Traktor mapping tips, tricks and questions.

[Ryukyu]

Hehe no.. I got Windows so pain.. :P Mapping could really be much more comfortable.. anyways I hope I´ll find some time this evening for starting with my mapping.. I decided to do start from zero to avoid any problems with previous commands etc.. I´m kinda excited because of the new facilities then..

[zestoi]

This thread should be stickied i think. Great stuff mate, keep em coming.

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[Yuki]

Hello guys,
My name is Yuki and I is new DJ from Japan. I feel sorry to ask this question but I is still quite new to digital DJing. I have just purchase a Traktor Kontrol S2 and has question about mapping a certain effect to some button on mine controller..
Since I is usually mix only Psy-Trance I not find mineself using all 8 sample slots. I want to know if I can map the 4 sample buttons on Deck B to do as the following: Activate "Beatmasher 2" effect and have the buttons cycle through the values of the effect for some on the fly build ups. I am sure you have all seen Ean's youtube videos about creating buildups where he using the "Midi Fighter" and I found it great that he can use 4 buttons to activate this effect and cycle through the values.. Can anyone assist me to set up a similar map to the 4 Deck B sample buttons I never use?
Thank you very much in Advance for any tips or help..
Yuki

[operand]

I have a problem with Traktor mapping outputs and the Akai APC40. I think I know what the problem is, but wondered what people's solutions to it were, if any?

If I map one of the Akai's rotary controllers (relative CC) to one of the pots in Traktor, all is well and the controller controls the pot. Now, the APC40 has LED rings, so I want Traktor to feed back the values it has to the LED ring (if I load up a song with a custom gain, I want it displayed on the gain pot on my APC40). So, I set an output, set up the LED stuff for the APC40 (configure the LED ring using CC+8, set the message right, etc). The fedback works, but only if I move the controller really fast. If I move it slowly it jitters, and jumps. If I move the controller close to midway (value 64) it moves itself to 64.

I imagine what's happening is that the output is setting the control, which is in turn being set physically by my hand, and this duality ends up in a big argument down my MIDI channel until it equates to 64. The latency of the output getting to the controller after the input got there ernds up with the value converging on 64.

So. The problem's there, I can't set feedback to my LED rings without this problem.

How do you get around this? I've tried only sending the signal to the LED ring when I push teh track load button, but if I hold the track load button the same problem occurs, I have to punch it once to load the song, and punch it again real quick to avoid it adjusting all my pots.

[steppinrazor89]

Hello there!

my name is lucas and i've been DJing with traktor pro 2 and a numark mixtrack for a year and a half now on PC with no issues. i recently upgraded to a MacBook Pro and have had nothing but problems getting my Mixtrack to sync correctly... the big problem is that i cant get the jog wheel to scratch properly :/

i have started making a whole new map from scratch, but as its the first patch i've ever made i feel i'm doing something wrong or using the functions. I've got everything working except for the scratching. the actual scratching itself works fine, the problem is that when i stop scratching the track doesn't carry on playing :/ the tempo meter on Traktor goes to zero after the scratch and stops the track...



this is the example

working slightly better.tsi

the template only has limited functionality as i can make everything else work other than the scratch function but it is as follows:

EQ's : standard
volumes: standard
sync, cue, play/pause : standard
scratch on: scratch function (ish)
scratch function off: jog wheel/ tempo bend


only deck A is routed because i didnt see the point in routing the other deck if i cant get the first one to work lol


any help would be awesome as i have a gig in just over a week :/

thanks in advance, Lucas

[Rowanov]

I wanted to map my AKAI MPK mini's drumpads to act as a loop cutter and keep the pad lighted while the loop was active. This turned out to be less straight forward than it sounds. The biggest hurdle was the hardware feature that the pads backlight would switch on when pressed, but also switch off when released. This meant being able to light an unpressed pad easily, but not to keep the pressed pad lighted. It would only flicker when trying to switch it on. Also, the invert function directly on the output message did not work.

Because the whole process of getting this to work caused such a headache, I decided to share it with you

Midi map settings:
First map the desired pad to toggle the loop. I use the CC toggle of the MPK mini turned on so that I can switch between cue and loop functions with the press of a single button, with my cue functions mapped to the normal bank of midi notes. This method also works with normal midi notes.
mod1.jpg

Second, you need to create a modifier which gets the value 1 when the pad is released and the deck has a loop playing. To make sure it fires when the pad is released, tick the invert box. The modifier condition makes sure this only happens when a loop is playing and the inc increases the modifier value by 1.
mod2.jpg

The third step is to make the modifier set back to 0 afterwards. Because of the behaviour of the hardware I did not bother to add conditions.
mod3.jpg

The fourth and last step is to switch the backlight on when the modifier is 1 and send it to the right pad.
mod4.jpg

[Ryukyu]

Ehm. You did not choose interaction mode toggle, but trigger. Possibly thats the point!?

[Rowanov]

It doesn't matter; the hardware or driver behaviour is in the way of keeping the backlight on after pressing the pad.

[MoonUn1t]

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but is it possible to create a macro knob where one effect kicks in at the dry position, another effect kicks in say 50% wet, and then a final to kick in at 100%? sorry if this is a stupid question im on my break at work right now and I thought I'd ask about how to do something like that before I try it at home tonight

[DJDoubleYou]

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but is it possible to create a macro knob where one effect kicks in at the dry position, another effect kicks in say 50% wet, and then a final to kick in at 100%? sorry if this is a stupid question im on my break at work right now and I thought I'd ask about how to do something like that before I try it at home tonight

I don't think so, but i've seen someone doing it with a piece of software between traktor and the midi contoller