S4 - Traktor Pro 2 - Scamo's Effect Jogs Extreme [Version 5.0 Beta]- The Next Level

[john titor]

I tried the incremental effects like you said, but I found that I had to hold shift in order for it to work.

[scamo]

You should only need to press and hold the "Shift" button for the first press of the jog to start the incremental mode. The first press with "Shift" gets it started. The next presses of the jog shouldn't need shift any more.

Mode 1 has 6 increments.

Press 1 - (with "Shift") gets the beatmasher going with 4 beats (don't run too long with this on)
Press 2 - increments to a 1 beat and turns up the peak filter 20%. This is actually the start of the effect, because the filter drops the sound volume considerably.
Press 3 - increments to a 1/2 beat and turns up the peak filter 40%, bringing up the volume too
Press 4 - increments to a 1/4 beat and turn up the peak filter to 100%, bringing up the volume but all together you have like a drum roll crescendo.
Press 5 - reset back to 0 but holds the reverb, so the effect can run out
Press 6 - turns everything that was on back off

This isn't perfect, but it was my first attempt at this incremental stuff. We can always improve it. Something you can try to do is on press five, also hit a hot cue to move the song to another part of the track.

Mode 8 - Armeofme's Swoosh Drama effect has just three increments

Press 1 - (with "Shift") starts the effect and holds them all on. You can let go of the jog. You can turn the jog to the right slowly to make the effect happen.
Press 2 - kicks in the echo freeze and holds it
Press 3 - turns everything back off

The idea of this AoM incrementation is just a bit better workflow for a transition to the other deck, because everything runs over the jog touch. It is just easier to hit the touch than the "Effect on" button, especially if you are in a hurry, isn't it?

I think with that explanation everyone can get an idea of what is now possible with this new version. Like I mentioned in the first post, theoretically, we can now have 28 different modes. 14 normal and 14 incremented.

scamo

[john titor]

Wow... Okay, gotta try this again when I get home from work. Sounds sweet. By the way, I was watching the Armyofme video and on her sweep effect it seems like the dry/wet and all 3 effects go up at an equal level. On your mapping the third effect (reverb) stays put at about 20-25%, and the 2nd one (can't remember which that is) goes up slightly faster than the first and the dry/wet. Any reason for the change? I like that the reverb goes up in hers.

[scamo]

It is because I find it better, when the reverb doesn't kick in too much. It is then a bit more subtle, when the effect stops. Also the peak filter climbs slower, because it also gets rather obnoxious at about 90% and above. So the idea is the peak filter only gets to about 80%, when the W/D and the Iceverb are at 100%.

This is all my personal taste and it wouldn't take but learning the mapping some to change the parameters yourself, to how you like them.

scamo

[objector]

Any tips on 'disaster recovery'. Your work looks fantastic but before I try it I'm curious about best practices for configuration management. Once I load a .tsi what is the most reliable method for falling back to a previous configuration. For instance a see an 'Import' button under Traktor Preference -> Controller Manager but I'm confused by talk of a Big or small import button. I also don't see any option to fall back to a default state, other than the Setup Wizard, which I believe falls back to to the factory configuration but not necessarily my desired state.

Otto

[scamo]

Hi Otto,

what you can do to make a back-up of your desired state is export your settings as your own TSI file leaving all the check boxes checked. When you want to go back to it, just import that TSI file with the big import button at the bottom and you are back to where you started.

scamo

[Marylin175]

Allright, that cleared some things for me (Which are wrong mentined in the PDF).

I try your suggestion with the modes later. We will see

[mutem]

Great work Scamo) Its the best mapping for s4 i see. But if you can record the video and showed same examples with your mapping, it will be useful for same owners of s4. Thanks a lot

[MrAybar]

@scamo u r the men!!!!!! But i totally dig mutem suggestion u should try to do a lil video of the mapping when u have time so us not so mapping gifted can understand the whole idea and concept!!!!!!! but dont worry take your time and finish the gold version and then the video!!!!!!!! Thx bro againnnnn u r the mennnnnnn

[The Mighty FV]

For reasons unknown to myself I was about to install the DJTT mapping and had never heard you'd released this version....until last night....so I'll be sorting it out this weekend and then will report back with any feedback/bugs in the coming weeks.

Can I just say, even before I use it, thank you for taking time and doing something like this - people like you, pushing forwards the S4 in ways no one else is, really is impressive and is a massive task which we appreciate you spending hours working on - so thanks dude