New to mapping, axiom 25--->tpro

[Jaques LeNoir]

I'm going to map my a25 to act as my controller for traktor pro, modeling my mapping slightly after the DJTT oxygen 8 mapping. I have had only a few hours now to try to get my head around the m-audio enigma, but one thing I've understood, I need help. Could someone point to me to threads/websites/anywhere where I can find information on midi mapping this (or similiar) to tpro, or could someone post here or pm me basic stuff about midi mapping this thing. I don't want a ready made mapping, because I want to learn how to do this.

[Jester]

Hi Jaques, there are some great articles on midi mapping in the blog section, very helpful.

[Jaques LeNoir]

Most of the articles I find there aren't really that specific, they're more on the general level.

I'll specify my problems:

How do I know which midi signals the different keys in the piano keyboard are sending so I can map specific actions to them?

and

How do I know what midi note/message my rotary encoders are sending?

So anyone with expirience with M-Audio's enigma program please help

[V-Hoff]

My technical read is the Traktor Bible, it helps you understand how the Messages sent by your controller become a function in traktor.
Basically the steps to understand the Oxygen or Axiom midi message process are:

You turn a knob on Oxygen
The Oxygen read the preset Code of your knob on the (.XML) Enigma's Map that is stored inside Oxygen's memory, the current position, the direction you twisted (increase or decrease)
The Oxygen translates all this information to MIDI using the MIDI Protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_1.0)
The Oxygen send the MIDI message to your Computer through the USB Cable
Your PC understand that it's a MIDI message send by your Oxygen and uses the Oxygen Driver installed to read the message (I think that's like that)
Your PC send the message to Traktor
The Traktor reads the message and translate it to Actions on the software based on your TSI Map.

You should do something like this attached picture bellow to help you understand the codes:

[Jaques LeNoir]

Well I'll take the oxygen 8 mapping and tsi and try to work from there, trying to figure out what ean's been doing. Maybe I'll report my results

[V-Hoff]

please report and if you have any questions i will be happy to help you
I'm not a master but I've passed by all these steps to get where I'm now...

[Jaques LeNoir]

well transferring ean's mapping to the axiom 25 was surprisingly easy and so was mapping cue points to the pads. Now the next step is to play with this a lot so I can figure out if I want to change something

[Bza420]

please report and if you have any questions i will be happy to help you
I'm not a master but I've passed by all these steps to get where I'm now...

I got my Axiom 25 setup to FL8 at the moment, but I would like to use it as a secondary controller for Traktor since a got a DJ controller for the basic stuff.

What do I do step by step ?
Do I need to make an all new preset in enigma for controlling Traktor, or can I work with something I got allready ?

And exactly how do I determin what midi-kode each key on the keybord has ?

Any help will be greatly appriciated

[Bza420]

BUMP..
Actually, a video-upload would be so nice for everyone

I got some of it working, I can assign the EQ with no difficulties... but when it comes to effects & stuff it all stucks up for me

As mentioned before I wan't to use my Axiom 25 for controlling effects etc. in Traktor since I got an DJ controller allready... So I was wondering if any of you knew of ane mappings for Axiom 25 to be used in that matter

[piktogram]

Thanks for this thread, i'm also figuring out to use my axiom 25 with Traktor as Ean does with the Oxy...

Is there any chance you upload your mapping file for Axiom 25 Jacques LeNoir ?

Thanks again