Traktor mapping tips, tricks and questions.

[Ryukyu]

Hey,

I just got my K2s today and went for a custom mapping. As I don´t need 3 layers, I just made two myself with the modifiers of Traktor. Basically I want to map the 4x4 matrix on the bottom pretty similar like the Kontrol x1 I am used to for a while. So what I did was mapping layer button as a Toggle for Modifier 1 from 0-1 and Modifier 2 from 0-1. I don´t have any problems with the controls themselves, they work perfect.

The point I get in trouble again is when I map the LED outputs. I mapped the Play/Pause to Red, the Cue/Cup/Beatjump in Amber and the In-/Outs to green, all with the Modifier Condition 1 to Value 1. It worked well, until I started to map the LEDs on the other Layer. Layer 2 in my case is the Hotcue Section, so I want to turn off all LEDs from Layer 1 and only light up the buttons, that are assigned with a Hotcue. Although I added the Conditions, this does not work.

I did mappings like this for a couple of times and finally thought, I got through all this and understand how to map LEDs but apparently I didn´t. I tried different settings on the Controller Range from 0-1 and 0-5 (like it is on the x1 default mapping), I tried with Modifier state for Mod 1 and Mod 2, Mod 1 solo, Mod 2 solo. Also tried different Blend and Invert settings, nothing worked.

No idea if I am totally confused now by almost mapping all day, but maybe you got a hint for me. I´ll add two screenshots on the mappings I did so far.

Maybe somebody of you can help me. Thanks in advance.

[Stewe]

I've been itching to play around with EQ FX isolation after seeing the DJTT article and one of Stewe's great mappings. One thing I wanted to avoid, though, was the use of any modifier states to achieve EQ isolation. My setup is is X1 + Z1 + MF3D, and it's great to be able to use a single non-native mapping without worrying about modifiers/etc clashing.

After poking around a bit, I came up with two techniques. Both eat up the 3rd and 4th decks, so this still isn't a very good solution if you're mixing with 4 decks, remix decks, live input decks, etc.

Simple EQ Isolation

The first technique is a super simple method that uses four buttons per deck: Reset, High, Mid, Low. Each button sets all three EQ kills across both matched decks. I copy deck A->C and B->D on a bunch of inputs to maintain sync for each pair of decks. The risk with this mapping is losing sync with EQ still split between decks.



Advanced EQ Isolation

The second technique allows for individual EQ band selection (instead of a single toggle, you can put any combination of high/mid/low on Deck A, with Deck C always opposite). It also automatically maintains sync by watching beat phase and seek position; if anything drifts it re-copies the shadow deck.

To do this, I'm using the scripting capabilities in Lemur and having Lemur fire notes back to its Traktor mapping. I only picked Lemur up the other day, so I'm sure there's a more elegant solution than the one in the video, but I really love it so far.



Lemur is a paid piece of iOS software (currently $25 on holiday sale), and I'm actually using a wired connection with an iConnectMIDI2+ to stay away from wifi issues (it's an $80 device, but provides a TON of MIDI/audio routing capabilities).

Just to clarify the title.

Modifiers in Spectra Isolate has been used mainly for controlling my animation separately from a button display. But then figured out if I would update that mapping and add some more controls those modifier toggles are also the base for other stuff. You are correct and don't need to use any modifiers because that reset button from spectra isolate is doing the trick by setting a new preset for you each time - it's just my personal preference to have this buttons as mappable positions when I'm setting All Ports and doing things in a single channel.

I think that Lemur technique you're using could be done with in traktor if you set duplicate deck command on loop encoder or pretty much any other analog control which keeps that isolator deck updated at any time. Pretty similar to my CNTRL:R mapping where my Isolator EQ was introduced. The difference here is that modifier is doing the Cut/Add feature of the RMX-1000.

Thanks for your feedback in the forum and please post the mapping for everybody.

[DarkFoxDK]

Hey,

I just got my K2s today and went for a custom mapping. As I don´t need 3 layers, I just made two myself with the modifiers of Traktor. Basically I want to map the 4x4 matrix on the bottom pretty similar like the Kontrol x1 I am used to for a while. So what I did was mapping layer button as a Toggle for Modifier 1 from 0-1 and Modifier 2 from 0-1. I don´t have any problems with the controls themselves, they work perfect.

The point I get in trouble again is when I map the LED outputs. I mapped the Play/Pause to Red, the Cue/Cup/Beatjump in Amber and the In-/Outs to green, all with the Modifier Condition 1 to Value 1. It worked well, until I started to map the LEDs on the other Layer. Layer 2 in my case is the Hotcue Section, so I want to turn off all LEDs from Layer 1 and only light up the buttons, that are assigned with a Hotcue. Although I added the Conditions, this does not work.

I did mappings like this for a couple of times and finally thought, I got through all this and understand how to map LEDs but apparently I didn´t. I tried different settings on the Controller Range from 0-1 and 0-5 (like it is on the x1 default mapping), I tried with Modifier state for Mod 1 and Mod 2, Mod 1 solo, Mod 2 solo. Also tried different Blend and Invert settings, nothing worked.

No idea if I am totally confused now by almost mapping all day, but maybe you got a hint for me. I´ll add two screenshots on the mappings I did so far.

Maybe somebody of you can help me. Thanks in advance.

This happens because the K2 has the different colours on different channels instead of on different values.
To fix this, you need to assign a "Send Monitor State" input on the button you use to switch layers.

You will probably still get some issues when switching from one colour to another on the same LED, from some events in traktor (Like, trying to map different colours, for different clip states in remix decks). Unfortunately, there's currently no way to fix that.

[Ryukyu]

Thanks for your help, just added the "Send Monitor State" command and it runs perfect for now! Awesome! No problems anymore, at least not in the first testing..

Cheers,
Ryukyu

[onetidd]

DDJ SX ON TRAKTOR

I'm trying to find a way to have better jogswheel for the ddj sx on traktor, i've tried to change the value but it's still not accurate.

Do you think i can just add more jog turn mapping with different value to get it more like serato.

If yes do you have a clue of what would be the best?

[demaio]

hey there, just started reading this thread, so sorry if this been discussed before.

so anyway i think not i'm alone dislike the default controls of remix decks (c and d) on NI Z2: when you press C or D button for the first time it takes you to this weird play-pause control thing on your C/D remix deck. and when you press C/D the second time - it goes to this super true one-shot mode, just what i need from the battle mixing.
i would rather prefer to switch this two modes so i don't need to push C/D twice to get my one-shots right away, but better i entirely delete this first play-pause mode and made the control over the second raw of each remix deck). i'm no good at mapping, and when i tryed onec i just messed up with this modifiers etc with no luck. maybe other battle dj's done this work already and we've got a perfect mapping solution for download? =)
instead i would rather pay some $ for this magic mapping =)

thanks!

[LaHAR]

I want to remap something on my Kontrol X1 MK2 but I can't get it right for some reason.

I tried to map a fine tempo adjust (0.01 bpm/1 click) to the combination of SYNC [Hold] + LOOPENCODER [Push + Turn] but it doesn't overwrite the factory setting. The factory setting does a very coarse tempo adjust with this button combination which is rather useless to me. Can anybody walk me through the process of remapping this?

I tried to map it to another combination (FLUX [Hold] + LOOP ENCODER [Turn]) on my X1 MK2 but it was way too awkward because the loop size would get messed with at the same time (which is the factory default for the LOOP ENCODER)

TL;DR
I want to change SYNC [Hold] + LOOPENCODER [Push + Turn] from a coarse TEMPO ADJUST to a fine TEMPO ADJUST but the factory default doesn't want to be overwritten. (I created a new template before i started messing with the mapping.)

[drvulich]

[viper2014]

Hello

I want to add eight cues in launchpad for every deck but I am not quite sure for what option to look for inside the controller manager.
Can you point me to the right direction?

Thank you

[Stewe]

Track Deck > Cue > Select/Set+Store Hotcue