DJTT VCI-400 Ean Golden Edition Mapping (Traktor Pro 2)

[Rubinski]

i'm a very sad DJ because the firmware upgrade for my regular VCI-400 is still unavailable :'(

[flashflooder]

Liken Flashflooders edit better then the original! Keep it coming Flash!

Thanks! I really appreciate it. I also plan on making an update to that mapping sometime kinda soon. I have some other ideas I wanted to fit in before posting it but didn't want to delay putting it online until then.

[flashflooder]

i'm a very sad DJ because the firmware upgrade for my regular VCI-400 is still unavailable :'(

Unfortunately this is sounding less like a possibility than we had hoped. There was some confusion between Vestax and us regarding a key fact in ability to flash firmware on the device. It still may very well happen but the process would likely be more complex and require having to take the controller apart. This by no means a concrete answer but my feelings on the current situation.

[flashflooder]

Is there a way to make the slicer-mode specified for the VCI-400 Ean Golden Edition, work on the Novation Twitch by copying some mapping out of the .TSI ?

as weltraumpapst already mentioned, this is not possible because it relates to the custom firmware on the VCI-400SE. but if you really want the slicer mode, you should really just use the twitch with itch. the slicer mode integration is better with that anyways

[flashflooder]

Im having trouble figuring something out here while making my own tsi map on the EGE VCI400.

I am setting up my own Cue Banks on the Performance Grids for Deck A,B,C & D (Labeled "CUE"in the Performance Grid section). I am able to set everything up correctly on all Decks, but the LEDs on Deck D seem to stay a solid Red color, while the LEDs on Deck A,B & C all blink Red.

Any clues on this - Like how to change the blinking LED states to solid on Decks A,B & C or how to make Deck D LEDs blink?

Any insight would be really helpful

Thanks

Yeah, so there are multiple midi messages sent out for each of these performance grid buttons in each section and the Midi out LED behavior is different based on which Midi out note to map to. For example, each perf grid button (in each mode) has the same Midi note number across all Decks, they are just sent out on different midi channels.

Deck A is Ch 1-3, Deck B Ch 4-6, Deck C Ch 7-9, Deck D Ch 10-12. If you map the Midi out to the first channel number (e.g. Ch.1 for Deck A) the button will be at 100% brightness, the second channel will be at 50% brightness, and the third channel will make the LED for that button blink.

You may also notice that along the same lines, each of those perf grid buttons will send out 3 Midi notes of the same number on the different Midi consecutive midi channels, just like the Midi out I explained above. If you are just Midi learning to map these buttons you will almost always learn the last midi message of the three (e.g. ch 3 for Deck A, ch 6 for Deck B, etc) which will build in some virtual latency into your mapping which you probably don't want. It's really a pain because then you can't midi learn and you have to select the midi notes manually but it is worth it if you need quick response from those buttons (like instant effects, cue pts, etc). In some case, it might not be necessary though.

Hope this helps. Sorry if it's confusing, but that's the nature of the VCI-400SE custom firmware unfortunately.

[flashflooder]

I have no scratch functionality at all. I have messed around with the sensitivity and all that and have the jog fx working fine. Any idea on how to get scratching working please?

make sure you upgrade to traktor 2.1 or higher

[flashflooder]

@flashflooder
Can you please let me know exactly what the minor bug fixes were? I made my own custom edit of the original mapping and I think it would be quicker for me to correct the bugs than to edit the latest version of the mapping with my custom settings. Thanks!

i'm really sorry for the delayed reply. i meant to get to this sooner and then forgot. there weren't many bug fixes i don't think.

the main one that i can remember though is that if you had a jogfx setting on and then left it on while switching between the bottom tabs on each deck you could have it stay on which would make the jog wheel still control jogfx when you were in a different mode. this only affected the left side of the controller and was fixed by adding in another modifier command to set to zero for the jogfx associated modifier (M3).

[Rubinski]

Unfortunately this is sounding less like a possibility than we had hoped. There was some confusion between Vestax and us regarding a key fact in ability to flash firmware on the device. It still may very well happen but the process would likely be more complex and require having to take the controller apart. This by no means a concrete answer but my feelings on the current situation.

Well, there's a firmware update utility included in the drivers, I don't understand where's the difficulty. Unless the VCI-400 EGE has some extra pieces of hardware inside.

[fitzyp]

Hey FlashFlooder, There is one thing that i do miss from the VCI100 mapping that i cant seem to find in the 400. A button to turn SNAP and QUANTIZE off and on and the old shift+filter to change the tracks key. Maybe they are already in the new mapping somewhere...

[Lilja]

Unfortunately this is sounding less like a possibility than we had hoped. There was some confusion between Vestax and us regarding a key fact in ability to flash firmware on the device. It still may very well happen but the process would likely be more complex and require having to take the controller apart. This by no means a concrete answer but my feelings on the current situation.

Does that mean we won't get any firmware-related updates to the VCI-400 EGE at all?