I am generally very happy with my Xone:3d (I know I should have waited for the 4d) and Traktor Pro2. I like the sound and can work it blind. My only gripe is the lack of the kind of touch sensitive jog-wheels that are found on the likes of the VCI-100 for scratching and ‘braking’. So:
Would it be theoretically possible to retro-fit such things?
Where could I get this done (I’m in Berlin) and how much would it cost?
I thank you all in advance.
Mo (forum Noob)
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I’m sure it’s theoretically possible, but it would probably be very difficult.
You’d have to do something like choose a button you weren’t using for each jog and reroute its connections to a new jog wheel platter with some kind of touch sensitive assembly (where you’d get one of them from i have no idea).
Certainly not a beginner mod, and I have no idea how easy the 3D is to open up and mess around with.
photojojo:
I already have the scratch function matched to a shift button. The problem is that I really cant scratch with a shift button. You have to hold it while scratching which means you cant use the crossfader.
fullenglishpint:
This is precisely what I had in mind. The touch function on the plate would become the shift button. Regular movement on the sides would be braking/pushing. I have a Vestax Spin which I dont use. Could this be cannibalised? I’m not sure how interchangeable parts are and if there are people that can be paid for this kind of work.
I appreciate your creative thinking. I’ll try the foot pedal idea. I think I’ve got one lying sound somewhere.
This is probably the wrong forum, but would it also be possible to set up the wheel so that if it detected movement it would turn on scratch mode, switching it off once it wasntmoving any more? This way the shift button could toggle between a track search function and a scratch function. Has anyone ever done something like that? Is it even possible with Traktor’s scary midi config setup?
well if it’s in scratch mode then it’ll scratch whenever you move it, but that leaves you very open to accidentally nudging it and making a horrible noise / ruining a mix.
Hmmm… Then I must be doing something wrong. When ever I press the ‘Scratch On’ button it stops the deck and waits for me to scratch. At the moment I have the jog programmed for ‘Seek position’ until I press a toggled modifier (which is simultaneously the ‘Scratch On’ button) I can then scratch but have to let the button go for the track to keep playing. It isn’t the end of the world, but I do find it hard to start records with a scratch.
seek position? as in like fast forwarding through the track? fair enough, if that’s what you want. It’s more common to use them as pitch bend, and it’s all explained in this extract:
