One button: select AND enable effect

[thepillow]

Hello,
I'm trying to map a button (note.D5, modifier:m8=1) so that when i press it a number of things happen:
1. a certain effect gets selected
2. the effect gets set yo a certain value
3. the effect gets turned on
4. the effect value slowly increases

I made the following mapping:

Problem is, this works only works if the right effect is already selected. If another effect is selected when i press the button it selects the right effect but doesn't turn it on!

How do I get this right?

Cheers,
thepillow

[padi_04]

Try removing the modifier variable from the fx select command

[thepillow]

the modifier is needed because the button is in SHIFT mode. Otherwise the effect will also be selected when i press the button without the shift function on.

[StefanoMDj]

i know this problem.....the fact is that if you have another effect selected the software work like this: 1° select the new effect, 2°every other command.....i've this issue also with my mapp

[zestoi]

traktor does seem to try and workout the most sensible way of processing the data with least conflicts when u stack multiple controls to the same midi input - but does often get it wrong - or at least not do what u wanted.

i had a similar issue with some midimasher code to enable the pseudo postfaderefx mode but i thought the only thing that didn't work in the end was that if the effects unit had to change from group to single then all the other settings got ignored - but on a second press they all worked.

this is what i setup to do that:

        traktor.fx_control{
            unit = unit,
            mode = "single",
            fx = "Gater",
            param1 = ON,
            button1 = ON,
            button2 = OFF,
            drywet = 127 - math.floor(vol/2),
            active = ON,
            deck_a = ON
        }

from experiments it seems there's very little (zero) difference in traktor between stacking multiple controls to one midi input or sending traktor a whole bunch of messages within a very short space of time (<3ms) so this should work just as tho u had mapped all those controls to one button etc.

for some reason traktor just ignores everything after the mode=single if the effects unit was in group mode previously. pain in the ass...

in midimasher speak tho what u are doing is something like this that should work with any issues i thought:

        traktor.fx_control{
            unit = 1,
            fx = "Delay T3",
            param1 = 38,
            param2 = 72,
            param3 = 27,
            drywet = 50,
            active = ON,
            deck_a = ON
        }

by "the effect value slowly increases" u mean u have an auto-repeat in button mode to ramp up or down some fx unit value?

[thepillow]

Hey thanks for the help guys, but i'm afraid the whole programming thing is a bit too much for me. However, i'm still under the impression that i can achieve what i want with just traktor (selecting AND activating an effect with one button), because this is exactly what the guys from djtecht do with their instant gratification mapping for midi fighter.

[zestoi]

Hey thanks for the help guys, but i'm afraid the whole programming thing is a bit too much for me. However, i'm still under the impression that i can achieve what i want with just traktor (selecting AND activating an effect with one button), because this is exactly what the guys from djtecht do with their instant gratification mapping for midi fighter.

i thought it should work fine in traktor so long as you're not also changing the effect unit mode between single and group.

i didn't *think* that traktor treated selecting an affect how StefanoMDj described it - but i don't really map just in traktor any more so not 100% sure...

if u just use some spare button for debug and map an effects select and turning on that effect it doesn't work if u have some other effect currently selected? (just to take modifiers and anything else out of the equation that might be affecting it)

[thepillow]

Oh hurray, i just found the solution! thought i'd share it here. Under settings, effects tab, i switched off: restore fx parameterers when switching. I'm so happy!

[zestoi]

Oh hurray, i just found the solution! thought i'd share it here. Under settings, effects tab, i switched off: restore fx parameterers when switching. I'm so happy!

ah... cunning... i hadn't even noticed that setting just unchecked the option on my traktor too. *maybe* it'll even allow switching fx unit modes now...

[thepillow]

I think it will allow you to do that, because the midi fighter also does that!