A couple of S4 questions

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A couple of S4 questions

Hi all,

I have a couple of questions about the S4 before I buy:

  1. How precise and at what incriment can you adjust the pitch faders if they are set to 10%? Currently on my EVO5, I have the pitch mapped to one of the encoder knobs and can fine tune to .01 bpm, pretty sweet!

  2. If I choose to customize the S4 and set it up in midi mode are all the buttons knobs, faders mappable to midi? If not which are the ones that cannot be mapped?

Ok I think thats it.

Thx!

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Cant answer the first question, but all buttons (and VU meters + the footswitch control!) can be mapped to MIDI, with the excepetions of the Deck A/B - C/D swap buttons, the shift buttons, and the master volume knob.

In this case, the Deck A/B - C/D swap buttons and the shift buttons actually change the MIDI signal, meaning you can have more modifiers =D

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It’s early and I haven;t had much coffee yet, but I’m pretty sure you can adjust to .01 on the S4. As far as custom mapping you can map everything, but you lose the loop length display.

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You loose the loop light controls as others have mentioned. I can’t seam to figure out how to map some of the other lights as well such as above the channel faders. The jogs are less precise especially noticeable during slow movements.

You also can’t map the Snap Qant and Master buttons.

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Humm that kinda sucks, I was hoping that everything can be midi mapped. Well I might just buy locally and try it out. I have 30 days to return it.

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The thing with the S4 is that the default mapping is really good. Plus you can do some custom user mappings and run them along side the default mapping.

Here’s a good rundown of how all that works.
http://traktorbible.com/en/kontrol_s4_usermappings.aspx

Here’s some good user mappings
http://traktorbible.com/freaks/mappingsflavour.aspx?flavour=ProS4

Using the fx knobs on the S4 as super knobs
http://traktorbible.com/freaks/mappingsflavour.aspx?flavour=ProS4

Using the loop recorder as a super knob.

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Great thanks for all the info. I think ill pick one up tomorrow.

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since we’re talking about mapping… is possible map

hi knob → hi knob on s4 mixer

middle hi → mid knob on s4 mixer

middle low → low knob on s4 mixer

low → filter on s4 mixer

using xone mixer mode ??

thks in advance

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thanks for the links JoJo, those are great!

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If you set your settings correctly under the ‘transport’ tab then yes, the pitch fader will go up in 0.1 increments.

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Yes. I switched to xome a few weeks ago and I’ve got my mid hi and mid lo mapped to the mid knob on the S4 and I think like it that way. I was thinking about taking the hi out all together and map mid hi to that knob as I almost never touch the hi.