map.

Clear examples:
Lines 3204-3215 (set and delete hotcue) are overrides.
Lines 3244-3263 (map hotcue, excluding sample buttons) are not, as the buttons used [shift and hotcue buttons] must retain their factory functions.

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And this is what i see in the file you mentioned as well, no check in the box, although it should be visible:

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I tried with every folder/file open dialog in cmdr, but I cannot reproduce this. Sorry :blink:

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Never mind it then. It's not a huge deal really - I'll just have to use extra attention.

Thanks for looking in to this.

Bug:

The Control Assignments and Values for 'Deck Size Selector' are not accurately loaded and stored.

Assignment 'C&D' gets loaded and stored as 'A&B'. Direct Values for the Deck Size also seem to get shuffled and have strange values like '4' instead of 'Micro' or 'Advanced'. The Value 'Mhz' seems to be an NI bug though... :P

Here is what it looks like when loading up. The NI Editor Values are in the comments.

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ISO a bitcoin flashcode for the donation as I refuse to use paypal

I've been using cmdr lately and i love it!
Objective is to create a new version of the Akai AMX mapping made by stewe
https://maps.djtechtools.com/mappings/4397

thanks TakTraum

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Bug:

The Control Assignments and Values for 'Deck Size Selector' are not accurately loaded and stored.

Assignment 'C&D' gets loaded and stored as 'A&B'. Direct Values for the Deck Size also seem to get shuffled and have strange values like '4' instead of 'Micro' or 'Advanced'. The Value 'Mhz' seems to be an NI bug though... :P

Here is what it looks like when loading up. The NI Editor Values are in the comments.

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Thanks for your bug report. Both issues are fixed in code and will be included in the next release.

do you offer a preview release after 0.9.0? I'm also bitten by the A&B / C&D / micro/ advanced / etc issues
Thanks

Damn, this baby is still working with traktor 2.11 (except I get "uknknown command" for the step sequencer commands) as I was able to use it for mapping the new step sequencer with maschine.

great work man