Spin / Typhoon Output LEDs

[pilmat]

Had a play with a Spin tonight. Interesting little controller. Only played in Traktor, but the overall feel was better than what I expected.

Has anyone got the output LEDs to work? If so, what midi note and channel are they on? Every mapping I looked at does not have them working (unless they are not midi, but they don't follow the output knob either). Apparently they don't work in DJay either.

The only time I saw them flash was when I hot plugged the Spin... (so at least I can confirm there ARE LEDs under the plastic!).

Phil.

[Vlatko]

Hey Phil, I currently have the Typhoon running on windows version of traktor and I have LEDs working fine, I also remember seeing videos on YouTube of the spin and i'm certain they have LED's working. I had a friend come over with his mac and did not have mapping for the Typhoon so he downloaded a spin one but some features were different, when you used an effect knob it changed the headphone volume and led lights were all different. So I cannot help you in giving you the notes or channels due to the fact the Typhoon is slightly different, unless it was something wrong with the mapping of my friends or something.

EDIT: I also did some experimenting and got certain LED's to flash to the beat and stuff.

[pilmat]

@Vlatko
The LEDs in general are all there and working, and the Sync was flashing to the beat. It is just the "output meter" ones to the left of th e main volume knob that I am talking about, these are not mapped in any of the TSI I looked through. Including the official Typhoon mapping I found on the Vestax website.

I haven't see many videos of the Spin or Typhoon in action. I'll have to watch a few, but would like to know if those LED are midi mappable and what their notes are. If the TSI you are using has them working, would you please post it (or tell me where I could find it on the web).

Phil.

[Vlatko]

@Vlatko
The LEDs in general are all there and working, and the Sync was flashing to the beat. It is just the "output meter" ones to the left of th e main volume knob that I am talking about, these are not mapped in any of the TSI I looked through. Including the official Typhoon mapping I found on the Vestax website.

I haven't see many videos of the Spin or Typhoon in action. I'll have to watch a few, but would like to know if those LED are midi mappable and what their notes are. If the TSI you are using has them working, would you please post it (or tell me where I could find it on the web).

Phil.

Could you explain your setup? Those lights aren't mappable, they are with the hardware and what not, when I got my typhoon hooked up to my computer and play something (outside of traktor as in a mp3), the level meter is active and I can hear it.

[bmo]

@Vlatko
The LEDs in general are all there and working, and the Sync was flashing to the beat. It is just the "output meter" ones to the left of th e main volume knob that I am talking about, these are not mapped in any of the TSI I looked through. Including the official Typhoon mapping I found on the Vestax website.

I haven't see many videos of the Spin or Typhoon in action. I'll have to watch a few, but would like to know if those LED are midi mappable and what their notes are. If the TSI you are using has them working, would you please post it (or tell me where I could find it on the web).

Phil.

Man you have the worst luck with these things, the typhoon map fixed all of this for me, it was setup to show the output volume and the peak volume meters. I tried mapping some other LEDs but it was a no go, cause the unit would crash every time I clicked on a button that lit up due to my modifications.

[pilmat]

Man you have the worst luck with these things, the typhoon map fixed all of this for me, it was setup to show the output volume and the peak volume meters.

OK thanks, I see that is an actual audio signal interpreted by the sound card, so can't be mapped.

Why do you say I have the worst of luck? My luck hasn't been the best lately, but did I miss something?

Phil.

[Vlatko]

Can you hear audio through your speakers?

[pilmat]

Can you hear audio through your speakers?

Yes, the issue was that the output knob was only about 1/8 on and the lights only start to work around 1/4. The other thing is that I'm so used to midi control, the fact that it is audio confused me (sad but true).

I farted around with the Spin some more this morning, so far the potential seems good.

What is the general consensus on the sound card quality? It seems to be the weak point in the chain. When I hooked up my AK1 things started sounding much better. Is the ASIO4ALL or ASIO4TYPHOON 24 bit? The native CoreAudio is 16 bit, but not sure it would make much difference based on the D/A converters in the hardware being the same...

Phil.

[Vlatko]

I just use the asio4typhoon driver plugged into a pioneer amp and it works perfectly good.

[bmo]

OK thanks, I see that is an actual audio signal interpreted by the sound card, so can't be mapped.

Why do you say I have the worst of luck? My luck hasn't been the best lately, but did I miss something?

Phil.

sorry i got you confused with someone else who posted about their mapping glitching on them, I didn't mean it in a mean way though