Dicer/Anything: How to Change LED Color when Pressed?

[drummingninja]

Hey guys, I've been lurking for a while and finally after observing and learning a royal crap ton, switching from Ableton and an APC40 to Ableton and a Launchpad+ZeroMKII and after spending a lot of time here, finally making the crazy crazy move to Traktor Scratch Pro, getting two 1200mk2s and with all of your help figuring out how the hell to map in Traktor and make my APC40 and Dicer work with it...I've got a question I just can't find the answer for!

I love my Dicer very very much and get all sorts of questions about it from people that think it's the coolest little thing. I like that my APC40 buttons light up green when I hit them, so people can visually see that I'm cue juggling cool stuff.

My question is: How do you make a Dicer LED change color only when a cue point on it is being pressed? Right now the button is red when there's a cue point in that spot, and I would very much like the button to turn green only when I'm pressing it, so there's cool visual feedback to show I'm hitting the cue point.


Thanks guys so much, you're all so awesome and have made learning how to use and map Traktor to my APC40 and Dicer so much easier. And many thanks to the article writers on the main site, because they're crazy awesome. I'm currently working on making a TouchOSC mapping for my iPad and having it suspended over my APC40 to use as an FX controller!

[Patch]

I've got this working using scripts in DJ Decks. Don't know how you'd do it in Traktor. I had to create <output> objects in the .xml file that tell the dicer LEDs to light up when a cuepoint is being triggered...

[photojojo]

Read this

http://www.djtechtools.com/2010/05/3...ds-in-traktor/

[pilmat]

@drummingninja

After you follow the link photojojo provided and map an out to your function, getting colours is easy. Just set the Midi Range as you require, set the Min to 0 and the Max from 1 to 15 for red(1 is the dimmest and brightest being 15), 17 to 31 is pink (very similar to red though), 33 to 47 is orange, 49 to 63 is amber, 65, to 79 is yellow, 81 to 95 is light yellow, 97 to 111 is light green and 112 to 127 is green.

Basically there are two led under each button, you tell it how much of each to turn on and that gives the colours above.

Let us know if this helps.

Phil.

[photojojo]

@drummingninja

After you follow the link photojojo provided and map an out to your function, getting colours is easy. Just set the Midi Range as you require, set the Min to 0 and the Max from 1 to 15 for red(1 is the dimmest and brightest being 15), 17 to 31 is pink (very similar to red though), 33 to 47 is orange, 49 to 63 is amber, 65, to 79 is yellow, 81 to 95 is light yellow, 97 to 111 is light green and 112 to 127 is green.

Basically there are two led under each button, you tell it how much of each to turn on and that gives the colours above.

Let us know if this helps.

Phil.

Is this in a sticky? If not it needs to be.

[BradCee]

Read this

http://www.djtechtools.com/2010/05/3...ds-in-traktor/

+1

[drummingninja]

I do appreciate the responses, and I've been using all the posts I can find as well as that article previously to get LED feedback working for making the buttons have no LED when there isn't a cue point loaded and having them turn red for when there is a cue point loaded.

I'm just not quite sure how to make it to where it changes from red to green ONLY when I trigger the cue point.

[BradCee]

it's about creative thinking with LEDs sometimes. when you look at it, you press the button the cue point is selected, then played. there isn't an output for it being selected, but there is for play. so you could have an output that is green mapped up for play. but this would result in all the buttons lighting up.

you could however, map it to a mod.
create a random mod with no purpose*, on each button make an input so they change the mod from 0 to 1, 2, 3 or which ever cue it is. then map outputs for that mod where it is green when mod = [cue number pressed], and is red on 0

*by no purpose i mean it never get used to change any functions, so never gets listed in the conditions on any in/output maps